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The Killers – Smile Like You Mean It (3:54)

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“Smile Like You Mean It” is a song by American rock band The Killers. The song is featured on their debut album Hot Fuss, and is the fourth single from it in the United Kingdom and the third single in United States. It was written by lead vocalist Brandon Flowers and bassist Mark Stoermer.

It reached #11 in the UK single chart and #15 in the Billboard U.S. Modern Rock Chart. It also received substantial radioplay in Australia, where it was ranked #39 on Triple J’s Hottest 100 of 2004.

The band claims that they wrote the song in 8 minutes.

The song originally featured on the Mr. Brightside EP released in September 2003.

The music video for this song shows ghostly figures of the band wandering around a house that the characters of the song presumably used to live in. While Flowers sings to the camera, flashbacks of the old house are shown behind him, including a children’s party, a Christmas morning, a high school party, and a funeral. While these extras are oblivious to being watched, at the end they turn to the camera to look at the viewer while the band fades away.

Billboard said the song “seems to deal with coming to terms with growing up and getting older.”

Chuck Arnold with People magazine called the song “a sardonic moper worthy of the Smiths.” Billboard said the single is “more restrained and downtempo compared with the band’s previous hits” but otherwise “pretty upbeat and is awash with soaring new wave synthesizers and ‘killer’ guitars.” In the UK the song was voted at 91 on Absolute Radio’s 100 Best Songs of the Decade.
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  • Hot Fuss
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  • 2004-11-06: Columbia Club, Berlin, Germany
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  • Demo
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  • Hot Fuss: Limited Edition
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  • FlakesOfThought

    this song is perfect!

    Saturday morning

  • Sound-Of-Nature

    ♥

    11 days ago

  • Ghost_Buster

    Best Killers single ever =]

    13 days ago

  • AnthraxParallax

    By no means an expert on this band but to date their debut album is head and shoulders above everything else they have done since. [6] Sam's town is a great album though.

    last month

  • EroticBlutwurst

    Memories just flood back before my eyes when I listen to this...

    last month

  • Marjo47

    very important not only with smiling, show your real me always, nevermind if it means to be vuneruble

    last month

  • valplayer

    bon titre

    last month

  • crocy2

    fantastic...

    last month

  • the_crane_wife

    makes me remember high school, think the best part of that time was the release of this album <3

    last month

  • XVishal7X

    By no means an expert on this band but to date their debut album is head and shoulders above everything else they have done since. [5]

    last month

  • DarioNascimento

    Ótimo Hit

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  • awesomme

    Love the guitar solo in the middle of the song

    last month

  • Evilcabbage

    By no means an expert on this band but to date their debut album is head and shoulders above everything else they have done since. [4]

    March 2012

  • itsnotoveryet27

    even the instuments are singing, it's like a wonderful chorus

    March 2012

  • ashish81290

    killer .. kill me your song

    March 2012

  • a_barfight

    i love these guys. this is one of their better songs, too.

    March 2012

  • bkm2989

    yes

    March 2012

  • SamboXIV

    This live is much better.

    March 2012

  • Pekinpah

    Smile like you mean it!!! Hot Fuss, the best LP of this guys!

    February 2012

  • takemehome4real

    By no means an expert on this band but to date their debut album is head and shoulders above everything else they have done since. [3]

    February 2012
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