| "Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts" | ||||
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| Single by Brandon Flowers | ||||
| from the album Flamingo | ||||
| Released | February 21, 2011 (UK) | |||
| Recorded | 2010 | |||
| Studio | Battle Born (Winchester, Nevada) | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock [1] | |||
| Length | 4:40 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
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"Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts" is a song by singer-songwriter Brandon Flowers, frontman of the Killers, from his debut studio album Flamingo (2010). Written and produced by Flowers, Daniel Lanois, known for his work on the Killers' 2012 studio album, Battle Born, and Stuart Price, known for his work on the Killers' Day & Age (2008), it was released in the UK as the third single from the album on February 21, 2011. [2] [3] [4] [5]
"Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts" was written and produced by Brandon Flowers, Canadian record producer Daniel Lanois, known for co-writing the songs "The Way It Was", "Heart of a Girl", and "Be Still" from the Killers' fourth studio album Battle Born (2012), and British DJ Stuart Price, known for producing the Killers' third studio album Day & Age (2008), as well as his remix of 'Mr. Brightside' that appeared on the compilation album, Sawdust (2007). [2] [3] [6]
The song was released as a single in the UK on February 21, 2011. [5] Of the common gambling metaphors in the song, Flowers said in an interview with NPR that "[it] definitely just kept oozing its way in. It's kind of everywhere you go. It's billboards of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley. You drive by the Hilton every day and all the history that's there, it's just such a big part of the town." [7] "Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts" did not have a cover art or music video released.
"Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts" was met with mixed reviews. Drowned in Sound webzine remarked that the song was "a hard to resist denim-clad fist raiser, with lyrics suggesting some sort of lunar equivalent of ‘Mr. Brightside’," while Consequence of Sound commented that the "chorus is pretty solid but brought down by Flowers’ severity. The music itself has a throwaway, pop quality but it’s a nice change of pace [from 'Hard Enough']". [8] [9] All-Noise magazine remarked that the song is "perhaps the most Killers-y song [on Flamingo] – the slow, expectant intro builds into a pacey verse that opens up into a barn-storming chorus that would make Springsteen proud", while Beats Per Minute called the song "huge and catchy but it also becomes tiring after a few too many listens". [10] [11]
Credits adapted from the liner notes of the deluxe edition of Flamingo. [12]