I wouldn't call it one of their best. I think a lot of the songs that the band performed its first Royal Albert Hall concert were the Killer's peak--songs with excellent depth and sophistication, well arranged. This song, while popular, is fairly gimmicky and thin, IMO.
@@richardernsberger5692don’t get me wrong, I can go on about songs about loving the high school jock and also killing your girlfriend are peak Killers…but they have always been a Vegas band and a big personality with a ton of glam has always been part of it. I remember falling off The Killers in my late 20’s feeling like I guess they’re just doing greatest hits arena tours and headlining festivals. Then The Man came out. The song has pure Killers running through is fucking veins. It was the right song that came out at the right time. Gimmicky? Absolutely fucking right it is as much as The Killers ever have been. That’s just my feeling, I think OP nailed it when they said it had the attitude.
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I think he’s the greatest rock drummer ever. See the live videos of wonderful, wonderful, run for cover, runaways, even rut he has crazy good feel on. Then there’s the huge hits like brightside and wwwy where he’s just ripping. Obviously there’s a ton of great drummers but I just like what he chooses to do within the songs.
One of the chillest, most private dudes (and kind of awkward outside the stage) goes out, doesn't need fancy clothes, coreography, lights, he just goes out there with confidence and his abundance of talent and will blow your fucking mind. I will never understand how he manages to be so captivating.
If you want an answer from someone with a social psychology degree, Flowers is an INFP and he's dissociating himself on stage. He's splitting part of himself off to deliver the song in egocentric confidence while the rest of his mind hides in autopilot.
I know this is completely unprovoked and, to the half-trained ear, there's absolutely nothing similar about their music and/or talent level but, as a frontman, Brandon Flowers makes Adam Levine look like something you stepped in on the subway. The fact that America would rather see some dude pop his shirt off and sing "Girls Like You" than experience a true performer playing music that doesn't make you want to jam an exhaust pipe into your head is a testament to everything wrong with this country. I weep for our youth.
This song is the Killers at their finest......just a fucking awesome, powerful track......Brandon sings that damn song perfect every time I hear it Live.....
The Killers are underrated. So is Brandon. I mean, look at artists wining Grammys... and not them. This performance is EPIC! And their music is beyond awesome.
Brandon explained this song . . . it is all about arrogance. In an interview he revealed that he ‘regrets’ the negativity and arrogance of his public persona when the band first started out. The Man’ is about looking back on his attitude when The Killers first rose to fame - which he previously described as ‘arrogant’. Full of himself . . . It is a story of how he really was was . . . He has grown as a person and is not "that man" now. But the song is still fantastic . . .
