inthemix | International News | The Killers defend 'Human' error

If you plan on singing along to The Killers at V Festival 2009, frontman Brandon Flowers wants to make sure you get the words right. He has responded to confusion over the chorus of the band’s new single Human, in which he sings, “Are we human, or are we dancer?” As your year three schoolteacher will tell you, that last word should be a plural – which has led people to think the lyric is in fact “denser”. This makes Flowers antsy.

“That sucks a bit. I don’t like, ‘Are we denser?’ as an alternative,” the man told Rolling Stone. “I really care what people think but people don’t seem to understand Human. They think it’s nonsense. But I was aching over those lyrics for a very long time to get them right.”

According to Flowers, the “dancer” line was inspired by literary enfant terrible Hunter S. Thompson. “It’s taken from a quote by Thompson – ‘We’re raising a generation of dancers’ – and I took it and ran. I guess it bothers people that it’s not grammatically correct, but I think I’m allowed to do whatever I want.”