Mr Brightside should be legally required at weddings
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- Amelia Tait argues in a column that The Killers' "Mr Brightside" should be legally obligatory at weddings despite the song's themes of jealousy, infidelity, and paranoia
- The Killers' "Mr Brightside" is described as a pop-rock "dancefloor banger" and the band's biggest hit
- Tait claims she has attended two weddings where the bride and groom refused to play the song during the reception
- Both of those marriages ended in divorce, according to Tait's personal anecdote, which forms the backbone of her argument
- The column is titled "The hill I will die on," framing Tait's stance as a firm, deliberately provocative personal conviction
Why it matters: Tait's argument is built almost entirely on her personal pattern of two weddings without "Mr Brightside" both ending in divorce — a rhetorical move that elevates a ubiquitous 2003 anthem into a quasi-prophetic predictor of marital success and frames its absence as grounds for legal intervention.
