Someone made an autocomplete mishmash out of "Mr. Brightside" lyrics and now our brains hurt
Getting wild with autocomplete on your phone or browser can result in some unlikely—but hilarious—word combinations. Now, one internet denizen has rendered the Killers' iconic “Mr. Brightside” as a cheeky autocomplete amalgamation, sourced from Google search terms. Check it out below.
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The signature tune by the Las Vegas band is a staple rock song, and it's one that almost any music fan can immediately sing along to. Well, what if the line “It started out with a kiss” was swapped with “It started as a tax cut”? Yeah, we're not quite sure if that phrase has the same appeal as the original.
Regardless, and as reported by the NME, a Twitter user ran “Mr. Brightside” through Google searches, meaning they “entered each line into the search function and took the autocompleted version [of] the rest of the lyric.” And, um, wow… just have a look at this autocomplete craziness:
i edited the lyrics of mr brightside using google autocomplete results pic.twitter.com/liHZd30BGF
— happy doggeauxlidays (@DOGGEAUX) December 1, 2017
What do you think about that? Do you feel like you could come up with a better autocomplete version of “Mr. Brightside,” or maybe some other popular song? Anyway, here's the O.G. music video for the Killers' “Mr. Brightside”:
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