My Own Soul's Warning | |
Cover: | My Own Soul's Warning.jpg |
Border: | yes |
Type: | single |
Album: | Imploding the Mirage |
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Length: | 4:34 |
Label: | Island |
Producer: | |
Prev Title: | Fire in Bone |
Prev Year: | 2020 |
Next Title: | Dying Breed |
Next Year: | 2020 |
"My Own Soul's Warning" is a song by American rock band the Killers from their sixth studio album, Imploding the Mirage (2020). It was released on June 17, 2020, as the third single from the album.[1] [2]
Album lead track, "My Own Soul's Warning" was written near the end of the Imploding the Mirage sessions, when frontman Brandon Flowers was worried that the album didn't have a single and he started to panic.[3] It was the final song written for the album.[4]
The band struggled to get the right mix for the song, going through nearly 90 mixes of it, with Flowers describing it as a “stubborn son of a bitch.”
Writing about the song for Apple Music, Flowers said that the song was about "repentance", which he acknowledged is "not a typical subject in a pop or rock song". He said he wanted to "write something that was meaningful to myself and that felt like it was going to transcend and resonate with a lot of people in a stadium or inside their headphones."
It is Flowers' favourite song on the Imploding the Mirage album.
The band leaked the intro to the song during a live stream on Instagram in April 2020, two months before it was released.[5]
The cover artwork is by American artist Thomas Blackshear.
Two music videos have been made for the song.
The first music video, released via YouTube on July 16, 2020, is a sneak peek from a forthcoming short film with director Sing Lee tied to the Killers' then-upcoming album Imploding the Mirage.[6] [1] The film will premiere on Apple Music. The music video has snippets reminding of an Americana theme. There are a number of stories going on.[7]
The second music video, directed by Michael Hili, premiered on YouTube on August 20, 2020, just over a month after the first video. It features frontman Brandon Flowers and drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. going on a road trip together in a pickup truck through cornfields and snow-covered forests.[8]
Uproxx listed it as No. 5 on its Best Songs of 2020.[9] NME listed it as No. 14 on its Best Songs of 2020.[10]
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Imploding the Mirage.[11]
The Killers
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Chart (2020) | Position | |
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US Adult Alternative Songs (Billboard)[13] | 35 | |
US Alternative Songs (Billboard)[14] | 32 |