| Still Want You | |
| Cover: | Still_Want_You_Cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Brandon Flowers |
| Album: | The Desired Effect |
| Released: | April 13, 2015 |
| Recorded: | 2014 at Battle Born Studios (Winchester, Nevada) |
| Genre: | Electropop[1] |
| Label: | Island |
| Producer: | Ariel Rechtshaid, Brandon Flowers |
| Chronology: | Brandon Flowers |
| Prev Title: | Can't Deny My Love |
| Prev Year: | 2015 |
| Next Title: | Lonely Town |
| Next Year: | 2015 |
"Still Want You" is the second single by American singer-songwriter Brandon Flowers from his second studio album, The Desired Effect.[2] [3]
The song reflects on seemingly negative trends in the world (aging, rising crime, climate change, nuclear distress, global disasters) and rebuffs them with the line "I Still Want You".[4] [5] It is ostensibly about staying together.[6]
In promotion of the video, Flowers's YouTube channel released a series of clips titled "Keys", "Bass", "Drums", "Vox", and "Strings".[7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
The black and white music video was directed by Warren Fu (Daft Punk, The Killers, Haim).[12] [13] [3] [14] The video portrays Flowers and two backup singers in black and white dancing and singing.[6] [5] [2]
Billboard gave the song a positive review remarking that, "[t]his song is awesome . . . When the call and return chorus of Flowers' hook is answered by the high-pitched choral voices, "Still Want You" kicks into another gleeful gear."[13] Stereogum called it a continuance of "the creative renaissance that the Killers frontman seems to be going through with his new solo album, The Desired Effect."[15] Gigwise said of the track, "Flowers delivers on his promise to give us something a bit different, yet it remains just as great as his previous offerings have been."[16] DirectLyrics wrote, "The first single was amazing but this new song is just ‘instant’, quite catchy at moments, and evidently a whole more radio-friendly than its predecessor."[14]