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One of the stranger stories to come out of the week’s news cycle was the fact that the Killers‘ Brandon Flowers was upset over the general misinterpretation of the lyrics in the chorus to his band’s current his “Human.” While Flowers sings “Are we human, or are we dancer?” (which apparently paraphrases Hunter S. Thompson), people are either mistakenly thinking he’s saying “denser” or that his grammar is incorrect. Reader Geoff had a reasonable defense of Flowers’ complaint: “I don’t see why ‘dancer’ is grammatically incorrect. It just suggests that dancer is another species, like human. I don’t see anyone complaining that he says ‘are we human’ and not ‘are we humans’ — if you interpret dancer as an adjective and not a noun, there is nothing wrong with his grammar.” But it was Rictor who offered up the sharpest insight: I wait tables at the Hard Rock in Vegas and these guys come in all the time. I should ask them if I’m a dancer or a human. They’ll probably say I’m a waiter.”

• Brandon Flowers Wound Up Over Misquoting of Killers Lyric

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