Spike Lee Directs the Killers’ Video for New Song “Land of the Free”: Watch
The Killers have returned today with a new single and music video. Spike Lee directed the video for “Land of the Free,” which he shot late last year at the U.S.-Mexico border. It includes footage of migrant families being tear-gassed by U.S. border patrol agents during an incident in late November.
On the track, Brandon Flowers sings about mass incarceration (“We got more people locked up than the rest of the world/Right here in red, white, and blue/Incarcerations become big business,”) gun control (“So how many daughters?/Tell me how many sons/Do we have to put in the ground/Before we just break down and face it?/We’ve got a problem with guns,”) and Trump’s proposed border wall:
And down at the border
They’re gonna put up a wall
Concrete and rebar steel beams
(I’m standing, crying)
High enough to keep all those filthy hands off
Of our hopes and our dreams
(I’m standing, crying)
People who just want the same things we do
In the land of the free
“Land of the Free” is the Killers’ first new music since their 2017 album Wonderful Wonderful. Last year, the Killers released a career spanning retrospective vinyl box set, which featured all of their studio albums and the first vinyl pressing of 2009’s Live From the Royal Albert Hall. Their Wonderful Wonderful single “The Man” was prominently featured in a trailer for the Adam McKay-directed Dick Cheney film Vice.
This article was originally published on Monday, January 14 at 12:12 p.m. Eastern. It was last updated on January 14 at 2:52 p.m. Eastern.
