The Killers take a powerful stand against President Trump’s wall in their new single and music video, “Land of the Free,” directed by none other than Spike Lee.
The video was shot over a few weeks in December and shows migrant families traveling hundreds of miles to the Mexican border, attempting to make their way into “the land of the free.”
As the video goes on we see the hopeful families being chased by border patrol — and attacked with smoke and tear gas — and being held in detention centers.
Down at the border/ They’re gonna put up a wall/With concrete and rebar steel beams/High enough to keep all those filthy hands off of our hopes and dreams/People who just want the same thing we do/In the land of the free.”
Lead singer Brandon Flowers told Beats 1 on Apple Music:
“I think it is a very important time right now, and ‘enough is enough’ was basically where it came from,” Flowers said about the song, which also tackles racism, mass incarceration and the gun debate in America. “It started in my mind around when Sandy Hook happened and, as a father, how that affected me, and then it just started stacking up.
“It was things like Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, things like what’s happening at the wall. You know, this stuff just didn’t seem to be in harmony with the values that I believe my country was founded on.”
“I never thought that I would be a part of a Spike Lee joint,” Flowers told Beats 1 on Apple Music. “I had just recently seen ‘BlacKkKlansman’ and watched ‘Do the Right Thing’ on an airplane. It was just like, ‘We got to ask him to do this video’ … And it was just an incredible thing to collaborate with him.






