{"id":808178,"date":"2020-06-08T09:40:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T15:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1011460"},"modified":"2020-06-08T09:40:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T15:40:34","slug":"watch-the-killers-rework-land-of-the-free-to-address-george-floyds-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-the-killers-rework-land-of-the-free-to-address-george-floyds-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Killers Rework \u2018Land of the Free\u2019 to Address George Floyd\u2019s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Killers<\/a> have posted a new, stripped-down rendition of their 2019 protest song \u201cLand of the Free\u201d to address the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many killings must one man watch in his home?\u201d Brandon Flowers sings before spelling out the exact length of time that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd\u2019s neck. \u201cEight measured minutes and 46 seconds, another boy in the bag\/Another stain on the flag.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The original version of the song came out in January 2019. It spoke out against gun violence and President Trump\u2019s proposed border wall. In a Facebook post<\/a>, Flowers said the lyrics date back to the aftermath of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting. \u201cAs a father I\u2019ll never fully comprehend what that community and those parents went through,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBut my church upbringing taught me to mourn with those that mourn and I did it the best way that I knew how. I cried for those kids and teachers. I got on my knees and I prayed for those families.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Killers\u2019 new LP Imploding The Mirage<\/em> was originally slated to come out in May, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed their plans. Three singles have come out (\u201cCaution,\u201d \u201cFire in Bone\u201d and \u201cMy Own Soul\u2019s Warning\u201d) and the band has promoted them on numerous TV shows, but the LP has no official release date. It\u2019s their first album to feature no contributions from original guitarist Dave Keuning, although it guest stars Lindsey Buckingham, k.d. Lang and Weyes Blood.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of moments [making this album] reminded me of making our first album, where you just know that it\u2019s going to connect because of the way it makes you feel,\u201d Flowers told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> earlier this year. \u201cI felt like that 20-year-old kid almost inventing something again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Killers have posted a new, stripped-down rendition of their 2019 protest song \u201cLand of the Free\u201d to address the death of George Floyd. \u201cHow many killings must one man watch in his home?\u201d Brandon Flowers sings before spelling out the exact length of time that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kept his knee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-808178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 00:17:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}