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The Killers have hopped on the McGregor/Mayweather hype train by releasing this new music video
EARLIER THIS SUMMER, The Killers released a new single called The Man – taken from their upcoming album Wonderful, Wonderful, which is due out in September.
It had its own video, of course, featuring Brandon Flowers driving around Vegas, wearing a massive cowboy hat and singing on stage in a glittery suit.
Which made it all the more strange when, over the weekend, the band released a short second video hyping up the upcoming Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather fight
This time the band were in a boxing ring, in what appears to be new footage
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Interspersed with clips of the two fighters being showered with cash
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Standard.
The video was released on the official Showtime YouTube channel, and is clearly an arranged sponsorship deal between the band and the pay-per-view channel.
But it’s a surreal partnership nonetheless
Flowers was even contacted by Rolling Stone, who had questions about why they were doing a McGregor/Mayweather promo video. He said:
The song must have been requested to be used by Showtime, so they came up with a solution for a new promo video:
Flowers goes all out in the ring too
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And he’s not scared of hyping it up in interviews either:
Yes, very surreal.
It turns out the Las Vegas band have a major emotional connection to boxing, as they explained to Rolling Stone yesterday:
Sounds like they could be in the Mayweather camp come Saturday night, and you wouldn’t rule out that the song will get another airing on the night – possibly live.
It’s set to be a strange, star-studded buildup.
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