It’s interesting that the demise of MTV (or rather, its complete transformation to a channel that has nothing to do with music) hasn’t meant the end of the music video. On the contrary, the Internet has made music videos more accessible and popular than ever. You can watch pretty much every video ever shot on demand simply by visiting YouTube.

I suppose that’s what Killers frontman Brandon Flowers has in mind when he hires Charlize Theron to appear in the first video from his solo debut, Flamingo. You create enough buzz with a clip like this and maybe it’ll go viral and you’ll wind up selling a few thousand records as a result.

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