The Killers will see their sixth studio album — “Imploding the Mirage” — released on Friday after a near three month delay due to the coronavirus pandemic. And it looks like the album was inspired by Utah, sort of.
What’s going on:
The Killers’ lead singer Brandon Flowers told USA Today that much of the album was inspired by Flowers’ move from Las Vegas to Utah.
- Flowers and his wife, Tana Mundkowsky, and their three sons moved to Utah from Las Vegas, which had been home for the rock band since its inception.
- Flowers said he explored his relationship with his wife in the new album.
“Most of this record is about me and my wife becoming eternal, and the question, ‘Can two become one?’ I wanted to to capture the beauty of perseverance. If ‘Wonderful Wonderful’ was about me going into some of the uglier sides of life, this one is more celebratory.”
Talking about his wife
The song “Rut” from “Wonderful Wonderful” paid homage to Flowers’ wife. The song’s music video showed a young woman struggling with depression, as I wrote about for Deseret.com.
- “It chronicles her lifetime of depression from her childhood to adulthood, portraying a visual interpretation of the song that was inspired by the struggles of Flowers’ own wife,” according to Uproxx, a pop culture website.
- “She has a complex version of (post-traumatic stress disorder) from her childhood, and it’s her speaking,” he told Newsweek. “It’s emotional and the only song I’ve had to sit down with her and play at the piano, just to make sure it was OK with her.”