14 DAY TRIAL // Justin Timberlake has released a new music video, for the single “TKO,” and it’s perhaps among his darkest to date. You can see it in full and in HD above.
Directed by Ryan Reichenfeld, on a script by Timberlake and Ryan Reichenfeld, “TKO” (which stands for Technical Knock Out) tells the convoluted love story between a man and a woman, which unfortunately ends very badly – for him.
If you feel like you know the girl in the video from somewhere, that’s because she’s Riley Keough, Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter and Elvis’ granddaughter. At one point, she was romantically linked to Robert Pattison, and she’s a real stunner, as you can see for yourself.
“TKO” paints her as the evil femme fatale who would scoop to dragging her lover through the desert tied to a speeding truck only because he turned her down when she made a pass at him. Then again, as the song makes it clear, she did cheat on him.
Check out the artsy video above but *please note that some discretion is recommended before playing it, because it contains language and images that might offend.