The Killers – “Here With Me” ft. Winona Ryder (Dir. Tim Burton)

The Killers clearly are trying to flush their video vaults before the new year, as this is their second one this week alone. Are there tax implications to carrying over completed music videos into the next calendar year? Probably. That’s probably the explanation. The Tim Burton-directed “Here With Me” has a two-tier structure — band performing in an entirely empty, ostentatiously grand performance hall, and pale guy with bug eyes who was the lead in Richard Ayoade’s Submarine caught in a Mannequin-like romance. That is, he’s in love with a wax Winona Ryder, which occasionally comes to life to love him back. As we learn in the end, mannequins are great to love because they can be your date at dinner and also your candle. Every story has a moral.