Justin Timberlake's "TKO," the hit single from The 20/20 Experience — 2 of 2, has finally made it to video. It's been a month since the song was first released, but the video's grim narrative is just in time for the Halloween season.
"TKO" may conjure up the idea of boxing, but Timberlake's lover in the video — played by Riley Keough, who's best known as Elvis Presley's granddaughter — never actually punches him. Instead, the music video's narrative cuts between two stories: Timberlake and Keough hanging out, arguing, and hooking up in an apartment, and Keough dragging Timberlake behind a truck in the middle of the desert. What is happening? How do these stories fit together? It all becomes clear by the end of "TKO" — and Timberlake fans will be sorry to see that Keough is definitely the one with the upper hand.
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