Duran Duran: Still Savvy About Getting Press

noah | September 21, 2007 3:07 am
Reading the headline “Duran Duran shoot X-rated video” in 2007 can only inspire one thing: A YouTube search for the now-pretty-tame clip for the band’s mini-epic “Girls On Film.” That song is still so well-crafted and catchy, especially by current standards, and now I just want to put on Decade for the rest of the afternoon (given our server problems today, that might not be such a bad idea).

Sadly, the Justin Timberlake-produced “Falling Down,” which is the song that will be getting the new racy-clip treatment (it can be found here, at least for now) isn’t so great, even if you compare it to “Skin Trade.” Instead it’s like a slightly more upbeat, yet somehow more draggy “Ordinary World,” right down to the Simon-going-into-falsetto outro. (Le Bon told the NME that song “subconsciously came from a severe motorcycle accident he had in 1992,” which might explain that odd similarity in part.) And the fact that the video was “inspired by a photo shoot in a fashion magazine that depicted models in rehab” … well, I know it’s Duran Duran and they’ve never exactly been “deep thinkers,” but come on.

Duran Duran shoot X-rated video in LA [NME]

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