Duran Duran: Still Savvy About Getting Press
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.