Back in the days when the M in MTV stood for Music and the V in VH1 stood for Videos, Duran Duran was the King of Music Videos. Even though those glorious days of MTV and VH1 are long gone, Duran Duran proves that they are still just as regal as they were back then with their new video for Girl Panic.
I can’t think of any band that can top what they just did with their latest single off of their album All You Need Is Now. Something they teamed up with Harper’s Bazaar to do. You would think that the man that said, “Why rock stars marry models? Because they can! It’s the same answer to the question: ‘Why do dogs lick their balls?’ Because they can!†would be the one the came up with the concept for this video, and you would be wrong. It was not Simon LeBon’s idea, but Nick Rhodes and he told OK! how it came about. “Harpers had approached us about collaborating with the magazine on something really special… I’d had had this crazy idea for a video for the song Girl Panic! that looked fantastic on paper but that I thought in reality would be impossible to pull off. The idea was to recreate a day-in-the-life of the band, with five of the world’s greatest supermodels playing all of us. (They) loved the idea of doing a cover shoot within the video itself – and so it all began.”
This band that has wowed us with videos like Girls on Film, Rio, Wild Boys, A View to a Kill and so many more, and those all seemed rather daring. Well Simon LeBon added this about Girl Panic, “We have made some pretty ambitious videos over the years, but this one was certainly the most challenging to date.”
Why was it one of their most challenging, try working out the schedules of Cindy Crawford, Eva Herzigova, Helena Christensen, Naomi Campbell and of course Simon’s wife Yamin. That is not an easy feat, but they did it. And I am so happy that they did because Girl Panic is one of the most impressive videos I have seen in a really long time. I can’t begin tell you how mesmerized I was watching it. It was as beautiful as the women and men involved with it.
So take about 10 minutes of your day today an enjoy Girl Panic!
John Taylor has always been my dream man, but after seeing the Duran Duran bassist dressed like the walking dead he is now the man of my nightmares. So Save a Prayer for me now because his View to a Kill is totally horrifying. Seriously isn’t his costume the scariest one of them all?
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Back in the ’80s John Taylor was as known for his hair as being a member of a Duran Duran. Well the 51 year old has been back with the band for a while and now he is bringing back those blonde bangs he made so popular in 1984! I will do what I do to have him keep that look because it worked for him 27 years ago and it is working, oh so well, for him now!!!
Seriously don’t you think he looks as good with his blond bangs off his forehead as he does with them cascading over it!
Shh can I tell you a secret, I was a such a Duranie I tried to dye my bangs blonde like him, but it never looked like John’s…:-(
You know John Taylor‘s song I Do What I Do from 9 1/2 Weeks, well now we know what face he uses to get woman to do what he wants to have them. Seriously how sexy is the Duran Duran bassist in that picture showing off his new haircut? I would do what I do have him. I am happy now, because you don’t want to know what I fantasized about him after seeing that photo of him doing as he said “Suck ’em in JT!?” I can think of something, I would like to…
Duran Duran recently did a photoshoot for Paper Magazine and the group’s Twitter page posted this behind the scenes picture from the shoot. I know this picture got my Reflex started when I saw the Wild Boy looking at himself like that. Seriously after that shot All I Need Is Now some alone time. Please don’t Come Undone with the Too Much Information I just gave you.
In all seriousness, I just love the shot of D2’s lead singer looking at his reflection in the mirror because it is very Rock’n’Roll. To me he has always been one my all time ultimate rockers ever since I read the answer he gave to this question, “Why rock stars marry models? Because they can! It’s the same answer to the question: ‘Why do dogs lick their balls?’ Because they can!” After I read that quote, I just had to respect the sh!t out of him because it is such the perfect answer from a rock star.
