Last week Duran Duran launched one of the most talked about music videos of the year and yesterday Simon Le Bon took to Twitter to say how Girl Panic could actually air on MTV. He said, “MTV excited about a DD vid! Whoever would’ve believed it?” And then he added, “Of course, I do mean MTV the website. To get on MTV the TV channel we’d have to do some reality nonsense about setting teddy bears pants on fire while on spring break in Ft Lauderdale, or suchlike.” You know what’s sad is that he so right.
Here are some other ways D2 could get on MTV. Simon could be a pregnant 16 year old girl? Or he could get his GTL on, do a crap load of sit ups and show off his abs as he tries to smush as many women as possible? The 4 members of the band could move into a house in some strange city as the cameras follow them around? Or wait since he has the beard maybe he can be a Teen Wolf? How do you think Duran Duran’s and other musicians could actually get their music videos on MusicTV?
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…
