It’s A “Girl Panic!” Super Cool Duran Duran Vid Filled with Supermodels!
Duran Duran still rocks. Call me crazy but I love ‘em. Always have, always will. (I even have a couple of songs from their latest album on my iPod. “Leave a Light On” reminds me of “Save A Prayer”.) I may be “dating” myself badly here, but I remember the advent of MTV. When the vid for “Rio” was first released, it was a huge deal and it was in very heavy rotation for a very long time. Those gorgeous guys were tailor made for music videos. Their popularity was based so heavily on their image at the time, that naysayers theorized the band would dry up when their looks did. Well one, their looks never did and two, the band has outlasted the music video.
For their latest single, “Girl Panic”, they’ve gone old school and back to their roots. There was a time when all a band had to do was fill three minutes of film with models and they had a hit. In fact this band’s first video was for a song called “Girls on Film”. (There was even a version that was too hot for MTV.) The most famous pairing of models and music was probably George Michael’s “Freedom ’90”. With “Girl Panic”, Duran Duran has taken “Girls on Film”, “Freedom ’90” and mashed them with Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” and come up with a totally cool, highly stylized hybrid of a long-form vid.
Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Helen Christensen (all three of whom are in their 40’s and look AAH-MAY-ZING!) along with Eva Herzigova all appear as the members of Duran Duran: John Taylor, Simon LeBon, Roger Taylor and Nick Rhodes respectively. (The actual members appear in supporting roles). An unnamed model represents the rotation of replacements for guitarist Andy Taylor who has left the band. You have to watch this. “No models were harmed in this production.”
