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Nicole Scherzinger Sings National Anthem, Avoids Adding Line About Her Genitalia


Nicole Scherzinger's 45-slowed-down-to-33 performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" not only features her wearing an outfit that covers her midriff (perhaps that's the cause for the boos at the outset?), it's pretty straight-and-narrow—not to mention relatively in key for an a capella performance. But surely I can't be the only one who thinks that this is step one in her efforts to Kristy Lee Cook it up in a final, last-ditch effort to save her solo album from eternal label purgatory? I can't wait until she wears a red, white, and blue jumpsuit for the Macy's July 4 fireworks display and mashes her way through "God Bless The USA," complete with a posse of Statue of Liberty-dressed Pussycat Dolls behind her. After all, nothing can be worse than her Duran Duran cover, right? More »

1:45 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by tigerpop: She can sing, but she's no Maya Rudolph. more »

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Are Duran Duran "Officially Cool At Last"?

When were Duran Duran cool? Circa Rio? Seven And The Ragged Tiger? Perfect Teeth? Donnie Darko? Reuters suggests that appreciative remarks from bands like the Killers have made the group "officially cool at last." In 2008. So that's what it takes to be cool? A tip of the hat from Brandon Flowers? Did "Tranquilize" make Lou Reed more cool? Or is Lou Reed so much cooler than the Killers or Duran Duran that working with the Killers made Lou less cool. And where does Timbaland fit into all this? Or, for that matter, the Dandy Warhols? More »

11:00 AM on Thu Apr 17 2008
By Anthony Miccio
524 views, 15 comments

Latest by NeverEnough: @bcapirigi: Sure, it all starts out fun. Five drinks in and two hours later when I have you backed into a corner, breathlessly babbling about random Duran b-sides and explaining in tedious detail about why Warren Cuccurullo is worse than more »

Popdose revisits one of my favorite singles of the late '80s, Duran Duran's Shep Pettibone-tricked "I Don't Want Your Love": "Simply put, Pettibone saved Duran Duran's ass. Armed with an explosive intro, bubbly percussion, a bottom-heavy rhythm section, staccato horns, and a brief but fierce guitar solo, 'I Don't Want Your Love' was a hell of an intro to Duran Mach II." Could you imagine what mid-period Duran Duran would have been like without this song? Something tells me they'd be donning the unfortunate matching suits even earlier in their career! [Popdose]

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false starts

Duran Duran: Dressing Like Kraftwerk, Bantering Like Late-Period Spinal Tap

Duran Duran opened its latest world tour at Auckland's Vector Arena last night, and according to reports, things didn't go all that well. Not only did Simon LeBon forget the words to "Hungry Like The Wolf," the mid-show "electro set" where the band reportedly wore matching jumpsuits, Kraftwerk-style, was so plagued with technical difficulties that at one point the band was "standing in front of their synthesizers like confused cashiers in a supermarket," according to Stuff; photos of the band's outfits haven't cropped up anywhere online, although John Taylor looks a bit Edward Scissorhandsy here. Taylor also reportedly walked offstage as a protest against the set, saying, "I could not dance to that. These people came here to dance." A theory that would be borne out by the way the audience—which every writeup noted was mostly made up of 30something women, all of whom had probably referred to themselves as "Durannies" at one point in their life—forgot the words to one of the band's biggest MTV-era hits en masse! More »

1:15 PM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Maura Johnston
596 views, 4 comments

Latest by Chris N.: Do do do do, do do do, do do do, do do do, do do. more »

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Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes Has Rainbows In His Eyes


And is that eyeliner or is he just sleepy? Idolator roving videographer/ragged tiger Alex Goldberg recently discovered the Duran Duran keyboardist chilling at the bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel being English, and what better time to corner a New Wave legend and ask him his opinions on the future of the music industry than while the afterparty DJ spins Bon Jovi's "Living On A Prayer"? Looking a bit Eddie Izzardish, Mr. Rhodes discusses his admiration for the boys of Radiohead and why you might be ordering the followup to Red Carpet Massacre through the Internets. (Maybe.) That would certainly obviate any graphic design faux pas!

4:20 PM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Jess Harvell
1,130 views, 2 comments

Latest by NeverEnough: Nick Rhodes is the single coolest human on earth. FACT. more »

Hey, DMS of The Leak Source! It's nice to be proud of your work, but I'm going to hazard a guess that proclaiming, over and over again, that you're responsible for ripping the new Duran Duran album and uploading it to Demonoid isn't the best course of action in these lawsuit-happy times. Even if you're saying so in an effort to hold on to your leak-blogging honor. Oh well—at least I know that the album's "out there," right? [The Leak Source]

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comebacks

Duran Duran: Still Savvy About Getting Press


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). More »

3:07 PM on Fri Sep 21 2007
By mjohnston
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The Duran Duran/Timbalake collaboration hits the Web, and it sounds like a leftover from Loose that was tossed off during the FutureSex/LoveSounds sessions. While not as unfortunate as "Electric Barbarella," whoever produced "I Don't Want Your Love" should heed this message: Please return from wherever you are and save Simon LeBon and company from their latest misguided attempt to seem "current." [EW]

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madonna

Liner Notes: Even On The Slowest News Day Of All Time, We'll Always Have Madonna

- The New York Post confirms our fears that limey hacks and Third World urchins don't mix. [NY Post]
- The Duran Duran/Timbaland collaboration has yielded three songs, all of which will appear on next May's new double-D album. Justin Timberlake appears on only one song, as he and Simon Le Bon spent most of their time trying to one-up each other with crazy Janice Dickinson stories. [Billboard]
- This is it, folks: The most boring news story to which we've ever linked. You're curious, but trust us, it'll still disappoint. [NME]

11:19 AM on Thu Dec 21 2006
By Brian Raftery
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Latest by Bob Loblaw: In a weird flip-a-roo, clicking the NME link did NOT disappoint, only because I'd been prepared for said disappointment beforehand, and then it was a thousand times more boring than I'd expected, which made it somehow hilarious. more »