Duran Duran has just released the nine-minute long promo for "Girl Panic!," the second single from '80s rock icons' latest album, "All You Need Is Now," taps into the edgy mix of post-punk, art rock, and new romantic synthpop. "Girl Panic!" dipped its toe in the water to harken back to an era when Duran Duran mattered most: The '80s! Our beloved British boys has been sending hits to the top of the charts since the 1980s, and is in the race to do it again.Duran Duran create the ultimate super group in their dazzling and glossy short film, is less about the song and more about the spectacle, which was directed by Swedish filmmaker Jonas Åkerlund, and shot at London's Savoy Hotel over two days earlier this summer. It reunites five of the world's top supermodels: Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Eva Herzigova, Helena Christensen and Yasmin Le Bon. Bringing their own style, irreverence and personality with the iconic English rockers of Duran Duran. It's more than just an 80's fantasy.
For a band who helped build their reputation on its groundbreaking music videos, it's been a long time since Duran Duran made a promotional film worthy of their classic clips from the '80s, which repeatedly cast the band as a hedonistic, futuristic, slightly effeminate gang of pirates. This stunning video showcases the acting and performance skills of the five 'supers' as they take on the roles of the members of the band, in a day-in-the-life-of expose, that has every ounce of trademark Duran Duran humour and glamour - topping any video they've ever made and making this the most talked-about music and fashion collaboration of the year.
The video effectively captures the hedonism of the song's grooves in scenes of young, barely clothed models touching tongues on four-poster beds, though "Girl Panic!" ebbs and flows like waves of cocaine and champagne crashing on a crystalline shoreline. "Girl Panic!" works because it's the first time since 1985's "A View to a Kill" that a Duran Duran video effectively captures the band's essential modus operandi: Booze, babes and bling. It has all of the ingredients that we feel are important – it's humorous, glamorous, sexy and very Duran Duran. Well done!
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