Posted on 01/15/2023 12:10:27 PM PST by DallasBiff
The official Duran Duran video for "Ordinary World" from 1993's THE WEDDING ALBUM. Directed by Nick Egan.
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90's music wasn't that bad.
Most modern pop stars are unfit to shine Simon LeBon’s shoes.
Fun fact: The guitar solo that characterises this song was arranged and performed by Warren Cuccurullo, former player with Frank Zappa. Warren is credited generally with resurrecting Duran.
I remember it.
Their music did seem to suffer after Andy Taylor left the group. His guitar helped balance the music that became a bit synth-heavy later. It doesn’t surprise me that they had a resurgence when they brought in a guitarist.
History I never knew.
In addition to this one, they had "The Chauffeur", "Save A Prayer", "Hungry Like The Wolf" and "New Moon On Monday."
Not bubblegum disposable pop.
"I will survive", with a nod to Gloria Gaynor.
Duran Duran considered cancelling its Saturday night (April 16) concert at North Carolina’s PNC Music Pavilion in protest of the state’s newly passed HB2 law, which requires transgender people only use bathrooms that correspond with their sex at birth.
It is a great song, lyrics, melody, composition, production all of it. Arguably their best.
Just as an aside I watched MSNBC today, and Alex Witt had some woke Mass. congressman named Jake Auschinloss or something, and they didn't know what "wokeness" was.
Read and understand the lyrics, and perhaps you will begin to see the connection & why I chose that song:
The lyrics for: The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
If you see something that looks like a star
And it's shooting up out of the ground
And your head is spinning from a loud guitar
And you just can't escape from the sound
Don't worry too much, it'll happen to you
We were children once, playing with toys
And the thing that you're hearing is only the sound
Of the low spark of high-heeled boys
The percentage you're paying is too high priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
But today you just read that the man was shot dead
By a gun that didn't make any noise
But it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest
Was the low spark of high-heeled boys
If you had just a minute to breathe
And they granted you one final wish
Would you ask for something like another chance?
Or something similar as this?
Don't worry too much, it'll happen to you
As sure as your sorrows are joys
And the thing that disturbs you is only the sound
Of the low spark of high-heeled boys
The percentage you're paying is too high priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
But today you just read that the man was shot dead
By a gun that didn't make any noise
But it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest
Was the low spark of high-heeled boys
High-heeled boys
If I gave you everything that I owned
And asked for nothing in return
Would you do the same for me as I would for you?
Or take me for a ride
And strip me of everything including my pride
But spirit is something that no one destroys
And the sound that I'm hearing is only the sound
Of the low spark of high-heeled boys
Heeled boys
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Basically it's saying everyone has highs & lows, but don't ever let the lows kill your spirt. Fight to survive, because the lows will become highs and the sorrows, joy.
Ready for this?
The ONLY band to have a #1 hit in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s is . . .
Duran Duran.
I always thought, that the song, was a trannsy anthem, back in the 70's.
I know throw eggs at me.
Eggs are so expensive now, might as well throw a rock, it's cheaper. :)
Milo O’Shea as Durand Durand!
Barbarella!
Well Duran Duran did a bizarre video, for their song "Electric Barbarella", in 93.
The record executives are the high heeled boys, as a kind of play off of well heeled. In the lyrics they do use high-heeled boys, which may or may not be a reference to their sexual deviancies as well. That's perhaps a more hidden meaning.
Other interpretations make it about drug usage & the relationship between user & supplier, & high-heeled boys is a reference to an 8-ball mixture of cocaine & heroin.
As far as I know Steve Winwood has never really come out and said what the lyrics mean. So, we have several options to choose from. Those are only 2. But I have always loved the song and my interpretation has always been the first one, because to me it has a deeper meaning than the drug usage one. 🙂
Am I right? Who knows, and frankly who cares. 🙂
I have the cd to this day.
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