Post by coolbarn on Dec 20, 2014 19:46:09 GMT -5
It just amazes me how so many people are dissing Duran over a rumor BEFORE the song(s) are even heard...if indeed this whole thing is true and comes to fruition.
What else do we have to talk about over the next six months other than rumours? I bet if the rumours were that Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Williams, Quincey Jones, Brian Eno, and Jesus Christ himself wanted to work with Duran Duran and make the best pop/rock album in history, guaranteed to sell a billion units, then everyone here would be as happy as a pig in shit. There'd be none of this "It just amazes me how so many people are congratulating Duran over a rumor BEFORE the song(s) are even heard...if indeed this whole thing is true and comes to fruition".
Unfortunately I believe in being fair. As I mentioned if it came up in a thread that The Rolling Stones were working with One Direction purely to try and attract young fans everyone would take the piss out of them. If it came up that U2 were working with Justin Bieber purely to try and attract young fans everyone would take the piss out of them. If basically any old band from REM (they would have to get back together first of course) to the Red Hot Chili Peppers wanted to work with Lindsay Lohan purely to appeal to a younger demographic then we'd all be dubious. I don't expect there'd be too many people saying "hey, it's great that Michael Stipe wants to sing with Lindsay, don't knock it until you hear it".
So why is it okay when Duran Duran does it?
Around here there's a double standard involving Duran Duran that, like all double standards, shouldn't exist. If something is good, it's good. If something is bad, it's bad. Duran Duran doing something bad DOESN'T suddenly make it good. If anything it's worse, as I expect more from the band than that.
Just like for years when Duran's album didn't chart. We'd all wait patiently for the new album, with many fans postulating "is this the one that will get them back into the charts and the public eye", but then afterwards they'd always be disappointed. What was a sour-grapes attitude after the event for many fans? That's right, they gave it the old "well everyone knows that current music and the charts are crap, and that quality doesn't guarantee sales, all the young popular bands are talentless hacks with more arse than class anyway" (or words to that effect).
So AFTER the event charts didn't matter, it was about quality. And modern music was crap.
Now fast forward to 2006/7. Duran scrap an allegedly dark, political record and hire the most successful producer and his posse at the time. Now that it's obvious that Duran are going for a current sound, many of the fans here do a backflip and say how great it is that Duran are embracing modern music. There wasn't too much talk of current music being crap and the charts meaning nothing then, magically because Duran Duran did it, something bad amazingly became good.
History is repeating itself 7 years later.
I honestly hope the band make the most successful album they have ever made, like I do before every album. In a perfect world DD14 would get plenty of promotion, sell tens of millions of copies, Lindsay Lohan would go on to bigger and better things in the music industry thanks to Duran Duran's assistance and advice, and finally Duran themselves would be given the true credit they have deserved since 1981.
If that happens I will be the loudest cheering person on these boards.
But...
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It's not going to happen. I'll just be happy for another great record from Duran Duran, whether it sells one copy or one billion copies. Doesn't stop me from criticising their laughable attempts at trying to attract a younger demographic though. And at least in the process I stick true to my principles, not like some of the fans here that flip-flop and change their mind like the wind, just blindly following Duran Duran like the people in The Life Of Brian.
I love the band as much as anybody on this board. I wish them every success in life and am so glad they are still entertaining us and making great music after all these years. I am a very proud and fortunate Duran Duran fan. The difference is I don't have blinkers on that some fans do.
When they're great I give them credit. When they're not I'm critical. Some of the followers on this board are happy to do the former, but can't quite manage the latter. And they take it as a personal offense if somebody dares to criticise their heroes.