VIDEO: Duran Duran “Girl Panic!”

Posted November 11th, 2011 by eric

Duran Duran has released Girl Panic!, the third single from its Mark Ronson-produced and semi-comeback album All You Need Is Now. The video for Girl Panic! lifts a page from George Michael’s “Freedom” but takes the idea much deeper: A cast of well-known supermodels (Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Yasmin Le Bon, Eva Herzigova, and Helena Christensen) pose as Duran Duran while the members themselves take subsidiary parts as journalists and bell hops. It’s self-referential, kitschy, and self-deprecatingly funny. Duran Duran has always been able to express itself extremely well via video, and Girl Panic! proves that the band has retained a healthy sense of humor amidst the ups and downs of maintaining an audience post-80’s teen girl frenzy. Jonas Akerlund directs this nine-minute “short film.”

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