Red Carpet Massacre

Performer: Duran Duran
Engineer: Jean Marie Horvat; Matt Lawrence; Ethan Willoughby; Matthew Hager; Jimmy Douglass; Marcella "Ms Lago" Araica
Producer: Duran Duran; Timbaland; Jimmy Douglass; Jim Beanz; Nate "Danja" Hills; Justin Timerlake
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Duran Duran: John Taylor , Nick Rhodes, Roger Taylor , Simon LeBon. Additional personnel: Jim Beanz, Justin Timberlake, Terri Walker, Timbaland (vocals); Dom Brown (guitars); Simon Willescroft (saxophone); Marcella "Ms Lago" Araica (programming). New Romantic/'80s-pop standard bearers Duran Duran were so perfectly representative of the musical zeitgeist of the '80s that few would have predicted they'd remain a viable entity in the 21st century, but as 2007's RED CARPET MASSACRE proves, the former teen idols have beaten the odds. The band manages to keep things contemporary without abandoning their classic sound; there are dance beats and touches of contemporary R&B and even hip-hop ("Skin Divers" features a guest rap from Timbaland), but the '80s Duranisms are always within reach. Singer Simon Le Bon is as much the Brian Ferry-gone-clubbing frontman as ever, by turns seductive and commanding, and Nick Rhodes's keyboards still retain that frothy, new wave sparkle that put the sugar coating on the group's many hits.

Rolling Stone (p.194) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[Timbaland] gives the Fab Five a sleek funk track on 'Nite-Runner'..." Spin (p.118) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Nite Runner' throbs with future-sex love pop..." Entertainment Weekly (p.76) - "The preening New Romantic melodies of 'Box Full o' Honey and lead single 'Falling Down' are vintage Duran." -- Grade: B+ Uncut (p.90) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "RUNOUT GROOVE finds Duffy ploughing a mellow, mediative furrow, delivering thoughtful psych-pop..." Vibe (p.108) - "'Nite Runner' is a sleek vamp....'Falling Down' opens with a slick acoustic guitar that quickly swells to orchestral bombast..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.98) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] dramatic, contemporary pop concoction....Duran can wrap dark operatics in a glistening pop sheen." Blender (Magazine) (p.144) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "With Simon LeBon sharpening his typically abstract lyrics and everyone bolstering the contrasting, constant hooks....They've never sounded this pretty and severe."

At the dawn of the 1980s, Duran Duran was part of Britain's "futurist" or "new romantic" scene, which merged glam-rock attitude with disco beats and synthesizers to form an intensely fashion-conscious variant on new wave. With their good looks and pop hooks, the group ruled the music world for the first half of the decade. After that, there were numerous side projects (Arcadia, Power Station) and personnel changes, but the original band reunited to much ado in 2003.

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