Another from the Michelle Archives....as my Duran Duran tribute continues....
Its from the great great group...and its called......"Girls on Film".......and its maybe their most fun song....certainly their most controversial...
Lets face it.....Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes just kick ass!
I still love "Union of the Snake" better......,but this one is just pure fun when you put it all together with the video...
And the most famous part of the song ended being the music video...which contained various elements of female fighting....S&M....all the stuff you all know I love!.......and other things that can only be described as awesome to offensive depending on your sensibilities.....of which I personally have none!
The video was considered to raunchy and BANNED by the BBC!!.....BOOOO!!...and heavily edited for MTV late night
My....the times...they are a changing
"Girls on Film" is the third single by Duran Duran, released on 13 July 1981.
The single became Duran Duran's Top 10 breakthrough in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at Number 5 in July 1981. Its success was particularly gratifying for the band, who had personally selected it for release following the failure of its predecessor, "Careless Memories", which had been chosen by their record company, EMI. Its popularity provided a major boost to sales of the band's eponymous debut album, Duran Duran, which had been released a month earlier.
The song did not chart in the United States on its initial release, but it became popular and widely known after receiving heavy airplay on MTV when the Duran Duran album was re-issued in 1983.
Over the years, "Girls on Film" has become a staple of the encores for Duran Duran's live performances and is often the final song of a concert, during which lead singer Simon Le Bon introduces the rest of the band.
The song fared well on the radio and the charts before the video was filmed, but the controversy that ensued helped to keep the band in the public eye and the song on the charts for many weeks.
The band performs on an elevated stage behind a models' catwalk, which resembles a boxing ring, as various scantily clad women act out a series of erotic vignettes. A number of these scenarios feature mild depictions of BDSM, sexual fetishism and fantasy and recurring themes of seduction and abandonment:
Two models in sheer black camisoles and knickers mount the catwalk carrying pillows. They straddle a feather-covered pole at either end and move toward the centre, sliding their crotches along the horizontal candy-striped shaft in a slow and suggestive manner. The models proceed to have a pillow fight. Upon finishing, they kiss and return to their dressing room and pour champagne on each other's cleavage.
The Sumo wrestling match from "Girls on Film".
A petite female Sumo wrestler with her hair flared up in a tall tophawk ponytail mounts the catwalk to confront a lumbering, heavyset male Sumo wrestler. The woman is wearing a sheer top and a mawashi loincloth. In the confrontational tachi-ai stance, she seizes her opponent by the shoulder and flips him forward head-over-heels. He somersaults and lands on his backside with a thud and she gives the ceremonial rei salutation (i.e., a bow) and walks away victorious.
and that's just the beginning folks.......trust me.....I loved it!!!!
And so.....here we go....its from 1983...and the great Duran Duran.......its...."Girls on Film"
Don't you dare touch that dial!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jMMHHdVJb0This is for the world's greatest Duran Duran fan....my hot and sexy Mom......
I love you Mom
Have a great weekend everybody
