The band has barely paused for breath in the 18 months following its release. Their 15th studio album, Future Past, was released in late 2021 to widespread acclaim and was their biggest commercial success in 17 years since their 2004 reunion album, Astronaut. The band also features vocalist Simon Le Bon and keyboardist Nick Rhodes. And in America they had Top-10 albums in three decades (1980s, 1990s, and 2010s). The band have achieved UK Top-5 albums in five consecutive decades, from the 1980s to 2020s, a rare feat. They would go on to become the rhythm section of Duran Duran, one of the most adored and enduring bands of the modern era.ĭuran Duran released their self-titled debut album in 1981 and became a mainstay of the early MTV era, fueled by iconic videos for such hits as “Girls on Film,” “Hungry Like the Wolf,” and “Rio.” In 1985 they teamed up with composer John Barry for “A View to Kill,” from the James Bond film of the same name, Roger Moore’s final outing as 007. Then he met fellow Brummie and bass guitarist, John Taylor (no relation). So taking all of the above into consideration, “Invisible” seems more like a collection of songs, if you will, or ideas, as opposed to being squarely focused on one central theme. Or rather let’s say it deals with the entire range of being “invisible”, from a victim’s internal feelings, to how it affects their interpersonal relationships, to how it influences their standing in the society at large.Īnd conclusively, what can be perhaps most definitively ascertained, if nothing else, is that Duran Duran actually sympathizes and even to some degree identifies with such individuals.In 1979 Roger Taylor was a drummer in Birmingham punk band, Scent Organs. the “invisible”. And also we have yet to mention the first chorus, which comes off more like an interpersonal affair in which the vocalist is comforting someone who refuses to acknowledge him as an equal or a factor. In fact the entire piece concludes alluding to this theme of oppressor versus the oppressed, with we, the laymen, being identified with the latter, i.e. “Invisible” is a Protest Song?īut all of this is not to actually imply that these people are actually powerless, even if they do feel so. Indeed “Invisible” concludes sort of like a protest song, instead insinuating that this frustrated, “voiceless crowd” is rising up to stake their claim in their claim in the world. disenfranchised to the point whereas the society at large doesn’t really give a damn what they say or think. So the third chorus for instance points to how these people have truly become “invisible”, i.e. The second verse implies that what such individuals may actually be suffering from is a case of decimated self-esteem. And as alluded to earlier, the choruses by and large read like verses themselves. Moreover he is obviously turned off by public places and in general feels powerless. The first is the kind of individual(s) whom we commonly refer to as introverts. And it is possible that the different verses and choruses to some degree focus on different types of people who possess this attribute, though ultimately they are all fundamentally one in the same.
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