“It was the reminder not to cry for yesterday, for what was. “I remember the sound weaving from my sister’s new bedroom, through all the cardboard boxes in our unfamiliar home,” she says. The words means as much to her now as they did during childhood. Williams says she first heard the song on the radio at age 10, when her family moved from California to Michigan. Times have changed since “Ordinary World” debuted, but Duran Duran’s musical statement about persistence has not. This was true in 1992, and I think it’s still true.” It makes you realize that a story about two people is just a tiny part of this huge story which is called humanity. “The lines, ‘Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed/ feared today, forgot tomorrow / Here beside the news of holy war and holy need / ours is just a little sorrowed talk’ put everything in perspective. “We wrote ‘Ordinary World’ while the first Gulf War was on,” he remembers. Le Bon’s lyrics reflected the optimistic, globalist themes of the early 1990s and dealt defiantly with the unsettling world events of the era. The song’s first stanza describes the desire to find normalcy after the shock and grief of loss, but today the sentiments might also apply to coping with a pall of uncertainty after November 2016: “Came in from a rainy Thursday on the avenue/ Thought I heard you talking softly / I turned on the lights, the TV, and the radio / Still I can’t escape the ghost of you / What has happened to it all? / Crazy some say / Where is the life that I recognize? / Gone away.” ‘Ordinary World’ was the act of letting that go.”
“But six years after, I started to feel a weight inside me. “I’m not a big believer in the supernatural,” says Le Bon.
Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon, 58, says he and the band (including then-guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, original bassist John Taylor and keyboardist Nick Rhodes) penned the tune in 1992 as a tribute to a friend who died from a heroin overdose in 1986. “Ordinary World” first began its climb into the Billboard Top 40 in January 1993, the same week Bill Clinton was inaugurated as POTUS-a juxtaposition which makes the song’s recent resurgence all the more prescient. “There is a humility about ‘Ordinary World’ that is profound to me-a reminder to bravely look forward, even in the midst of all the terrifying ‘New.’” “The inauguration stirred up many emotions for all of us, no matter our political affiliations,” she says. Williams’s sparse interpretation of the power ballad quickly racked up millions of streams and made its way into the Spotify Viral 50.
20 in hopes of bringing people together after the inauguration of Donald Trump. She previously placed her haunting piano-and-vocal version in a 2014 episode of Grey’s Anatomy, but released it widely on Jan. After struggling with the divisiveness consuming America, the singer for Grammy-winning duo The Civil Wars decided to revisit her own recording of the song. Joy Williams, 34, thought about “Ordinary World” often during last year’s election season. Now, the song is reaching a younger generation-and serving as an unexpected anthem of resistance in the post-truth era. Over the past two decades, the hit’s message about striving for stability and strength amid devastation and turmoil has continued to connect with a wide range of both listeners and artists, including the late Luciano Pavarotti, crooner Paul Anka, and Christian rock band Red, among many others. While it’s not unusual for old songs to reappear on the charts after being featured on TV, the re-emergence of “Ordinary World” in 2017 is different. The following day, Duran Duran’s original 1992 recording of “Ordinary World” entered the U.S. Judge Gwen Stefani gushed about her love for the song after the contestant nailed its soaring melody with his operatic rock voice. Lyrically, the song just fit the overall theme of Innocence & Instinct by its longing for a return to something more familiar, more secure, more ordinary.This month on NBC’s The Voice, seventeen-year-old Josh West performed Duran Duran’s “Ordinary World” and received a four-chair ovation from the show’s celebrity hosts. “Technically it’s a difficult song that challenges the pop formula. “There’s just a dynamic and depth musically in ‘Ordinary World’ that is not present in most pop songs,” explains guitar player Anthony Armstrong. Words & Music by Nicholas Bates, Warren Cuccurullo, Simon Le Bon and John TaylorĪccented heavily by piano and strings, this Duran Duran cover takes a decidedly RED direction, featuring a twisted fusion of dreamy orchestration and loud six-string distortion. Passion or coincidence once prompted You to say,
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