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Duran Duran's ode to the strung out, rich and famous
The New Duran Duran is freakin' hot!!! Cocaine is NOT! Right? Check out the recent and upcoming new Duran Duran album, it's awesome! Produced by Timbaland! Justin Timberlake also appears.
The new song "Falling Down" seems to be targeted at all the coke-heads . Especially all the girls in public eye getting strung out, and going nowhere.
Yo Famous Bitches, Drop some LSD in a healthy setting free of coke/alcohol/speed/ecstasy, and your chances of quiting drugs are much higher than going to "rehab". Then after you're clean go to the media and explain how LSD saved your life, you'd be doing the world a service, and could possibly turn some of your bad karma around.
Wouldn't that be cool?
LSD girls, LSD. Britney alone could make LSD a viable medicine in the public eye, but she's just too dumb. Where's our modern day Cary Grant? Come on strung out famous people, use the force, and get psychedelic-free yourself of the bullshit. Then go public!!!
Reach out for the Sunshine!
Duran Duran used to be strung out, and then a couple years ago came out with their Astronaut album, and the single "Reach out for the Sunshine". My guess is they sobered up, and forged ahead on the psychedelic path. Plus, you know, Timbaland is getting his trip on too.
I argued years ago that getting Brit Brit on psychedelics would change the world. unfortunately, other people got to her first with the less-good, and now her brain is a marshmallow.
I don't really think that super mainstream people proudly doing acid is the answer, though. If Pinchbeck is any indication, the media only lets the annoying people who do psychedelics be the mascots.
Nowhere Girl : 2007-10-24 03:54:37
Really really? I don't know the band well, I have just heard a few songs by them, I'm generally tired of pop music. So I'll be happy if you explain the background to me. It seems curious because I have been wondering: how would an explicitly psychedelic message sound in the context of absolutely mainstream music, something musically designed to be played on MTV?
There are kinds of music where such a message is to some extent acceptable - for example in 60s psychedelic rock (and neo-psychedelia) it's possible to separate a whole type of songs I call "encouraging songs" or "ideological psychedelia". However, I believe with time such lyrics began to be taken less and less seriously, rather as a part of a convention. But still we have to remember that for the authors psychedelics were quite surely a genuine fascination.
A few examples from the 60s...
"Come on / and let it happen to you // You gotta open up your mind..." (13th Floor Elevators, "Roller Coaster" - the "archetypical" "encouraging song" by a band which explicitly meant to be doing psychedelic propaganda with their music)
"Relax yourself and drift / Into the regions of your mind / As understanding glows before you (...)" (Misunderstood, "Children of the Sun")
"Oh so many colors never seen before / but they've been there all the time / locked inside your mind (...)" (The Seeds, "Travel with your Mind")
"Take a drink from my magic potion, soon you're gonna really feel fine / One sip and you will see things you never saw before" (Open Mind, "Magic Potion")
"If you're tired and you want outside your mind / I'll show you a place I think is fine / It's the Land of Sensations and Delights / And it's filled with such wonderful sights" (J.K. & Co., "Land of Sensations and Delights" - Jay Kaye was just 15 when he wrote this miniature)
Maybe this kind of message remains acceptable as long as it is locked in its niche - psychedelic rock clearly is "niche music". But what would happen if such message managed to spread to a wider public through mainstream music? This is exactly the subversive aspect of psychedelics.
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There are kinds of music where such a message is to some extent acceptable - for example in 60s psychedelic rock (and neo-psychedelia) it's possible to separate a whole type of songs I call "encouraging songs" or "ideological psychedelia". However, I believe with time such lyrics began to be taken less and less seriously, rather as a part of a convention. But still we have to remember that for the authors psychedelics were quite surely a genuine fascination.
A few examples from the 60s...
"Come on / and let it happen to you // You gotta open up your mind..." (13th Floor Elevators, "Roller Coaster" - the "archetypical" "encouraging song" by a band which explicitly meant to be doing psychedelic propaganda with their music)
"Relax yourself and drift / Into the regions of your mind / As understanding glows before you (...)" (Misunderstood, "Children of the Sun")
"Oh so many colors never seen before / but they've been there all the time / locked inside your mind (...)" (The Seeds, "Travel with your Mind")
"Take a drink from my magic potion, soon you're gonna really feel fine / One sip and you will see things you never saw before" (Open Mind, "Magic Potion")
"If you're tired and you want outside your mind / I'll show you a place I think is fine / It's the Land of Sensations and Delights / And it's filled with such wonderful sights" (J.K. & Co., "Land of Sensations and Delights" - Jay Kaye was just 15 when he wrote this miniature)
Maybe this kind of message remains acceptable as long as it is locked in its niche - psychedelic rock clearly is "niche music". But what would happen if such message managed to spread to a wider public through mainstream music? This is exactly the subversive aspect of psychedelics.
The comments posted here do not reflect the views of the owners of this site.