Explain me 80s pop videos: Duran Duran's Wild Boys

Or, it might depict a very personal homosexual fantasy/nightmare - notice that Simon le Bon is forced to look at a tv screen where the word "girls" flashes (brain reprogramming a la Clockwork Orange), and there's also the underwater vagina dentata representing fear of women.

(b.) This also explains why the video idea was there before the song idea. The song was supposed to be the theme tune for a proposed adaptation of said novel, with the video acting as a little bit of a teaser of same.

(c.) It was John Taylor, not Simon Le Bon, who was strapped to the vehicle while facing a video screen.

(d.) Simon looks panicked when being dunked into the water while strapped to that windmill because he almost drowned during one take and so understandably he'd look freaked out by having to repeat the actions that nearly caused his death.

(e.) Still dislike the clip? Blane Russell Mulcahy.

We've got huge video budgets and we want to prove it now!

Great song though. Their last great single except for maybe "Ordinary World" nine years later.

you left out the part about the cocaine though

I could have listed "A View To a Kill" or some of the Arcadia tracks as evidence of the opposite. However, those songs are all pathetic attempts to become more "funky" and Duran Duran weren't great again until they left behind that phase. The entire "Big Thing" album was a disgrace, with "All She Wants Is" being the worst thing they ever did.

Nile Rodgers and his dance production may have been around already on "Wild Boys" but that song did at least have a proper tune and the good, old typically English Duran Duran harmonies in addition.