"Please, Please Tell Me Now...Does it Seem We're Getting Old?"

So, I was willing to let it go when, last week on Wizards of Waverly Place, one of Gwynn's favorite Disney Channel shows, Alex cast a spell that went like this..."Please, please tell me now, is there something I should know, Duranium Duranium." It caused me to dust off the old Duran CD's so I could play the song for her, and when it was all said and done, I was like, "Hey, that was a fun little trip down memory lane!" Then, we were watching Dancing With the Stars last night, and one of the dances was to their Muzaked up version of "Hungry Like the Wolf!" I am feeling like my musical past is coming back to haunt me, or perhaps taunt me, all of a sudden. I know I am IN my 40th year and all, but you don't have to rub it in! So help me, someone sings a Duran tune on American Idol and I am throwing a brick at my TV!

You see, Duran Duran and I go WAY back. I fell in love with them in between 6th and 7th grade. In fact, BY 7th I was fully a Durannie, with tee shirts, and posters and pins. I remember screaming like the gymnasium groupie I was when their songs were played at jr. high dances, and then there was watching hours of MTV to see their videos, back when MTV showed videos of course, and only on the free cable weekends as my parents were too cheap to subscribe. I remember hating Def Leppard, because the teen magazines would pit them against DD as the UK's other Fab 5, eventhough, secretly, I liked their music too, and thought their lead singer was pretty hot. I knew all of the words to all of the songs, and as a young girl, dreaming in her bedroom, those songs and lyrics provided FINE backdrop for fantasy, let me tell you!

I had all the albums, books, pics and posters, but alas, never made it to a Duran concert as a young fan. They broke up, reformed, went through different incarnations as Arcadia, and the Power Station. I followed it all, and if ever they hit the radar, I, somehow, heard. It is like a sixth sense, once a Duranie, always a Duranie, I guess. Their reappearance in my early college years, with The Wedding Album, brought two songs that are very near and dear to me, songs that hold places on the soundtrack of my life, Ordinary World, and even more so, Come Undone. Then they drifted away again, and I went back to my Duran free existance.

Well, in 2004 they came back again, all 5 original members, with Astronaut. It was a really good album, I think, and their tour in 2005 FINALLY, at the age of 35, got me to a Duran Duran concert. Here we are about 5 years later, and I am hearing "the buzz!" could something new be on the horizon? Come on John (because he was MINE, and he was the BEST ONE), Simon, Nick, Roger and Andy...how about a new album for my 40th birthday? You've got JUST about a year!