This song was in reaction to how the band was shunned in the 90s because the industry wanted to forget about them during the time. With this song and the album, they slammed the naysayers and the industry with a very successful album that had massive hits like Ordinary World and Come Undone, besides this song.
No, it was not. Read the lyrics. It's a song about commercialism and how companies push products and information that you don't need onto to you. Hence the title "Too Much Information." News and products you don't need is plastered all over the place. During this period of the 1990s, it was the nascent data generation as well. Information, again, mostly about nothing, was floating everywhere. There was an overload of it. It was also the first time war was on TV live day in and day out during the Gulf War 1990-91. As TV viewers are watching bombs destroy peoples lives, vehicles get blown up and buildings collapse through the media conduit of CNN, the corporations still sell you products like Coca-Cola & others non-essential products during their commercial breaks while proving real-time war coverage. There is this dissociative aspect of about reality. "The pressure's on the screen To sell you things that you don't need It's too much information for me" "Promotion boy In a suit 'n' tie He wants you to use it" "It's pumpin' down the cable Like never so before A cola manufacturer Is sponsoring the war Here comes the news With love from me to you" It's also about substance and not just looks either despite what TV, media and corporations try to sell with perfect models and good looks from actors. It's a false premise to live by this band, or this person who is not really perfect. There is no substance. It's TV selling you that you can be perfect too but it's a false promise. "Turn on the tube Hits you with groove Advertisin' music We want you to choose it These teeth are white Trainers ultra bright This band is perfect Just don't scratch the surface" "Got to give it to me Got to listen to me Got to give in to me" Believe the advertiser's and succumb and subscribe to what they are selling you- false promises and things you "don't" need.
@@billw715 Then how do you explain the lyrics, "This band is perfect, just don't scratch the surface", wise guy? The lyrics are a smokescreen for the real issue, which is about how things changed for them in the 90s.
@@bukitkatilmp Wise guy?" Because one has a difference of opinion than yours does not require your knee-jerk reaction with insults, mate. Let's not be so sensitive.
MTV was becoming less of a music video channel after the mid-1980s. It was game shows and reality shows that took over the programming line-up away from music videos. In an interview with Idolator titled "Duran Duran’s 'The Wedding Album’ Turns 20: Backtracking": "(Nick) Rhodes notes, Too Much Information was written really about MTV, and MTV becoming less of a music channel and about the fact that you can give away too much." I'll take Nick Rhodes' meaning of the song. Your interpretation for you is yours, however.
Inspiration for the song Too Much Information. MTV was becoming less of a music video channel after the mid-1980s. It was game shows and reality shows that took over the programming line-up away from music videos. In an interview with Idolator titled "Duran Duran’s 'The Wedding Album’ Turns 20: Backtracking": "(Nick) Rhodes notes, Too Much Information was written really about MTV, and MTV becoming less of a music channel and about the fact that you can give away too much."
Con questa canzone hanno davvero precorso i tempi....il finale ,purtroppo lo stiamo vivendo oggi..sotto tortura ,senza poter pensare liberamente e vagliati persino sui vocaboli ...altroche' se avevano ragione... Immensi Duran Duran❤
And to think that this song was released in 1993, when the media were fewer than in today's world and we didn't have any portable screen with us! Obviously we weren't concious of what was coming. 😢
This song was in reaction to how the band was shunned in the 90s because the industry wanted to forget about them during the time. With this song and the album, they slammed the naysayers and the industry with a very successful album that had massive hits like Ordinary World and Come Undone, besides this song.
No, it was not. Read the lyrics. It's a song about commercialism and how companies push products and information that you don't need onto to you. Hence the title "Too Much Information." News and products you don't need is plastered all over the place. During this period of the 1990s, it was the nascent data generation as well. Information, again, mostly about nothing, was floating everywhere. There was an overload of it.
It was also the first time war was on TV live day in and day out during the Gulf War 1990-91.
As TV viewers are watching bombs destroy peoples lives, vehicles get blown up and buildings collapse through the media conduit of CNN, the corporations still sell you products like Coca-Cola & others non-essential products during their commercial breaks while proving real-time war coverage. There is this dissociative aspect of about reality.
"The pressure's on the screen
To sell you things that you don't need
It's too much information for me"
"Promotion boy
In a suit 'n' tie
He wants you to use it"
"It's pumpin' down the cable
Like never so before
A cola manufacturer
Is sponsoring the war
Here comes the news
With love from me to you"
It's also about substance and not just looks either despite what TV, media and corporations try to sell with perfect models and good looks from actors. It's a false premise to live by this band, or this person who is not really perfect. There is no substance. It's TV selling you that you can be perfect too but it's a false promise.
"Turn on the tube
Hits you with groove
Advertisin' music
We want you to choose it
These teeth are white
Trainers ultra bright
This band is perfect
Just don't scratch the surface"
"Got to give it to me
Got to listen to me
Got to give in to me"
Believe the advertiser's and succumb and subscribe to what they are selling you- false promises and things you "don't" need.
@@billw715 Then how do you explain the lyrics, "This band is perfect, just don't scratch the surface", wise guy? The lyrics are a smokescreen for the real issue, which is about how things changed for them in the 90s.
@@bukitkatilmp Wise guy?" Because one has a difference of opinion than yours does not require your knee-jerk reaction with insults, mate. Let's not be so sensitive.
MTV was becoming less of a music video channel after the mid-1980s. It was game shows and reality shows that took over the programming line-up away from music videos. In an interview with Idolator titled "Duran Duran’s 'The Wedding Album’ Turns 20: Backtracking": "(Nick) Rhodes notes, Too Much Information was written really about MTV, and MTV becoming less of a music channel and about the fact that you can give away too much."
I'll take Nick Rhodes' meaning of the song. Your interpretation for you is yours, however.
@@eamonconnelly8029 Agreed with your observation. But they hit out at ABC and BBC as well.
Strange structure in this song, and it has crown on me over the years. The video is also brilliant. Guitarism...just phenomenal...
I went to this concert tour and the stage looked just like that with so many cool props. Cool Duran Duran song... love them!
You can't miss ORDINARY WORLD: A REAL MASTERPIECE ❤
Inspiration for the song Too Much Information. MTV was becoming less of a music video channel after the mid-1980s. It was game shows and reality shows that took over the programming line-up away from music videos. In an interview with Idolator titled "Duran Duran’s 'The Wedding Album’ Turns 20: Backtracking": "(Nick) Rhodes notes, Too Much Information was written really about MTV, and MTV becoming less of a music channel and about the fact that you can give away too much."
One of their best songs that they ever did!!!
One of the most underrated duran songs
So happy your reacting to Duran
Thank you guys
Con questa canzone hanno davvero precorso i tempi....il finale ,purtroppo lo stiamo vivendo oggi..sotto tortura ,senza poter pensare liberamente e vagliati persino sui vocaboli ...altroche' se avevano ragione...
Immensi Duran Duran❤
1994 when it was released
Lembro a primeira vez que escutei essa música, adorei, muito boa
❤❤😊the biggest
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 epic awesome musicians wow wow wow wow wow 🥰😎👍😳😲
And to think that this song was released in 1993, when the media were fewer than in today's world and we didn't have any portable screen with us! Obviously we weren't concious of what was coming. 😢
' this band is perfect, just don't scratch the surface ' pretty much Duran Duran in a nutshell.
1993