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Florence Welch used to think she needed a hangover to write music.

The 30-year-old Florence and the Machine star admitted she is quite reserved and shy in real life and used alcohol as a crutch when she first found fame.

She explained to the Daily Telegraph: "Hedonism was like a disguise. I was a shy kid and I had to alter my personality. At first it's freeing but then it becomes a prison of its own making. I thought you needed a hangover to write."

Florence also revealed she has always found it easier to pour out her feelings in songs rather than express them by talking to people.

She said: "I find it easier to explain myself in music than in person. Songs are like protective talismans. In daily life, I'm much more unsure and shy.

"It's like hiding in plain sight... If I tell you that I'm struggling or in pain but dress it up and make the loudest noise ever, I can get it out. I can tell the truth but still hide behind the noise I'm making.

"On stage, something takes over. When I sing there is a huge sense of release. I am very in love with the world and quite afraid of it as well; my feelings come on really strong. In real life I have to find a way to shut that down. Stage is a place where it all makes sense and people aren't going to think I'm crazy."

Florence is currently working on her fourth album, which will explore the "black hole" she fell into with alcohol and upheaval in her personal life, including a split from event planner boyfriend James Nesbitt in 2014.

She said: "I'm happier now, I'm content, but I'm never going to be fixed, ever. I don't think that's how it works. A lot of things almost worked for me: partying almost worked, being famous and successful almost worked, the relationship almost worked... but it won't sustain you. These are transient things. It's working out how to be OK regardless."

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"Dust off your running shoes" is not a sentence I've ever expected to write in the announcement for a wine event, but the day has come nonetheless.

A series of races has been taking place in various parts of Istria as of April 17th. A very attractive series of very attractive races, let me add, as they are part of the initiative called 'Run, eat, drink' (Tei, isti, piti in Croatian). The races aim to combine tasting of distinguished Istrian wine and authentic local cuisine with running surrounded by the gorgeous scenery of inland Istria. The last event of the season before the summer break is the upcoming race Run 4 Teran in Bruno Trapan's vineyard in ian that's planned for Saturday, May 27th at 10.

The route goes around the vineyard and measures 4km in length; running seems to be a sort of a warm-up for the rest of the day, seeing that the start is set for 11 and the return to the vineyard is expected at 12:15. The race is followed by a hearty meal of venison and polenta, provided by the Association of Hunters 'Bena'; quality Trapan wines and DJ Matko Bankovi from Kolektiv Buka Noise will make sure the party goes on until the evening.

For those want to participate in the race, there's a registration fee of 50 kuna to be paid online or at the spot on Saturday. If you want to be a part of the event without breaking a sweat, don't worry, as the enabling organisers are encouraging everyone to drop by, no matter if they plan to race or not Wine Station Trapan is there for the lazier among us to hang out and enjoy the top-quality wine. No matter how you look at it, the 'Run, eat, drink' manifestation is a literal and metaphorical exercise in hedonism.

The event is organised by the Association of Kinesiologists Pula, Wine Station Trapan and the Tourist Board of Linjan Municipality. More information is available at the official website.

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For National Wine Day, Three Ways To Attract Millennial Drinkers Forbes But with craft brewers offering a wider range of styles and taste profiles than were available to boomers at the same age, plus millennials' propensity for frugal hedonism, as reflected in their hesitancy to pay restaurant markups, millennials may ...

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How did a 400-line poem based on the writings of a Persian sage and advocating seize-the-day hedonism achieve widespread popularity in Victorian England? The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym was written by the eccentric English scholar Edward FitzGerald, drawing on his loose translation of quatrains by the 12th-century poet and mathematician Omar Khayym. Obscure beginnings perhaps, but the poems remarkable publishing history is the stuff of legend. Its initial publication in 1859 the same year as Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species and JS Mills On Liberty went completely unnoticed: it did not sell a single copy in its first two years. That all changed when a remaindered copy of FitzGeralds 20-page booklet was picked up for a penny by the Celtic scholar Whitley Stokes, who passed it on to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who subsequently fell in love with it and sang its praises to his Pre-Raphaelite circle.

When, in 1863, it fell into the hands of John Ruskin, he declared: I never did till this day read anything so glorious. From that moment, there began a cult of Khayym that lasted at least until the First World War, by which time there were 447 editions of FitzGeralds translation in circulation. Omar dining clubs sprang up, and you could even buy Omar tooth powder and illustrated playing cards. During the war, dead soldiers were found in the trenches with battered copies tucked away in their pockets.

What then was the extraordinary attraction of the Rubiyt? The answer sings out from some of its most famous verses:

XXIV Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and sans End!

XXXV Then to the lip of this poor earthen Urn I leand, the Secret of my Life to learn: And Lip to Lip it murmurd While you live Drink! for, once dead, you never shall return.

LXIII Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

The Rubiyt was an unapologetic expression of hedonism, bringing to mind sensuous embraces in jasmine-filled gardens on balmy Arabian nights, accompanied by cups of cool, intoxicating wine. It was a passionate outcry against the unofficial Victorian ideologies of moderation, primness and self-control.

Yet the poems message was even more radical than this, for the Rubiyt was a rejection not just of Christian morality, but of religion itself. There is no afterlife, Khayym implied, and since human existence is transient and death will come much faster than we imagine it is best to savour lifes exquisite moments while we can. This did not mean throwing oneself into wild hedonistic excess, but rather cultivating a sense of presence, and appreciating and enjoying the here and now in the limited time we have on earth.

This heady union of bodily pleasures, religious doubt and impending mortality captured the imagination of its Victorian audience, who had been raised singing pious hymns at church on a Sunday morning. No wonder the writer GK Chesterton admonishingly declared that the Rubiyt was the bible of the carpe diem religion.

The influence of the poem on Victorian culture was especially visible in the works of Oscar Wilde, who described it as a masterpiece of art and one of his greatest literary loves. He took up its themes in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The character of Lord Henry Wotton is a champion of hedonism who explicitly refers to the sensual allures of wise Omar, and tempts the beautiful young man Dorian to sell his soul for the decadent pleasures of eternal youth. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses, says Lord Henry. A new Hedonism that is what our century wants.

Wildes novel was a thinly veiled celebration of homosexuality a crime for which he was gaoled in 1895 (passages of the book were read out at his trial as part of the incriminating evidence). He saw in the Rubiyt an argument for individual freedom and sexual liberation from the constraints of Victorian social convention, not least because FitzGerald too was well-known for his homosexuality. For Wilde, as for FitzGerald, carpe diem hedonism was far more than the pursuit of sensory pleasures: it was a subversive political act with the power to reshape the cultural landscape.

Hedonism has a bad reputation today, being associated with YOLO binge-drinking, drug overdoses, and a bucket-list approach to life that values fleeting novelty and thrill-seeking above all else. Yet the history of the Rubiyt is a reminder that we might try to rediscover the hidden virtues of hedonism.

On the one hand, it could serve as an antidote to a growing puritanical streak in modern happiness thinking, which threatens to turn us into self-controlled moderation addicts who rarely express a passionate lust for life. Pick up a book from the self-help shelves and it is unlikely to advise dealing with your problems by smoking a joint under the stars or downing a few tequila slammers in an all-night club. Yet such hedonistic pursuits enjoyed sensibly have been central to human culture and well-being for centuries: when the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Americas, they discovered the Aztecs tripping on magic mushrooms.

On the other hand, the kind of hedonism popularised by the Rubiyt can help to put us back in touch with the virtues of direct experience in our age of mediation, where so much of daily life is filtered through the two-dimensional electronic flickers on a smartphone or tablet. We are becoming observers of life rather than participants, immersed in a society of the digital spectacle. We could learn a thing or two from the Victorians: let us keep a copy of the Rubiyt in our pockets, alongside the iPhone, and remember the words of wise Khayym: While you live Drink! for, once dead, you never shall return.

This article first appeared on Aeon.

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As a newly married man in Singapore many years ago, my hairdresser once asked me when my wife and I were going to have our first child. I replied, like many people do even today, that it was too expensive to have a child and to bring one up. He said that people who were earning a fraction of what we were and living in a one-room flat were still able to have two children and bring them up, and so could we.

It is a truism that we put up with hardships to do things we want to do while making a lot of excuses to justify what we dont want to do.

Travelling between northeast Asian countries such as Japan and Hong Kong and Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia and the Philippines, one is struck by children running all over the place in public places in the generally poorer Southeast Asian nations and the grim old people walking stiffly in north Asian societies. Affluent Singapore, though in Southeast Asia, is an exception, but even within Singapore it is the less affluent Singaporeans who seem to be having more children.

Personal experience and statistics show that merely giving a bigger flat to an average Hong Kong family wont solve the problem of demographic extinction that is looming over the city, which has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, at 1.2.

Societies are like individuals, too; some are energetic and outward-looking during periods of their life, while at other times, anomie takes over. Thats when individuals and societies go through life depressed and fearful while trying to hide it with empty indulgences, whether it is drinking or shopping, which one American philosopher called joyless hedonism.

Hong Kong is only an extreme and concentrated example of what will happen in other societies soon

Until this value system changes, many affluent societies of today will become so depressed that they will commit demographic suicide.

The rich and powerful, as those who have read about the ancient feudal male rulers with their large harems will know, used to take delight in fathering as many children as possible. Genghis Khan seems to have fathered so many children that his genetic marker is said to be found in about 10 per cent of the population within the old Mongol empire.

Female queens such as Elizabeth I, who died childless, do not seem to have shared the desires of male despots to breed aggressively.

Perhaps the main reason why modern societies, still dominated by men, are not increasing even at replacement levels must be that the affluent world still has not found a way to reorganise itself into a female and therefore family friendly way.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and South African President Jacob Zuma openly flaunt their multiple relationships. Yet in the European Union where an entire continent seems to be marching like lemmings to demographic suicide many leaders are childless and may therefore be less likely to promote child-friendly policies. Among the current European leaders without children are Germanys Angela Merkel, Frances Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, Scotlands First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and Jean-Claude Juncker, president of European Commission.

Children are even seen as a nuisance by some in Northern Europe. As one of my European friends pointed out, many restaurants in Germany will not allow children in but are happy to accommodate pet owners and their dogs! However, it is something of a mystery why Italy, where the Italian Mother is celebrated and whose main religion is Catholicism, also has a low birth rate.

We read about war-devastated societies such as Germany and Japan or post-war Vietnam springing back to life in a couple of decades, only to seem to lose the will to reproduce within a generation. It really does seem that T.S. Eliot was right and that end of the world will come not with a bang but a whimper, but it will not be a whimper from a baby.

There have also been societies slowly committing suicide while competing to raise tall structures. No, we are not talking about Hong Kong but, rather, remote Easter Island in the Pacific and the haunting stone structures that are the only ones left behind after that society committed suicide by cutting down all its trees while trying to raise ever more tall stone structures. History records that the population collapsed after the trees were gone and the few who were left behind were taken by slave ships to work in the mines of Latin America.

When asked about the meaning of life and civilisation, Karl Marx, known for getting to the point quickly, said that it is production and reproduction. Modern societies have succeeded spectacularly on the production front but have failed equally spectacularly on the reproduction front. Hong Kong is only an extreme and concentrated example of what will happen in other societies soon.

For the record, I should state that we have just one child, therefore not enough for replacement and even lower than Hong Kongs average of 1.2 per woman. We did try to beat the average, but without success.

N. Balakrishnan is a former foreign correspondent and an entrepreneur in Southeast Asia and India

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Review: A Mythic Force Rages in the Welsh 'Iphigenia in Splott' New York Times As embodied by the dynamic young actress Sophie Melville, she combines incinerating contempt with the fierce, resilient hedonism that belongs to young adults for whom the day begins when the bars and the dance clubs open. This woman on the prowl ...

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Samantha Bee Segment Saves The New Brunswick Today New Brunswick Today "Could hedonism save Charlie's paper?" Bee asked in the segment's "a-ha" moment. "I needed to know." Bee had interviewed an expert on "gamification," Gabe Zickerman, and turned the interview into a "legally distinct" parody of a classic game show to ...

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How The Rubiyt inspired Victorian hedonists to reject the conservatism of their time Quartz How did a 400-line poem based on the writings of a Persian sage, advocating seize-the-day hedonism, achieve widespread popularity in Victorian England? Rubiyt of Omar Khayym was written by the eccentric English scholar Edward FitzGerald, drawing ...

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Palestinian refugee camps are up in flames, across the country, a result of the disputes between the rival factions, but also of unsavory influences from abroad. As everyone knows here, there are, for instance, the Al Qaida-affiliated militants hiding in the South.

There are Israeli incursions into Lebanon, both by land and by water. There are also drones, flying habitually from Israel into and through the Lebanese airspace.

There is great tension between Israel and Hezbollah, over Syria, but not only.

Lebanese forces are fighting DAESH, mainly in the Northeast of Lebanon, on the mountainous border with Syria. Hezbollah is fighting DAESH, too, but independently.

In the 7th year into the war in Syria, there are still more than 1 million Syrian refugees living on Lebanese territory, some in awful conditions and many with extremely uncertain future. The exact number is unknown (UNHCR stopped the registration of all new arrivals approximately 2 years ago), but is believed to fluctuate between 1 and 2 million.

There is mounting tension between the Syrian and the Lebanese communities, as they are now competing for already sparse jobs and public services (including such basic utilities like water), while Palestinian refugees have been stranded in Lebanon already for decades, with very little social, political and economic rights.

There is a drug epidemic, from its production (mainly in the Bekaa Valley), to its unbridled consumption in Beirut.

A new government has finally been formed in December 2016, after more than 2.5 years of absence of any functioning administration. However, the Prime Minister is a Sunni Muslim, Saad Hariri, who is openly hostile to Syria and has directly expressed support for the recent US attacks against the neighboring country. Mr. Hariri has long been accusing Hezbollah and Syria of assassinating his father, Rafik Hariri, in February 2005. Mr. Hariri has dual citizenship, that of Lebanon and also of Saudi Arabia where he was born (in Riyadh). On the other hand, the President of Lebanon is now a Maronite Christian, 83-years old Michel Aoun, who came to power thanks to the unfailing support given to him by Hezbollah, the fact that puts him at odds with the Prime Minister.

There is an ongoing struggle, even deadlock, amongst the political parties (in Lebanon often synonymous with sectarian divisions), over such varied issues as the electoral law, waste management, international political alliances, foreign military funding, gender-based discrimination, employment as well as all basic social services (or acute lack of them).

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Lebanon is literally surrounded by perpetual conflicts. Syria, the country in great agony is right next door, north and east of tiny Lebanon, while mighty and aggressive Israel is threatening the country from the south. The United Nations troops are patrolling the so-called UN 2000 Blue Line or the de facto border between Lebanon and Israel. In fact, UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon) has for years been covering a large part of the countrys territory. It all feels like a war zone.

In fact the region consists of a series of temporarily dormant conflicts that are ready to explode again, at any moment, with destructive, murderous force.

The occupied and devastated Golan Heights is just across the borderline, too. Officially, The Golans are still part of Syria, but the Israelis have already purged most of its population, resettling it with their own citizens. During my visit, some 4 years ago, the situation was already dire, the area scarred by barbed wires, with Israeli military posts and vehicles everywhere. Many local houses were destroyed, as punishment. If you drive to the geographical extreme, you can see the Golan Heights from Lebanon. You can also see Israel, while Syria is always there, right behind the majestic and bare mountains.

The UN peacekeepers come from all parts of the world, including South Korea, Indonesia and Europe. Right before the Coastal Highway ends, near the city of Tyre, the motorists pass through the last Lebanese checkpoint. The UNIFIL protected area begins, with armored vehicles, sandbags and watchtowers. It reads, on the concrete blocks intended to slow down the traffic:

Peace to Lebanon, Glory to Korea!

Palestinian refugee camps are overflowing. Syrian refugees (some in awful conditions) are working like slaves in the Bekaa Valley, begging for money in Sidon and Beirut, or if they are wealthy, renting lavish seafront condominiums on the Corniche of the capital city.

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Despite all the bravado, Lebanon is scared; it is petrified.

Everybody knows that Israel could hit at any moment, again. It is said that Israelis are already stealing Lebanese oil from the seabed, but the weak and almost totally defenseless country can do almost nothing against one of the mightiest military forces on Earth.

All over the country, there are dormant cells of ISIS (DAESH) and of other extremist militant groups, overflowing from war-torn Syria. The ISIS is dreaming about a caliphate and the access to the sea. Lebanon is right there, a perfect location.

Both Russia and China are keeping a relatively low profile here, not too interested in operating in this divided and uncertain political climate. In Lebanon, there are very few permanent loyalties left;allegiances are often shifting andare frequently dependent on outside funding.

Saudi Arabia and Iran are always present here, and so is the West. Hezbollah (on several lists of the terrorist organizations of the West) is the only pan-Lebanese force capable and willing to provide at least some basic social services for the poor, as well as determined military and ideological defense against Israel.

Many political analysts are predicting that Lebanon will collapse, totally, and soon. But it is still here, determined and defiant. How, nobody knows. For how long, is a total mystery!

Patrolled by the UN, overflowing with refugees, Lebanon is shining into the night. Its Ferraris are roaming through its streets, without mufflers, until early morning hours. Its nightclubs are seducing hedonist visitors from the Gulf. Its art cinemas are as good or even better than those in Paris. At the AUB Medical Center, the best Middle Eastern surgeons are treating the most horrid war injuries from the area.

Here, war and self-indulgence are living side by side. Some say it is nothing else other than a bare cynicism. Others would argue:

No, it is life! Life of the 21st century world; exposed, brought to the extreme, but in a way honest.

Andre Vltchekis a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. Three of his latest books are revolutionary novel Aurora and two bestselling works of political non-fiction: Exposing Lies Of The Empire and Fighting Against Western Imperialism. View his other books here. Andre is making films for teleSUR and Al-Mayadeen. Watch Rwanda Gambit, his groundbreaking documentary about Rwanda and DRCongo. After having lived in Latin America, Africa and Oceania, Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and the Middle East, and continues to work around the world. He can be reached through hiswebsite and his Twitter.

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When Duran Duran convened to record the balance of Rio at George Martins storied AIR Studios in the beginning of 1982, they couldnt have known the major leap they were about to make both in their own career and in pop music as a whole. The sound and stance the album represented would help push them toward the worldwide superstardom that came to full fruition with 1983s Seven and the Ragged Tiger, and would provide a payoff on the aspirations of the New Romantic movement in the bargain.

The bands self-titled 1981 debut album made them stars in the U.K. but they had yet to beat a path to the top in America. As the poster boys for the New Romantic movement that took over England in 1980-81, they started out by mixing post-punk edge with German-influenced electronics, glam influences, and a solid disco-informed groove (early on they cheekily described their sound as a blend of Chic and the Sex Pistols).

They also fully embraced the New Romantic anti-punk ethos that valued aspirational hedonism over gritty anarchismthey wanted to be pop stars living the high life. But despite having hooks aplenty, their first album still bore trace elements of their underground beginnings and lacked a full-on pop production sheen. It felt more like music for the emerging dance-rock club culture than the work of a world-beating pop phenomenon.

But even before the album was out, Rios first single, My Own Way (released in late 81) signaled a shift. Its swooping strings, soaring choruses, and do-or-die production pointed towards the glittering prize of Duran Durans worldwide pop-star future, even if an altered version was eventually cut for the album release.

You didnt even need to pull the LP out of its sleeve to get a whiff of what the band was aiming for on Rio. For the album cover, Duran Duran enlisted the talents of Patrick Nagel, sort of an American Alberto Vargas, best known for his glossy images of women for Playboy magazine. The explosive colors, sleek lines, and glamour-gal image contrasted sharply with the starkly framed band shot adorning Duran Durans debut.

The inner-sleeve image of the band followed suit. Instead of the flowing, foppish New Romantic gear they sported on the first albums cover, the boys presented a sort of proto-Miami Vice look, nattily attired in expensive-looking suits and looking better suited for celebrity hobnobbing than cultish clubbing.

And of course, the visuals set up a batch of songs equally invested with a shiny, stylish flair. Rio is an ode to the idealized title figure, an aspiring international playboys dream girl. A guest sax solo from Andy Hamilton added to the sophisticated Roxy Music vibe, and the tracks combination of elegant melodic flow and danceable groove was the mixture that would hit pay dirt for the band.

That song and Hungry Like the Wolf solidified this second phase of Duran Durans evolution and lodged themselves and the band firmly into the pop pantheon forevermore. A generous helping of power chords from guitarist Andy Taylor mixes with John Taylors (no relation) thumb-slapping bass lines and Nick Rhodes frothy, burbling synths. But Simon Le Bons suave delivery of his feral, randy lyrics probably did more than anything to aid in the bands burgeoning sex-symbol status. The singles Top 5 placement on both the U.K. and U.S. charts served notice of Duran Durans increased commercial clout as well.

The videos the band made for these tunes had no small role in establishing Duran Durans new image either. In Hungry Like the Wolf theyre Indiana Jones-like adventurers in exotic locales. The Rio video finds them alternately sunning themselves on a yacht and engaged in beachside antics in tropical climes, clad in the same sort of well-tailored suits seen in the album art. Not only did these ubiquitous clips solidify the bands superheroes-of-hedonism persona, they changed the game for the entire music video industry.

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But Duran Durans intercontinental stardom had its downside too. John Taylor was, at least in Le Bons view, leaping a tad too wholeheartedly into the whole hedonism thing, taking full advantage of the bands lofty perch to overindulge in every conceivable way. On one level, its simply whats expected of a certain sort of rock star, but Le Bon worried that instead of burning the candle at both ends, Taylor was taking a blowtorch to the middle and endangering himself in the process. In lieu of a frank discussion, Le Bon decided to channel his concerns into the lyrics for Hold Back the Rain, which he actually slipped under Taylors door after finishing them. Decades later, Le Bon said Taylor never offered up any response, but if nothing else, it all ended up in one of Rios most potent, propulsive tunes.

By the albums end, the other side of Duran Durans sound popped its head up. The records last two tracks were like a long, wistful sigh following the urgent momentum of the rest of Rio. The delicate Save a Prayer floats on a bed of lush bed of synths as its tender, romantic sentiments unfold into one of the most emotionally impactful ballads in the entire Duran Duran oeuvre.

And on the albums final track, The Chauffeur, the band taps into something downright transcendent that has nothing to do with the pursuit of pop perfection but instead speaks to their credibility as true artistes. Its a poetic, wistful evocation of romantic yearning riding on a fragile, arty framework. Rhodes graceful keyboard lines support Le Bons evocative lyrics in an arrangement thats unconventional without being inaccessible. The drums dont even enter the scene until halfway through the track, turning up in time to help propel the songs long, atmospheric ride-out and achieving a feel somehow closer to a 60s Godard film than an 80s pop record.

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But artful detours aside, ultimately, Rio proved that both Duran Duran and the entire British new wave realm from which they emerged could be refitted for more pop-friendly purposes and take over the world in the process.

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