‘Ordinary World’ was the act of letting that go.” “I’m not a big believer in the supernatural,” Le Bon told Paste in 2017, “but six years after, I started to feel a weight inside me. (The other songs in the trilogy are Big Thing’s “Do You Believe In Shame?” and Medazzaland’s “Out of my Mind.”) Lyrically, “Ordinary World” ended up as the second of three songs Le Bon wrote for his friend David Miles, who “died in tragic circumstances,” he once said. Watch Duran Duran's Video for 'Ordinary World' It was very, very quick,” Le Bon told Recording Musician. "Nick was playing the chords, Warren picked them up and then kind of altered them a little bit, and within minutes I had the melody. In fact, the song’s demo started with the chorus. Le Bon had a strong vision for the chorus on “Ordinary World.” For example, he knew he wanted the title phrase included. "This time around we used pretty much the same method, but the difference was that it was in our guitarist's living room – and so we didn't have to keep looking at the clock." "On our previous album, we had a fully working band for the first time in years, so we really had most of the songs written and arranged in advance, but there were a couple of albums before that which we had written in very expensive studios," bassist John Taylor told Recording Musician in 1993.
This was a new experience for Duran Duran. So when Duran Duran regrouped to work on a new album - which was rumored to be called Here Comes the Band or 4 on the Floor before it ended up a self-titled affair - they settled in at then-guitarist Warren Cuccurullo’s home studio.
You don’t really go into the studio thinking, ‘Oh, I’ve got to make something that fits into the music now.’” “I think in the back of our minds we all knew it was going on. “We were slightly in denial about what had happened to the band, about the decline of the band,” vocalist Simon Le Bon told Stereogum in 2021.
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