Creativity Quote by Simon Le Bon

It is a joke with teeth: the fantasy of pop as the last service industry standing, providing a beat while the world ends. Coming from Simon Le Bon, it lands because Duran Duran were never the leather-and-anguish kind of rock band. They sold gloss, velocity, and control at a time when the culture felt anything but controlled. That tension is the engine here.

The line’s intent is part swagger, part coping mechanism. “We want” frames the apocalypse as a gig to win, not a fate to fear. It’s ambition dressed as gallows humor: if catastrophe is inevitable, at least be unforgettable. The subtext is a subtle defense of frivolity. Dancing at the edge of annihilation isn’t ignorance; it’s insistence. Pleasure becomes a form of refusal, a way to deny dread the satisfaction of total occupancy.

Context matters: a Cold War sensibility where nuclear anxiety lurked behind everyday life, and New Romantic pop answered with synthetic glamour, sharp suits, and a curated sheen. Duran Duran’s music-video futurism and nightclub pulse were already a kind of aesthetic bunker - not hiding from reality, but remixing it into something survivable. The “bomb” also reads metaphorically: personal implosions, political crises, the constant background hum of bad news. Le Bon is staking a claim that pop’s job isn’t to lecture you through collapse; it’s to keep your body moving when your mind can’t.

It works because it admits the absurdity, then dares you to take it seriously.