вЂњBut six years after, I started to feel a weight inside me. вЂњIвЂ™m not a big believer in the supernatural,вЂќ says Le Bon. Duran Duran singer Simon Le Bon, 58, says he and the band (including then-guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, original bassist John Taylor and keyboardist Nick Rhodes) penned the tune in 1992 as a tribute to a friend who died from a heroin overdose in 1986. вЂњOrdinary WorldвЂќ first began its climb into the Billboard Top 40 in January 1993, the same week Bill Clinton was inaugurated as POTUS-a juxtaposition which makes the songвЂ™s recent resurgence all the more prescient. WilliamsвЂ™s sparse interpretation of the power ballad quickly racked up millions of streams and made its way into the Spotify Viral 50.

20 in hopes of bringing people together after the inauguration of Donald Trump. She previously placed her haunting piano-and-vocal version in a 2014 episode of GreyвЂ™s Anatomy, but released it widely on Jan. After struggling with the divisiveness consuming America, the singer for Grammy-winning duo The Civil Wars decided to revisit her own recording of the song. Joy Williams, 34, thought about вЂњOrdinary WorldвЂќ often during last yearвЂ™s election season. Now, the song is reaching a younger generation-and serving as an unexpected anthem of resistance in the post-truth era. Over the past two decades, the hitвЂ™s message about striving for stability and strength amid devastation and turmoil has continued to connect with a wide range of both listeners and artists, including the late Luciano Pavarotti, crooner Paul Anka, and Christian rock band Red, among many others. While itвЂ™s not unusual for old songs to reappear on the charts after being featured on TV, the re-emergence of вЂњOrdinary WorldвЂќ in 2017 is different. The following day, Duran DuranвЂ™s original 1992 recording of вЂњOrdinary WorldвЂќ entered the U.S. Judge Gwen Stefani gushed about her love for the song after the contestant nailed its soaring melody with his operatic rock voice. This month on NBCвЂ™s The Voice, seventeen-year-old Josh West performed Duran DuranвЂ™s вЂњOrdinary WorldвЂќ and received a four-chair ovation from the showвЂ™s celebrity hosts.

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