Blog: Idolator

What is it about Barack Obama that possesses even the coolest people to do really silly things on YouTube? John Taylor was always my favorite member of Duran Duran for multiple reasons—well, OK, mainly because he was really really cute (and still is!)—but slap bass + weak rhymes about Barack Obama + semi-sheepish "well I can't vote but I'm telling you, he's the man for the job, seriously" disclaimers all add up to a look that is not very good at all. It's like the Internet and the Presidential election and my childhood heroes are all conspiring to [...]