Sometimes I Play Along

As the summer continues to fly by, I’m thinking more and more about how this fall, this September, marks our ten year anniversary.  That’s right.  We will have been writing this blog for almost ten years.  Obviously, when we started, the goal was to write daily.  For the most part, we did that with some exceptions and some breaks. 

There is so much that I’m proud of when it comes to this little fan blog.  I’m amazed that we committed to this and stayed with it, no matter what reception we received or what was going on in our worlds outside of fandom.  Looking back, we covered so many different topics.  We were not afraid to dive deep into fandom and our fandom, specifically.  We asked the questions about what is fandom, how does it manifest and then how is it shown in Duranland.  Beyond this, we connected our personal lives to our fandom. Of course, we have analyzed what feels like every topic imaginable under the sun when it comes to Duran Duran, their music, their side projects, their videos, their concerts and everything else. 

When we started, the band was getting ready to release All You Need Is Now.  We saw that album cycle through along with the next one, Paper Gods.  Now, we are back to waiting for what might come next. The past 10 years of blogging have left Rhonda and I wondering what the heck to write about next.  Speaking of pride, I think it is pretty dang impressive, if I do say myself, that we have come up with so many different topics over the years!  That said, we need your help at this point.  What topics haven’t we covered that you would like us to?  Maybe, there are topics that we have talked about before but haven’t for awhile that you would like us to revisit? Of course, we get that it might be tough to just come up with these ideas off the tops of your heads so let me help by giving a list of various topics/ideas that we have covered in the past:

• Blogging itself or this blog, specifically
• *Fandom/Fan communities – there is a lot fits under here.  What is fandom?  How is it different than a fan communities?  Music fandom vs. other fandoms.
• Fan stigma/negative beliefs about all fans or Duranies
• Duran Duran – again there is a lot that can fit here.  We could revisit songs, albums, videos, etc.  
• Side and solo projects
• Book reviews – We did this with John and Andy’s books.  We could do it with another music biography or book on fandom.  
• Our fan community – how does it function now?  Has it changed?  Why?
• Social media and fandom or social media in our fan community
• Our personal lives (EEK! Why would anyone care about that?!)
• Media representations of fandom – this could be songs, book, movies, art.
• Lyric ideas – you could share a lyric with us and we have to respond to it in some way shape or form
• Top whatever – I’m all for top lists.  It could be about anything Duran or fandom related.  *
• Duran history – we used to do this more regularly. We could start again.
• Online events? We have held online events before and could do it again.
• We could assign you all tasks about your ideas like our daily challenge but different
• Games?

Of course, it still might not be easy to think of what to “assign” us.  Which blogs do you like best?  Which ones do you enjoy reading the most?  I’ll be most curious to hear from the people who don’t read all the time.  What blogs catch your attention?  Which ones get you to read?  I look forward to hearing what you all would like us to write about.  Think of it like this.  You all get to assign us homework.  How fun is that?!

-A