All She Wants Is

"All She Wants Is" is the eighteenth single from Duran Duran, and the second single from the Big Thing album. It was released in September 1988, and reached #9 on the UK Singles Chart and #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

About the song
Donald A. Guarisco at All Music Guide describes "All She Wants Is" as:

...a fun tune that has one foot in techno and one foot in new wave. The lyrics discuss the life of a vixen who has everything a woman could want -- except the knowledge of what she truly wants from life. The music puts forth this scenario in a breathless dance-music fashion, crafting a rhythmic tune that only becomes truly melodic when detailing the questions that plague its main character. Duran Duran's recording has the forceful drum machine beats one would expect from an early-'90s dance effort but also adds some that revive their past glories: the frenetic high-hats and choppy rhythm guitar harken back to "Girls on Film" and the female moaning that comes in near the end recalls the similarly scandalous female moaning that closed "Hungry Like the Wolf."

Music video
The video for "All She Wants Is" was shot in London with video director Dean Chamberlain, a well-known photographer who had previously taken pictures and filmed a video for the side project Arcadia. It took nearly a month to shoot, using very long exposures to create unusual animated light effects around a girl and the surreal fixtures inside her flat.

As the band was in the middle of a hectic promotion schedule, and was unable to spend the necessary weeks standing still to shoot the video, the members each allowed a plaster death mask to be made from their faces, from which latex imitations of the band members' faces were cast. With the masks fitted onto mannequins, Chamberlain was able to use painstakingly slow stop motion special effects. Only a few brief scenes at the beginning and end of the video feature the real band members.

B-sides, bonus tracks and remixes
The b-side for "All She Wants Is" is an original medley called "I Believe/All I Need To Know".

There are various remixes of the title track spread across the various releases.

Chart positions
"All She Wants Is" had a bigger impact than its predecessor ("I Don't Want Your Love"), hitting the top ten in the UK; it was the last of twelve UK top ten hits for Duran Duran during the 1980s.

In Europe as in the United States the single became a smash dance hit, reaching high positions on the dance charts.


 * #9 UK Singles Chart
 * #22 Billboard Hot 100
 * #24 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks
 * #1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
 * #2 Italy
 * #1 European Dance charts

Other appearances
Aside from the single, "All She Wants Is" appears on:
 * 1989 - Decade: Greatest Hits (except in Brazil)
 * 1998 - Greatest
 * 1998 - Strange Behaviour (Disc 2)
 * 2005 - Singles Box Set 1986-1995

Personnel
Duran Duran are:
 * Simon Le Bon - Vocals
 * John Taylor - Bass
 * Nick Rhodes - Keyboards

With:
 * Warren Cuccurullo - Guitars