Duran Duran delete picture with Tesla Cybertruck after on-line backlash
Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon and John Taylor got here beneath fireplace this week for posting a photograph of themselves subsequent to a Tesla Cybertruck – which they swiftly deleted.
On Tuesday (Could 21), the brand new wave legends posted the picture on their Threads account, beneath the caption: “You’ll always remember your first Tesla Cybertruck”.
Earlier than lengthy, the publish was coming in for criticism from Threads customers, with an anti-Elon Musk theme that’s widespread on the platform.
“Her identify is Rio and she will’t drive within the sand,” learn one reply, whereas one other Threads person merely stated: “A View to a Shill”.
Guys? They obtained Duran Duran! Guys? #Cybertruck pic.twitter.com/K4v2z09WgG
— Real_Moldy (@MoldyWarp) May 20, 2024
The publish was deleted earlier than lengthy, and Katy Krassner, a consultant of the band, took to Threads herself to notice that the picture was taken in jest.
“They stood in entrance of a buddy’s truck as a result of they thought it was humorous,” she stated. “It wasn’t theirs. They didn’t receives a commission to publish it. We definitely misjudged how sturdy the response can be.”
When Musk’s firm first unveiled the Cybertruck mannequin in 2019, followers of Again To The Future rushed on-line to check it to Dr. Emmett L. Brown’s DeLorean from the movie collection.
Followers referred to as the automobile every thing from a “DeLorean on steroids” to the marginally much less refined description of if “a DeLorean obtained drunk and impregnated a Hummer within the Thunderdome.”
Duran Duran, in the meantime, are taking part in a spread of main festivals this summer time, together with Latitude, Merciless World and the Montreux Jazz Competition.
There may be one other main stage the group would like to play too: the Glastonbury Pyramid. They spoke to NME final yr about their hopes to play the pageant for the primary time, earlier than frontman Simon Le Bon informed the BBC that e desires to do it joined by Nile Rodgers and Mark Ronson.
“I wish to play Glastonbury,” he stated. “I don’t wish to go as a punter, however I need Duran Duran to get the suitable slot. Anyway, that’s the dialog that we shouldn’t actually have on the air. I’d like to do it. I’d like a night-time slot, to be trustworthy with you, and it’s obtained to be on the Pyramid Stage.”