Red Carpet Massacre
Duran Duran soon decided to abandon all of the Reportage songs and further explore their new musical direction with Dom Brown on guitar and Danja producing and co-writing. John was quoted as saying, "we were kind of coming to the decision that we were going to let go of all of this music, and we were going to let go of songs that we had been working on for months and months. But there was such a thing that we were moving forward, that we were creating this new identity."
They had written and recorded three songs with Timbaland which became part of an entirely new album titled Red Carpet Massacre, released 19 November 2007 to mixed reviews and disappointing sales (it peaked at #44 on the UK album chart compared to the #3 peak position of Astronaut). As a result, the band broke ties with Epic Records and its parent company Sony. Although John Taylor called it "our misunderstood masterpiece", Reportage has not been released, and none of its songs have been performed live. No recordings are known to have leaked, aside from a few brief studio session clips that were posted online.
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