Duran Duran: Rio Meaning - Lyric

What do you think Rio means?

No ads (at all)No AI contentGuaranteed ☰

• Login | Create Account
• Home
• Song Categories
• Artist Categories
• Most Discussed Songs
• Trending Songs

Login | Create Account

• Home
• D
• Duran Duran
• Rio

Duran Duran - Rio Meaning Tagged: a Saxophone [suggest]

Song Released: 1982

Rio Lyrics

Wow! Moving on the floor now babe you're a bird of paradise. Cherry ice cream smile I suppose it's very nice With a step to your left and a flick to the right You catch that mirror way out west You know you're something special and you look... Write your interpretation Notify me of new interps

1. anonymous
   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5
   click a star to vote Mar 8th 2021 !⃝

   I agree that the song is automatically connected to America because it refers to the Rio Grande. But I think there's more to the song than just the connection to America. These are very suggestive lyrics, filled with double entendres; comparing a woman's body to the landscape. This metaphor is made even more directly the first time the words "Her name is Rio" appear. The implication is that the action of the Rio Grande through the "sand" creates canyon gaps that are suggestive of a vulva. "Cherry ice cream smile" refers ostensibly to a woman's lips, but a woman has two sets of lips, doesn't she? The hint of a woman's breasts and their sexual connection to the vulva is made in this line: "From mountains in the north down to the Rio Grande" In the following line, the woman dances provocatively so that a glimpse is caught in the mirror "With a step to your left and a flick to the right, you catch that mirror way out west" This line is very directly about a woman who is exposing herself "And when she shines, she really shows you all she can" And the voyeur is enjoying it "Like a birthday or a pretty view" Here the lyrics refer to the various places where the voyeur has gotten a "pretty view" "I've seen you on the beach and I've seen you on TV" And finally, the voyeur has an encounter with "Rio" but they get in trouble for being exposed in a public place "At the end of the drive, the lawmen arrive" But the voyeur doesn't want to stop "You make me feel alive, alive, alive, I'll take my chance, 'cause luck is on my side"

2. anonymous
   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5
   click a star to vote Nov 5th 2020 !⃝

   Cherry Ice Cream smile is more of an appreciation of a young woman’s beautiful smile that is accented even more by the Cherry red lipstick she wears. The kind of smile that draws a smile from your own childhood memories. It’s a reflection of a young women’s smile that reminds him (the singer) of a childhood crush he recalls as a young boy over a young girl and his infatuation over her beautiful smile while eating cherry “vanilla” ice cream. The comment of “I suppose it’s very nice” is him suppressing this childhood infatuation and trying to disclaim interest that has already been displayed.

3. anonymous
   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5
   click a star to vote Jun 10th 2011 !⃝

   Rio is a metaphor for america. Its about America and how the band wanted to succeed there. Which they did with the album RIO!!! =)

More Duran Duran songs »

Duran Duran Fans Also Like:

Dizzee Rascal Jay-Z Robbie Williams Beatles The Marvelettes

Submit Your Interpretation

[ want a different song? ] You are:

• or:
• Login
• Register

Your phone number: Artist/band nameSong nameYour interpretation Email me when new interpretations are posted for RioSend me your weekly email newsletter (we won't spam you) Your email address

Trending:

• Glee Cast
• Beatles
• Green Day
• Eminem
• Blink-182
• Disturbed
• Coldplay
• Korn
• Evanescence
• Post Malone
• Lady Gaga
• Incubus

Duran Duran Songs

• The Reflex
• Ordinary World
• Come Undone
• Hungry Like the Wolf
• New Moon on Monday
• Save A Prayer
• Wild Boys
• Seventh Stranger
• New Religion
• A View to a Kill
• Union of the Snake
• The Chaffeur
• Friends of Mine
• Electric Barbarella
• Is There Something I Should Know?
• Skin Trade
• Falling Down
• Girls On Film
• Shadows On Your Side
• Planet Earth

Just Posted

Lady Stardust	anonymous
Twentieth Century Fox	anonymous
The Soft Parade	anonymous
Marrakesh Express	anonymous
When You Close Your Eyes	anonymous
Master of Puppets	anonymous
Flawless	anonymous
You	anonymous
China Doll	anonymous
Rhiannon	anonymous
Don Quixote	anonymous
The Long and Winding Road	anonymous
When I Ruled The World	anonymous
Pride (in The Name Of Love)	anonymous
Chlorine	anonymous

Get a weekly email update

(We won't give out your email)

Weekly Most Popular

1	Beatles
2	Taylor Swift
3	Eminem
4	Blink-182
5	Drake
6	Post Malone
7	Justin Bieber
8	Lady Gaga
9	Glee Cast
10	System of a Down

Latest Releases

Black Sheep Independentmusicart

The Boss Natasha Owens

Wish I Didn't Megan Moroney

Quik Stop J. Cole

Man Up Above J. Cole

Excavator Don Toliver

Only You J. Cole

Love Me Better Joji

Popular Song Categories

Songs about Marriage, Wedding, or Engagement

Songs with Dates in Their Titles

Songs about Sex

Songs about Being Sorry / Apology songs

Songs about New York

Songs with Social Commentary

Songs about Young Love

Songs with Backwards Messages

Songs about Being a Loser

Songs about Dogs

All Song Categories

• Song Categories

  • Songs about Marriage, Wedding, or Engagement
  • Songs with Dates in Their Titles
  • Songs about Sex
  • Songs about Being Sorry / Apology songs
  • Songs about New York
  • Songs with Social Commentary
  • Songs about Young Love
  • Songs with Backwards Messages
  • Songs about Being a Loser
  • Songs about Dogs
  • Songs about Poverty
  • Songs about Unconditional Love
  • Songs about Looking Back on Life
  • Songs about Missing Someone
  • Songs about America
  • Songs about Friday
  • Songs about Nature
  • Songs about Loneliness
  • Songs about Surfing
  • Songs about Leaving
  • Songs about Breakups
  • Songs about Insomnia
  • Songs about Vampires
  • Songs about Not Being Good Enough
  • Songs that Tell a Story

• Artists

  • Country
  • New Wave
  • Rap
  • Hip Hop
  • R&B
  • Alternative
  • Heavy Metal
  • The 1970s
  • The 1980s
  • The X Factor
  • The 1990s
  • Emo
  • The Voice
  • Post-grunge
  • Rock
  • Hard Rock
  • The 1950s
  • The 2010s
  • Singer-songwriters
  • The 2000s
  • Dance
  • Pop
  • Indie
  • Groups from the United States

• Releases

  • 2026
  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
  • 2001
  • 2000
  • 1999
  • 1998
  • 1997
  • 1996
  • 1995
  • 1994
  • 1993
  • 1992
  • 1991
  • 1990
  • 1989
  • 1988
  • 1987
  • 1986
  • 1985
  • 1984
  • 1983
  • 1982
  • 1981
  • 1980
  • 1979
  • 1978
  • 1977
• Privacy | FAQs Contact Us | DMCA

  All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners. All lyrics provided for educational purposes only.

  ©2003-2026 lyricinterpretations.com