The book collects new interviews with the recording artists of 35 famous new wave songs, focusing on the stories behind the song's origins and the aftermath of the songs' popularity. In 2014, Lori Majewski and Jonathan Bernstein wrote Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s, with a foreword by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran and an afterword by Moby.
Majewski then served as executive editor at Entertainment Weekly through 2008. Teen People ceased publication in September 2006. After leaving the periodical in 2001 to become executive editor of US Weekly, she returned to Teen People in 2005 to serve as managing editor. In 1998, Majewski was a co-founder of Teen People, the print offshoot of the Time Inc. Her first paid job as a magazine staff writer came at YM, a publication targeted at teen girls. Publishing career įrom 1991 to 1994 Majewski interned at Spin Magazine.
She credits the band for her career in writing, claiming, "in the mid-'80s I decided I wanted to become a journalist so I could meet them." In 1990, after the official Duran Duran fan club folded, Majewski created the quarterly fanzine Too Much Information: The Definitive Duranzine, which she published through 1995. Majewski has been a fan of the new wave group Duran Duran since hearing them in the early 1980s. Lori Majewski at a 2014 Los Angeles book launch for Mad World, flanked by Moby and Michael Desbarres Relationship to Duran Duran