he was a load-bearer for reality (as cleverly referenced by his 2003 pop record "reality") and it is no small wonder the world's gone tits up in the years since his passing
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I was devastated when he died, he was truly an artist like no other. Perhaps I am due for yet another full-discography listen-through sometime soon
his was a departing that left a mark on me like few others could, theatrical to the last moment and a farewell gift that served as an incredible last statement as an artist. and with quite a side-gig for his filmography too! the man who fell to earth is still so mesmerising...
I remember being so excited for Blackstar, listening to it on release day and being so enamored with it, and then two days later he was gone and all of a sudden āI Canāt Give Everything Awayā took on new meaning
Iām really unsurprised that he was often a great actor, because theatricality and shape-shifting was always key to his stage persona and musical identity. Have you seen The Hunger? Itās, um, not a great movie but Bowie is fantastic in it
lazarus and blackstar were the talk of my friend groups leading up to the release, beautiful and dark and eerily prophetic videos with an unshakable sense of doom creeping just beyond the threshold of the lens. those two days between the album dropping and his passing were celebratory, but dang was it hard to keep that mood up when the news broke
i have not seen the hunger yet! slacking a little on my trashy vampire film viewing, it's been on the to-do list for years but i never seem to quite come around to it... he could carry just about anything honestly, never gave just half of himself to any given role even if the "him" that was mentally there was shrouded in lines of cocaine
God Station to Station is so good (one of my very favorite albums) and I can't believe he managed to make one of his very best albums while so coked out that he couldn't even remember making it afterwards. The fusion of soul and krautrock influences is just unbeatable
Regarding The Hunger, Bowie really brings it. Honestly I think he's the main thing holding the movie together...he exits halfway through and the rest of the movie feels aimless without him. They also bury him under mountains of old-man makeup/prosthetics and he still manages to come through
Bowie was one of only 4 famous people whose death I actually mourned for. To call it a loss was an understatement, it was a devastation.