David Bowie - Blackstar (Video) 

Yes I agree. I've thought exactly that since he passed. He was a remarkable man and artist!

I expect he experienced the same emotions as we all would in that particular boat.

Stop accepting death. Build citadels of lego and cheese

Masterpiece indeed, as was his life.

DiX Inc. right? I think Bowie showed us that there is nothing to fear in death. As Mark Twain said “ I had been dead for billions and billions of years before i was born and do not recall suffering the slightest inconvenience from it”. Perhaps the Starman has begun a new journey in a new universe?

The Black Hole

@@damiansurman9810 I am the Blackstar. I got Hacked, not just a minor Computer glitch. Everything went crazy. Carbon Monoxide detectors even went off! All this happened at Solar Sunspot Minimum - which corresponded with the time a Strange Virus broke out in Wuhan. Quantum Computing, Boolean Logic.

Genio fino alla fine,unico e immenso

Nah

Not exactly.

@Joan *Now that's a comforting introspection of our lives. When life gets a bit too heavy to stand up, or too depressing to roll out of bed, such a thought lifts my spirits to arise and soar, knowing why it is I decided to come to the Planet to begin with. Thank You!*

@@Genjo_N_Mojave awesome post sir....

prove it

@@JonnyHalfton flat earther by any chance?

@@seanfoleyexperimentalmusic6671 you just accept everything your told without questioning it by chance?

YES

Perhaps Satan lent a guiding hand.

@@lahaina4791 Hell yeah!!!!!

Copyread.squarespace.colloquium was deliberate with a qwerty layout

I love the middle part, starting from "something happened on the day he died". I can easily tear up at that part.

kanye is making him proud :)

@@makes-cents-online ?

@@jacobm92 you never seen the connection made between bowie and west? look it up. bizzare

@@makes-cents-online You're pretty bizarre. one Z by the way. 2 Rs.

@@jacobm92 there's an apostrophe after R and between s "R's" also 🖕🏾

That's my interpretation as well. But it breaks my heart when he sings "something happened on the day he died..." cause it did happened, the stars looked different. 💔

Didn't he say something about Lorde being the next best artist? Maybe Lorde is the one who will take his place.

@@skeletons2346 She better hurry it up because we're running out of time

He gets a special place that no one else can replace !!

@@skeletons2346 Yes, he said that Lorde was the future of music. She sang “Life On Mars?” at the 2016 Brit Awards February as a tribute.

+A.J. Thomson totally agree! Thats incredible!

you're so right . its incredibly moving and a little hard to watch

why? how did he die?

+Jenniffer Ocasio died from a long battle of cancer

+Jenniffer Ocasio cancer

Keep strong❤

im so sorry stay strong thats what she would want

I hope for the best for you, and good luck in doing what you need to do.

Yes :/

+Shmuel Malkin Of course he will!

+tommy spears No, he's thinking of Diamond Dogs - 100% David Bowie. Look it up...

+Sonny0612 Diamond Dogs - total David Bowie reference...look it up.

+tommy spears David Barrett

Extraordinario, profundo, enigmático, lleno de simbologias. Un reso profano y misterioso. Pura mente navegando perdido en un laberinto extraviado. Nadie podrá igualar a esta estrella

You are wrong, this is a message to people that black and white race will die in agony

Мачо Бой wtf are you talking about

Мачо Бой what lmao

@@АнтониоБандера-п6й ok that's odd

Never!!!

🌹🌹🌹❤❤❤😊😊😊

This is not art per se; it is occultism and black magic. If you cant see this you've drunk way too much Kool Aid.

@@chookin1 “This is not art persay...” Sure it is Percy. “If you cannot see this...” I think you are confused. Art is not necessarily the thing that inspired it. Space Oddity was a song not a space mission. Bowie dabbled in all kinds of interesting ideas m throughout his career. He was inspired occultism. He was also inspired by politics, Current affairs, classic Hollywood, science fiction, psychology; krautrock, Americana, the golden age of cinema and the culture of Weimar Germany.

Look up Leonard Cohen's final album *You Want It Darker.* Made while he was dying as well. "Leaving the Table' - you will feel it.

I wish you well.

If there is no hope for you, there isn't any for anyone. But I believe Hope exists, and it doesn't die. I wish you good thoughts.❤

If you want to leave the matrix, not to be reborn, don't listen to the calls of your love ones, go for the dark

I recently lost a dear friend far too soon. I didn't know what to say, and so I didn't say anything. I still don't know what to say. Maybe there isn't anything. I'll join you when it's time. Until then.

@sfinx69 Wtf. Someone is facing mortality and you spout fringe conspiracy theory?

Leonard cohen did something very similar around the same time, and it’s also amazing. I think Leonard’s is a bit better as a complete work.

@@gorndt4990 Everybodys knows it and it isnt a "last" album. Bowie went out with a bang while Elverum is still making music.

Danny Elfman is still full of life at 70 and recently wrote an album inspired by this.

sorry but, nothing tops J Dilla's Donuts for me

@@nuclearcatbaby1131thanks for saying that, Danny elfman has been out of this world recently and it makes me feel crazy because I never see anyone mention it. He’s been incredible

exact !

amazing words!

Bring yourself back online

Olivier Swingedau ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WjqC4AgEzas.html Olivier,👍🏻👍🏻

Ярослав Хартонюк ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WjqC4AgEzas.html 🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻

beautiful soul, wow can you explain the meaning of this video clip or the lyrics?

skilled person I believe she (and all who respect and cherish David's art and music) is referring to his entire body of work. Why must she "explain" this video or its meaning(s)? Are you frightened or somehow wounded by this video/music? Search inside your own heart and soul for serenity, tranquility, peace, grace, love, happiness, contentment, etc... It kind of sounds as though you're attempting to pin something sinister or negative to this video/music...

I honestly can not explain the lyrics or video. I don't believe anyone can, for that matter. Bowie's music was a journey, not a destination. His music and art gave us something to think about. I think it was his goal to let us interpret and take away from his music that had the most meaning to each of us. I believe his last album, "Blackstar" was a very personal journey for him. I think he achieved all that he wanted to, and a lot of critics are saying his last album was his greatest masterpiece.

ToonieMama i can explain some of it, In the villa of Ormen. city of serpent (demons) Stands a solitary candle: the light bearer Lucifer.. did you get it now?

Why did you ask the question, if you already knew then??

Genius? The guy was a terrible human being

@@worldwise2023 What did he do? (Not doubting, just curious)

@@worldwise2023 Whatever you say. Have a good day.

​​@@worldwise2023You simply cannot make such a baseless accusation without having an actual reason as to why. In doing so, like you've readily done here, your opinion has about as much worth as the dogsh*t I accidentally stepped in last week.😊

The only other musician I can say did the same was Leonard Cohen, he literally wrote a whole album with the help of his son about his death, and wherever they are (I bet they're in the Tower of Song, like Cohen said, we'd be hearing from him even after he's long long gone) they're damn legends.

He wanted to say goodbye he marked the world by being a legend he had to say goodbye to all of us!

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@@andreasballe7470 and J.Dilla. Donuts is a masterpiece

Watch Cancer: the forbidden cures (2010)

+Tony Martin Was´nt "Hallo Spaceboy" the third part?

+Tony Martin Hallo Spaceboy? Nitpicking aside, I like your take. It's amazing how each of these songs gives new context and thus a new meaning to the last.

+Hitori Koumori This definitely sounds like the sequel to Outside. I love it.

+Michael Emberley totally agree

True, I had forgotten about Spaceboy, but here Major Tom is clearly dead and gone... except he now exists in the memory of the cult he inspired.

Wombo Combo.

that ain't falco@@jamesbeatty-wilson5290

I'm listening with you right now

@@99Sirk I'm glad. A lot of people don't like Blackstar, ''oh, him what did Star thing'? Yeah, and so much more. More than you'll ever know. Take care.

Me toooo

on the contrary, genius necessitates confirmation

@@rickdeckard1075 Shut up.

Dude, the Universe didn't give you that experience for no reason. You're a witness.

I can see four smiling faces 🙂

Wonderful x

Wow. Just. Wow.

I'd have opened fire.

+Pamela Stanley In many ways he was.. though he was also able to turn away from the known in the pursuit of creativity and let the unknown fill his space.

Do you hear yourself ?!

+MRIDDLE72 Of course.

+Pamela Stanley I like that.

+Pamela Stanley He did say in one of his doco's that when most people get to the age of 20, thats where they stay in their mind. But he said "i just kept on getting older in my mind"

Your mum was very smart 👍🏻

You got this so right.His Morningstar will live forever and his life as a holy dove of Peace is forever and forever.Amen

She was right..like mums always are

Ma maman.pas aussi cultivée 👍

England?

he was amazing

Is amazing@@HighOverlordSnarffieBeagle

😢❤

Look at the smiley face at the beginning on the astronaut..this is an occult video..

The thin white duke 💚🖤

both songs are fantastic

elvis didn't wrote that

@@Xndest yes he did: "And when a man sees his black star, He knows his time, his time has come"

What’s elvis got to do with it?

@@dreadpirateroberts4052 Well, if it was the inspiration for the song in this video, quite a bit, dumbass.

First Lemmy now Bowie? DAMN!!!

yes...it...does...

hello yeah it doen, rip bowie

+VIDEO TECH SCORPION Damn right!!!

HELL is ETERNAL torment. Far from peace.

★

Shut up!

@@tonyfix7986 No u

@@tonyfix7986 no you

Google is Illuminati....Illuminati is Google

So sorry for your loss. I lost my 13 year old cat a day after her cancer surgery. I never thought before that it would hit me that hard. But here I am still mourning her after 2 years. I'm still feeling like I lost a very close family member. Losing a pet is very painful but it's also hard to understand for people who never experienced it.

A big hug for you ❤️

So sorry to heard of your loss I understand what you are going through as I’ve had to bury and mourn beloved furry loved ones.. then later my parents. I am a 60 year old professor scientist.… I too turn to BOWIE. He is transcendent… he helps us transcend too. I wish you well on the adventure that is your lifetime.

@@carrierinker-schaeffer7947 Thank you so much, I wish you good luck wherever you step

📣 Diana, Princess of Wales, is alive! Yes, and it’s time the world begins to awaken to this Truth and so much more. Not only is our beloved Princess still with us, but so is John F. Kennedy, Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and Lauren Bessette. There’s also a long list of celebrities and entrepreneurs including David Bowie, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Robin Williams, Steve Jobs, and Whitney Houston. So, how does one account for something as unbelievable as this? Well, each person named above, and those whose names haven’t been revealed yet, have their own story, and soon you’ll be learning about it. However, in the meantime, here’s the short version. Each one of these people, at one point, entered into a worldwide witness protection program. Wondering what these individuals needed protection from? It’s something the likes of which the average man or woman has never been confronted with. Although it may sound funny, each one of us will eventually have a role in the “Big Picture,” too. What is it? We need to respectfully listen to their stories and begin to understand the “as yet, unrecognized threat” that humanity has been living amongst. Bottom line is that we must give these brave people an opportunity to tell their stories and face head-on the Truths that we’ll be given in order to protect our families and ourselves now and forever more. Best way for us to complete our responsibility is to have unwavering faith in our Creator, God Eternal. (Use a free, online translation tool if you would like to read this message in a different language.)

My grandfather passed around the same time and I recall holding him while he was fading. It was a very hard time and we had to go overseas to be with him during his final days. I am so sorry to read about your loss, and I hope you remember the happy times. Remembering the funny stories and happy times has gotten me through the worst of my pain and strengthened me. I would like to share that with you if you do not mind. Sending positivity your way. If you ever want to read story, please lmk, have plenty lol.

I lost a good friend to pancreatic cancer around this time. I have always found it difficult to listen to because it brings me back to that time and makes me incredibly sad. I will always remember losing David Bowie and my friend within a month of each other, the world is a worse place without them both in it.

@@ymrabc THIS INFO HAS ALREADY STARTED TO BE ANNOUNCED 📢. GO LOOK WHERE YOU CAN FIND “UP-TO-THE-MINUTE” 💻 INFO “RIGHT NOW.” YOU’RE ALREADY BEHIND THE CURVE ⌛

I'm sorry my friend. Sending love.

Ok cool

Really Allah

That's a fantastic piece of knowledge. Thanks. All these wee touches just add to the masterpiece

My child knows him, and they once asked, "Why is David Bowie your favorite?" And I said, "Because he was brave, and that makes me feel brave because I'm always afraid." That and the music. Naturally.

So you let your children listen to this dark demonic shit

Yes I just saw the film Moonage Daydream, and it presents Bowie's whole life as really a spiritual quest. Must watch!

Yes! Absolutely. His whole LIFE was art. Not just for us as viewers but mainly for himself. It was amazing to live AS David Bowie. "I love life very much indeed".

his whole life was art indeed

Extremely well stated

@@davidfrantz276 I saw Bowie live in concert about 13 years ago in Los Angeles Universal Ampitheatre

This is an occult video

@@RockJack-cs6vu Okay loony

Thank god there won’t

​@@RockJack-cs6vuok boomer

​@@RockJack-cs6vu 😂 I bet you have an imaginary friend you think talks to you, and can bestow magical fairy dust gifts as well. Or you're a troll.

He was always unrestricted, always one step ahead of the rest, always daring to step into unknown territory and shattering preconceived notions. A true innovator that shaped music in ways many people take for granted. His album "Outside" which a lot of people overlook due to it being released in 1995 (he was planning on revisiting it, actually) is a perfect example. I've been a Bowie fan long before the news of his death, but I still keep discovering gems, another one being "Earthling". Just as he has no two albums sounding the same, he also has no peers. He immortalised his life into his art and decided that was to be his parting gift to us. I have nothing but deep admiration for the man.

nice comment also that pupper is adorable

nice pupper also that comment is adorable

I don't believe Bowie had more restrictions in albums such as "Heroes" or "Lodger". He was always experimental.

Lodger is my favorite of his albums

+Julie Delahooke Hahahaahah this has to be the funniest comment ive seen all day xD

+Anti Narcissist We live in hell its right here right now. He's free after giving so much joy!

+Anti Narcissist ''above......there is no ''above''..........above there is the universe. Below, there is many many lava and heat :D

+Julie Delahooke Bon Voyage Major Tom

that's a nice way to put it I have made me much happier about it. he was a legend I'm thirteen and he will always be in my prayers. for his family, friends and fans greving

+Mike Panocatapolis (Not boba fett) And that is why his music/art is so beautiful...

Thats what a true artist does. They never give the answer, the answer is what you the listener and viewer take from their art.

+Mike Panocatapolis (Not boba fett) He is from Mars!

all you know is: you felt it too

***** thanks professor. we are all smarter that you came and corrected a comment on youtube..

It must be

That is exactly what makes death acceptable, read some Seneca please, it helps.

Religion Islam

@@ahlamahlam8513 said nobody with a brain

@@Blortoblorto Thank you for making me curious and helping me enrich my own life by reading Seneca myself.

Yeah RIP Bowie, I really do miss him and I still hope he is having a good time in Heaven

@@nclow3n I Hope so. R.I.P. David...WE Love 💞 you☮️🇩🇪

I'm happy hope you're happy too

it was utter carnage, absolutely gut wrenching. thank goodness i had a work shift scheduled for the 10th, but god.... i lost it entirely 3 days later. It's still so hard to cope with.

@@thatoneoddball2564 Your not alone. Take care.

yeah death grips could be a bowie of our generation

cocconutt facts lmaooo

mdkilner - OFFICIAL I agree but this is kinda close... 70s-David Bowie 80s-Madonna 90s-Marilyn Manson 00s-My Chemical Romance 10s-Lady Gaga 20s-???

Only "DAVID BOWIE" for ALL generations

oh damn yo!

Perfect . . .

He made it a gift for the rest of us.

Fabiana Pozzobon He isn't talking about his death. He's taking about Jesus's death. Was David Bowie executed?

Well, I should have said crucified.

what's the difference

ya it really is amazing that his last album was a middle finger to the lord god and the angels trapped inside host bodies to come burn in hell with him and the rest of the demons..

@@motorbreathjz You don't know who's in heaven and who's in hell, so you shouldn't pretend you do.

@@Demowan i know minions from the pit that mock angels in host bodies their whole lives do.. i would think a direct attack against the lord would be pretty punishable.. sure he didnt talk to jesus on his dying bed..

what about those 15 year old girls he took advantage of

@@motorbreathjz You might as well say Bowie sinned against Santa Claus, only Santa is a lot more likable fictional character because he gives children presents rather than commanding they be smashed against rocks or stoned to death for being disobedient.

Nah

@@derangedQuiver what do you mean nah and why are you replying to a 4 month old comment?

@@333g8 i just shat 6 months better lol

Yeah

👍

No, he's dead.

@@lahaina4791 you only see the 3d

+Karen Katz I couldn't watch Lazarus, though, it was just too painful.

+Karen Katz have you read the lyrics for it? fucking heartbreaking

David Bowie? Soon to be David Burried, amirite!!

mythos57 Yes thanks for asking.

+Karen Katz He had a message to tell before he left...

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He went back to Mars.

Yes i am compleatly agree with you to me he was and angel on earth not an ordinary human and i am so happy about it

He's a starman

Labyrinth

I can not believe it's been 8 years.

@@lynlyhickeyI was just telling someone about this tonight. And when I sent it to her I saw the 8yr time stamp! It really doesn’t feel that long ago

@@jsmcquade6634 I know! Time is so strange.

The final masterpiece

The whole album really. I feel there are a lot of parallels with Station to Station.

There is lot to it. This song can be intepreted in many ways, though I think the ultimate message was a huge criticism of things we believe in. You need to know history of religion and ideologies well to see the references in it, same as in many other songs. Some say that China Girl was just a commercial pop songs, but for a person who knows the political history of China, it is obvious the song and the video were representing what has been happening in China since the beginnings of the XIXth century, up to the 80ies.

@@SparrowNoblePoland It's true however 'China Girl' was written by Iggy Pop. I think it was more of a casual observation he was making on culture, so it is still there. How deep the message in songs go is often granted a lesser AND a greater meaning by the audience and whether the artist is being literal in their message or not. Art is a mirror full of symbolism. Some artists are seen as much smarter and deeper than they are just by making reference. That's part of the charm. They cause people to think, sometimes way more than the artist actually has. Bowie considered himself a Gnostic Christian. More of a mystical rudimentary form, not adhering to the doctrines of organized religion. I'd say he was a believer but just as much a Buddhist, occultist or even pagan. He has said that he had no interest in knocking anyone's religion and found them fascinating. Bowie was an observer not a critic with harsh opinions. That's what made him interesting. You do stuff like observe honestly and people will have you lynched for it. Artists with strong gripes aren't for me, neither are pretentious and dishonest ones.

finnibert lunchiken Incorrect. Bowie wrote China Girl and gave it to Iggy Pop, then later decided to release it himself. I should know. I’m named after the song. Lol.

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You are absolutely right RIP David Bowie

Grim Reaper: "He can't do that! Shoot him...or something!"

HighPacheChief David spent his life preaching love for and by the downtrodden and strange. In this sense, he was far more a follower of the teachings of Christ than the apostates you're shouting on the corners for. I pray that you find the love of God and repent for your hateful, sinful ways.

+HighPacheChief It is not satanic. Nor was he a satanist. It is art. And in accord with batwingedloony's comment I have not begun to absorb it yet. It is intense. The diamond encrusted skull might allude to bone cancer or metastases. It's full of symbolism and art. Apparently some of the dancing is inspired by the way characters move in Popeye animations. It is intense, readable, it has beauty.

HighPacheChief I'm not preaching hatred as the "teachings of christ," YOU ARE, so I'm pretty comfortable saying that you need to come to God before it's too late.

He passed yesterday not today batwingedloony

+HighPacheChief can't you just appreciate his art and not bash his fans for doing the same in their own way you damn hypocrite

+Edwin Montesinos Same. The first time I got goosebumps ... and the others too !

+Edwin Montesinos It's a great moment, like the fog clearing and someone throwing a bucket of water over you in the baking heat!

+Marc Skeldon exactly. I was moved to tears at that point. I don't think it would be out of place on StationtoStation.

+Edwin Montesinos Yes, that's it!

+Edwin Montesinos Preach! Loved it, too.

Dabee Look at the Video of Lazarus, I think, he wanted to express his cancer without really saying it...

I agree with You Dabee. Today was the first time I could listen to this Black Star and Lazarus and it´s still hurts too much, he must have known he´s going to die.

His life was expressed through his art and he knew it. It is fitting and so perfect in the way that he came full circle to complete his masterpiece with this last album strategically released around the time of his death. I believe it ties up his life's music and closes all of it with a very fitting conclusion. A true artist.

yes.

Dabee Exactly!

+Veronica4u2day : Help !

+Veronica4u2day i wonder if Bowie wanted to tell us something with this song about religious abberation ?!

I totally agree! I saw this video last night and I was super stoned. Boy was I tripping out! but I loved every second of this video

+beast boy I think it was brave and expressed many emotions

+Jennifer Koller You are an artistically illiterate fucktard. I thank God every day I wasn't born as fucking stupid as people like you.

It’s a modern death ballad it could be beautiful set to ballet

It reminds me a lot of Outside

Für mich auch. Mit letzter Kraft für uns zum Abschied gemacht.

Jess ❤❤❤😢😢😢

​@@kc4e841i agree it broke my heart to see him sick.

How'd you end up here 😅 +Mikey Gaming

lol you were the last person I was expecting here...not saying your not allowed too

Yea, I'm curious if someone like Axel Rose or Bruce Springsteen will go out with a bang. They are both intense like Bowie when it comes to their music. I'm not so sure about Axel Rose though. He's too jacked up from drugs.

+Henry TheGreatAmerican I agree with you on Axel Rose--completely. Bruce Springsteen, not sure at this point.

You should check out the song by GnR called Catcher in the Rye.... the demo version. I think it was a very underrated song. The demo is way better than the album version. I think it was the best song on Chinese Democracy. The overall album was decent but way overproduced. If they released in 1999 like they were supposed to it would have been a bigger hit. A lot of the songs have potential. I'm guessing a few might be reproduced by artists in the future with a better updated sound. Seems like Axel had to throw in a few too many excessive 80's guitar riffs where they weren't needed.

High Fidelity!

He released some awful turds in the 90s though by trying too hard to be relevant.

h b listen to them like 4 times then you’ll like them!

@@hb-fc3jj idk dude I LOVE earthlings and outside

@@hb-fc3jj no, he wasn’t trying to be relevant, he was writing for himself again instead of for an audience, but he was always ahead of his time. He was writing music in 1997 that didn’t become mainstream until 2008

I got this album the day it came out, and the fact that he kept his illness under wraps...I like, sobbed for what felt like forever when it was announced he passed just days later. I still have a hard time listening to this album, but it’s the absolute most Bowiest of all Bowie.

I can't wrap my mind around it. What does it mean?

@Consuelo Patagonia ... Is that how you feel about religion also? The Bible and the church? The ockult teachings?

@Consuelo Patagonia ... LOL, I think that religion has with everything to do. So you think Bowies music is just random words with no meaning at all.

@Consuelo Patagonia .. Wow, you are fun to talk to.

Same here....

Yep me too. Can't stop watching. Bowie is a genius to the end.

You're still here~ 😎

Dawn Hope Me? Yes, I am still here. Again!

+Guy Collishaw ,~*lol*~°

Agreed, friend 😭

well said

So well said

db lives on in any intelligent producer or consumer of art, fine or pop. To produce * associated with his coming demise examples grace under fire. Follow that example.

A poet never dies :)

Ya, if you believe all the BS hollywood and your TV tells you.

@@MultiTuttut what do you mean?

Oh and it was 2 days exactly

@@MultiTuttut do you think david bowie is alive?

oh he recorded this way before he passed away.

One of them for sure

+Gamemas Setiren Natural is, as natural does. Or, in your own words.. Innovative is. as innovative does. :)

+Gamemas Setiren You do know that this sound is basically like a gregorian chant, or the kind of sound you hear in old church choir music.....nothing innovative here....JS that being said i still like the song

+Mutsu Hanma You're right, lots of saxophone solos in Gregorian chant. About the only thing these new David Bowie songs are comparable to are with Scott Walker but a little more palatable for pop audiences.

+Gamemas Setiren 69-17=52. I make it over 5 Art Decades.

+Gamemas Setiren I don't see how this is innovative. Still cool that he keeps getting inspiration from newer or different places.

Wherever he is...He's swimming...Like dolphins can swim...

Hard to believe

@@michaeltruscott1182 Well I only started listening to music a year ago. I am shocked myself about how little I knew before.

Hell

Same with me, i wish i listened to him before his death.

Michael McDonnell Well said! That is exactly what he did!

DEATH IS A TRIP not to Disneyland or a strip club. WAKE UP. he ''dropped his cell phone down below' love you Major Tom

But he's free-"just like that bluebird"...

That little detail is so eloquent due to the reality it hits you with. Can't reach the damn phone, too weak to pick it up. Bowie the master communicator. @@yarazooom

@@usedscar a genius on the level of Beethoven & Van Gogh.....saints of the future

Beautifully expressed. Thank you.

this song shows more that he was inspired by Crowley

Me too Since 1972... Happy Birthday to Him 🎂 Forever 🥲🎈

This video still scares me. I am glad you managed to move on lol

@@ozlemtest2429 Nothing to be scared of here. David was merely allowing us into his own mind and spirit. He knew he was gravely I’ll. It was his way of processing his own feelings.

+southsidesman Oh yeah, 7/11 was a part time job by the way (please stop doing meth)

+southsidesman stfu

+Edward Nigma Yep, It's definitely a grower.

+southsidesman It means your grasp on the universe as empirically observable is lacking.

+Edward Nigma David Bowie is now in hell, being tortured for eternity. He brought it upon himself for warring against God. Did you all not know that David Bowie was a member of the church of satan? Did you also not know that David Bowie was a pedophile? He admitted this in 1977.. in fact, in the late 80's film, "The Labyrinth" he agreed to the film, because of the plot... a middle aged man, sneaking into a family's home, and kidnapping an infant.. then falling in love with a 14 year old girl. He was a sex offender, and you're all glorifying him. OH you're just a fan of his music... Well, do you use the same argument for Ted Bundy and his great skills as a lawyer? Or how about John Wayne Gacy, and his great skills as a clown? ... Or how about OJ Simpson, and his great skills as a football player? Or how about Manson, and his skills as an artist and musician? ... You don't lust after them, the way you lust after Bowie... he was just as evil as them... Yet here you are, endorsing rape.

He knew He was dying. No doubt. But He created beauty out of pain. He truly was a genius.

Pure fucking genius.

Pink Floyd also did that on Dark Side of The Moon

Bowie died by cáncer and he wanted to be remembered ☹️

@@JUDITH76222 he was going to be remembered either way. His last album was to tell everyone he was dying.

and a creepy weird as well.... but really dark and deep.

Dolus alright 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@cooldoodert2919 "I'm not a pornstar" lol

This is Bowie. ;-)

And shit. All in the same moment

I honestly don't think the death of an Artist has upset Me more than this

It never actually occurred to me that Bowie would---let alone could---die. I thought I was sad when Lou Reed passed. Then Bowie left us, then Leonard Cohen bowed out at the end of 2016. What a goddamned awful year. We still feel the reverberations.

And Harvest Moon....I Love the song by Neil Young "HARVEST MOON" A Song that I would dedicate to David Bowie in remembrance 🎇🎆💚💙💜🌈💫

@@skiipmasque1702 Yes! It's an amazing song, worthy of Bowie. 💙🌌🌠

I know right

Not really lol

Agreed! He was beyond pop and he was also multidisciplinary, and great at these other things he did too.

It's death magic. By design, it is as timeless as oblivion.

​@@GeorgeZimmermenWhy can't the average internet troller finish a sentence without saying lol?

@@mehulthakral6051 why can’t the average person accept facts

I lived in Kyoto. Near Yamashina eki

Greetings from Italy!

Maybe because Kira had such similarities to Bowie.

Crystal Japan, great tune. So great in fact that Trent Reznor thought he was a genius for writing it, only for Bowie to tell him he had merely subsconciously transcribed it.

@@zackzallie8735 Nice one. RIP Bowie as always

+Teresa Gomes Sorry, Teresa, but you're a little late. That has been confirmed DECADES ago! ;)

It was confirmed a loooooooong time ago hon

It's confirmed now, there is life after Bieber.

+Breanna Hagenbuch I thnk she might have been joking!! :p

ffsf739 This song is ahead of this time

It's not ridiculous. It's exactly what music should mean. So sorry for your loss. And I couldn't agree more that Blackstar was a brilliant, intentionally poetic farewell.

The Quicksand song by bowie always helped my grieving of my farthers passing, it's a very painfull intelligent song, but then it lifts you up and shows me hope in a way no other song can. which is grieing we feel the pain then we feel there love x

+GlacierGalx3 not ridiculous at all. i am sure many will agree. so sorry for your loss.

Glacier Galx3 - My condolences on your los. I lost my father to cancer in '93, he had turned 60 two days prior. I think of him every day. I lost my grandmother in 98, she was 93. She also is with me daily. This album is remarkable. When you're 60 like me, death is more and more a reality. As contemporaries, like Bowie, pass and mortality is winding closer! Bowie gives death so much vibrancy! What a man!! Blackstar. His final persona. His music will be played in 400 years, like Baroque music today. Maybe 2,000 years like Tibetan Buddhist chanting. Bowie was informed by Tibetan Buddhism - it's crazy insight and deep consciousness. His was a spiritual life, he shared. Om Mane Padme Hum.

❤

That's a really good interpretation of the video :)

MrChase115 then you get it.

I'm wondering what some of the visuals are supposed to mean. That... creature at the end, is it the twisted concept of what the women imagine Major Tom to be? When it attacks the strawmen, the masked Bowie reacts as if he is being attacked. The strawmen are the characters Bowie created over the years? It still racks my brain.

gobblox38 it’s actually all the occult of satan ...... why I’m not sure... all the symbols and much of the lyrics say so

Not exactly, but close

+tonif74 him, thom yorke and john lennon are my music heros

Francais Altice Great taste

but drake is a legend

+tonif74 thank you

+tom ato (Tomato) who is drake ?

Well said.❤

Well said.

I remember reading an interview with one of his colleagues in whom he'd confided, who mentioned that just a couple weeks before he died, David said, "you think we could do one more album?" David wasn't writing about dying. He was writing about living and wanting to live.

Blackstar’s a great album. The criticism is so stupid.

Johnny Nomates I totally agree well put!

Amazing, thanks for this.

That's cool can you send a source so I can read?

@@datboijoey9587 I Googled Marin Amis Bowie and several came up. Here is one of them, www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jan/11/was-david-bowie-saying-goodbye-on-blackstar

crazyelf62 - You spelt Amis's name wrong! It's Martin Amis, not "Marin Amis"! And he's a very famous novelist! FFS! And yes, he totally misjudged Bowie in a very, very stupid article he wrote in the British weekly, New Statesman, and as a result Amis got egg all over his face. Stupid pratt!

@@wiseonwords Since he insulted Bowie he does not deserve to have his name spelled correctly. LOL.

*he was shining

+Giulia Romagnoli - That's pretty clear - He says - I'm not a popstar, I'm a blackstar.

+Giulia Romagnoli He was an englishman so not matter how bright he was, he felt their was a far greater source of light than himself, he was saying their is MORE than me that makes my light look like a blackstar. I'm going home to the source, cry if you must but blaze on. Only an englishman could pull off such brazen confidence and humility. I believe that light is God, so I will say Good bye and GodSpeed Mr. Bowie I will miss you.

+Karen Lacey there IS a far greater source of light than Bowie - and as an Englishman, he would be familiar with Jesus, of Nazareth. The original star-child!

+Giulia Romagnoli - After seeing this and Lazarus, I agree that he wished to share his self reckoning with his terminal illness in the way that only he could do - Avant Garde. Have we ever known anyone in recent times who would convey such an artistic impression of their own pending fate right before their bitter end - to represent it in such a form. This is very much at the core for what David Bowie should be remembered for. One of the most artistic minds of modern times. RIP DB, man of a thousand faces.

And the last few seconds of song with the flute... the very end of life, brain activity dying down but keeping the essential vitality and "strivingness" of his theme song of personality until it falters into discord in the last few notes. Makes me think about how electrical activity in the brain shows up on meters when they are measuring someone's level of consciousness.

When the brain dies, we die. Science has proven this. We have no soul. We are nothing but flesh. Case closed. No replies will be seen or read.

But this song is the first song of the album, if what you are saying that it signifies what you think it does, shouldn't this song be the final song of the album?

That’s what happens when you know your not going to heaven. You start to panic. The darkness loves panic

@@nicksomebody9532 what? He is singing about reincarnation not going to hell

Like a white dwarf star at the end of his lifetime

More like a supernova: His departure left everyone astonished, but still he will be remembered, everyone can see his works (like the remains of a nova explosion). A visionary and a genius, indeed

Nicola Righetto Even better

best wishes tonight ..still truexxx

great analogy

It's the Spirit Fever

It is based on old Popeye cartoons. Very innocent, actually, not creepy. Here is a simple explanation from www.billboard.com/articles/news/6770048/david-bowie-blackstar-video-debut-popeye: Not unlike that clip, dance plays a role in this film, too, but more in the Pina Bausch choreography sense. At various points in the film, non-Bowie people compulsively shudder, their shoulders bobbing up and down like they're enduring a mild shock. During the Q&A, Renck revealed the unexpected inspiration for that motion: Classic Popeye cartoons. Renck says Bowie was fascinated by the way background characters in the Max Fleischer 'toons from the 1930s moved. Since animators were focused on the foreground action but didn't want to leave the rest of the frame static, periphery characters would often repeat the same three-second motions for, say, 30 seconds of a cartoon frame. So Bowie suggested to Renck that the extras in his video do the same.

Yeah i was about to say it made a little scared

Crazy Irish Murray it freaks me out so bad

Or a candle...

ItaiIfrach 😂😂😂😂 bcoz he was dead

Because it's full of occult and satanic shit

I was just wondering how crazy it would be to experience this song on psychedelics, interesting story.

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i agree..he was a pioneer

+92ninersboy YES! Yes...yes....yes...yes.... Miles....Dylan....Bowie....and a few others. Very few others.

+Guilherme Eddino Like a swan song done right (from start too finish)

+Guilherme Eddino A total surrender to the despair of the end.

+ade emnus U don't surrender 2 'the end' U become 'the end' & ur being changes in the process because death is but A change

+ade emnus This track is really just a master piece isn't it?

+Jamal Powell It sure is. Ain't gonna lie about that

Scared,frightened,no,creeped out,yes,bravo

Love Allah

Black Goat of the Woods and Bobby's Lucifer Rising are much more Well, you know

Without a doubt one of the creative geniuses to come from England. In 50 years people will think of him in the likes of Shakespeare and George Orwell.

He will burn in Hell ...foolish to have chosen Lucifer

Agreed!

يتحقق الله

Each person is unique, but we all choose our characters and inspirations. Time is filled with surprises, there are really talented and gifted people walking on this earth.

He ain't dead

Amen