David Bowie - Valentine's Day (Video) 

Yes. The man’s made Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Scary Monsters, The Next Day, Blackstar as well as a bunch of underrated works I haven’t mentioned. I think he has a pretty good case.

Lmao he's the greatest artist, perriot see what I did there haha

Agreed

I beg to differ. Sir Ringo Starr's solo carrer trumps all other brits. Bar none. See: no no song

@Akash do de do do

Same here ❤

@@graysonmayart Me too. I painted two canvas, took photographs outside and I walked to our frozed river that split our city. There can get beautiful and rare photos. As I saw a couple hand in hand I said them that 1st time river if safe to walk over a decade. And wished a happy day. I came home and has look this only 4 times. This year. I miss one I introduced this few year ago. But not like "that way". Just miss her presence. Even she lived very far. Nowdays this remind me of her. Oddly, because there wasn't anything romantical. But a tradition that lasted 4 years as I send this to her still. She is a student.

You and me both, friend.

I am alone. 43. I have got one vt-letter ever. Idgaf. I've been loved, I've loved. I has been a good stepfather, I have saved my ex's life three times. I don't need cards, small talk or attention. But sweet way wrote still 😊

Happy Valentine's Day, friend.

Thanks. I need that today listing to one of my favorite artists. Hope you had a good Valentines day

So are you. The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. Nat King Cole Natureboy.

❤ love you baby

Sometimes he is so present

Let him out I want to see him again

Our hearts

@@dzhutt We can say only "my" each other. But I want "our" feelings to spread to the world.

I’m worried that he’s in your heart how did you do that you sorcerer

+Gamemas Setiren It's good to just see his face for once.

+Gamemas Setiren OMG this cracked me up. Thank you for making my day with this comment.

+Gamemas Setiren I don't know if you noticed but he is acting like he is David Bowie, but he is lip syncing the words.

+Gamemas Setiren Cambia esa cara , asesino, mercenario !!

+Gamemas Setiren When the Blackstar video dropped and my roommates and I watched it, one of them said, "That was actually David Bowie. That wasn't some old guy pretending he was still David Bowie. He's still David Bowie."

+ShakinJamacian This song makes me want to go on a massacre so I flagged it for promoting violence

+The Oracle its actually about the NIU school shooting. bowie said it himself

+The Oracle The KILLER shirt kid maybe? All our breathing stopped here when he briefly escaped from Marion. Of all the inmates to break out it just -had- to be that guy!

+ShakinJamacian I was wondering why he looked so creepy in the video and didn't even stop to think about the lyrics simply because the song sounded so happy! Now this video creeps me out on the same level as Blackstar and Lazarus... Bowie already was a hero to me, and I still get surprised everyday with how incredible he was, everyone has a story to tell about how important he was to their lives (even Nina Simone had her life changed by David!) and all his songs have hidden meanings and change with time. We definitely lost a genius :'(

+ShakinJamacian Exactly fucking genius!!!!, long live David Bowie rip..... in this vid here singing about such horribly horrific times that we are living in but doing it in such a genius way.......let the music speak for itself.... David knew it does thats why he made it.......hope to see you again some day.....rip brother..........

So do I. Best Valentine's song ever.

Same. Actually now I remembered one beautiful Soul living in the U. S. I hope she's better.

Valentine’s Day 2024. I’m listening to BOWIE!

I was shocked as I heard U.S. ppl telling that same thing: they didn't understand these words before this video. How? Ok, they weren't fans and this was like 50cunt's Candyshop? Hmh. Ok. (?!?) I have listened David Bowie since I was 3 years old. 40+ years. He made very good records after 1999. And ☆ is brilliant also because jazz-band play heavily, hard and manically. Oh, and lyrics are sarcadtically very dark. - Reminder no1: Reagan's elections and Born In the U.S A. No2, Trump: Village People: Y.M.C.A. that very knewn gay culture anthem. How I knew those at age 13? My English was very simple by the time... Because English is my third language of five. Idk.

Song is great. But it's about mass shooting on valentines day.not romance

What in the world is your profile picture?

@@wewserlethaldude9 it doesn’t matter now, I changed it

In the documentary The Last Five Years the director of this music video said that she really wanted to show violence and shooting in the music video but Bowie was strongly against it.

amirmasoud ashrafi to be fair the symbolism is that the neckless steinberger is the gun in this analogy

And not for nothing that he studied mime

Guns dont kill people people kill people which means its human violance

Being against gun violence is just being human?

+MinecraftRick BEST comment ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+MinecraftRick I mean.... the song was about a school shooting....

+MinecraftRick He himself seems to be proof that that line is nonsense.

+MinecraftRick may he rest in peace

+Friggz he's not dead.

He reminds me of my dad in a lot of ways. Very different men to be sure, they have many features that shaped me into a part of myself and were noble cores to this mold of clay. I hope to make my father proud, which I think he would be. Good men leave us with so much that we really need to share with the future.

Does anybody else see there an "antiwar " layer? Or it´s just my reflection?:-)

I feel the same way -- I felt my soul drop when I heard it on the news driving home :'(

We lost a true legend today... R.I.P.

+HOW TO PUNK It's one of those things I thought would never happen coz he's been a hero of mine for 40 years or more. Thank goodness he left so much good stuff behind.

+HOW TO PUNK I know I miss him too. He was a unique and dynamic artist. The world hasn't just lost an amazing person but a gift to us all.

it's hard and it hurts he's gone too soon 💔

How true, and for me the timing was absolutely perfect. I was 12 when Starman came out, then John I’m only dancing, The Jean Genie, Drive-in Saturday and then the brilliant Life on Mars? (here in UK). I was absolutely hooked, and this period was the peak of my love of music, not just Bowie (l was a young starter), and followed his music ever since.

Happy valentine's Day from Athens Greece 🇬🇷

@Lilly Hall Happy Valentine's Day ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kzYdL1Gz3pI.html

Valentine's day from México City. 14/02/21 David Bowie every time in my heart.

And no mass shootings like the one hes singing about.

Yeah.

Gold is never old.

He will live on for ever in our hearts. A musical master.

He will be forever

GuildWarsGirl 17 I don't think sooo

I thought Bowie was an atheist

R.I.P. I totally agree with that

...I think the reason for his healthy and extraordinary look here´re the collered eye contact-lense and his snow-white teeth (how I loved his origianally teeth when he was young)

TylerDurden43 what are you talking about ?? david bowie eyes always look like that ?

Youssef Elbarkaoui ...I know that he had amazing eyes (his"destroyed" eye alone looked genius)...but believe me my friend - not even Bowie had such "water-turkis" blue eyes...

Youssef Elbarkaoui -...ok, maybe I´m wrong...just checked some pictures of him and it seems he really had this amazing blue collered eye...but it looks so unnaturall here...??!!

Hell yeeee i'm here since 2017

me, too....

Never heard a love song about surging crowd fleeing someone with a "scrawny hand" and an "icy heart" that "has something to say" before. The song is about the Northern Illinois University massacre of February 14th, 2008 and the skinny little psychopath named Steven Kazmierczak.

RIP goblin king...

Miss cockney guy x

Agreed.

Well I wouldn't call his Earthling album subtle, but it's still beautiful

Lol, 😂, Ikr, love him so much, I miss him thoe, 😔

He is my definition of sugar daddy.

+Chel Sea I so WOULD. Older Bowie (from the late 1990's onward) is super sexy to me

he was fucking 66 idiots, not that old

+Danny Urie He'd mock the thought and expression. ;)

It was before he got sick. Just imagine all the incredible things he’d be doing, strong for his age like you say, if it weren’t for cancer.

That thing is the bain of humanity

Good music is timeless.

+Karlis Grendze Me either. I became a fan of his 3 months ago when I stumbled across Labyrinth.

hes a great musical man rip...We love u

1 month before I was born, my mother saw him, so I kinda saw him (but not really).

I found out about him 2 weeks before his death and it sure does suck...

+Kylie Whitehead Me too....he is the Gift that keeps giving.

David Bowie Love The 2013

2013

the shadows of demons on the wall where he is sitting, the descent into madness, chilling

What’s it about?

@@hw343434 massacre on valetines day , it's about gun control

You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like listening to Bowie

same

Here's suprisingly lot of us.

otteaux he is gonna be rocking all night with George Harrison and John Lennon

absolutely

otteaux no one out Beatles the Beatles but it's still great

I love both, David and Beatles 😀 both are great

I prefer Bowie due to the variety

Totally agree with you!!

Heartfelt in the terms of singing.

It is fascinating how he manages to find a lot of understanding for the anger of the shooter. This is completely different from the good-and-evil narrative modern western societies tend to maintain in order to keep themselves from shitting their pants in fear.

+Pissed Bob Ross Why can a song about a school shooting not be heartfelt? Do you know what the definition of heartfelt is (because you seem confused about it, based on your strange comment)?

I totally agree, he doesn't isolate the shooter as someone who is unhumane like a lot of other media do. In reality, this shooter is just a normal person with the same problems as regular people whether you are aware of them or not.

There is a brief shot of him holding a rifle at 1:37

Exactly what I thought

Plus the way he did it is more in line with his roots in mine theatre

@@LaggardlySort dont forget the close up at the strings from 2:28 that looks like a bullet flying

@@LaggardlySort It’s brief, but subtle. It would’ve been too on the nose if he mimicked Charlton Heston’s pose with an actual rifle.

oh please.

Why? 1) Teeth aren't normally bright light. And U.K. has always been so called working class teeth epidemy. And muricans has always had a false exceptions. If you not mark those with compass, rarely no one is so neurotic than muricans. Porcelain covers not raise your ability to grow smart and good person. Typical U.S. exception. But if you miss them what you miss about that thing. I miss that time all idiots haven't born yet... now they make me dream that car accident will learn others too. As you lost all your front marbles you focus just to thank your God ("God is an American) you stayed alive even you never look like artificial doll. But these days those dolls are very giant like. But only if thinking of mass and Db2. We here other side of globe have heard that fat is beautiful. Sadly your dreams are not true. You need a starvation and famine to remember that only 90 years ago there was one kind of those. It helped you to prevent fat people diseases effectively. Soon it's there again. You'll live and suffer longer. Without teeth.

+Jester Aron roooiiit into it

...and leaves you with a hangover once he's run out.

Me gusta más así maduro

The Joker I

Sure, Bowie never spent a day skint in his life, that helps...

indeed

Absolutly!

Agreed.

This song is about a school shooting, not February 14th

@@HombreAproximativo I understand that but the cool thing about music is that there is a s always multiple ways to enjoy it and Interpret it to an extent

His eyes were actually greenish brown but something happened to his eye when he was younger and made it appear blue which is super cool

@@hannahbrown6443 I believe him and one of his life long best friends (dont think it was Tony) got in a fight when they first met and buddy popped him in the eye hard enough it paralyzed it.

@Lachlan Szydlak I think your right

@@hannahbrown6443 It's the other way around. He was originally blue-eyed, but some kid at school punched him and permanently dilated his left pupil so much that it appeared greenish-brown. Best known case of injury-induced heterochromia.

@Mountain Girl They were little kids at the time, like 10, and becoming fast friends after a fight is classic young male behaviour

+Smiley Lots Love!

+Mac Haggis he said biggest rockstar right now, not ever

+Mac Haggis Kanye is all about a hyperbolic image, don't take it so personal.

+Nathaniel Matychuk and hyperbolic ass too if u know what i mean^^

+adam0v0tube hes not even a rockstar.

+Mac Haggis 1000 % correct.

+chiffmonkey You've got a hell of a journey. Nobody can tell you where to start with Bowie because he's done so many different styles and of course images. With me, in 1982 he had yet to bring out a below average album. 83 he became the biggest star on the planet with the Serious Moonlight tour. I used to watch that vid every day. He was the coolest man on the planet that year.

+chiffmonkey same here ^^

+chiffmonkey I've been a fan for years. Enjoy!

+chiffmonkey He has so much stuff it's honestly best to start with one of his greatest hits albums, the one he released in 2014 is really good, it has some previously unreleased stuff too, then once you get a better feel for him, you can start listening to his other albums as a whole. He has something in the neighborhood of 27 studio albums, plenty of material to go through. I've started a Bowie LP wall in my house.

+chiffmonkey No more content from him now :c

***** Thats Bowie

It's about school shootings, Valentine is the mass murderer who is about to gun down his school.

I only got onto it after hearing blackstar...

Cooro Fox Me too haha

Cooro Fx me too and now it reminds me a short story by G.L Borgeswhen bullet is to be standby after shoot so that time may passbetween shoot and death and there's been great visions inbetween.I much more than agree valentine and stmbl's been forever.OMG

as he said in the last song Lazarus "everybody knows me now" meaning that after death people become more popular

Jason Harshman I don't think he would be any sadder neither happier. I think the ultimate sadness stands in the name of his last compilation album. Nothing has changed.

This is already passed on a school shooting

It wouldn't be a prediction unless it has a time, place, year, day, and month.

Yep when music had meaning good song but catchy aswel

He’s actually talking about the 2008 valentines day school shooting at NIU, 5 died not including the shooter and 21 injured, 17 of those by gunfire

and now, in a month, it's gonna be two :(

It's about the shooting in Florida just like Robbie Williams' me & my monkey was predictive programming for the Las Vegas shooting. Check out the lyrics.

+Mar me too....

I've done it pretty much every day since he died...listen to Bowie and sometimes cry.

Me too. He was a hero.

lost my dad one week ago on valentinesday pfff

you are not alone

+Dean Prescott It is great. Every time I play it again it is even better than I remembered :-)

I have 13 albums, BC 2CD, 2X live, 4 collections, singles, EP.. and I'd say this is his one of best songs... of 80. This isn't a joke. He has 9 brilliant album. As was ☆. And Hunky Dory. OR ziggy or S to S, Low, 'Heroes', Scary Monsters and all his last albums since 1999. IMO!

Another February the 14th ruined, it’s only been going since the 8th century

Creepy PastÆtr It's about mental health. "The shooters" state of mind. It's not about the gun. Guns don't make people mentally ill

Борис Северов Love makes people mentally ill

GREEk hemoragia

It's hardly an homage to school shootings...

jay dean I love how you tried to make a political point about a song that is not political. You just sort of shoved "mah guns!" in there when it had nothing to do with the original posting.

+dgmcl3284 In fairness it's probably the easiest image to pull off.

+Hell Well acting crazy mostly just requires acting abnormally.

You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like listening to Bowie

the song is about gun control

Yes, this song is about school shootings and gun control or lack thereof

It's word play. Look up "valentine's day massacre".

Yeah I absolutely agree with u! But did someone noticed that his eyes were in different colour?

Angela Tse They're not in different colors, his left eye just has a permanently dilated pupil. He's had it since age 15 (1962).

Angela Tse Sharing info with you : Many people think Bowie has two different colored eyes, but that’s not actually what’s going on with his ocular oddity. They’re both blue. What you’re seeing is his permanently dilated pupil. When he was about 15, Bowie got in a fight with a good friend whose fingernail sliced into his eye just so as he got clocked. Doctors were concerned that he would lose his sight entirely in that eye but ended up being able to restore it (albeit with some depth perception and dilation problems). But hey, Bowie doesn’t hold grudges: his sparring partner later did some of the artwork for his album sleeves. But still, he is the music Goddess :))

Wee Kamaruddin i'm sorry but iv'seen 10 000 Bowie pics, the iris are NOT the same colour.

bagolut They don't reflect light in the same way, therefore they look different. Look it up.

This is easy to learn. Where Are We Now? is harder... (Pianos low keys) and lyric is so sad that rarery long time fan can look it iinto end with dry eyes. Song Of Norway, my God.

Like me

I've only known about him for a month, so... even though it wasn't awhile it hit me kinda hard.

+BenSunhoof like his undertaker

+BenSunhoof yes totally i am one of those.I knew about him but began to see his art somewhere in december never stopt since.

+Melissa Valstar I think it's awesome. Now go and listen to all his songs, I guarantee you months of pure joy. I've been hooked since 1993. This man and his music will never be forgotten.

hes not trying to stay in touch with youth . thats a very quantitative statement and life and bowie is so much more

Yeeees

he knew about it

Karolis HD Knowing might be an overstatement, but yeah, he knew.

Yeah I find that deeply tragic now, realising what has happened. I am truly saddened by the news and pray for all the families in this tragic time. It never gets better, he was so angry at shool shootings while writing this song, and still nothing has changed. That's terrible I think.

Valentine's day is an occultic day for pan

It's not ironic, it's a coincidence.

You do know that this song is about a school schooting right?

@John Stewart woops you're right. Apart from the details of the day and name of the shooter, I meant the same.

Totally fab ... Bowie Fans are ace .. Fantastic ... I love doing his covers on YT ... such a great artist ... its great to connect with his genius

You’re very lucky Robyn

Listen to the Ziggy Stardust album. It's the one that hooked me in about 1973 or 74. Ah, hell. They're all awesome!!!

@@tommymcweedface229 Thanks, I've listened some of it but because of school work haven't had the time to get through all of it. Half term now though, so I can binge listen!

My favorite songs are Valentines Day, Modern Love, Let’s Dance, Beauty And The Beast, Loving The Alien, Ashes To Ashes, Life On Mars, and Diamond Dogs to name a few 😊. Welcome to the club, you won’t regret ir

It's never too late to discover David Bowie ❤️

Was it amazing to see? I can only imagine how emotional it was for the audience to watch, knowing this lovely artist is not here anymore. Oh how I pray Mr. David Jones knew just how much he meant to so many.

I saw it- absolutely brilliant

L Watson It was beautiful to look at and the musical performances were amazing!

Thank you so much for sharing. Wish so much I could have seen it.

special

I. Laroui I remember the Days where music was Good.

Well, this makes me even more sadder and drunker

you can't be sad when you're drunk my friend :D

but you can be drunk when you're sad

that doesn't even make sense but sure

Loli Love MA channel Declan McKenna did a cover of this song on Valentine’s Day as well. I really enjoy it. I don’t know if it was before or after the shooting.

Sofia he's mine :3 hheheheheh in all seriousness rip David you'll be missed but forever memorised through your provocative and intriguing videos you were a delight to have on this planet and I hope you are having fun on your home planet 😊😀😍😘

The only solution is to return sanity and the nuclear family to the nation. You probably fallaciously think the answer is "muH gUN ConTrOL".

and this week in Illinois..