David Bowie RIP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12092542/Bowies-last-album-was-parting-gift-for-fans-in-carefully-planned-finale.html

He planned Blackstar and the videos that accompanied it for us all, to say goodbye. What an amazing man.

I'm sorry, but who inserts the words "cell phone" into a song!

I took it to mean he has now way to be in touch with those on earth. As he says at the beginning of the song, I'm in heaven. He can't connect directly anymore but still wants to leave a message.

[Anonymous]

I love David Bowie. I still have my old Bowie records in my attic (no record player and I guess we call them vinyl now!). I actually got very chocked up about him dying, which is weird since I didn't know him.

[Anonymous]

I wasn't a fan but I just read on another site some man posting about sobbing and saying his hero just died . OMG. What a drama queen. He's acting like this man was his best friend.

Silly. We all die. Unlike this famous person, no one will give a damn.

Cancer is hateful to everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't a fan but I just read on another site some man posting about sobbing and saying his hero just died . OMG. What a drama queen. He's acting like this man was his best friend.

Silly. We all die. Unlike this famous person, no one will give a damn.

Cancer is hateful to everyone.

People connect to art. It's a fact of life. Bowie was particularly inspirational to people who didn't feel validation or community in their every day lives. He made it okay on some level to be a weird queer kid at a time when that wasn't okay. He was also a compositional genius with a breadth of work that encompasses critical periods in history - musical and otherwise.

I know a lot of people who are really upset by this. Some of them are musicians who were inspired by his work to create their own work. The thing that is the most moving to me is not just the span of his career and the impact it had on music, but the end, when he created this amazing record in a year, knowing he might be dead by the time it was released. It's beautiful and sad, and your post demonstrates that you don't understand that. Your dismissiveness of someone else's grief makes you a bad person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't a fan but I just read on another site some man posting about sobbing and saying his hero just died . OMG. What a drama queen. He's acting like this man was his best friend.

Silly. We all die. Unlike this famous person, no one will give a damn.

Cancer is hateful to everyone.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't a fan but I just read on another site some man posting about sobbing and saying his hero just died . OMG. What a drama queen. He's acting like this man was his best friend.

Silly. We all die. Unlike this famous person, no one will give a damn.

Cancer is hateful to everyone.

People connect to art. It's a fact of life. Bowie was particularly inspirational to people who didn't feel validation or community in their every day lives. He made it okay on some level to be a weird queer kid at a time when that wasn't okay. He was also a compositional genius with a breadth of work that encompasses critical periods in history - musical and otherwise.

I know a lot of people who are really upset by this. Some of them are musicians who were inspired by his work to create their own work. The thing that is the most moving to me is not just the span of his career and the impact it had on music, but the end, when he created this amazing record in a year, knowing he might be dead by the time it was released. It's beautiful and sad, and your post demonstrates that you don't understand that. Your dismissiveness of someone else's grief makes you a bad person.

You said it perfectly! In my age group, Bowie was a friend to many artsy teenagers who didn't have many friends IRL because they lived in little backwards towns that didn't have many creative types. The only thing I don't agree with is you on is telling PP s/he is a bad person. Some people do not get it. PP probably heard Let's Dance or China Girl and don't know the incredible breadth of work Bowie did. Some people don't get art. It's a shame but it is his/her loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't a fan but I just read on another site some man posting about sobbing and saying his hero just died . OMG. What a drama queen. He's acting like this man was his best friend.

Silly. We all die. Unlike this famous person, no one will give a damn.

Cancer is hateful to everyone.

When you grow up a misfit, Bowie makes you feel OK. Art has power, and Bowie's art had power in this man's life. Nothing wrong with that. I feel sorry for those who never experience that kind of connection to art.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't a fan but I just read on another site some man posting about sobbing and saying his hero just died . OMG. What a drama queen. He's acting like this man was his best friend.

Silly. We all die. Unlike this famous person, no one will give a damn.

Cancer is hateful to everyone.

The fact that we all die doesn't make it silly to grieve a loss, whether that person is someone close to you or just an artist you admired. Not sure why you're on this thread if you're not a fan of Bowie, and feel the need to point out how silly mourning a death is. Post your inane comments elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anybody else see him at the US Festival in 1983?

Also, the Serious Moonlight tour...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't a fan but I just read on another site some man posting about sobbing and saying his hero just died . OMG. What a drama queen. He's acting like this man was his best friend.

Silly. We all die. Unlike this famous person, no one will give a damn.

Cancer is hateful to everyone.

People connect to art. It's a fact of life. Bowie was particularly inspirational to people who didn't feel validation or community in their every day lives. He made it okay on some level to be a weird queer kid at a time when that wasn't okay. He was also a compositional genius with a breadth of work that encompasses critical periods in history - musical and otherwise.

I know a lot of people who are really upset by this. Some of them are musicians who were inspired by his work to create their own work. The thing that is the most moving to me is not just the span of his career and the impact it had on music, but the end, when he created this amazing record in a year, knowing he might be dead by the time it was released. It's beautiful and sad, and your post demonstrates that you don't understand that. Your dismissiveness of someone else's grief makes you a bad person.

You said it perfectly! In my age group, Bowie was a friend to many artsy teenagers who didn't have many friends IRL because they lived in little backwards towns that didn't have many creative types. The only thing I don't agree with is you on is telling PP s/he is a bad person. Some people do not get it. PP probably heard Let's Dance or China Girl and don't know the incredible breadth of work Bowie did. Some people don't get art. It's a shame but it is his/her loss.

PP here.

I would call anyone who mocked someone's grief a bad person. I don't care if they get it or not. There is a time and place for conversations about inappropriate fandom. I personally find it fairly ridiculous that people get upset when their favorite teams lose important games, but I don't take that opportunity to tell them that it's silly for them to care about that. Because I'm not a jerk.

[Anonymous]

He was such a major talent and a seemingly down to earth person despite his various quirky personas from the 60-70s - my sibs and I adored his music throughout high school and college - such a thoughtful and interesting soul.

[Anonymous]

Just Awesome

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't a fan but I just read on another site some man posting about sobbing and saying his hero just died . OMG. What a drama queen. He's acting like this man was his best friend.

Silly. We all die. Unlike this famous person, no one will give a damn.

Cancer is hateful to everyone.

People connect to art. It's a fact of life. Bowie was particularly inspirational to people who didn't feel validation or community in their every day lives. He made it okay on some level to be a weird queer kid at a time when that wasn't okay. He was also a compositional genius with a breadth of work that encompasses critical periods in history - musical and otherwise.

I know a lot of people who are really upset by this. Some of them are musicians who were inspired by his work to create their own work. The thing that is the most moving to me is not just the span of his career and the impact it had on music, but the end, when he created this amazing record in a year, knowing he might be dead by the time it was released. It's beautiful and sad, and your post demonstrates that you don't understand that. Your dismissiveness of someone else's grief makes you a bad person.

Yes. To paraphrase Hilton Als of the New Yorker, Bowie was an outsider who made different kids want to dance in their differentness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't a fan but I just read on another site some man posting about sobbing and saying his hero just died . OMG. What a drama queen. He's acting like this man was his best friend.

Silly. We all die. Unlike this famous person, no one will give a damn.

Cancer is hateful to everyone.

People connect to art. It's a fact of life. Bowie was particularly inspirational to people who didn't feel validation or community in their every day lives. He made it okay on some level to be a weird queer kid at a time when that wasn't okay. He was also a compositional genius with a breadth of work that encompasses critical periods in history - musical and otherwise.

I know a lot of people who are really upset by this. Some of them are musicians who were inspired by his work to create their own work. The thing that is the most moving to me is not just the span of his career and the impact it had on music, but the end, when he created this amazing record in a year, knowing he might be dead by the time it was released. It's beautiful and sad, and your post demonstrates that you don't understand that. Your dismissiveness of someone else's grief makes you a bad person.

+100000

I can't imagine being alive and feeling no life, such as PP. That would suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He was such a major talent and a seemingly down to earth person despite his various quirky personas from the 60-70s - my sibs and I adored his music throughout high school and college - such a thoughtful and interesting soul.

+1

I have to agree. He embraced art in every sense of the word.