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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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