Bowie - Under the God - Antifascist?

[Bilan]

I heard this song last night at about 2 in the morning by a rock band Bowie started.
Anyway, take a gander at these lyrics



Skin dance back-a-the condo
Skin heads getting to school
Beating on Blacks with a baseball bat
Racism back in rule

White trash picking up Nazi flags
While you was gone, there was war
This is the West, get used to it
They put a swastika over the door

Under the God
Under the God
One step over the red line
Under the God
Under the God
Ten steps into the crazy crazy

Washington heads in the toilet bowl
Don't see supremicist hate
Right wing dicks in their boiler suits
Picking out who to annihilate

Toxic jungle of Uzi trails
Tribesmen just wouldn't live here
Fascist flare is fashion cool
Wel, you're dead-you just ain't buried (yet)

Under the God
Under the God
Oh yeah
Under the God
Under The God

As the walls came tumbling down
So, the secrets that we shared
I believed you by the palace gates.
Now the savage days are here

Under the God
Yeah
Yeah

Mm
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

Under the God
Under the God
One step over the red line
Under the God
Under the God
One step into the crazy crazy

Crazy eyed man with a shot gun
Hot headed creep with a knife
Love and peace and harmony
Love you could cult with a life

Under the God
Under the God
Raging down
Raging down
Under the God
Under the God

Thoughts?

[Pirate Utopian]

Seems anti-fascist. Especially the Washington bit.

[Random Precision]

Maybe he was trying to make up for his past with the National Front?

[Bilan]

Probably. :lol:
Or maybe it was before it? When was he in the National Front?
Maybe he was an English mussolini :lol:

[Random Precision]

Probably. :lol:
Or maybe it was before it? When was he in the National Front?
Maybe he was an English mussolini :lol:

Late seventies, when they were at their apex. Tin Machine didn't start until about a decade later.

There was a lot of media speculation on the Bowie as a fascist thing. Apparently in an interview he once said that Britain would benefit from a fascist leader, and was once caught on camera giving the Nazi salute as he stepped out of a car.

Eric Clapton was heavily involved in the National Front as well, he even gave a drunken speech in favor of Enoch Powell at a concert. He told his fans to stop Britain from becoming a "black colony", apparently completely forgetting that he built an illustrious career by ripping off the music of black men. I happened to look this incident up in his recently-published autobiography at a bookstore the other day and he said something along the lines of "I supported the National Front because I was worried about new immigrants being exploited unfairly." Yeah, Eric. I'm sure you've convinced at least yourself of that by now. :rolleyes: