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David Bowie
Shame about his dodgy coke fuelled politics in the '80s, but I'm very sad he's gone.
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i never really liked david bowie's stuff but i guess he was good at what he did and i can appreciate that i guess
"whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams"
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As far as pop music is concerned, he was always the brightest star in the sky. His talent will be missed.
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Tumblr kiddos pretending to cry over someone they'd never heard of til they heard about him dying.
No one answered my question the last time I asked, I suppose it's worth asking again: is it some sort of meme? I want to get across that I'm not trying to troll but I am am legitimately curious.
"I'm not interested in indulging whims from members of your faction."
Seeing as this is seen as acceptable by an admin, from here on out when I have a disagreement with someone I will be asking them to reference this. If you want an explanation of my views, too bad.
lots of crocodile tears shed on facebook today.
Though I guess the outpouring of grief shows his massive cultural legacy as an artist.
Sorry, is what some sort of meme?
i never listened to him.
he was accused of rape at one point, as well, but the jury wouldn't indict him for "lack of evidence".
watching twitter explode last night with everybody saying it was a hoax was amusing
The "oh I'm so sad that x celebrity died".
Like, when nimoy died, I was upset that a TV show that he was in (Fringe) would be absolutely impossible to continue to produce (at least, without him in it), but I'm not gonna say it made me legitimately sad for him.
"I'm not interested in indulging whims from members of your faction."
Seeing as this is seen as acceptable by an admin, from here on out when I have a disagreement with someone I will be asking them to reference this. If you want an explanation of my views, too bad.
I think a lot of it's just culturally expected, and that more of it trends toward what you felt (in this case, Bowie not being able to produce any more music,) but I think there are a few who legitimately feel sad for the death of someone who, for whatever reason, they feel was important.
People who grew up with their creations, have special connections to it, etc. I'm not really old enough to feel that for Bowie, but I know people who do.
I don't celebrate anyone's death. But need I remind you all that this man was a bourgeois capitalist eccentric who embraced Fascism as a fashion statement and died with millions in the bank, in a warm bed, while people starve the world over? So he played the Goblin King and stepped over a few social boundaries.
Have a cookie.
I'll admit, I did get a little melancholy when I heard he had passed away. Cancer has taken far too many people in my own family, so I can sort of relate to the pain he and his family were going through.
Above all else, Bowie gets my respect as a creative artist. This man was a giant of popular music for four decades. Many musicians find themselves left behind with the trends, but Bowie managed to reinvent himself several times (thought not always successfully) and stay at the top. Then of course there's his classic film roles in Labyrinth, The Hunger, etc. Ziggy Stardust is one of my favorite albums of all time.
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Normally, I don't get broken up over celebrity deaths. People in my journalism program who want to go into "entertainment news" are constantly dropping names of people I would never recognize if they bumped into me on the street with legions of their fans.
Personally, I was a casual fan of David Bowie's at best...until last summer when I went to see the David Bowie Exhibit on tour in Paris with my dad. I had his music on a loop from then until the day I got home. That whole experience just sticks out for me.
On the one hand, celebrity worship is problematic. On the other hand, any inability to be saddened by a death simply because one did not personally know the deceased is also problematic. This guy created art, and that art resonated with a lot of people. Of course there will be a genuine sense of loss when the source of said art passes.
Of course there will be people who jump on the cultural bandwagon in order to feel included in a cathartic form of collective effervescence. Is that really more insufferable than criticizing bandwagon-jumpers in order to justify a sense of superiority? I wouldn't say so.
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will." - Antonio Gramsci
"If he did advocate revolutionary change, such advocacy could not, of course, receive constitutional protection, since it would be by definition anti-constitutional."
- J.A. MacGuigan in Roach v. Canada, 1994
I saw Bowie when he was still good.
Devrim
I've never heard any of his stuff, so I can't say anything.
And BIXX, yea, it's what we brazilians call "Modinha". Everyone does it because everyone does it.
Bowie's death was the "first celebrity death" that even registered on my consciousness, much less moved me. Bowie was unique and irreplaceable. He transcended syles and epochs. There was only one David Bowie. Which is to say that he was an original. His personality was a common good. His art likewise. He was a creative genius... and an example to all of what can be acheived and shared when a man follows his muse. His passing awakened me from my cultural slumber to acknowledge his presence, which one took for granted. One accepted his presence as one accepted the cardinal points of geography; his absence leaves us disoriented. We have lost a friend, not personally, but collectively, as all great artists are our friends. And yet his passing is not tragic, but necessary, within the cycle of time, and an occaision for gratitude and awe.
"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it".
-Bertold Brecht
Nimoy's death was probably the only celebrity death I legit felt anything about. Spock has a special place in my heart!
I am a big fan of Bowie's music though, and I was slightly sad to hear of his passing.
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His death did not affect me more than Pierre Boulez's did. I'll remember him as a great songwriter though.
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28/03/2016: Not motivated to post anymore after the umpteenth purge since my registration.
You know it's bad when one can make millions under capitalism ... without capital.
Art is the expression of the human spirit but only the bourgeoisie have time to really appreciate it. In truth, museums and concert halls are rather useless to me as a worker.
David Bowie was an artist who died wealthy and will be missed by many. The proles are workers who die poor and are missed by no one.
As a Communist, I know for whom my tears fall.
i'm not a bowie fan but come on now
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fka the greatest Czech player of all time, aka Pavel Nedved
Like anyone in this culture, over the last 40 years, I have occaisionally heard David Bowie's music, but didn't pay much attention, yet have been at least vaguely aware that he was gifted in music and expression/performance.
The last couple of days since his death has given me opportunity to hear musical retropectives on the radio, and to understand just who this man was. Not only was he a very great artist, a creative being for whose existence we could feel gratitude and awe, but more:
I am moved and awed at the beauty of this extraordinary, unique artist, whose strong voice and musical creativity makes us realize just who he was, and who we might be, had we his courageous spirit, in farewell. Tears and joy.
Finally, his departure is so strange and beautiful, the release of his final albun , on his birthday, two days before his death. The songs themselves strange, and so clearly related to his transition. I feel the man has made a great artistic gift of his own death, (and this such an unusual and unexpected gift, expressed through art, that most despised of productions) to a culture obsessed witht the denial af death, and so unexpected froma simple "pop star".
As Gide was wont to say," THe avant-guard is never where it wseems. THank you David Bowie, for your life, your work, and your astonishing and profound depature!
What do I mean by "otherworldly"l? Bowie's sounds, even in death are so strangely liberating and brave, subversive to a culture mired in gross materialism and fear of death.
"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it".
-Bertold Brecht
