David Bowie died a few years (days?) ago, and although I personally never felt any deep personal connection to him or his music, it touched a nerve for so many of my friends that gets me thinking.
The morning after it was announced, my entire Facebook feed was literally filled with people in shock (like a close friend/mentor/rock god) had died. There were the waves of shock, yes, but then the waves of "here's how I connected with him", or "here's how his music turned me on to my current artistic taste/persona".
I saw people making connections between his style of shape-shifting to Lady Gaga's, or even to the current pop-cultural awareness of transgender people (who had been doing it long before, but now it seems o be something pop-culture seems to embrace, rather than thinking worthy of insult). NOT Madonna, who seems to be an exact parallel in terms of wanting to reinvent herself continuously, but who is now out of the spotlight and coolness, (more of a parallel to Hillary now). Also her ascent to power seemed to be a "lust for fame".
I don't understand what it is that has NOT touched my own heart about him. I like his SONGS, well enough, but I am not EMOTIONALLY INVESTED in his "character" or his "characters".
Which is the sign of the exact moment of my musical education being past his maturity (I first heard of him on V66, and he seemed like just another Rocker in his 40's-Bruce, Madonna, John Lennon (?), Huey Lewis, and he was starring in Labyrinth, which I never saw . What is the connection between Elvis' and the Beatles' rise to success coinciding with the age/musical maturity of someone? You root for them bc you get to convince your friends (be a "thought leader")
The morning after it was announced, my entire Facebook feed was literally filled with people in shock (like a close friend/mentor/rock god) had died. There were the waves of shock, yes, but then the waves of "here's how I connected with him", or "here's how his music turned me on to my current artistic taste/persona".
I saw people making connections between his style of shape-shifting to Lady Gaga's, or even to the current pop-cultural awareness of transgender people (who had been doing it long before, but now it seems o be something pop-culture seems to embrace, rather than thinking worthy of insult). NOT Madonna, who seems to be an exact parallel in terms of wanting to reinvent herself continuously, but who is now out of the spotlight and coolness, (more of a parallel to Hillary now). Also her ascent to power seemed to be a "lust for fame".
I don't understand what it is that has NOT touched my own heart about him. I like his SONGS, well enough, but I am not EMOTIONALLY INVESTED in his "character" or his "characters".
Which is the sign of the exact moment of my musical education being past his maturity (I first heard of him on V66, and he seemed like just another Rocker in his 40's-Bruce, Madonna, John Lennon (?), Huey Lewis, and he was starring in Labyrinth, which I never saw . What is the connection between Elvis' and the Beatles' rise to success coinciding with the age/musical maturity of someone? You root for them bc you get to convince your friends (be a "thought leader")
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