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[proximoception]

Jackson and Houston were sad, but this one cuts under the skin. For most of you too, I'd imagine.

Though he probably fits most of my narcissist criteria. Watch any interview from the '70s if you disagree, but, much more importantly, never watch any of his interviews from the '70s.

Basically my criteria were stupid.

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[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

Loved him for a long time then blainerunner on here said Bowie was God and it caused a full reevaluation for me because everything that guy liked he liked for reasons I hated.

Some great songs. Can't think of many that touch my heart. Big loss though. He's a strong precursor for everyone making music today.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Useful to have someone like that around I guess?

I don't think of it as touching, but I've always considered Ashes to Ashes one of the perfect songs.

Not lyrically, but I've never considered lyrics very important in judging a song - probably because as a lover of poetry I'd find it ridiculous to seek any meaning in mere song lyrics. They just staple sounds together. I assume on some level he agreed, what with his being particularly nonsensical? Comes across as paradoxically dignified. Or some kind of Rorschach thing, since an unspecified meaning as profound as the music feels to you can be plausibly projected onto an incomplete or otherwise vague message, but not onto a coherent one.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Makes me feel older than I am. Sista can now sell her first pressings (like trousers) of his first sessions and get to be a rich bitch. He was like other traditions in always being there; but what did he mean to me? Not much, except a few words got stuck. It's the freakiest show.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've never "followed" a musician or band, outside a season or two of Sarah Maclachlan besotment pre-Lilith Fair. Which was pretty much just sexual. People who take singers to be gurus I find bemusing.

Though I might have followed John Lennon if I'd been alive then. He had something real, alongside his less attractive qualities. Always felt like Bowie was his continuator in a few respects. Yeah, that's probably it: he's one of the few where the cult of personality worked on me even weakly. Not enough that I'd ever bother learning the names of his different albums. But I'd think about how the radio or soundtrack songs were like each other, that kind of thing.