← Back to Canon
person

David Bowie

🎲

Musician whose song 'Young Americans' is praised for its instrumentation, lyrics about 70s youth disillusionment, and exceptional vocal performance

Mentions (30)
"The whole enbie thing feels so contrived, as if these people grew up idolizing David Bowie or Kurt Cobain or any other androgynous rockstar icon in the past 40 years and thought that they could achieve that same androgynous effect by shoehorning neutral pronouns into everyone's vocabulary and demand"
"There are still cool things going on at the margins of culture, but nobody has crossed over who has had even a fraction of the sauce of someone like bowie or Lou Reed or 60s Dylan."
Is anything actually cool right now · u/Status_Hand6024 · ↑379 · 2025-01-18
"January 2016 David Bowie dies. January 2024 David Lynch dies. This is more than a coincidence. He kills a new artistic David every inauguration in as a sacrifice."
Donald Trump needs to be stopped · Cyprianophobia47 · ↑153 · 2025-01-17
"Streaming has been great for music consumers but how hard is it to sensibly organize David Bowie's discography?"
Spotify UX is so bad · u/Eastern-Bookkeeper68 · ↑130 · 2025-01-15
"19) Gail Ann Dorsey - David Bowie, The National, Lenny Kravitz, Bryan Ferry, Boy George, the Indigo Girls, Khaled, Jane Siberry, The The, Skin, Gwen Stefani, Charlie Watts, Seal, Gang of Four, Susan Werner, Ani DiFranco and Dar Williams"
"Mine would be; Martin Short, Stanley Tucci, Prince, and Robert Smith of the Cure. Honorable mentions to David Bowie, because he renounced his bisexuality."
Who is on your "wow they're not gay!" Mount rushmore? · u/John_yassaran · ↑86 · 2024-05-20
"Here's to one of the cultural juggernauts of the modern era. A one in a billion man. Very few people are able to weave their influence through multiple lanes of creative thought in such an effortless fashion. Going to listen to his 60s-70s discography today to reminisce."
David Bowie passed 10 years ago today · LouReedTheChaser · ↑82 · 2026-01-09
"In a literal trailer home listening to "Station To Station" by Bowie in a trailer home with guy I met at a liquor store while he plays Call Of Duty: Mobile"
"Jacques Brel on David Bowie covering his songs"
Jacques Brel on David Bowie covering his songs · u/Little_Radge · ↑76 · 2024-04-04
"The music itself is amazing. The stomping drums and bassline, the sax, the whole fucking thing. The lyrics are insanely good, a portrait of 70's era disillusioned youth, a materialistic and troubled society, class/gender/racial anxiety. Delivered by what is perhaps my all time favorite vocal perform"
Young Americans by David Bowie is one of the best songs ever · u/Rawhide_Kobayashi · ↑58 · 2024-01-19
"Just give me someone that looks like 70s david bowie"
The world doesn't produce men that look like him anymore · u/Single_Ad5819 · ↑55 · 2024-09-12
"Even my parents generation, it was considered extremely dorky to enjoy stuff like Barry Manilow and ABBA- stuff that was topping the charts more than Bowie or the Stones."
Why does Gen Z worship pop music more than previous generations? · u/Funny_Departure_5138 · ↑48 · 2024-08-26
"3. Aladdin Sane - David Bowie (either this or Ziggy Stardust)"
Top three albums you'd bring on a desert island · RobitoBobito · ↑42 · 2021-02-18
"Another perfect chorus is 'Ashes to Ashes' by Bowie. This one is just as much about the build up the this part as it is the chorus itself. This song is such a perfect little journey. It's a gradual build of tension that all culminates in this insanely catchy and funny chorus. The fan service too is "
Best choruses in pop music? · u/gedalne09 · ↑39 · 2024-03-18
"I probably am just having a PTSD flashback from when Bowie died like 2 days after releasing Blackstar but the video were thomas walks into the distance and explodes seems to say something"
Worried one of the daft punk dudes is dying · u/Conjureddd · ↑38 · 2021-02-22
"He shouldn't have recreated David Bowie's voice"
Twin peaks the return hot takes · u/grxxnbvstvrd · ↑38 · 2021-07-17
"i could give many examples but the only person ive been able to relate to in this regard is ian curtis, who apparently had a fascination with songs and lyrics referring to suicide "like david bowie's 'rock'n'roll suicide" and who famously ended up killing himself."
why, for me, does everything speak to suicide? · u/hardrainfalling_ · ↑33 · 2025-11-30
"He did show her his penis but unfortunately that never progressed to a studio session"
Tragic that David Bowie and Debbie Harry never worked together! · u/Rawhide_Kobayashi · ↑30 · 2024-01-19
"And so millennials have come to embody that line from David Bowie: 'sons of the silent age / make love only once, but dream and dream.'"
Commitment is the Crisis of Our Time · u/unlucky_felix · ↑27 · 2022-09-08
"1. Detective Nathan Adler 2. Leon M. Blank 3. Ramona A. Stone 4. Algeria Touchshriek 5. Baby Grace Blue 6. An Acolyte/Art Murder Victim"
"Here's to one of the cultural juggernauts of the modern era. A one in a billion man. Very few people are able to weave their influence through multiple lanes of creative thought in such an effortless fashion. Going to listen to his 60s-70s discography today to reminisce."
David Bowie passed 10 years ago today · u/LouReedTheChaser · ↑82 · 2026-01-10
"David Bowie as the various characters from his concept album '1. Outside'"
"Just give me someone that looks like 70s david bowie"
The world doesn't produce men that look like him anymore · u/Single_Ad5819 · ↑55 · 2024-09-12
"I probably am just having a PTSD flashback from when Bowie died like 2 days after releasing Blackstar"
Worried one of the daft punk dudes is dying · u/Conjureddd · ↑38 · 2021-02-22
"He shouldn't have recreated David Bowie's voice"
Twin peaks the return hot takes · u/grxxnbvstvrd · ↑38 · 2021-07-17
"ian curtis, who apparently had a fascination with songs and lyrics referring to suicide "like david bowie's 'rock'n'roll suicide""
why, for me, does everything speak to suicide? · u/hardrainfalling_ · ↑33 · 2025-11-30
"He did show her his penis but unfortunately that never progressed to a studio session"
Tragic that David Bowie and Debbie Harry never worked together! · u/Rawhide_Kobayashi · ↑30 · 2024-01-19
"It's not complete without the awkward little skit in the beginning."
Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Little Drummer Boy · u/Scrimmy_Bingus2 · ↑26 · 2025-12-23
"Bowie's Thin White Duke character, Dylan's Christian period, Joy Division's visuals, punk's overall rejection of hippie ideology, etc."
"The Bowie/Moroder score is outstanding"
Another /r/redscare Movie Recommendation Thread · u/Rawhide_Kobayashi · ↑24 · 2019-09-15
powered by Intelligence Briefings Co.