100% style, 0% substance

style is substance

trend hoppin bitch nigga

David Bowie turned marketing into the essence of his art. All great phenomena of popular music, from Elvis Presley to the Beatles, had been, first and foremost, marketing phenomena (just like Coca Cola and Barbie before them); however, Bowie turned that into an art of its own. With Bowie the science of marketing becomes art; art and marketing become one. There were intellectuals who had proclaimed this theory in rebellious terms. Bowie was, in many ways, the heir, no matter how perverted, of Andy Warhol's pop art and of the underground culture of the 1960s. He adopted some of the most blaspheme issues and turned them upside down to make them precisely what they had been designed to fight: a commodity.

Bowie was a protagonist of his times, although a poor musician: to say that Bowie is a musician is like saying that Nero was a harp player (a fact that is technically true, but misleading). Bowie embodies the quintessence of artificial art, raises futulity to paradigm, focuses on the phenomenon rather than the content, makes irrelevant the relevant, and, thus, is the epitome of everything that went wrong with rock music.

>>68416081
>I'm 12 and don't know what glam rock is

fuck you nigger aladdin sane is a great album suck my fuckin balls you fucking nigger i bet youre fucking black just like a nigger NIGGER eat my shitstained pants you fucking shit stained pants eating nigger

I really want to like bowie, but I honestly can't name a single song of his that I enjoy

>>68416225
start with one (or some) of: life on mars, starman, im afraid of americans, space oddity, station to station, aladdin sane, tvc15, changes, panic in detroit, ziggy stardust, fame

if you don't like any of those you probably wont like any of his stuff except his plebier stuff, and even then if not then you probably just dont like david bowie

>>68416225
>>68416253

ashes to ashes was another big hit.

>>68416081
100% bait, 0% argument

>>68416158
2007 /b/ is still alive and kicking I see

>>68416253
Panic in Detroit sucks.