Would this album have been more popular if he mentioned that

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>When I die fuck it I wanna bego to hell
>Cause I'm a piece of shit it ain't hard to tell
What did he mean by this?

He did though.

>You want it darker
>Hineni, Hineni (here I am)
>I'm ready my lord

>Bowie sings about dying and going to heaven
>Everyone loves it

>Cohen sings about dying and going to hell
>Nobody cares

Really makes you think, huh?

Why isn't he as big of a meme as Bowie? Not poppy enough?

>>69230698
Bowie treated his death and how he related his emotions towards it through music as a practical joke, a magic trick. In all the exaltation of Blackstar as an epitaph, people keep forgetting that portion of the album was for most people an after-the-fact thing. It was possible to listen to Blackstar for three whole days before the other shoe dropped, the lights went out, and you were suddenly able to clearly see the glow-in-the-dark paint on the ceiling. Even if you suspected Bowie wasn't doing well, he made sure it was just a ghost of a suspicion in regards to the mass public because at the end of the day he wasn't actually an ad-man, just a master magician.

You Want It Darker, on the other hand, was very clearly a thirty minute PA announcement that the store was closing pretty much from the outset, get your stuff and mosey up to the register.

>>69230826
Pretty much this

Cohen made it clear he was ready to die. Bowie, on the other hand, kept it an absolute secret and didn't even look that bad in the PA photos he had done for the album. Everybody thought he was going to live for at least another 20 years.

>>69229988
LOL yes

LOL YES

LOL YES

>>69230698
cohen is no less poppy than bowie
he's just poppy in a different way