>Blackstar - 4/10 Is this the end of David Bowie's career?

He's dead you jerk

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>As usual with Bowie, Blackstar (RCA, 2016), produced again by Tony Visconti,, is mostly image and very little about the music. The ten-minute Blackstar, that was supposed to be the centerpiece, is little more than a funereal litany a` la Doors with jazz horns that goes on five minutes too many. Bowie crooning melodramatic in Lazarus (from his Broadway musical about an alien who falls in love) or romantic in Dollar Days is either delirious and pathetic, certainly not entertaining. His tedious voice interferes with the driving jazz jam of 'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore and with the frenzied and tense Sue (a 2014 single). Even when the voice is not a distraction, the rest is hardly intriguing: I Can't Give Everything Away boasts an awful distorted guitar against syncopated beats and layers of electronic drones: not exactly genius. This is trivial "music" that any amateur could make, except that most amateurs would be ashamed to release it.

>Bowie died of cancer in january 2016.

>>69938195
desu I never knew how it begun, his records are all so weak

>>69938195
>scaruffi
>having an impact on anything but internet memes.

Ha.

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>>69938195
hahahahah XDDDDD good FUCKing JOKE XDDDDDDDDDD hehehehehehehe le bowie is dead loooooool :---PPPPPP carreer over fucking MEME hahahahahah WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>69938230
Are you okay man?

>>69938195
Scaruffi sees past hype.

From TPAB:

>This is a superficial and, ultimately, middle-of-the-road album from an artist who lacks the visceral energy of Public Enemy and Tackhead while also lacking the poetic depth of Kanye West and the musical genius of El-P. He tries to be all of them at once, but maybe he would be most credible if he were just himself

>the poetic depth of Kanye West
pffffft lmao

hasn't scaruffi always hated bowie though?

>>69938229

Scaruffi literally does lectures at colleges.

his rating scale is so cute to me every time i see it i die a little

>>69938229
internet memes are responsible for the next president of the united states so don't underestimate them.

>>69941697
Not on albums though, does he? (I bloody hope not)

>>69939567
he arguably hates him more than the beatles

>>69941828

I think he lectures about science and technology and shit.