Blackstar…

A 10 minute long music video featuring “Blackstar”, David Bowie’s newly released single (the full album lands in early January, 2016)?

Yes please!

Fascinating, eerie, different…to an extent.  It did echo/remind me of this song/video:

Someone far smarter than me noted that on “Blackstar” David Bowie returns to the “Major Tom” mythology, this time presenting our errant astronaut -or rather his remains!- as a religious totem.

As with “Loving the Alien”, with “Blackstar” it would appear Mr. Bowie is again examining, in his own inimitable way, religion.  While I believe he may be an atheist (in interviews he has hinted at this fact, if my memory is correct), he is obviously deeply fascinated with religious ideology and mysticism.  He’s released many songs and even full albums which have, again in his own way, dealt with philosophical/religious ideas.  With “Blackstar” it would appear he’s once again looking in on this issue.

Fascinating stuff.