This sort of undermines the whole "conciously crafted self-portrait of an artist approaching imminent death" thing... or does it? I'm disconcerted.
I guess, he could just start putting together whatever he had in the last few weeks or so just out of sheer need and hope to pull through for a few more months... but the theme of Blackstar nevertheless is too on the nose to subvert the notion that it's a "death" album
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Album Rating: 5.0
And now Alan Rickman too goddammit
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Album Rating: 5.0
Gotta release Toy right?
It's already done even.
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Album Rating: 4.5
'Your Turn to Drive' is on 'Toy' right? Top 50 Bowie tune that one
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Album Rating: 5.0
"This sort of undermines the whole "conciously crafted self-portrait of an artist approaching imminent death" thing... or does it? I'm disconcerted.
I guess, he could just start putting together whatever he had in the last few weeks or so just out of sheer need and hope to pull through for a few more months... but the theme of Blackstar nevertheless is too on the nose to subvert the notion that it's a "death" album"
I don't think it subverts the theme of Blackstar. Bowie probably recorded Blackstar thinking he didn't have much time left and wasn't going to be able to make any more music afterwards, then his condition improved, so he started recording more music because it's what he does, and then it worsened and he died. Just makes the album somehow even more tragic for me, knowing that he was working until the end, and that apparently he wasn't ready to go.
This was already a 5/5 album for me before his death, but his death made it jump from "best since Scary Monsters" to "best since Low", because it uncovered even more layers of meaning behind the album.
Also, yeah, first Lemmy, then Bowie, now Rickman. Fuck cancer, goddammit.
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Album Rating: 4.0
WAIT Alan Rickman died now? What the fuck.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yep, if you needed any more of a hint that this year is going to be shit
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Album Rating: 4.0
It'll be a good year, or at least an interesting one. Maybe 2016 is the defining year of the decade, the one for the history books, like 1969 or 1991.
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This is a very good and solid album by DB but the truth is that everybody is raving about it because he just died... This review is so far from being objective....
The album deserves a 4 at best
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Album Rating: 5.0
"This is a very good and solid album by DB but the truth is that everybody is raving about it because he just died..."
I was already raving about it before he died, so nope. Additionally, the Metacritic score for the album is 86 and at the moment nearly all of those reviews were published before Bowie's death. His death may have bumped this from a 4.5 to a 5 for some people (though as I said above, not for me) but it was already being canonised as a masterpiece even before his passing.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Wrong, I was raving about this before he died. Also, you're wasting your time trying to separate the album and his death because they're the same thing basically.
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Album Rating: 5.0
A good point; considering the album is about Bowie's death, the full meaning of the album didn't become apparent until the event it was about occurred.
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Album Rating: 4.2
Late to the party but Lazarus is finally growing on me yay
BY THE TIME I GOT TO NEW YORK
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Album Rating: 4.5
The music video for Lazarus is certainly something...
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Album Rating: 4.5
I agree..
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Album Rating: 4.2
That little hip swing he does is groovy af
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ayy rowbro understandz
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Album Rating: 5.0
I WAS LIVING LIKE A KING
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Album Rating: 5.0
THEN I USED UP ALL MY MONEY
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Album Rating: 4.2
yeah even the songs I thought weren't good at first are fucking good damn this is something
I WAS LOOKING FOR YO ASS
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