Album Rating: 4.5

musically this is not a 5



contextually it is

Album Rating: 5.0

It was a 4.5 before today because I felt the lyrics were a bit too cryptic for their own good and they just didn't connect with me.

After today it's a 5 because now everything makes sense.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Both are a 5, no need to grasp for objectivity in a time like this. This album makes me cry like a little bitch, due to context or not, the music has been given new meaning.

Album Rating: 5.0

Contextually it could not be more on point.

Album Rating: 5.0

It's just weird that on Friday it's like we were listening to a completely different album.

Album Rating: 4.5

"Maybe the Blackstar that he is referring to in the song, the one who replaces him, is you and I. Maybe he hopes that in death he will inspire the likes of us to create fearlessly like he did. Regardless, I'm feeling enlivened by it."



yeah, the lyrics allude to this. we're all heading the same direction.



seriously though, very brave to tackle the subject when you're at an arm's distance of it and it's happening to you. another indication of what a legend this man is.

Album Rating: 4.0

"it's like we were listening to a completely different album. "



Yeah in a way...



I haven't listened to Girl Loves Me since before he died and now I'm giving all of Blackstar another run through to see the different and oh look at this Sue is about to end.

Album Rating: 4.5

Indeed it is.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

^It feels and sounds completely different than it did two days ago. I think it's a beautiful thing for those of us who were able to hear it before and after his death. I don't think that's really something that has ever happened before.

Album Rating: 4.5

nobody has ever released an album quite like this before

Album Rating: 5.0

"Look up here, I'm in heaven. I've got scars that can't be seen"

"This way or no way, you know I'll be free"



Can't imagine how difficult it must've been for him.

Album Rating: 4.5

maybe not in such a short time frame, but sure it's happened tons and tons of times before.

Album Rating: 5.0

This is some prophetic level stuff.

Album Rating: 5.0

nobody has ever released an album quite like this before

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he always was one for setting a trend/being the first to try something new

Album Rating: 4.5

Warren Zevon created his last album in a similar fashion, but it was more publicly known that he was sick and dying at the time of its release.

Album Rating: 4.5

but never by an artist as world renowned as bowie is

yeah this is some kurt cobain tier conspiracy stuff

where the fuck did monday go

Album Rating: 5.0

That Lazarus vid is a signifier if ever there was one. Again everyone will be saying in time to come 'oh it was this and that, he was saying this about such and such' when in actual fact we all know that we were there and we didn't have a fuckin clue.

Album Rating: 4.5

monday came and monday went.

Album Rating: 5.0

David Bowie is a household name worldwide, for him to do something as radical as this is



I don't even know what it is but it's something