David Bowie on Death, Violence and Chaos in "Outside"
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- In this 1995 interview, David Bowie talks about the sexual and violent themes that run through his release "Outside."
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It's Bowie. Plain and simple. You cannot define, categorize, analyze and simplify to mere earthling standards. He's the man who fell to earth. Sheer genius. Just dig it!
+Danny Dunne I dig it!!
hella yeah
Those who know, know. Bowie always knew. And those who follow Bowie in this collective also know. And we shine and reflect all that is happening all across the world. We are the creatives, nameless and trying to help. We can see you. Can you hear us? We hope so. Just as love cannot be defined, nor can a person, especially a genius such as Bowie.
So sad we never got those follow up albums he talked about :(
+corvusala There are appearantly lost of recorded material from the sessions. Including quite a lot leaked on youtube, so maybe some of it will be released. Eno said that he and Bowie had talked about continuing their collaboration from Outside just months before Bowie's death.
+ivankaramasov it's called "something really fishy" you can find it around, but it's never been officially released
And Earthling and The Next Day have Outside-like tracks. I think he made his sequels in a way.
@@ivankaramasov Any hope of an "2. Contamination" release?
@@nicolasbascunan4013 'Contamination' was never recorded. Things karamazov talks about is 'Leon', the first early version of what later became 1'Outside. Leon is on youtube for almost a decade, but estate had even no heart to include it to 90's boxset. All worthy beats from Montreux, beside Leon and Outside, Bowie long used as the bonus tracks and elements of the new compositions. My thought: no, we'll never see any follow up. Wouldn't be dissapointed if i'm wrong though
"It may not have been original..." He was ALWAYS original! It's David Bowie!
This is my favorite album!
Interesting to hear him talk about "death, violence and chaos" at the end of the old millennium and start of a new millennium, as an upcoming trend just a few years before the 911 attacks on New York City, where he lived. Since then, terrorism has become much more prevalent worldwide, with the more recent attacks in Paris and Brussels. It is the breaking down of civilized society, and as usual, David Bowie saw it happening, and used his music to reflect it.
right you are
Haha "breaking down of society" my ass
You were saying???
To everyone worked up about the originality comment: David had no problem telling people about how he wasn't an original thinker (he once said originality is overrated) and how he would always "steal" bits and pieces from his many influences. He was a cultural magpie and there's nothing wrong with that. I admire how he was never ashamed of it and seemed tired of the lie that originality is the most valuable quality in an artist.
You Belong in Rock n Roll is the prime example of this. It is made up of quotes that it is fun to trace, but is more than its components and uses them to full affect.
He was his most attractive in the era in my opinion
Artistically and as a person. He just seemed well rounded. A full person.
Unfortunately he never completed the trilogy. I wish he would’ve given us the two follow ups than earthing or hours
He is an artist and I totally understand him :) I did art at uni and I very much did what I wanted, I loved discovering new things and didn't feel the need to focus on one thing :) didn't go down well with some but I survived :) it's really exciting if you free your approach to creative things! paint a picture with banana or toy car, who said you always need to use a brush :) just ignore those who try to keep you on the same old path
"he might not have been original"
uhm wut
What a great video CBC this was always my favorite album
The inside of Outside
Bowie live around that time always sounds better with new material than the old classics like Rebel Rebel and Life on Mars. That's what I've come to admire about him, his focus on now and no nostalgic looking back in the creative process, even as he feels obliged to do the older stuff live. His passions are with what he's working with now.
the tone of this feels so unnecessarily negative, the reporter clearly was of her depth
He creates and leaves it to us to interpret. That is not, not taking responsibility for your work. That is having no control over how someone interprets what you are doing. Everyone sees things differently and applies their own, plight, or sight, how can any artist take responibility for that? David is genius, you may not see it the way he does, but that's not up to him. It's like Manson blaming Helter Skelter (Paul McCartney) for his death rampage. Please!!!!
+thomasj219 Well put.
The critic's attempt to pigeonhole this are unintentionally hilarious and surprisingly staid, at least compared to what I remember of the 90s however that could well-be down to cultural differences at the time.
Bowie himself is as fascinating and well-spoken as ever in the interview, however.
wtf he wasn't falling behind he was always excellent and awesome ❤️
''he was falling back'' - Umm I don't think so.. He was decades ahead and continues to be so. A prophetic artist.
Pure utter genius David Bowie ahead of his time
Looking back on it now, 1. Outside feels like it has a lot in common with Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, both being non-linear crime stories depicted in psychological space. Bowie even does this interview from a hospital bed set and performs the 'Detective' part for the camera.
Considering that bowie tried to be "avant-garde" in this era, i think is a brave move for him, he always wanted to be scott walker since he listen to his records so i thinkits better to bowie if we see him as a art-rock, pop legend and not as a avant garde composer
11:36 onwards - I'm not sure if it really answered the question, but that's a brilliant attitude to have!
All's well, 20th century dies...
Terrible interview. Brilliant man.
I love his insight
One day we'll hear Outside sequel. For sure.
yes it's there on youtube. Often called Inside, or Incide, see also Leon. Search and you'll find abundace. Not only on YT.
Sabía desde muy joven que al público hay que impactarlo para tener éxito y eso fue lo que hizo durante toda su carrera ,captar la atención de la forma que fuera después lo argumentaba a su manera
Interesting, seems David was not really interested in the big city morbid art and just exploited and put it all out there to its ultimate level so we could all be done with any fascination with it and move on to more proper interests. Art crimes investigator character. Certainly laid out more evidence than we wanted to handle so we could make our judgment and move on. Such a thorough artist.
There was no master bullsh**ter like Mr. Bowie. An art form in itself :)
Im sorry but did the fucking interviewer say "It may not have been original" EXFUCKINCUSE ME?
Book?? Did she say book?
The diary of Detected Nathan Adler. The booklet inside the cd case
Kind of an interesting relic from a time when people genuinely believed society could use political correctness to cure itself from its violence. I feel like those of us who grew up during this time period are much more culturally accustomed to violence at least in a fantasy sense than our parents and yet violent crime is much lower than its peak in the early 1990's, but who gets to claim credit for that? What lesson are we supposed to learn?
I like his smile.
"art drugs" ? i thought they were "interest drugs," ?
"By the late 80's all Bowie needed to do was put on a suit and show up and he satisfied our latest fascination"
You don't understand music or art in the slightest if this is how you view art.
Bowie prolific and comercial decade was the 70s but as a popular culture icon was the 80s, i must admit that was the era in his catalog that become some and kitsch, even for his standars. So i think is good if we see bowie as an artist and a human, not an idol who all his albums are gold. Outside was bowie's take on scott walker
FROM ARTIST/ART LOVER - PEOPLE DONT GET IT - ITS VERY SIMPLE - "YOU DONT 'THINK' ART YOU 'SOUL' ART" - ANYTHING ELSE IS ADDATIVES....ANY MESSAGE THAT MAY BE IN THE WORK IS OBVIOUS TO ANYONE - OTHERWISE IT IS 'THE EMPORORS NEW CLOTHES..........BOWIE IS A GENIOUS, DONT AGREE WITH HIS OPPINION ON 'ABSOLUTES' - BUT THAT DOES NOT AFFECT THE WONDER OF THE WORK..
lol critics
Dreadful analysis.
They were still living in the dayglo splattered 80s, while Bowie had already moved into the goth-y tattoed 90s. When she says he's not taking responsibility, it's like she's accusing him of corrupting kids and turning them into vampiric ritualists.
the presenter is so bitter n prejudiced i swear
i had a artwork chaos ,84 Black wholes +. - connections cas
The narrator is very rude, and you can see Bowie struggles to talk with her even though in other interviews he is open and chatty.
I think Zappa, even though he didn't like Bowie, would have appreciated the concept of Outside.
8:55 Anthony Fantano was following Bowie's career from a very young age I see...
Reminds me of the NIN Closer video, hate to say.
MUST SEE!!!!
David Bowie DIES on the BLACK MOON of DEATH!!!! (new documentary)
wow just wow i think i got cancer listening to the computer girls voice mutilating my brain into cardiac arrest. but who an i? i'm just I
David, Rock God, c'mon, please! The Hearths Filthy Lessons is an impressive piece of excellent sound and striking vision, but there is an interview of you (by Susan S.) in 1983 when you took complete responsibility for your creations, stating: "It's an accumulative device; the more you write about the negative, the more you increase the currency and value of negativity. If you make the decision to write positively, then you can contribute towards whatever is left as positive in life"...
Of course I won't argue with the right to pull the blanket, and the value of doing so as the "social observer" you were --and above all your right to do what you like (and God only knows what you are doing these days...!!), but responsibility, you had, sir. And denying that was just using another mask or another lie. Or whatever, chameleon... creative artist and businessman... Thanks for all your explorations and their crystalisations you brought forth.
Just dig IT indeed John steed also tm cas ny nl
This Woman is Trying To Be A Beat-Poet Reporter, Which She Fails at Miserably. And How The Hell Did John Sakamoto Get A Career? He's Bitter & Tears Apart What He is Reviewing in This Case; Instead of Highlighting it. What is The Point of Critics? Just Make The Public Aware of Something & Allow Them To Make Up Their Own Minds, There is Absolutely No Need For Art or Music Criticism.
Cliched mask removal? Not if you notice that first he takes off the animal head, and only THEN the mask...
the real David Bowie POINT OF VIEW....VIOLENT THEMES...WHY
+Meiers Daniel he clearly explains it and two years later he moved on with Earthling - changed his character and changed most of the themes- he did it year after year- Hours is about time regret but has a lot of positivity
+Meiers Daniel artistically I totally understand where he's coming from, as usual he was a decade or so before his time..
he wears a cross right??
+Kris Twizzler i believe he has. yet he's stated that he isn't religious, which is interesting.
***** oohh how sweet...i had no idea.
caylen dana perhaps he keeps it private
+Jason.1284+ I actually did not know that. That makes a lot of sense since he loved his father very much. His relation to his mother was much more ambigious.
incorrect.
not my favorite Bowie period, the late 90s.
His 90s stuff was way better than the 80s or 00s imo.
Lost his way.