David Bowie - Lazarus (Video)
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- "Lazarus" by David Bowie
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Lyrics:
By the time I got to New York
I was living like a king
There I used up all my money
I was looking for your ass
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It must be so painful knowing you’re dying and writing a song about it and sing it. He truly went out as a star ❤️
A blackstar
A black star / blackstar is both what you call a dying star (planet), but also it's a cancer lesion...
One of the most beautiful and moving videos ever.
He actually didn't know he was gonna die so soon. This was mostly accidental great timing
AmerXcan he was diagnosed with cancer and doctors told him he didn’t have much longer to live. Maybe he didn’t know he’d die that soon but he knew it was close
David Bowie looked straight into the eyes of death, and used it to create his last masterpiece, fucking brilliant
IrishZombie81 exactly . He turned his own death into an Art project . What is possibly one of the best albums of all time .
When a man who's lived the life of a god in his profession, has gone through so much, from the death of his friends and companions who he sang with, and he nears his end, he knows he must have one last ride with his skills.
just like Freddie Mercury did
thats gotta be the best way i have heard this album described
Absolutely. One of the most courageous acts of artistic creation that has ever been.
You have liver cancer, 18 months left to live, and a net worth of $230 million. How do you spend your last moments? On drugs? Sex? Wild escapes across the World? Maybe you would. Bowie, however, got himself into the recording booth and lent his whole voice rehearsing and recording over and over--shooting scenes and retaking them for videos constantly, despite dying of a fatal and often painful diease. That's Bowie's way of doing it. Giving us--all of us--his last moments.
That is arguably the greatest gift anyone has ever given me.
+AXSR388 Well said.
+AXSR388 Amen. VERY well said!
+AXSR388 very well said-he was an amazing person!
+AXSR388 Reminds me of Freddie Mercury. Working with his art to the last moments.
+AXSR388 never really thought of it this way, but what a comment. Brilliant!
8 years ago he passed away. Rest in peace starman
❤️❤️🌹RIP
seems like yesterday
@@silverfox9285 I know that feeling too, 😢
Rip to a hero, a madman and the man who sold the world.
Rip he was a great singer
David singing his own epitaph. The ultimate performance art video.
+Philip Hunter It is. I think maybe this video is the ultimate piece of art. I cannot think of anything quite as stunning and haunting. He was an incredibly brave artist.
+ivankaramasov The truly creative artist is ready to suffer for his work and Bowie gave everything.
+ivankaramasov absolutely...stunning ...artistic expression to the end...Bravo Bowie Bravo..
+Gregory andre stunning but still so fucking sad...
lol
How is it that I can feel such a deep feeling of loss about someone I've never met?
Cos that's music for you mate, goes a lot deeper than what's in front of us.
Because he was the man
I remember, out of all the amazing things I read the day he passed, the one that hit straight to my heart and I've never forgotten since was a tweet, of all things, from Carrie Brownstein that is the perfect descriptor for the emotional mixture of the impact he left on music and social/cultural history, itself, through the world with the feeling of "How is that even possible?". She summed up the shock, sadness, and confusion that set in when hearing of his passing perfectly - "It feels like we lost something elemental, as if an entire color is gone."
TheJestermint becuase his voice and lyrics reaches into your soul and grasp your heart
Because this man was a fucking GOD
The man is a true legend, even wrote his own goodbye song
Twice because he killed of Ziggy Stardust remember?
Goodbye album, even.
Genius 70s 80s 90s 2000s R.I.P MR Jones
Yes, I agree, Going to the grave will still do it in his own way, like in his life do music with no regrets. Yeah?
❤️
This was one of my dad’s funeral songs. I wasn’t able to listen to it for a long time after as the pain was too much , but now I find it so beautiful. My dad was a musician with an impressive collection of 12 guitars. Rest in paradise, hopefully you can jam with Bowie ❤️
❤
That's the way I feel when I hear Time in a Bottle and The Dance. My grandson's dad died of cancer and he chose those songs to be played at his funeral.
Sorry for your loss
@@michellepotter9541The Dance. Played the night of my fiancé’s funeral at the bar as we consoled each other as best we could. I had never heard that song before and will never forget how it made me feel. I’d do it all over again, even knowing the pain it still causes me, 30 years ago this month.
@@Doggirl1007 ❤️❤️❤️
David Bowie looked at death in the eyes and said “let’s make art together!”.
We miss you David!
thats such a amazing thing to say
I thought you were going to say let's dance
Wow. Well said indeed
Beautifully stated
I got goosebumps reading that sentence
experimenting and innovating and pushing the edges right up until the very end...ain't that just like him?
absolutely!
He was atheist
+Carel Remy what does that have to do with anything?
+Carel Remy Agnosticism is different from atheism.
+Doug Campbell completly TRUE.
A true legend.
+El Rincón De Giorgio MEISTER DAVID BOWIE Jordi, deberías hacer un Top 5 de las canciones más flipantes de él, a tomar aguita mineral en su salud RESQUIESCAT IN MUSICA
El de arriba tiene razón Jordi
Un saludo aunque no leas esto, igual es mucho más difícil que nos contestes ahora con otros 2 millones de personas a como era hace un año con 14 mil
+El Rincón De Giorgio he will always be remembered.
+El Rincón De Giorgio Yes he will be sadly missed.
por oo que veo no solovte dedicas a hacer paridas en youtube y reirte de Auron y compañia; tambien escuchas buena musica, grande! 👌💪
What a powerful piece of music.
This was David's swan song, his parting gift to the world, and what a gift it was.
If only we could all live lives as full as his.
get over yourself.
@@CSM100MK2you must be fun at parties
❤
@@CSM100MK2 he's the funny one in his family. definitely.
@CSM100MK2 what are you so mad about 😂 you've left multiple comments bitching about nothing
This is a man who fought cancer, faced his mortality and accepted it. We all do at some point. Time is short, make the best of it.
Yep!! 🥺❤️
According to the music video director, Bowie was fighting to live up till the last minute and didn't actually know the cancer had won until after the music video had been shot. However, he must have known there was a chance he wasn't going to beat it.
Yes he IS so Fabulous MAN ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
yes
Thanks, Duke
"And the world is full of life, full of folk who don't know me". 1969 David Bowie, Conversation Piece
"I've got drama that can't be stolen, everybody knows me now". 2015 David Bowie, Lazarus
+711honved
That second quote... I was listening to that one when I was reading it... ILLUMINATI!!!
711honved lol, probably on purpose
Wooooooooow
me too o.O
711honved no 2016 that's the soul reason alone 2016 sucked but then prince Ali Leonard Cohen call of duty and ect died in 2016
Bowie entering the closet: his coffin.
The two Bowie's: the bedridden one to symbolise his body decaying, the active one dancing and writing around the room to symbolise his mind's determination to finish the album, mind over matter.
The girl under his bed trying to claw at him: symbolises the cancer trying to take hold of him, and, eventually, succeeding.
The thought, effort and cleverness put into this music video is mind boggling, how he insinuated his death days before, is and will hopefully go down as one of the most artistically done albums ever made.
RIP Bowie, we'll sure as hell miss you.
+Luke Bradley I am pretty sure she was in the Blackstar video as well. Coming to take his place, collect his soul? I don't know I am just critiquing. Somebody took his place and bravely cried ( • o •) I'm a Blackstar I'm a Blackstar.
+Luke Bradley Perhaps it might be more fitting to say "Sure as Heaven" just this once.
+Luke Bradley
So what do you think about the head on the bed, and the young guy under the bed?
I would like to think the closet represents another dimension to another world Bowie and all his aliases came from. Which the young and energetic Bowie from Station to Station came from and went back to. Letting us know he lives on even though his physical human body has died.
Clive Bindley you need new glasses
I don't get emotional when stars pass away but I did the day David Bowie died. This masterpiece of an album came out two days before his passing, January 8th, on his 69th birthday. My husband and I listened non-stop for months, helping us mourn the passing of this great genius. Little did I know that seven years later on the exact day, I would lose my husband of 13 years suddenly and unexpectedly. As you can imagine this song has taken on new significance. Jimmy will live on forever in my heart.
Im so sorry for your loss, how wonderful to have had 13 years together..
I am very sorry for your loss. All the love to you...
How brave to face the death like that. He fought until the end with dignity and lot of power. A role model for many people.
preach
amen
No, it's not the church. It's the reality.
indeed
I am gonna miss Bowie R. I.P 1947-2016
David was good friends with Freddie Mercury, and Queen, and he learned a lot from Freddie's death. Freddie was hounded by the press as he was ill, and dying, so David cleverly concealed his own illness until the very end. David also saw that even Freddie was dying, that he still went into the studio, and created one last masterpiece with Queen - the 'Innuendo' album, which was Freddie's goodbye to his fans. David also gathered all of his strength, as Freddie did years earlier, and recorded his own final masterpiece, and farewell to his fans, to the world. We can't beat death, but we can - if we're clever, go out on our own terms, which is what David did. Well done Major Tom.
This is nonsense. Bowie and Mercury were not close friends. Bowie was a friend of Roger Taylor.
That's YOUR opinion - Which I also find to be nonsense. I suggest knowing your Rock 'n Roll history, before attempting to point out the mistakes of others, when there are no such mistakes.
Bowie and Mercury obviously knew one another from their time working together on the Under Pressure single but the question here was how well did they really know one another? I googled it and found several articles stating they had been friends since the early 70s. What I read said they had first met in 1972 and became good friends.
@me notyou - Exactly. Thank You. Nothing nonsensical about it.
Freddie Mercury only went public with his illness at the very end. He was hounded by the press because he looked ill before that.
As dark as it is... Bowie wasn't going to let his death go without taking artistic opportunity from it. I miss the guy every day.
exactly.
He was a genius until the end!!!!! @@agustinporatti9578
Ain't it just like him?
Were you friends? Because dude that’s weird if you never meet him and you think of him daily.
@acar7421 dunno, I'm with @lemagreengreen. I doubt there's many days go by when I don't listen to one of his tracks. I probably think of him to some degree at that level too.
Hearing David Bowie sing “ass” so dramatically is stapled into my brain.
lmao it’s the only time ass actually meant something to me in song.
i think he sang it in Ziggy Stardust too
@@somwoncool9564 "With God-given ass"
I’m so sad David Bowie had just died. RIP.
“I’ve now decided that my death should be very precious. I really want to use it. I’d like my death to be as interesting as my life has been and will be.” -
David Bowie, 1976 (interview with Playboy)
Very rarely does a person get to decide how they want to go, and i'm very glad David did
That's absolutely amazing, thank you!! He was a king in life, and now a King in death, his music brings anger, peace, amazement, and at the very least an astounding lust for life!! LETS DANCE!!!
Mission accomplished. Fly to heaven Starman
Wow!! That's a trip! Just told my buddy "who but Bowie could evoke such pride, feelings of luck, sadness, loneliness...n, well, sass.
Cool how that quote was said to Playboy.
Even Death itself shed a tear when he came for David.
Lol. Nice
@El Astronaute What's so funny about that sentence?
@@johanngloi8461 the concept of death shedding a tear, it's jocular. It's ironic, it's sentimental. It is funny.
it sure hammers the truth home
@3 Shot Tim Knight..What an awesome comment. I wont forget it.
This video is extremely meaningful. He's writing furiously, trying to write the songs that he has in mind, and you can see him coming up with more ideas. He's desperately trying to keep writing while death is trying to pull him back, into the darkness of that wardrobe, and he gets visibly angry when he's pulled away from the paper he was writing on.
His story wasn't finished. He had much more that he wanted to write, that he wanted to tell us, that he wanted to create. And there was nothing he could do about it, so he left us with this.
+Rakaesa Demonheart He has more albums to be released 2017
But thats just a theory
A music theory
Mcmuffin gamer THANKS FOR LISTENING.
+Rakaesa Demonheart thank you! well said. I completely agree. I'm still upset that he left so soon! :(
+Conor Ruane Who pissed in your cereal?
It has been a fucking *rough* 8 years since this dropped.
On the outside, I pretend things are okay, but deep down, nothing has been the same since David Bowie died
wow he really did reach his creative peak right at the end
in some way, I guess he did. never has anyone had a career like this, especially a career end like THIS, it's a work of art
+Riordan Pett death as a work of art
+Matt Rose you are disgusting :)
Yeah he realized an album on his birthday said bye Felicia and after being under pressure he died
+Brad Palato ?????
Rest in Peace my most beloved musical genius
See you later Starman
Vocalise
да жив он
Es el mejor de los músicos británicos con la mejor pronunciación, se le entiende todo.
Who the hell else can turn a chemo fever dream into a concept album. He won at art. All art. For ever.
David Bowie was a magician....not just a musician......He could do anything, he performed in various genres and in various styles......His music was transcendent of eras......he made something for everyone......This song is bloody powerful too......It's one of my favourites of his.......and I have a lot after not liking him when I was younger, I started liking him a few years before his death after giving his music a good listen.
I always describe Bowie to people who don't know him well that "He was the man who truly put the 'Artist' in 'Musical artist.'"
I love how you expressed that. It's perfect. :)
The Antlers' Hospice album is a similarly themed album and is also super effective imo. Check it out
@@lukehumphrey7517 I am pretty sure this Video is not a competition.
I was battling Pancreatic Cancer when this was released and this song had a huge impact on me. 8 years ago today we lost Bowie to Liver Cancer.
Hope you are well.
This song:
One of the greatest goodbye songs in history
One of the *saddest* songs in history
One of the best songs in history
The last song of an incredible performer
Uploaded 1 day before Bowie’s 69th birthday
Uploaded 3 days before Bowie’s death
goodbye, david bowie. goodbye, starman. goodbye, inspiration.
inspiration ye sure ill make i song when i feel like im about to die
I borrowed this to add to the post on Facebook so very profound and i couldnt have done better Thank you!
So open and raw. So Bowie not to hold back. Compelled to let us know. Ain't that just like you to find creativity in death.
Same thing with the show must go on by queen
slapnut : omg stop! You are making me cry
This shit still gives me the creeps, even three years later. Bowie was a true genius.
The first time I saw his twisted sickly hands I got goose bumps
Absolutely!
The Black Joan Rivers No, he was a good artist.
It cuts me like a knife.
This is very, very strong...
A mix of deep emotions.
Super Creeps
He died 3 days after this video was posted. This was his goodbye
Oh wow...so courageous to the end!
for an artist,that used so many colours and shades thorughout his whole carreer, it's all so dark here.....he used a total different approach to his latest music than Freddie Mercury did , like they had something to communicate about some kind of dimension ,they were entering in...
Many Legs yes
Most people with that disease cannot even turn in bed. How he got the strength to do this video I don't know.
It''s hard to put on costumes, the lights, rehearsal, sync with the music, etc. If this was filmed 3 days before his end, it is beyond a miracle.
@@2011littleguy it was POSTED 3 days before his death, not filmed. They had to do the editing after filming.
This song was his way of saying goodbye to his fans. I will always believe that.
May I tell you all about David Bowie?
I don't have many heroes, but David Bowie was one of them. Rest in peace.
+MoreConsole
Was? No... Is and forever will be a hero
+Megan Melville You should probably explain a commen like that (?)
+TheDrey7 Rip Major tom the goblin king you made your impact on the world 5 4 3 2 1 blast off
+Megan Melville You know you're gonna get some questions now...
love destiny me to
That beautiful SOB. He turned his own death into artistic expression. Genius to the end.
how right you are Bruce ----The closet ending wow
+dvddjscottymack Yes, the ending gave me the chills the first time I saw it - now it's on a whole new level. R.I.P. David.
+Rasmus Mäkelä Lazarus wasn't he risen from the dead ?? in the bible ? hmm mm gotta research
Sad and beautiful. RIP, sir.
"Ain't that just like me".
Absolutely.
He didn't die
He went back home to his planet
Godspeed David Bowie
Jabroni Supreme oh this comment made me cry thank you i needed that
Mars?
@@johnnysins6432 Nibiru. wink
Bowie planet. I want to join him soon.
He's just floating in a post peculiar way. It's okay. His spaceship knows which way to go.
He's done it. He's a genius.
+MWPRO1000 Typical fanboy comment. For people like you a shit of this guy would be art as well.
+Jimmy snail .....It probably would, yeah.
+Jimmy snail except this is actually really good
+Jimmy snail Mate, you're a fucking Bon Jovi fan!!!!!!!!
+Jimmy snail so... do you like it or not?
"i'll be free, ain't that just like me" This is probably the best line i heard in my entire life.
+Azhar Bj! yeah awesome i agree with you
+Azhar Bj! R.I.P David Bowies
+Azhar Bj!
Andre Antunes 1 day ago
"I'll be free, ain't that just like me" This is probably the best line I heard in my entire life.
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+Azhar Bj! did you really copy and paste someone else's comment?
+Azhar Bj! It is.
I sat next to my Granddad's bed as he was passing away. The parts in the video where David leans upward and off the pillow it reminded me of something my Granddad started doing in his final days. It's like he could feel himself going and would try to sit up and grab the rail of the bed hospice brought in for him so he could be at home with his family instead of in the hospital. I believe there is a veil between here and the other side. The closer you get to death the thinner the veil becomes. As far as the meaning behind this and the other songs and videos, I'm not really sure what I think or how I feel about them quite yet. One of those things that will come to you in time it's right for you to understand it. Wherever he is I hope he's in peace.
I sat next to my grandads bed as he took his last breath , also sat up like that , you must know when the end is so x
To me there ain't no vail. It's just you wanna stay alive so you try and hold on to something...anything but you go anyways. I don't get why people have such strong feelings about death it's just fear. I'm afraid to die I love life. I know I'll still die but even then I try to live. So I just think that people need time to except death I think that this song is probably about fear and excepting death.
+Carrie Carden i understand you sweetie, for i have literally watched many loved ones pass..some will usually take three deep breaths then let the air out and slip away..
+Carrie Carden To be in the flow of creativity, or the purity of meditation, is to be in a state of death. Because those are states of total surrender of the ego. Bowie was there many times.
+Carrie Carden I "saw" my dad's last breath merge with the cosmos. It gave me supreme peace. Cancer is such an awful death for the body.
I met David when he died, through this song. On the same day, the TV news were announcing his death alongside the debut of his latest album and how related his final album was to this ending journey. After the tribute to him on the Portuguese news, they pass on this song. I was instantly hipnotized by the suffering, the deepness, the pain, the sound. Right after it, I mentally write the name of the song so I wouldn't forget it. I finished dinner, and went straight to TH-cam and listened to the song one more and one more and one more time... And I was only 15 at the time.
This was the only David Bowie song I knew for a while. Then, I figured I knew other ones, like Changes. One or 2 years after that, I decided to deep search on Bowie's musical and cultural legacy. A genius. Still today this is one of my favourite songs.
Thank you Bowie
That "Look up here, I'm in heaven" gets me every time. Even 5 years later.
for mw it´s when it changes to "look up here,, man. I´m in danger"
He's looking down on us now
@@shaneodwyer6132 up. hes in hell
@@notsans9995 For what? Not that any of that is real anyway?!
@@notsans9995 from what I’ve seen he’s literally done nothing wrong. He was never satanic or arrested.
I love the little dance he does when he sings the "By the time I got to New York" part. It's like he's kind of mocking and poking fun at his flamboyant past, but there's a quick shot where you can see he can't help but smile. It's a little thing, but it's touching.
AceAttorny I agree. It is the best part of an otherwise very grim and disturbing requiem. When he puts his hand on his hip, I call that his Bette Davis moment. Notice also that at this point he is wearing the very same Kabbalah/astral travel suit that he could be seen wearing 40 years earlier in the photo that appeared on the back cover of some editions of his 1976 "Station to Station" album.
This video was meant to be...I'm not sure if this is the right word I'm looking for...allegorical pertaining to his long career and the various stages and directions he took throughout. It seems to be a nod to the tendency among people and media to pigeonhole him into one specific creative eras, when he's clearly moved passed that and grown. As if he's saying that "it was all characters. I take the David Bowie you know out of the closet, I put him back in and I move on and then under it all, I'm the human David Bowie and I'm real. All those Bowie's you've seen have all been facets of me, are still here, and always will be." Throughout it all, being so ferociously creative and full of ideas to the point where he can't fit them all in. It's both sentimental and heartbreaking.
very touching as he knew he was dying and its fitting he released this I lost a cousing who was an ace attorney himself.. to cancer like My cousins father and the iconic David Bowie..
exactly what I'm thinking about "the little thing" and the "dance"
What an artist!
The most awesome thing about him was the variety of genres in his music. He didn't stick with one thing, he did it all.
+TheDiabethick
Yup. musical genius ;)
One of the very best vocalists too...
Was remembering when he did Christmas songs with Bing Crosby... pleasant memories...
+Snoozing Lion. Bing would probably shit his pants if he heard Bowie's new music...of course, maybe he's listening from above...and yes, Little Drummer Boy featuring Bowie and Bing was pretty damn cool!
Jake and the neverland pirates videos jake and the neverland pirates
+TheDiabethick And what is also great is that he would get really successful doing something and then gave it up for something untried, risky. He could have kept making Ziggy Stardust albums which were we pleasing his fan base and selling too. He didn';t move on because he HAD to. But he decided to move on. to continue to challenge himself. This often displeased the fans who wanted more of the same.... but he did what he wanted. So its always funny to me when people say that a certain album was the "best" or the worst. Usually it means that the particular genre didn't speak to them, not that the album was subjectively bad.
+TheDiabethick one type of genre would get tiresome after a while. he explored many genre's to open up more creativity and to keep up with the forever changing style of music
God bless those who suffer in silent may you find peace 🕊️
My heart hurts so much watching this. That first verse is so powerful in the context of him secretly dying. "Look up here, I'm in heaven".
+Gato Mercado I agree! This has to be the spookiest, saddest, yet TRIUMPHANT video I've EVER seen! An ARTIST, to the end! DAMN...
+Thomas Wiilde Take a look at blackstar if you haven't had the chance to see it. R.i.p David Bowie..
+Gato Mercado "I've got scars that can't be seen" also sounds like he might be referring to the cancer.
+alx64uchiha And when he says "I've got nothing left to lose", he's accepting the truth that he's going to die soon, but he's okay with it because he has no regrets and he's already accomplished so much in life.
blackstar might be his final masterpiece
David Bowie: creates one of the most emotional songs I’ve ever heard
Also David Bowie: “I WaS lOoKiNg FoR yOuR aSs”
Bruh moment
When I saw that comment I heard it in the song at the same time I’m watching it
I mean-
Joe Mama I did too that’s so weird.
Unicat Scrunchy :/
"Look up here, I'm in heaven"
:(
+AJ Gyampoh
"I saw my baby, crying hard as babe could cry, what could I do" (magic dance) - cry along with her, because BOWIE has just died. RIP, G.O.A.T, never forgotten.
I still miss this man. What a genius. What a musician. What an amazing human.
„Look up here, I‘m in heaven“
Crying instantly.
Lezatan if you understand the background of this song and Bowie‘s legacy you can‘t help but cry. Especially when you‘ve been a fan of his work.
bennyboooooy í don't know why! it hurts! í miss him so badly! í miss him.
I cant take this comment seriously because the most popular video on your channel is...just no. 😕
Look up here, I;m in Danger: That;s Bowie saying his goodbyes to this crazy world, that can;t tell he is a true guineas Plus, he's not taking my News Paper, Be happy, he's out of Misery and scaring the Angels.
The world just lost one of its most talented human beings. R.I.P.
Yes we have. He has inspired many with his work. R.I.P David Bowie
+The Veggie Nut agreed i was in shock when i found out this morning doesnt seem real
RIP 😣😢😞😭
+Rabbit Soid R.I.P David Bowie, master of masters.
He looked at death in the eyes and said “Let’s dance”
Underrated
Cheese factor is high.
According to the music video director, Bowie was fighting to live up till the last minute and didn't actually know the cancer had won until after the music video had been shot. However, he must have known there was a chance he wasn't going to beat it.
looking at death i would think it's be a prettier picture- dude from elder's react
And death swallowed him up.
He is on mars now
And Freddie
Underrated comment! This is beautiful.
The creative soul writes furiously, but is summoned persistently by the dying body. The soul succumbs, after giving us everything it could ... and then closes the door and says goodbye to us all forever.
^That's what I thought but with more words!
But what's the chick under the bed? I've not figured her out yet...
fucking hell
+Josh Galt Yes. That's the best way of putting it I've seen. That last look of fear off to the side, then the resolute acceptance and willful step back through the door. Fuck.
Ah, deep, beautifully said, and utterly perfect.
This video makes so much more sense now.
***** I'm just glad I heard it from my niece instead of the internet. I preordered the album for her as a Christmas present.
yeah, it has a message
+Because We Can- The Channel I thought the same thing. :s
+john Dude, he was just saying that it made more sense bro
NexifyPlays It also makes more cents now too
I can’t believe that it’s been 6 years since he’s gone. Rest In Peace. You’re still so missed.
i just feel the same, thank you for finding the right words.
Miss a stranger that you don't even know that made dumb transgender music videos? That's bizarre.
I still wish his hand or something had been removed and sent into space. Then a little piece of David would always be
"Floating in a tin can... far above the world...".
The music is __OUTSIDE.__
@Hunter Vonnegut not cool man
When Bowie released this music video, my father, who lived his whole life listening to David Bowie, simply didn't like the music video, he couldn't accept the fact that his biggest idol was old and dying.
Years later, my father started listening to Lazarus more and even watching the music video. After a while, my amazing father passed away. I believe he understood what Bowie wanted to convey with this song.
RIP Marco and David two amazing men!
"Everybody knows me now..." Hell, he even realized the post-mortem explosion of popularity he was about to get.
+Jack Dets (VektorWorlds) What is the point of being a visionary if you don't know? :-)
yup!! carefully orchestrated to the end. class act
+Jack Dets (VektorWorlds) I'm pretty sure the majority of people knew who David Bowie was before his death.
+ProfessorRaskolnikov I work with three people (young, 19-26) who never heard of him. Hard for me to believe, but then, I couldn't name a single singer who came to fame after 1992 or so.
Diane Howard
True, but those singers aren't nearly as world-renown as Bowie. Not knowing Bowie is almost like not knowing who Elvis is. Shame there are some who have never heard of him, though.
How truly admirable. The man knew he was going to die, yet he spent his last days working his ass off, writing and recording music and shooting music videos. It shows what his art and music really meant to him.
Warren Zevon did a similar thing with his final studio album, he was losing a battle with lung cancer and his last CD is basically him confronting his own mortality. Really heavy stuff.
He didn't go anywhere the space man just went back to mars.
Not unlike one of his friends, Freddie Mercury. He was so prolific and he worked with a unique cadre of musician with whom he recorded and toured with but each project was very different. He was recorded as saying he initially wanted to write and score a
@@islandbirdw please continue
@@Remembrancer a musical but he had no idea how. He had stage fright so he created the now famous alter ego Ziggy Stardust. He said it helped him to go out on stage as a character rather than himself.
He said goodbye to the world the best way he could =]
yes
His Free From His pain😢,#StarDust❤❤
I agree 100%
+jh565bb Yeah he sure did. He was brilliant and unique to the very end. True legends never die. RIP David Bowie.
+jh565bb Yeah, by hiding his illness to his followers. Good way to go. He had cancer for 18 months without telling anyone, or we'll never know whether it was 18 months or more
man looked death in the eyes and said....."I've got the perfect song for you"
when a star goes out you can still see the light of it for millions of years David Bowie is a true star
Blackstar
That's a clever analogy, never heard that one before.
+Dave Strider me neither.
A star was named after him
+Roland Voracek There is a light, and it never goes out!
man...I don't know why, but the line "everybody knows me now" is incredibly haunting, as now that he's dead everyone is starting to become a fan of his.
+Audrey Bennett i think he may also just be referring to his status as an icon,
+Audrey Bennett It's pretty clear he knew he was near death, and anticipated the response.
I've been listening to this and Blackstar all day I am about to cry
+Audrey Bennett Also the fact is once you're dead, you're finite. There's no more work you're going to do, or more words you'll say, it's finished forever. There's no good or bad news left that he could create. So everybody will know him now for the fullness of his life and work, all he's done is recorded and discussed and dissected. We tend to remember the better parts of people once they're gone if they did good things. Everybody knows his time is complete.
+1970brenz You join so many godless, empty people lamenting your unhappiness without God. Without God, you are as finite as your stubbornness to consider the delicate balance of this entire universe, yet God is giving you more time to realize your selfish emptiness.
R.I.P. David Bowie. I hope you accepted Jesus Christ gift, and in god's presence in your glorified body. Thank you for your part of our lives soundtrack.
My dearest daddy was a fan of Bowie. He once said jokingly that he would like it for his funeral. And it will be so. He died yesterday. He lived shorter than David, because dad passed away at the age of 64. Cancer took him too.
:-( Condolences. It's hard to find a better funeral musical choice, though. I hope you and your family are finding some comfort today.
I'm so sorry to hear that. Stay strong. My mum was 65 when she went. Also cancer. It will be hard but you'll get through it.
My deepest condolences :(
May he be at peace
My condolences. 🎶🖤
Only David Bowie would say "OK death , let's get on with this and I will have the last song"
True heavyweights of this life never die.
Freddie Mercury: These are the days of our lives
David Bowie: Lazarus
Two of the greatest goodbye songs in music history
Freddie also has mother love which is heartbreaking
what about mother love?
Also hurt by Johnny cash
David Stardust And “The show must go on!”
@@axlthesnake Hurt is actually a cover, Nine Inch Nails made the original
he used this album and music video to tell the world he was dying. a very creative way but that bowie. Rest in peace
So true. I thought the same. RIP David Bowie 😥
+Adam Midghall That was my very first thought upon listening to the album for the first time today. He knew he was going to be leaving us. :'(
tears in my eyes man
I agree. I guess that he knew that he was losing his battle with cancer. He used the album and video in his message of saying goodbye
+Brandon Xoa Not ashamed to say I've cried 3 times today. Goodbye Bowie.
He knew.
He gave us a final testament to his achievements and failures. He showed us his struggles, his emotions.
He showed us his freedom.
He showed us his life.
Farewell, Starman, and thankyou.
Supreme Nugget! I agree with you exactly. The "Blackstar" album is a farewell, a valedictory, and beautifully made. I miss him, and I still think his work is superior.
Cracking album. If you hear this at full frame and not youtube it's awesome
Supreme Leader Nugget i think ur right
Does anyone see or feel the darkness ? David Bowie a sacrifice. The genius of our time. At what cost?
Supreme Leader Nugget ppp
I would rate this as one of the best music videos of all time.
Only guy to ever write his own eulogy in an album. He was a complete legend, hearing his voice makes me feel hollow...
jhonny cash
Andres Henn *johnny
Tom Searle the guitarist from architects did that as well. He died of skin cancer and no one knew. Most of the album was about him dying but no one realised till after he died. Sad.
dude i just wrote that too. genius
Bootsy Swan Lenard Cohan
How he turned his death in to a masterpiece. What a unique genius he was.
Varth Mader he turned his death into an art project
Turning your actual death into a concept album is fucking genius and just makes an already musical legend into a towering colossus.
Laura Bourne he wouldn't have wanted to go out any other way.
Song sucks lets be honest
Zan You couldn't be more wrong. Are you American, by chance? I've never been a big fan of American music - it's a product to be sold. Music like this is real - it's art. If you can't appreciate that, then that's your problem.
I think this is him saying that he has accepted death. Lazarus Long was a character by Robert A. Heinlein who lived for nearly 3 millennia and at his end he accepted a beautiful death.
+Majick Freeman great interpretation.
Lazarus was also a guy who rose from the grave in the bible.
+Majick Freeman This is actually correct. Tony Visconti, the producer who worked with him on this final album, confirmed that it was set to be released towards the end of his life as a parting gift to us. And this last video literally shows his relationship with death.
I always think of batman when I hear that word
+Adrian Mullen it's an interpretation, it's not correct
Every ounce of energy he had left, he put into making the greatest song of all time.
Blackstar is not just the last David Bowie album, its a gift. a parting gift for all of us.
We didn't thumb it up or thumb it down because we know as of this moment, he couldn't care less.
THANK YOU for the music David - you're an incredible inspiration and human being.
R.I.P.
He wasn't a human being, he fell from the stars.
+roman soup david bowie is immortal!
+OfficialMotionDevice He was a starman that fell to us c':
One of the greatest artists ever to perform
Tell me now who in the world would dislike this
This man was near death and he knew
Yet he put this performance as a final goodbye
I think it was dislike botted
Anti Cancerous cause maybe people didn't like the song ?
Anti Cancerous please
chad gamer Please?
What is thou request
Sick people.
The final scene when he disappears into the wardrobe is very powerful, symbolically his casket. We will never forget you.
Hey you should listen to a band called The Doublejumps if you like David Bowie
True
yeah it was one of his fashion
Casket? Not quite. It's a wardrobe, like in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." It leads to another world. Bowie lives on somewhere else.
@@lindarockower6028 May I tell you all about David Bowie?
David, you will live on forever. you’ve left one of the greatest legacy’s of any human in Music’s history. thank you for everything. there will only ever be one Starman. ❤
Legends
NEVER
die.
***** I meant in the sense their legacy carries on =/
+Tz10endless12 more like Legend never dies
+John Morgan Think he means "You are never truely gone, until forgotten"
"go with your heart kid, you can never go wrong" -The Sandlot
"heros always get remembered but do you know legends never die" im sorry in the holy name of bden urine
this is how to leave the world like a legend i give props to david bowie
I balled my eyes out when he passed. This video was hard to watch. There will never be another anywhere close to his genius.
Huge fan, but he never acted like he was superior.
+That Other Angry Dude He was superior in music.
+Cherry Rockstar it comes down to taste.
+That Other Angry Dude I'm aware. I only speak for myself and write my opinions when I leave comments
I'm contemplating suicide to this song
This breaks my heart, he was my hero I’m 60 and have grown up with this absolute hero ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Same for me that I'm 47 and I've started to listen him when I was 12
Not a big David Bowie fan, but recognize genius when I see it.
Same here
Bless ya for that, folks
Same here.
Kind of how I feel about Prince actually.
I was a bigger fan of Prince back in their heydays. But in hindsight Bowie was leaps and bounds more sophisticated in his talent. (for me, I'm not trying to start a war)
Great stuff reminds me of when Johnny Cash made Hurt right before he passed. Creativity has no age limit.
+Joe Julet Yes, but considering it was not cash's song, while this is an original, true creation of bowie..
+Λαυρέντιος Ψαροκάηκας Another great Swansong LP is Gil Scott Herons 'I'm new here'
Even though it was a cover I know what you're saying
+Joe Julet yeah kinda, but Cash recorded Hurt in 2002 and he died in Sept. 12 2003 (although the video was released 2 months after he died on nov 2003)
+Joe Julet Hurt is a Nine Inch Nails song...
My dad is now at the same age as Bowie was. My dad has the exact same disease, and he is just as weak as we can see Bowie was. I can imagine how many takes shooting this video required due to the disease.
Like David Bowie, my dad was a professional musician, all his life was about music and he played in many rock bands. Everyone in the town, who had something to do with music knew my dad.
Like David Bowie, my dad wasn't interested in dressing conventionally. Before this disease got so bad as it is now, he expressed himself by wearing just anything he liked. He was a rebel, and people weren't sure if he was a boy or a girl.
This song sounds like what it feels like when the air is slowly getting thinner and thinner and we know what's going to happen very soon. Thinking about it makes my brain whirl. This song sounds exactly like what it feels like.
I don't know if it's a matter of days or weeks, but it's soon. I can't imagine my life after his death, but I have promised him to be strong.
I have never experienced anything as sad as this. I love my dad very much.
Is it terminal
Take care my friend. Stay strong.
Good thoughts to you in the days ahead. It sounds like your father has left behind a very good legacy in you.
Prayers.
My dad left us last Sunday. His last days and nights, he was constantly surrounded by people who loved him. His last hours, my sister and I played music to him that we knew he loved. His last minutes, he was calm and full of love.
He wrote so much music, and he could have been a fame but did not want to.
8 years...🌹
My sister's a huge fan of his music. She's sleeping right now as the news comes out.
It kills me to know the first thing she'll hear waking up today is her favorite musician being taken from the world.
+Scrumshiz am sorry. It reminds me when my sister came home and I had to tell her the news that her favourite musican, George Harrison passed away. I know what you feel. Maybe it would be easier if you turned on his music and tell your sister what happenned?
My brothers dad truly idolizes him too. He's very sad. Such an impactful death.
Yikes. I imagine you being that doctor dreading to break the news of the patient's death to his family. A most unenviable position.
And this news, so very soon after Natalie Cole's. Sigh.
They are together making music so beautiful in heaven we cannot hear it in this mortal world.
+Scrumshiz I was banging my sister when the news of Princess Diana's death came on the t.v., I thought it would ruin the mood, but we grieved after we were done.
This is terrifying yet oddly beautiful at the same. A masterpiece indeed.
Its beautifully disturbing
"Terrifying yet oddly beautiful", like death itself.
yours is the best description. well said
What an incredible way to say goodbye in his own way. He knew he would be leaving soon and this video, and the song, really telegraph that to his fans. What an amazing song and what an amazing artist. Rest in peace.
yes ! I think he knew it all and had everything planned for his last goodbye, what a genius❤ but so sad😢 I wasn't prepared for this💔
+SageOverride Wow!! That is 10 min of my life that I can never get back. Of course, I thought that was the worst of it - that it wouldn't be possible to ever waste a greater amount of life than from watching that shrek.....??
But then - I read your blathering drivel and realized I was wrong. It can always get worse!!!! :^(
+Traiby
If you think it was such a waste of the precious time of your life, why you keep listening to it after the first minute?
+Traiby The video is 4 minutes long, so it took you 6 minutes to read that comment?
+Traiby 10 min? o.O
Господи, я сильно удивлена какой был этот человек. Я его буду помнить. Мне 17, мои сверстники такое вряд-ли будут слушать, но я ни за что не променяю на другое. Буду переслушивать и переслушивать, размышлять и размышлять о его песнях. Спасибо большое, низкий поклон вам, Дэвид Боуи!🖐️🌠🎶
I teach mythology and in my classes, we discuss modern myths. Most myths are based in reality, and over time, they take on the mythic aspects. David Bowie was already a legend but now, he will become a myth. His name will be said over and over, and reality will intertwine and mix with the fantastic and the magic. Ancient Egyptians believed that as long as one's name continues to be spoken (or is written somewhere), that person will continue to live in the after-world; David Bowie will live for what will pass as "forever," long, long after other "celebrities" are forgotten. Others are but pale imitations, but he was bona fide. Orpheus by any any other name or style is still Orpheus. Sing to Persephone now, Mr. Bowie, and accept the accolades of other heroes and artists.
+gwendolyn2001 yes that what i feel too...
+gwendolyn2001 It blows my mind how absurd this comment is. I feel sorry for your students and all those you corrupt with your ridiculous beliefs. I'm not sure about David Bowie, but I would rather spend eternity in heaven singing to our creator, the one and only true God, and his son Jesus Christ our Lord and savior. Or do they qualify as myths?
+beaunjenny1 Alright grandma, you can get off the computer now. School needs to teach things with a basis in reality, it is not a place for hatred and bigotry that religion imposes on us.
+beaunjenny1 Yes, they qualify as myths.
beaunjenny1
What a sad person you are. First, yes, your Christian tales are myths: they are based on the tales of earlier religions. I could explain to you how and why, but it would fall on deaf ears.
Second, it is not your place to judge David Bowie--when you make judgements about his status in the "afterlife," you are taking on the responsibility of your god.
Third, I was speaking in symbol and metaphor, something that you obviously cannot grasp.
I do not corrupt the minds of my students: I teach mythology. I do not share my beliefs because school is not the place. We read the tales and discuss them; my classroom is not a church, indoctrinating the students who came to learn, not to be brainwashed. They can make up their own minds; it is not my intent and would violate my trust and responsibility as a teacher to even try to influence their beliefs.
And you have no idea what I believe.
We also do not discuss the religions of my students, either--it is not the place to do so.
As an 18 year cancer survivor, this video breaks my heart. I wish you could have beaten it, David Bowie. That's the unpredictability of this disease. There still is no magic bullet when it comes to cancer. All you can do is make the best of what time is given you, and that he did. What beautiful last works he left us....he still ended up beating cancer if you consider he finished this and left one last gift to his fans....incredible, haunting and brilliant work here.
It makes me happy that you survived cancer cause all I heard was that the cancer won. Thank you for that :)
Thank you, Kleiner. Maybe one day, there will be a magic bullet cure so that great musicians like Bowie can live to be 100. :)
+OneWomanAndSomeSongs Hey, I'm really glad you beat it. We aren't defined by our mistakes or failures, it's our huge successes that makes us human, fitting as Bowie spent his whole life topping each and every success he ever had.
Ryboh, good thoughts, and I agree. :)
+OneWomanAndSomeSongs You said it all. Good luck to you and God bless!
His last video... somehow revealing his fatal sickness... and the way he disappears from view, all shaking as he climbs backwards inside that cupboard... such a subtle metaphora of his future demise (as a demise is nothing else than disappearing from everybody's view... forever !) ...We'll never forget you, David. And your music neither.Thank You.
+Dixxy It's a total masterpiece.
+Dixxy : So true. The theme is totally about his demise and his life together. Brilliant David, as always.
+Steve Mullington totally agree with out question
+Dixxy It's also interesting that it features the same "character" (the blindfolded guy) as in his Blackstar video. It seems to me that it seems this picks off as when the other video ended... Like one last message in two parts.
lovely comment
He never died. He simply, like any immortal, flew away to his home planet.
Happy Birthday Bowie 🤍
We miss you so much 🥺
😪😪
💜
He's free now.
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It is sad
"When we were shooting Lazarus, he knew that he only had a month or 2 left of his life; we were sitting there, me and David and Jimmy King, who's his longtime collaborator, stylist, archivist and all that kind of stuff.
We're sitting watching the playback of the take we just did and one of us said - I don't remember who it was, to be honest, I think it was Jimmy:
'Hey David, wouldn't it be funny if you ended the video by going back into the closet.'
And David started giggling like mad: 'Yeah, look, David Bowie has come back into the closet! Fuck yeah, we've got to do that. Let's do that right away.'
Even at the very end of things, he would have a laugh and he would be audacious. He had an enormous loyalty to his fans." - Johan Renck (Director), from 'David Bowie: A Life' by Dylan Jones.
THANK YOU FOR THIS
OMG! Thank You for sharing this!
That's awesome. But, tbh, I was kind of hoping that last shot was his way of telling us he didn't actually die, he escaped to Narnia.
Thanks for sharing 😊
@@johnplaysgames3120 i was so hoping this was the prank of his life, make the world believe he died for a day or two - only to come back like Lazarus did.
I thought he was gonna live til he was 200, hell I thought he was immortal. I'm still in disbelief. It doesn't feel like he's dead.
+Sydney O'Bier He is immortal! because life is more than flesh and blood
+Sydney O'Bier he was just visiting
+Sydney O'Bier Yes he is immortal, he achieved immortality through his works..
+Sydney O'Bier Yes he is immortal, he achieved immortality through his works..
+Sydney O'Bier I'll tell you a secret: he faked his death, got into his spaceship and left for his odd planet. It's easier to accept that he died than believe he was an alien and none took notice all this time. Or did we?
Bowie is not dead, his body just has passed.
Master is still with us.
Heroes always get remembered but you know legends never die
Amen
+Sarah Gomez That was said wayyy before Panic! at the Disco ever appeared.
p!atd
PANIC! AT THE DISCO
Oh my god you're literally killing me
Only David Bowie can make the phrase "i was looking for your ASS" sound so sad and melancholic and have us cry to it.
Oh my god this song breaks me and you’re right-only Bowie could do this and so much more
😎
I thought he said hands
I though he said "hand", but I'd accept ASS just the same!
LOL HE SAID ASS
Even in his death, he made a huge artistic statement. He knew this was his last work, and now that WE know, it all makes perfect sense. I don't think something like this has ever been done before. Even in his final moments, he managed cross uncharted territory.
+RedYellow Blue There's Mozart.....then Bowie.
+Benjamin Jones THANK YOU, it is as if he was singing his own epitaph much like Mozart's Requiem mass.
+RedYellow Blue Innuendo from Queen, all the songs have a message, it was obvious that he was saying goodbye..and of course the last video These are the days of our lives, the last time Freddie was seen. RIP David Bowie, the last of the greatest icons.
+RedYellow Blue Very well said
+RedYellow Blue You said it well.
the good thing about bowie is he makes you feel things, the bad thing is he makes you feel things