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If you listen to Bowie's new album "Blackstar" now, it has to rank as one of the greatest "going out with class" artistic moments in pop music.

The lead single is called "Lazarus" and the first line of the song is "Look up here, I'm in heaven."




The video for Lazarus came out a few days ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-JqH1M4Ya8

That's one hell of an exit.

The video and song for Blackstar are even more astonishing.

For various reasons I was never a big Bowie fan, but Blackstar was one of the few tracks from anyone ever that made me think "WTF did I just hear/watch?!" - and I mean that in a good way.

Some people make music. Bowie invented mythologies, turned them into sung performance art, and put them out on vinyl and CD.


Wow.

I'm a huge Bowie fan and I just watched the video clip for Blackstar for the first time.

Genres redefined again with masterful production by all involved. I'll be having stranger than usual dreams tonight.

> That's one hell of an exit.

Yes, yes it is. I'll miss him.




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