David Bowie - China Girl

[benzin81]

21 people got excited and DIDNT shut their mouth when she said "ssshhhhhhhhhh"

[OAKCLIFFNOTES]

feelin' tragic like Marlon Brando.. Best. Line. Ever.

[Barclay1987]

Nice!

[belkotar]

gotta love the smirk at 3:11

also, gotta love that little jig.

[haricotsvert]

Aside from the deeper meaning of the song, that has GOT to be one of the hottest kisses ever.

[shapizo]

Has anybody made a recognition for SRV's work in this song?

[pdirt100]

@shapizo yes! it didnt hit me til the end but u can tell its stevie ray without a doubt he changes the entire feel of the track my friend thought i was crazy but u cant mistake stevie's playing style good to know im not the only one who noticed lol

[mocochan]

she's so ugly...couldn't they get a better girl???

[22mrpaz]

Sesso Puro!

[funwilly]

analise

[teden20]

compared to Iggy Pop's version.... well, I hate to say it, but this sucks compared to Iggy Pop. Hey, kill me. I didn't buy a ticket. Actually, I never knew Iggy Pop did it. Then.... I heard it. Well... fuck me.

[john3000931]

ooooh now i get it. In Family guy when David Bowie says to Trisha takanawa "Just you shut your mouth"

[younghippo]

the song has triple meaning, the most obvious is romantic, then reference to imperialism and then a third possible reference to heroin ((china white)Could escape this feeling/wreck without))

[wukaka52]

the girl no beautiful....

[blugularis]

bowie is so strange!

[TheMoodooM]

Oh baby, just you shut your mouth.

[CitySkin09]

Are Bowie's eyes really that screwed? One light blue and one dark brown???

[bagel4281]

@CitySkin09 yeah... and they're not screwed they're sexy

[CitySkin09]

@bagel4281 -- Nah, it's a legitimate question. Do his eyes have some sort of pigmentation diffeciency??

[bagel4281]

@CitySkin09 it might have something to do with incomplete dominance in his eyes... happens

[CitySkin09]

@bagel4281 -- Oh I see. I never noticed that before. I thought it was maybe colored contacts. Thx for answering.

[bagel4281]

@CitySkin09 no problem

[moviehypno23]

@CitySkin09 Apparently one pupil is always dilated and the other isnt, which makes it seem like he has different colored eyes

[LOveERDos]

@CitySkin09 OF COURSE

[TheXXxTeAmXEdWaRdxXx]

i love him...i wish i was back in the 80's.

[outofaspell]

Used to stay up til 2a.m. to watch the unrated version of this video when it came out....watching Bowie get it on in the waves lol! Those were the days! =)

[mrsmorettina92]

<3 He is the best ..... <3

[blunklaura]

David Bowie is a SEX GOD

[PSNgregiskool]

David Bowie is a great singer, but what's really incredible is how he tamed such a wild Texas horse a.k.a. Stevie Ray Vaughan. However, I just don't like him without the makeup from Labyrinth.

[buttlord123]

David Bowie was hot if you are into dudes that look like chics

[superbulldog81]

...I'm feeling tragic like I'm Marlan Brando"

Undoubtly, the lyric of the 80's....bar none!!

[arcanumn]

cutest smile ever

[zeppelinrock]

So hot when he's running through the town.

[corndog35]

I love that song!

[hornetobiker]

woo hoo music. x

[midgetgirl5]

i wish i was that china girl!!!

[BluCosmos]

I remember watching this video on mtv as a kid. I liked it back then as I do today.

[WineSippingCowboy]

Some members of the studio band comprise an all-star lineup: Stevie Ray Vaughn, lead guitar, and from Chic are Nile Rogers, guitar and production, and Tony Thompson, drums.

Original version by co-writer Iggy Pop. His version is way different.

[clonecomanderfox]

Is David Bowie a Nazi? That is the question. I mean, there's the line "I see visions of Swastika's" and the fact that he was arrested in Poland one time for possession of Nazi Paraphernalia. Then again, how many Nazi's marry a Black woman.

[grimmmammoth]

@clonecomanderfox The Swastika is a sanskrit symbol used by Hindu's and Buddhist for thousands of years before hitler "borrowed" it.

[clonecomanderfox]

@grimmmammoth I know that, but isn't this song about interracial couples? If yes, then I think the Swastika might have a different meaning.

[scouseofdistinction]

@clonecomanderfox The song is about heroin- written by iggy pop

[francescocalbi]

To be insulted by these fascists

it's so degrading

And it's no game

[francescocalbi]

Rispondi a questo video...

To be insulted by these fascists

it's so degrading

And it's no game 

[teden20]

@clonecomanderfox one thing does not equal the next. bowie, never arrested for holding propaganda, (only illegal in Deutschland). the line about Swastikas was written by james osterburg, aka, iggy pop, not bowie.

[bootsdog3]

Cool video. Bad finger nails. Yikes! :-)

[MTCatman]

One of my fav Bowie songs! Wish I had that Man's talent! Thanks!

[juliekstroup]

Hmm Bowie is prophetic. The number of men with an Asian fetish in NYC is large. My Asian girlfriends complain about it as they feel like these guys just want an Asian partner but doesn't matter who it is.

[alphaboo1]

Ironmancwb

Have you actually read my posts? Where did I say I don't like this song/video? I have defended this from posters who claim it is racist or about heroin because it is not. It is about a cross cultural love story.

You can't say I just don't get it with out explaining what I supposedly don't get. I like this song very much my favorite song is heroes. I just don't believe it is about heroin or racist. If that is why you think I don't get it fine. But what do you think I don't get?

[ironmancwb]

Oriental chicks are fine as hell ,I really miss the navy lol

[alphaboo1]

Metheeightieschild:

How is this racist? I don't know. My whole point is it is not racist. I see nothing racist or drug related in this song/video. It is cross cultural love story. So if you think I am saying it is racist I am not.

If you think it is racist and I am way off by not thinking it's racist tell me what are the racist parts I missed.

I see two lovers playing games joking about each others' racial features among other things.

So I don't think it is racist. Did I miss something?

[ironmancwb]

@alphaboo1 this is a great classic ,takes me back - anyone who doesnt get it. well you just dont get man

[jfachris]

1:08 what is she laughing at? oh...real smooth bowie....

[kerou16]

@jfachris She was pushing up her nose, pretending it was longer like a caucasian nose, jokingly making fun of him, and then he pulled his eyelids tight to get rid of the bottom crease to imitate oriental eyelids. That part of the video is cute.. it shows they acknowledge their racial differences, but it doesn't matter, their love is blind to racial boundaries. :) So cute!

[jfachris]

@kerou16 Never said it was rascist. He didn't do it hatefully and she thought it was funny so i don't mind. I won't doubt bowie...He's one of the gods of music. He, Led Zeppelin, and elton john to name a few.

[alphaboo1]

Bowie is Married to Iman. She was in one of the Star Trek movies if you don't remember what she looks like although she probably has her own website since she was not a model but a super model. I think she is from Nigeria. Plus she is black, black as coal not brown like African Americans and he's pasty English white.

Plus if you want to rant about racist songs I am sure Brown Sugar is on U tube so go there.

Plus she plays white her nose making fun of Caucasions or is that just Ducky for you?

[metheeightieschild]

@alphaboo1 how is this racist?

[alphaboo1]

I forget who asked me this and I'm sorry it took so long to answer the question. I am usually more prompt.

In this case I think it means nothing. I think it is used because it is the most recognizable building that is recognized as an opera house. People who never ever listened to an opera know that it's the Sydney Opera House. I see no meaning than that she might be dressed for an opera and the Sydney Opera House screams opera.

Heroin song? It's China Girl not China white. No Junkie imagery.

[andr0zz]

This video beat out Michael Jackson's Thriller video at the VMA's in 1984. Don't get me wrong, I love David Bowie, but it just goes to show how ridiculous these award shows are.

[TheNouveauxdecadence]

@andr0zz

I prefer China Girl video to Thriller anyday, this is pure ART!

[thanxfordaenergy]

David Bow in tux= major handsomeness :D

[clonecomanderfox]

Fun fact, many people worship David Bowies crotch

[metheeightieschild]

@clonecomanderfox so do i

[irishswift]

best heroin song ever!!!

[biffrod]

@giguchan yeah, the Chinese and Korean girls are amazing here in New York City. I've been to Flushing so many times. And so many stylish, pretty Asian girls in Manhattan. Not as many Japanese girls - they are more rare nowadays and I treasure the few times I have been with them. LOL

[AmandaJoZeph]

This video is sexy but. . . .i am full with rage a jealousy when tha china girl makes out with bowie >:U

[metheeightieschild]

@AmandaJoZeph haha,me too!

[silvermaid462]

I wanna be his China Girl T_T

too bad im mexican...

[teden20]

@silvermaid462 you faggy spic. find a living and suck my dick. detroit.

[eddiehoboken10]

@teden20 Hey shithead, she's Mexican not Puerto Rican. The correct slur is Beaner. Now get lost you faggot..no place for that kinda talk here.

[silvermaid462]

@teden20

Of course im faggy, im a girl :)

[ossopalatino]

Nile Rodgers rules!

[breedak]

Post colonial angst.

[biffrod]

@giguchan Although I definitely wish I had as much experience with Japanese women as I do with Chinese women, I think  it's safe to say:

if she fusses all the time, that's generally a good sign. When she stops fussing at you, that's when it's time to worry. Hopefully, she has that high whiny voice at certain other times, too, under more pleasurable circumstances. LOL

[dakiro222]

I somehow like it very much.

[Alexvideoclip]

Is he gay ?

[svenhoek12321]

@Alexvideoclip bisexual, he had this thing with mick jagger and claus nomi

[metheeightieschild]

@svenhoek12321 he was NOT bisexual

[svenhoek12321]

@metheeightieschild actually he was a "trysexual"

Bowie has said in interviews that he wasn't bi-sexual, he was "try-sexual" ("I'd try anything"). Certainly it appears that he experimented with bi-sexuality, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s.

[iklop7]

Do you think David Bowie actually fancied this chinese girl? Did he actually go out with her or was he just pretending to like her?

[Luther7718]

18 people couldn't escape this feeling with their China girls.

[JM1980s]

@Luther7718 Haha, that's a good one!

[svenhoek12321]

1:13

you shouldnt be doing that david bowie.. very disappointed in you

[zeramski]

@svenhoek12321 he's just havin fun

[bungaboy66]

This woman owns a Restaurant in Auckland New Zealand where she grew up.

[carlosspiceyweener54]

@teden20 whatever youre just jelouse cause hes the one gettin laid in this video not you.

[TheSurferchickie]

"Visions of swastikas in my head and plans to rule the world". Hello! It is about White racism toward the Chinese!

[TheSurferchickie]

People are so DUMB! This song is about European Imperialism and racism toward the Chinese. That is why you have him the BIG WHITE man making those eyes at her and all the Imperialism references. It is a fact! This is not a compliment to any China girls. Bowie was criticizing Europeans with this song and the way they mistreated the Chinese. "I'll give you eyes of blue, I'll give you everything". It's what the whites promised the Chinese and then mistreated them. Hello!

[KeoniPhoenix]

@TheSurferchickie All I have to say is: Interesting viewpoint. Sure David Bowie had his reason for singing this song but since its really difficult for us to have any idea of what it was (even if he told us, our understanding of what he explained isn't very adequate a majority of the time anyway). So what we're left with is often we're interpreting what is being sung with what we associate with it through our experiences, view of the world and history.

[jaysayershuh]

@TheSurferchickie iggy pop wrote it, pretty sure it was about his heroin addiction was it not?

[blugularis]

@jaysayershuh it was cocaine for him

[weirdscience85]

@TheSurferchickie- I hate half the population of white people

[cubanzombie]

@TheSurferchickie just the bowie version? didnt iggy pop do the same song a few years before?

[teden20]

@TheSurferchickie why make it about anything. they didn't! you dumbass, it is just a song. it don't mean jack shit. you must be a kid. it don't mean jack shit, you fucking asshole

[MrGrevy]

@TheSurferchickie No, nice try though. Pseudo intellectuals don't usually last long on the Bowie vids :)

[MrGrevy]

@TheSurferchickie lol how many colonies did those evil white men have in China? How is China doing today? Are you fucking retarded?

[THEFLAKELAD]

RIP stevie ray vaughan, great understated solo...

[teden20]

is this a fucking joke? i think it is. why did he even do it with knowing jame osterberg would record. we are talking suicide. plus, he is a huge English Cunt.

[Slashownz]

@teden20 what are you on oh retarded one?

[aliciawantstomosh]

@teden20 stfu dickhead

[teden20]

fuck you David Bowie. You can not transport your video anywhere. So, you are a coksucker mr. bowie. i will cut you to pieces. Go Red Wings. Too bad for you. Welcome to Detroit.

[xXAmyXx]

Oh damn, his voice is so sexy!!!

[grendelee]

He switches between China white and actual chinese people it seems right in the middle of the song. Probably too much china white, lol

[2coolveronica96]

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[2bluemoons10]

was this clip produced during bowie's 'serious moonlight tour' in the early eighties?

[artosis83]

David Bowie was HOT!

[whereswaldozz]

@artosis83

HE IS HOT!

[LustySuccubus]

@artosis83 Still is! :P

[TheCptBlake]

@artosis83 fuck off

[MissSiunia]

One of my favourite songs ever :)

[biffrod]

This is like my theme song.

My favorite part of this video is from 3:00 to 3:15

because even when my Chinese GF is fussing at me, when she wants me to shut my mouth, I can get her to smile like that.

[alphaboo1]

Of course she is dressed like she is in an opera is only when she is not dressed in cultural revolution garb or naked. I also assume people think Bowie is making fun of oriental features when he is playing with his eyes trying to imitate a mongoloid fold-and before I am attacked for the word mongoloid look up what a mongoloid fold is, The scene before this she makes fun of white feature playing with her nose and laughing. Also China WHITE is slang for heroin. A love story nothing racist-damn!

[alphaboo1]

Gee I didn't know they had electric fans, electric lights, manufactured make up, cars, paved asphalt streets, air conditioned restaraunts and other items those of us in the west think are modern.

There are problems like it at times has Japanese references and Iconography as well as parts of it are filmed in Australia-the Australian opera house is hard to miss, which brings back to could she not be an Australian Opera singer, or is that too racist?

Stop being so PC or we'll burn hamlet next

[vfowler]

@alphaboo1 Any further ideas on what the Sydney Opera House in the video is meant to mean?

[maldenom]

Wasn't there some kind of scandal about nudity....it's been a while but I remember it was a big deal back in the day...the UK and the US had different versions?

[gameofskate]

@ 1:12

Wow, I laughed so hard. That would be considered racist now. Miley Cyrus got called racist for doing that XD ahaha

[youraverageuser]

love it! seen Buffy? click on she will bring a smile to your face trust me :D

[hectevon]

I 'm sure Iggy pop wrote this song, David had a wee crush on poor Iggy. They both made thier best albums together.

[celt1299]

3:33 guitar solo man! its cool because most guitar solos are like, overkill, this one is just perfect

[miniroll32]

This is one of those 80's videos were they used lots of technology because it was new.

Doesn't help that the song was awful and Bowies little shindig suggests thrusting rather than dancing

[jennifereatworld]

Watch without ads click 0:01

[vivaelphaba]

i don't get the end of this video...

[demonik996]

You morons bowie isn't gay that's just a marketing ploy started when he was ziggy stardust to sell records! Yes he was bi curious for a while but get your facts straight it makes you look stupid commenting on something you obviously know moving about! Idiots!

[gypsyeyes008]

god i love david bowie's choice in women.

[gypsyeyes008]

@gypsyeyes008 among a lot of others things i love about david bowie.

[jeff61177]

oh please he is SUCH a fag.

[siasti]

As this is one of the best songs of the 80s, I'm surprised that the number of views doesn't exceed 1 million. Come on Bowie fans, get viewing!!

[corrado]

What's with that shitty little microphone? Love the song!

[djrobclassic]

what happended to the bare ass on the beach i remembered as a kid watching this vid???

[animekhik]

he looks like clint eastwoods gay brother haha

[chapuwins]

this song is about cocaine! love it!

[stockcar4d]

dave mate! GIMME A RING...WE MAKE SUM GUD AS VIDS!!!

[dannonflynn]

This song was written by Iggy Pop about heroin.

[Badnewsbroad]

David Bowie is the sexiest man ever.

[LIONGIRL13]

so fine

[ohdoor]

looks so nice in a suit

[TheFriedLiverAttack]

the night i readed no exit FUCKING THUNDER AND A BIRD BROKE ITS NECK FOR ME....next i want ignorance is bliss.

[bkmenor808]

That woman at 1:32 looks like my MOM! Why hasn't she ever told me? lol

[LaQBIC]

do you think david bowie was watching a lot of wong kar wai at the time?

[Aprilkitty87]

damn!shes got some really long nails.

[solesolitaria]

3:36-3:39 WOW!!!

[patrickbateman00]

I'd feel sorry for the poor sap behind him @ 2:20 "Ahhh!!! fook yooou!!!" XD

[TheFriedLiverAttack]

like really a slave

[fluffydanny]

Want some egg rolls?

[TheFriedLiverAttack]

me thinks im nature for one second then it passes then i see im the beast i know the eyes of sainta maria

[caseyspaos]

her fingernails are gross

[NoBusesx]

I wish I was chinese.

[TheFriedLiverAttack]

RAPE THATS PUNK

[Bowiefan1214]

Is anyone else jealous at 2:55?

[m3rrys0ngstr3ss]

@Bowiefan1214 Yes, but actually I'm more jealous at 2:30 to 2:40

[Bowiefan1214]

@m3rrys0ngstr3ss That is true..

[m3rrys0ngstr3ss]

@Bowiefan1214 I mean god DAMN - he kisses her hard enough to spin the camera around and turn the world back to color!

[Bowiefan1214]

@m3rrys0ngstr3ss True, true

[5ty44]

@Bowiefan1214 haha annoying orange in ''wazzup'' ''true...true''

[hellsing2722]

i luv david bowie!!!

i also luv labyrinth the movie david bowie was in!!

[TheFriedLiverAttack]

he who lies with man like woman must be put too death...lol...lies like a lady with men.too complex.

[hashbrownsandeggs]

@TheFriedLiverAttack he who mixes up the spellings of "too" and "to" must be put to death as well

[TheFriedLiverAttack]

fuck the world i am god.

[TheFriedLiverAttack]

like thats really gay.

[CSmith6887]

14 people suck at life!

[91nickt]

@CSmith6887 correction: FAIL at life!

[CSmith6887]

@91nickt apologies, you're completely correct

[TheRealArtzilla]

@Cuteblondie1972 It was a reference to the gesture Bowie made in drag at the end of the "Boys Keep Swinging" video, when he did the same move.

[Appers]

Man, I've only ever heard the Iggy version of China Girl (which is one of my favourite tracks of all time) and... wow...

I, uh, I was kind of expecting something with a little more energy, I guess?

[TheFriedLiverAttack]

the whole chine people are spawned from one emprer saki backi in 23 no one emperouese for real.

[BeatlesRmyLife]

I love david bowieee! <3 he's so freaking epic.

[rmuneton]

This video is nuts!!!!!

Strange choice of girl as well, there are so many hot women in china, you could throw a stone in shanghai and hit 10 girls hotter then her.

[uclrichard]

@rmuneton bowie like dominating women - scary, macho women...and passive, pretty men...all his life. his genius and beauty allowed him to go around the world and take his pick...

[TheRealArtzilla]

@rmuneton Bowie was dating the girl in the video at the time.

[m3rrys0ngstr3ss]

o.o - this is really hot

[rustymama100]

The lady in this video live's in New Zealand,her name is Geeling Ng story is this video was shot on a whistle stop stay in NZ. She is still very beautiful and only act's very little now.Sure David is married to Iman a top model and has been for year's.David is like a fine wine ;)just get's better with age :D

[Bowiefan1214]

Love how he looks in this video!

[smashingluna]

Cool song :)

[bouncykitten]

@ryfin2000 this song was originally done by iggy pop (co-written w david when he was trying to revive iggy's career, post-stooges), & is actually about his heroin addiction. the "china girl" referred to is china white, a type of refined heroin. so there's no racism in the song, but if you'd only heard/seen the bowie version, it's an easy judgement to make...kinda puts "when i get excited, she says shhhhhhhh" & "wake up in the morning there's my little china girl" in a totally new context, huh?

[ElectricBlueOil]

I imagine when it came out, it was banned in China. Gr8 song though.