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The "Ideal" Bowie lyric

Don't take this too seriously ... it's meant as an illustration ... but the results are genuine. Some word types in Bowie albums correlate with how long they spend in the charts. Dr Nick Troop has ...  
 
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notnotharrison (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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taken with a grain of salt (as in recognizing that he's not trying to claim creation of the perfect bowie song, merely exploring his research on bowie songs further through application) this is really cool
Jitpring (2 weeks ago) Show Hide
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This is pure vampirism. As such it would no doubt nauseate Bowie.
academyofrock (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Hi Nick, I think you will enjoy this video I have sent re Ziggy Stardust!
barakobama (1 month ago) Show Hide
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I understand, and agree, with your approach. I think that you have hit upon a really far reaching cog here. And the song is not bad either...

Now, were the lyrics constructed through randomness (based on the initial data impute)?

The unexamined.....
CatDesigner (4 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Semi-random I suppose ... in the same way that a lot of people use cut-ups. I randomised the words but then picked out pairs or trios of words that seemed to go together and then linked these with other pairs/trios to build up a lyric. Though certainly impresionistic I think the lyric does make some sort of sense (in spite of what some people are saying).
barakobama (4 weeks ago) Show Hide
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I really think that if one were to detail the tags on the data, with enough runs (increase the N)...things are seen.
Cool stuff....
STIXtwentythree (1 month ago) Show Hide
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With a bit of proper Bowie input and bowie's voice.
the song wouldn't sound out of place on the hunky dory album
waldderi (1 month ago) Show Hide
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The words don't make any sense. They're just pure BS... Very un-bowie song.
CatDesigner (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Hello? Were you actually paying attention to the explanation?
Redsrevenge (3 days ago) Show Hide
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Have YOU listened to actual Bowie songs? A lot of the time they make absolutely no sense. Bowie himself has claimed he doesn't know what his songs mean because he was strung out on coke when he wrote them.

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