David Bowie - Let's Dance

Music video by David Bowie performing Let's Dance.

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Music

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• David
• Bowie
• Let's
• Dance

[izzyxd117]

fucking LEGEND <3

[atlanwhitsid]

In '83 in UK there were only 3 tv channels. This was my first glimpse of Australia then. A pop video that resembles a travel clip, and superbly shows aboriginal artwork. The song and the video complement each other. The song speaks of a precipice that is never far, but that love can help you to cope.

Good-looking Ozzies of every hue having a good time abound in the video, and not one mobile phone in sight. In '83 I had a pre-conceived idea about aboriginals but a simple pop video changed that.

[soheil1372]

@izzyxd117 beyond that



[MrMajorTime]

@KentFamily777 I'm glad I don't figure into your category. You're entitled to your opinion. So am I. I wouldn't have it any other way. If everyone agreed with me, I know I'd be doing something wrong. Peace be with you. And I wouldn't dream to take away from anything that one finds personal meaning in. I just give you my take the way I see it, and I certainly will allow you yours. I get a lot of meaning from this too, just not in the way you do. So be it. Have you viewed the movie Walkabout 1971?

[MrMajorTime]

Reason I belabor the point that this video sucks is only because of its historical value. This is precisely the moment where Bowie, smelling blood in the water, threw away a piece of his soul and integrity (as far as his art was concerned). It's not that it was an honest mistake in judgement. For the first time, Bowie succumbed to the avarice, throwing his art away for the chance to make easy money. Ironically, when Bowie entered the mainstream, he lost his edge. And he never really got it back.

[KentFamily777]

@MrMajorTime As well as people with a Higher Form of Intellect and Understanding :-)

[KentFamily777]

@MrMajorTime Yep and Mr Bowie is one of them.So I guess that proves he wasn't making the clip for money - He was doing it for love. FYI (For Your Information) ROFL stands for Rolling on the Floor Laughing. Hey you've got a gift of making people Smile :-D ... (But honestly not just people who share in the knowledge of Aboriginal Culture understand this film - The people of many AncientTribes from all over the World would understand it. Unfortunately You don't fit into that category)

[MrMajorTime]

This is a goddamn throw away 80's bullshit video, hurriedly rushed out to promote his (then) uncharacteristically romantically inclined Let's Dance song, without giving due consideration for its musical and artistic legacy. It's a sophomoric treatment, an awkwardly apologetic sop intended not to "offend" the supposed expectations of imagined Bowie fans, fearing the public wouldn't accept a straightforward image of Bowie. Well they got it completely wrong! His audience was slighted and insulted.

[MrMajorTime]

Using real Australian Aborigines is no reason to believe it is a worthy video. Likewise, just because this is a great David Bowie song, is no reason to believe that they got this right for MTV video. Throughout the seventies, Bowie was empathic to his image and music and his goal of lifting expectations, pushing the envelope. But this is exactly the moment when he let himself and his fans down. He paints himself glamorously enough in white gloves, but the "pawns" depicted get no equal lighting.

[MrMajorTime]

@KentFamily777 I guess by definition of your ROFL head "wisdom", that no one, unless adopted by an Aboriginal Family, can possibly glean true understanding of this video. Perhaps you're right. That would mean that whatever dubious value this video has will only be meaningful to someone of an adopted Aboriginal Family. That must be about (I'm taking an educated guess) one in 750 million people who actually would view this video. About right for its social magnificence. I'll agree all day to that.

[joshua9312]

I came here for SRV not David Bowie >:)

[joshua9312]

@matrags :)