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The song was originally conceived when Johan Renck asked Bowie to compose the theme music for The Last Panthers, a crime show he was directing. An edited version of the song was released for that purpose, before the single version was officially released in full on the 20th of November 2015. It was accompanied by a music video, full of bizarre imagery, directed by Renck.

"Blackstar" is an art rock,[5] avant-garde jazz,[6] progressive rock, electronic,[7] and baroque[8] song. Also described as an "avant jazz sci-fi torch song," it features a "drum and bass rhythm, [a] two-note tonal melody with hints of Gregorian chant, [and] shifting time signatures."[9] In the bluesy slow middle section, the song shifts from an acid house-ish groove to a languid, R&B-flavored interlude.[10]

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The song was originally over eleven minutes long, but after learning that iTunes would not post singles over ten minutes in length, Bowie and Visconti edited it down to 9:57, making it Bowie's second-longest track behind "Station to Station". Bowie did not want to confuse listeners by releasing different single and album versions.[11]

The music video for "Blackstar" is a surreal ten-minute short film directed by Johan Renck (the director of The Last Panthers, the show for which the song was composed). It depicts a woman with a tail, played by Elisa Lasowski,[14] discovering a dead astronaut and taking his jewel-encrusted skull to an ancient, otherworldly town. The astronaut's bones float toward a solar eclipse, while a circle of women perform a ritual with the skull in the town's centre.[15]

Ryan Dombal of Pitchfork praised the song, labeling it as "Best New Track". Dombal also described the track as "wonderfully odd and expansive" and noted that it is "closer to the cocaine-fueled fantasias of 1976's Station to Station than almost anything he's [Bowie] done since".[5] Pitchfork Media named "Blackstar" the 11th best music video of 2015.[24] Simon Critchley commented on Bowie's connection to Elvis Presley, referring to the lyrics of Presley's song "Black Star" as a clue.[25][26] In the annual Village Voice's Pazz & Jop mass critics poll of the year's best in music in 2016, "Blackstar" was tied at number 9, with Rihanna's "Work".[27]

Any artist who is around for almost 50 years is going to have ups and downs, Mr. Bowie was no exception. It must be said his was a career of twists and turns and confident new directions and stunning innovations and false starts and dead ends. But he never stood still, he avoided getting stuck in a rut, and he rarely tried to carbon copy an album and sell you the same thing again the next time (well, OK, Aladdin Sane and Heroes were in fact a continuation of their predecessors, but he rarely did it for more than two albums in a row). We were lucky to get as much marvelous music out of him as we did. I would have loved for his last album to be an innovative, ground-breaking tour-de-force of clever songwriting and sparkling musical ideas, but what we got were mostly underdeveloped lyrics with lots and lots of saxophone. And Donny McCaslin is never going to be remembered as the musical right-hand man that Mick Ronson was.

The Lazarus performance, on stage and in its cast recording, is meant for Newton to bring the audience into his state of mind, so Michael Hall quickly gets into the song. The intro is shorter, the bridge is the dramatic peak (complete with backing singers), and the song soon packs off so as to cut to a scene with Elly and her husband.

The song had originally been more than 11 minutes long, but was edited to 9:57 after Bowie and Tony Visconti learned that iTunes would not allow tracks for individual sale that lasted longer than 10 minutes.

@terminalstare I think his definition of blackstar is who he is after he dies, In that sense, Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, and now David Bowie are blackstars. Their legends live on post-mortem. When he left, his legend filled the void and took on a life of its own.

@terminalstare Congratulations, you have totally ruined the song for me !!

I thought it was about some weird creepy illuminati style ritualistic event. With a possible vague link to d'angelo musically. It is was unnerving to listen too to say the least !!!!

But this interpretation of Death being the narrator well it seems right. You've totally turned the song from Bowie confessing some kind of crazy Stanley Kubrick stuff into a mundane man plays another character the final character of his life.

But maybe the fact that people believe the pyramids were built by Aliens because it's obvious means that the obvious answer is not always right.

I reference the small plot of land in the albumn Outside. Who are the pig men ? And what is that albumn about ?

Renck, the director, indicates there were links to Aleister Crowley. Donny McCaslin said that Bowie told him the solitary candle was a reference to ISIS. While this has been refuted by PR, McCaslin may have misheard him; Bowie may have been speaking of Isis, the Egyptian Goddess of rebirth. With the connection to villa of Ormen -Ormen meaning snake, a symbol of rebirth for their ability to shed their skin, this song seems to intentionally be at least in part about rebirth or reincarnation.

@milkshock -On the day of execution, only women kneel and smile'

Refers to the assisted suicide that will have taken place to relieve Bowie of his suffering, and which was staged purposefully 2 days after his birthday and the release of the album.

I was kind of thinking that too...assisted suicide near the end.

Where the fuck did Monday go'. I thought maybe this lyric meant that when your dying and have less time, that the days would pass way too fast...

Blackstar-double meaning (isnt a black star like a burnt out star, but some type of energy still remains in its place in space? Bowie was a star, but now gone...(and he loves space and universe comparrisons)...One song on album Blackstar, old Ziggy Stardust seem to come out of the closet for a bit, as Bowie was on his way out...then he climbed back in to the closet...(maybe on Lazarus)...I need to hear the whole album...but yes for sure it was about his thoughts as he was leaving this world...Past, present, and future...

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Last Sunday night, I was robbed from the opportunity of sitting down on Monday morning and drafting a review for David Bowie's new CD Blackstar. My review of what 'that CD' sounded like is lost forever because I barely sat with 'that CD' long enough before learning of that David Bowie died. I'll be honest with you, it was difficult for me to go anywhere near playing the CD until many days afterwards. By midweek, I forced myself to tackle three of the newer songs starting with the title track Blackstar, the ten minute opus which starts the CD. Before learning of his death, I found the song to be obviously "important," harsh, luxuriously crafted but not gaudy. I was lost in understanding fully what it was about.

Our star is, of course, wearing the same haunting scarecrow mask with button eyes that we saw in the opening song of Blackstar. The Hospice nurse reached up from below, but help was not to come as it was too late to thwart the inevitable mission of The Grim Reaper. As the transposition takes place, Bowie appeared to be looking down upon himself and reaching out. He then sings from the bed, with the lyrics of a lifetime:

David Bowie acknowledged that he had lived life to the fullest and would soon be free. The symbolism of freedom and the bluebird is his unmistakable message in this brilliant song and video. What he accomplished, considering his personal situation is as admirable as it is remarkable.

David recorded demos for all of these songs, most of which had electronic drum parts that he programmed. My goal was to bring these programmed parts to the acoustic kit and play them in the most organic and musical way that I could.

This song was recorded in two parts and stitched together later on. The groove on the first part is my approximation of what David programmed. I play some embellishments and some fills here and there, but the core groove is true to the demo. The drum sounds here are also inspired by the electronic palette. The snare drum is a 5.5 x14 with a two-ply head tuned way down and dampened. In certain sections, Jason overdubbed a Moog synth bass part in unison with my kick drum, which really makes it sound like a sample. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.defineSlot( '/134312942/MOD_ROS_DES_MPU', [300, 250], 'ad_300_250_5' ).addService(googletag.pubads()); });Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('ad_300_250_5'); });

Mad dogs that will snap at you if given the chance. The lightning bolt shot out by the most atrocious team tears through the stillness of the night sky. Even if we fade into that very sky, B will revive again and again. With that anger that you hold in your chest.[1]

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Like the other phases of Bowie's work, The Next Day turned out to be more than a final release. It sparked the making of his 25th studio album, Blackstar. Released on his 69th birthday, the album is an uncompromising collection of songs that defy being categorized as any one genre, because the true genre is simply Bowie.

The album leads with the 10-minute title track that was released last year. It is a misleading preview of what you'll hear on the rest of Blackstar, because the sequence of the album is somewhat like a musical experiment in reverse. The long and meandering lead track is followed by six standout songs that are brilliantly focused. From the dark and ominous sounding "Lazarus" to the upbeat horn interlude on "Dollar Day," you sense Bowie's attention to each verse, chorus and lyric. He even reworked his previously released single "Sue (Or In A Season of Crime)."

For an artist who never stopped evolving, Blackstar seems to be the newest mutation of Bowie's musical DNA. Whether this mutation signaled a new era for Bowie is a question that will sadly go unanswered. Regardless, Blackstar is a worthy swan song to a career that few artists ever achieve. 006ab0faaa