NME: Lorde's Bowie Tribute Better Than Gaga's

[James19709 456]

Her vocals were offensive.

[manyatyau 262]

Lorde just standed there and sung. LMAO. Every ****ing one can do that. Do you think David Bowie will just stand there and sing? David Bowie was never about the song but his outfit, his art. People are so stupid now. How can they critizie people without knowing what it's all about;  TAKE A GOD DAMN PHILOSOPHY CLASS. LOGIC.  

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

Perhaps David's bitter son is jealous that in fifty years people will still be talking about Gaga, while hardly anyone will mention David Bowie.

[notamember 667]

What an awful opinion.

I thought that Gaga's Tribute was immaculate. The vocals, the visuals, the outfits, the wig, the makeup, the band, the dancing. I don't understand how anyone could be AGAINST this incredible performance unless they are just a f-ing hater. 

[VenusBlackStar 1,301]

It's disrespectful of NME toward DAVID BOWIE to go about praising Lorde in a way that shoots down Gaga's tribute. It's like they're making a competition out of it, which is totally not the point of tributes. Yeah, you can compare the two, but at the end of the day the performances were done in honor of a legendary artist who literally inspired generations of musical styles and sounds.

Rarely have I ever found anything of stock in NME. For years I've been reading garbage like this. I loved both performances.

[Andy McQueen 4,484]

Tbh I hate it so much that they always put artists against each other - like if music was a competition

[Monzter 182]

Gaga did better 

[Monzter 182]

Lorde's tribute was boring tbh, Gaga did it more memorable!

[arthurhmangum 4,408]

What fatty wrote this?

 

[LoveandMagic 1,731]

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and I'm not going to get mad if they genuinely preferred Lorde's, but come on....

It was VERY MUCH a tribute to Bowie. NME is so freaking biased they pounce at almost any opportunity to drag her. They can f*ck a chainsaw. Hey NME, stay a pretentious, uninspiring, shallow hipster read ('cause don't you know everyone LOVES hipsters?), meanwhile Gaga is disco dancing on the yellow brick road to Legendtown. 

[PopBitch 1,218]

On 2/26/2016 at 2:48 AM, manyatyau said:

Lorde just standed there and sung. LMAO. Every ****ing one can do that. Do you think David Bowie will just stand there and sing? David Bowie was never about the song but his outfit, his art. People are so stupid now. How can they critizie people without knowing what it's all about;  TAKE A GOD DAMN PHILOSOPHY CLASS. LOGIC.  

Sure, he did, as The Thin White Duke, stand there, and her outfit was an homage to that period.  Here he is doing the same song and the brilliant Five Years in a dress rehersal.  But he does it with the stunning range and dramatic delivery that Lorde can't.  I could cry watching this.

 

[lego 44,165]

15 minutes ago, PopBitch said:

Sure, he did, as The Thin White Duke, stand there, and her outfit was an homage to that period.  Here he is doing the same song and the brilliant Five Years in a dress rehersal.  But he does it with the stunning range and dramatic delivery that Lorde can't.  I could cry watching this.

 

 

Wasn't he ashamed of that period?

[PopBitch 1,218]

41 minutes ago, VampireHeart said:

 

Wasn't he ashamed of that period?

During the making of Station to Station record he was in a dark place and in the throes of a cocaine psychotic breakdown, instability, hallucinations.  He was consuming amphetamines and cocaine in massive quantities.  But I've never read anything about him being ashamed of the character he made up, the Thin White Duke, and the touring performances he did during that period of The Thin White Duke, which was being introduced before Station to Station, with some performances of The Young Americans.  But he was an aloof character, not likeable, The Thin White Duke, and like all characters he discarded it. when finished and moved on.

 Just that he was in a dark place when making the album and his memories of that period of making it, while few and far between, were very disturbing, which he hates to think back on. He was literally dying, his soul and his body.  I think it's a tough part of his life to think back to, but I didn't think he was ashamed of the persona he created, which was just one of many   But I've not read everything on Bowie.

[lego 44,165]

33 minutes ago, PopBitch said:

During the making of Station to Station record he was in a dark place and in the throes of a cocaine psychotic breakdown, instability, hallucinations.  He was consuming amphetamines and cocaine in massive quantities.  But I've never read anything about him being ashamed of the character he made up, the Thin White Duke, and the touring performances he did during that period of The Thin White Duke.  But he was an aloof character, not likeable, The Thin White Duke, and like all characters he discarded it. when finished and moved on.

 Just that he was in a dark place when making the album and his memories of that period of making it, while few and far between, were very disturbing, which he hates to think back on. He was literally dying, his soul and his body.  I think it's a tough part of his life to think back to, but I didn't think he was ashamed of the persona he created, which was just one of many   But I've not read everything on Bowie.

Someone mentioned earlier...and because of these things..

 

"The persona has been described as "a mad aristocrat",[1] "an amoral zombie",[2] and "an emotionless Aryan superman".[3]

While being interviewed in the persona of the Thin White Duke in 1975 and 1976, Bowie made statements about Adolf Hitler and fascism that some interpreted as being pro-fascist.[4] The controversy deepened in May 1976 when, while acknowledging a group of fans outside of London Victoria station, he was photographed making what some alleged to be a Nazi salute. Bowie denied this, saying that he was simply waving and the photographer captured his image mid-wave.[5]

In later years, Bowie called the period from late 1974 until early 1977 which culminated in his Thin White Duke persona "the darkest days of my life", and said he did not remember the recording of Station to Station in Los Angeles in late 1975 due to an "astronomic" cocaine habit.[8] He blamed his erratic behaviour around his Thin White Duke period on his addictions and precarious mental state.[9] "I was out of my mind, totally crazed."[10]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_White_Duke

 

 

By 1979, Bowie had dropped the Duke image and referred to it as “a nasty character for me.” 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/12/on-race-david-bowie-delved-deep-into-the-darkness-and-came-back-human.html

 

[superbrams 246]

oh lord(e) gaga was great goodbye