If You’re Searching for Answers to the Mysteries David Bowie Embedded in Blackstar, READ THIS!
No artist has ever so carefully stage-managed a death as well as we saw with David Bowie and his Blackstar album. As soon as he died, it became very obvious that he was trying to tell us something with the songs, the lyrics and the video for “Lazarus.” But what, exactly?
Yes, the “Lazarus” video made for some interesting and obvious hindsight viewing. But what other clues and hints did Bowie drop? He knew his cancer was terminal–a diagnosis that was confirmed in November–but he had no idea that he was going to die two days after Blackstar was released. It’s easy to imagine Bowie sitting back in his New York apartment watching people slowly deconstruct the album as his health slowly decline. Alas, he never got the chance.
People have been pouring over the album for hidden messages. Examples:
- What’s the significance of a “black star?” Yes, there’s the cancer lesion theory, but is there more?
- Is there an Elvis connection?
- What’s the “villa of Ormen?”
- What does Norway, an old girlfriend and a Tumblr have to do with it?
- Can we infer anything in the fact that this is the first Bowie album not to feature his image on the cover? What about t
- What about the design of the vinyl edition? Is there a Unicode message in plain site in the album artwork? (Hint: ★ means something to coders.)
- Does Aleister Crowley pop up somewhere?
- We’ve seen that smiley face on the astronaut’s jacket in the “Lazarus” video before. But where?
So far, we have more questions than answers. But this article in The Guardian goes a little ways towards explaining some of these mysteries. Anyone want to weigh in?
A friend of mine has an interesting theory about Blackstar:
“Kanye West says he has no plans to record a David Bowie tribute album… but maybe Bowie thought he might? Read the lyrics to Blackstar carefully(!)
Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar
I’m the great I am, I’m a blackstar
I’m not a white star, I’m a blackstar
I’m a blackstar, I’m not a gangster
I’m not a pornstar, I’m not a wandering star
I’m a star star
Kanye is always going on about how he’s a rockstar / star of stars… and he’s clearly a black star. And that he’s not the atypical black gangster persona. ‘I’m the great I am’ – that rings true.”
Maybe the entire album is laced with commentary like this? Or maybe we’re just looking for meaning to fill that Bowie-shaped hole?
I thought the same thing!!! Whether we like to admit it or not, Kanye is a bit of a genius. He’s packing some major creativity and fearlessness, (maybe not quite as much) much like the Duke himself.
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Black Star: a possible reference to PlanetX, the supposed tenth planet in our solar system.
Something i wrote last November. I must do a follow up piece. http://tanjastark.com/2015/11/25/1286/
you people are infants in symbolism. you want to know what Blackstar actually means? It’s been posting on imablackstar.com since the day before his death. http://www.theraydiantlabyrinth.com/index.php?cID=819 -it’s an actual book. it was actually published for the first time, on his site, the day before he died. http://www.theraydiantlabyrinth.com/index.php?cID=805
oh, and when he said it was about ‘Isis’ – he didn’t mean terrorists.
David Bowies original cover of the “The Buddha Of Suburbia” does not feature him on the front, this was produced in 1993, he does appear on the back….