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China Girl- David Bowie Decomposition
Manage episode 229629162 series 1530784
HEAR YE! HEAR YE! David Bowie and Iggy Pop cordially invite you to the drug ball!!
"Let's Dance," was rock-legend David Bowie's most commercially successful album. It also contained this garbage number. Co-written and originally recorded by Iggy Pop, it may be about a Vietnamese woman. But the racism really hit a new peak when David Bowie recorded it years later. Is it racist? Or not racist? Or about drugs?
Probably racist
124 episodes
Manage episode 229629162 series 1530784
HEAR YE! HEAR YE! David Bowie and Iggy Pop cordially invite you to the drug ball!!
"Let's Dance," was rock-legend David Bowie's most commercially successful album. It also contained this garbage number. Co-written and originally recorded by Iggy Pop, it may be about a Vietnamese woman. But the racism really hit a new peak when David Bowie recorded it years later. Is it racist? Or not racist? Or about drugs?
Probably racist
124 episodes
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