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‘Blackstar’ proves
Bowie’s immortality

By SELENA AGUILERA

Daily Arts Writer

I wrote this review a few

days prior to the recent news
of David Bowie’s death. I’m not
really chang-
ing it, but I’m
adding
some

feelings about
Bowie
right

here.
David

Bowie is the
definition
of

iconic. He is
the
end-all

be-all living breathing state-
ment of “just be yourself.” He’s
been a major influence in my

life as well as the lives of others,
from ages 13 to 73. Age doesn’t
matter in the love of Bowie. I
give condolences to anyone who
knew Bowie because I’m dis-
traught, and I was only given
the pleasure to listen to his
music. Knowing him person-
ally would have been too bit-
tersweet for me to handle. I
want to say thank you, David
Bowie, for releasing one more
piece of yourself into the world
before you left. Thank you for
staying humble. Thank you for
simply being amazing, which is
honestly an understatement. I
could go on about my emotions
towards Bowie, but crying in
class is weird, so without fur-
ther ado here are some thoughts
on Blackstar.

January 8 is one of the cool-

est days out of the year. If you
didn’t know, it’s Elvis Presley’s
birthday. Let’s have a moment
of silence to appreciate the King
of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and another
for Bowie himself (much love,
Bowie). OK, the moment of
silence is over, because guess
what? It’s David Bowie’s birth-
day too. I know, two musical
geniuses sharing a birthday
sounds insane, but I’m not lying
to you. And to make January
8 even more spectacular, this
year Bowie decided to release
his 25th studio album, Black-
star, on that day.

Blackstar was released on

Bowie’s
69th
birthday
but

despite his age, he still sings
like a beautiful angel. His voice
never lost its charm through
time; in fact, nothing about
Bowie has been or will be lost.
David Bowie is some sort of
extraterrestrial
superhuman

that keeps progressing with
time, as evidenced by the obvi-
ous undertones of outer space
injected into his music and
personality.
From
dressing

like a character on Star Trek
to releasing songs like “Life
on Mars,” “Space Oddity” and
“Blackstar” – the first track on
the new album – space and for-
eign ideas have always been a
part of Bowie’s aesthetic.

Just 30 seconds into the first

song on Blackstar, I was trans-
ported to a completely differ-
ent environment. The drums
collaborate with the piano, and
visions of walking in a desert
fill my head. The song keeps a
slow and steady pace as Bowie
labels himself a “blackstar,”
which is an alternative to a
black hole. “I’m a blackstar. I’m
not a pornstar. I’m not a wan-
dering star. I’m a blackstar,”
he claims. The song continues
with other eerie chants and
each instrument starts to close
out, leaving only the flute and

R2-D2-esque beeps. It creates
a celestial experience until
everything falls silent.

“Tis a Pity She Was a Whore,”

the next track, escapes the
spacey feel of “Blackstar,” giv-
ing the old Bowie a chance to
shine through. The intro of the
song sounds similar to that of
“Immigrant Song,” by Led Zep-
pelin, but without the moaning
voice. The instrumentals are
in a higher tempo and Bowie
starts to talk about an aggres-
sive encounter with a woman,
saying, “Man, she punched
me like a dude.” It’s harsh and
weird and sets up the diversity
of Blackstar early on.

The third song, “Lazarus,”

catapults you back into the
space journey. The entire song is
melancholy, and in the lyrics we
hear Bowie shedding his hard
exterior. He weeps, “Every-
body knows me now. Look up
here man I’m in danger. I’ve
got nothing left to lose. I’m so
high it makes my brain whirl,”
admitting to the harsh effects
fame has had on his life. Bowie
makes himself vulnerable and
allows us to reach a softer
side of him, showing that even
someone as wild and eccentric
as himself can be cuffed by the
world’s judgments.

Following
that
emotional

jam, “Sue (Or in a Season of
Crime)” starts off sounding like
classic rock, but maintains the
dark and lost feeling through-
out Blackstar. “Girl Loves Me”
is the follow up song and con-
tains high notes that only Bowie
could hit at his age, adding
to the colorful sounds in this
album.

The last songs “Dollar Days,”

and “I Can’t Give Everything
Away”
didn’t
do
anything

special for me. They’re pleas-
ing to the ears and showcase
Bowie’s talent, but after being
mesmerized by the almost ten-
minute-long opener and their
follow-ups, the final two start
to lack charisma. The lyrics are
repetitive, and there’s nothing
prominent enough to leave an
impression. They’re not very
“Bowie” at all.

Aside from the ending, Black-

star is insanely good for being
a 25th album released by a
69-year-old man. David Bowie
is a legend, and his talent will
never be forgotten. If you know
anyone who was born on Janu-
ary 8, it’d probably be wise to
support them, because who
knows? They could be a great
musical genius someday. Thank
you for everything you’ve done,
David Bowie. You’ll remain one
of the brightest stars in our sky.
Life on Mars? There is now.

ISO RECORDS

Forever the most stylish.

B+

Blackstar

David Bowie

ISO Records

Caine’s ‘Youth’
not very mature

Indie drama filled
with beauty and

frustration

By MADELEINE GAUDIN

Daily Arts Writer

In “Youth,” two friends, Fred

and Mick — played respectively
by Michael Caine (“The Dark
Knight Rises”)
and
Harvey

Kietel
(“Taxi

Driver”)
—

vacation
at

a
real
world

“Grand
Buda-

pest Hotel” in
the Swiss Alps,
aimlessly mov-
ing between spas, massages and
conversations about their own
mortality.

“Youth” abounds with beauty

— scenes of dialogue are sepa-
rated by quiet mountain vistas
and perfectly symmetrical shots
of people floating in pools and
lounging in saunas. “Youth” is
strongest when it is silent, in the
moments when it doesn’t try to
be anything more than beautiful.

And perhaps it isn’t anything

more than beautiful. The two
lead characters are artists and
therefore seekers and creators
of beauty. Mick is a screenwriter
and Fred is a composer; both
are struggling with the grav-
ity of final works. Mick solves
the problem with a thinly veiled

auto-biopic starring Jane Fonda,
and Fred chooses retirement.
One might expect “Youth,” then,
to be a film about art or at least
say something profound about
art. However, the only message
the film manages to send about
art is a problematic one. It’s clear
in “Youth” that the men are art-
ists and the women merely their
muses. The creators are accom-
panied by women who (like art)
often exist purely as sexualized
objects. Miss Universe (new-
comer Madalina Ghenea), one of
the film’s few female characters,
seems to be the embodiment
of this notion. Fresh off being
crowned the world’s most view-
able woman, she comes to the
posh Swiss hotel and surprises
everyone with her ability to
speak. In this sense, “Youth” is
like a man who does not recog-
nize his inherent male privilege
— not malicious, just frustrating.

“Youth” tries to say something

poignant about aging by placing
its leads in contrast with young-
er versions of themselves. Fred
encounters a young violinist play-
ing his most famous work, and

Mick is accompanied by a team
of young screenwriters who are
helping him with his final mas-
terwork. There’s potential for a
really interesting parallel here,
but “Youth” fails to develop any of
its younger characters to the same
extent as their older counterparts
(who themselves are quite under-
developed). An interesting rela-
tionship does arise between Fred
and a young movie star played by
Paul Dano (“Love & Mercy”) as
the two find commonality — both
worry they will only be remem-
bered for their low-quality, high-
popularity work.

Remembrance seems to be the

idea around which “Youth” is
centered. Surrounded by quiet,
actionless scenes (which read very
much like memories), remem-
brance is at the heart of most of
the film’s dialogue. Mick and Fred
discuss their own memories, their
own forgetfulness, and the world’s
remembrance of them. Therefore,
the film’s visuals take precedence
over the plot, creating the illu-
sion that the film itself follows the
incomplete and irregular rhythm
of memory.

Despite the film’s name, I was

the youngest person in the theater
by at least 30 years. Maybe that
means I’m just not in the film’s
target audience. But perhaps the
film doesn’t have a target audi-
ence, and is instead stuck floating
between nostalgia and foreshad-
owing. Ultimately, “Youth” is a
beautiful but hollow portrayal of
friendship, age and mortality.

B

Youth

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