It is based on the brain chemistry of sensory flooding and it is about irony. The most riddiculous suspension of belief while your real adventure might be sitting next to you while you are enraptured in this commercial rubbish. Bowie often composes songs while imagining himself in a cinema; the place most Westeners go to escape the madness of reality for a few hours. Look carefully at the lyrics - they don't make any sense unless you imagine yourself in a cinema with your dream partner that you are too scared to admit that you have just found your best chance at hapiness
It is based on the brain chemistry of sensory flooding and it is about irony. The most riddiculous suspension of belief while your real adventure might be sitting next to you while you are enraptured in this commercial rubbish. Bowie often composes songs while imagining himself in a cinema; the place most Westeners go to escape the madness of reality for a few hours. Look carefully at the lyrics - they don't make any sense unless you imagine yourself in a cinema with your dream partner that you are too scared to admit that you have just found your best chance at hapiness