Generally I've seen this album as a way of Bowie reflecting on his past. In the music video Iselin Steiro is the young Bowie, who moves in next door to contemporary Bowie and acts as a ghost of his past self. The two celebrities who seem to stalk Bowie and Swinton's characters in the video (who seem to be in a lot of trouble from the magazine Bowie picks up at the beginning of the video) might also be a reflection of Bowie's darker past, perhaps from his drug addictions? Either way, I definitely think that this song is about the obsessions with celebrities in the media and how they seem more than human to their fans. Maybe this song is to Bowie's fans as a way of saying 'I'm human, just like you'.
Anyway, pretty much from the 80s onwards I think Bowie has been obsessed with his past, often refurring to his previous well known hits (example. Ashes to Ashes's reference to Space Oddity, Hallo Spaceboy's reference to Space Oddity etc.)
Generally I've seen this album as a way of Bowie reflecting on his past. In the music video Iselin Steiro is the young Bowie, who moves in next door to contemporary Bowie and acts as a ghost of his past self. The two celebrities who seem to stalk Bowie and Swinton's characters in the video (who seem to be in a lot of trouble from the magazine Bowie picks up at the beginning of the video) might also be a reflection of Bowie's darker past, perhaps from his drug addictions? Either way, I definitely think that this song is about the obsessions with celebrities in the media and how they seem more than human to their fans. Maybe this song is to Bowie's fans as a way of saying 'I'm human, just like you'.
Anyway, pretty much from the 80s onwards I think Bowie has been obsessed with his past, often refurring to his previous well known hits (example. Ashes to Ashes's reference to Space Oddity, Hallo Spaceboy's reference to Space Oddity etc.)