This song is a summation of the whole album. What David is saying is that the dystopian world presented in Outside is happening at the present moment, it’s not some futuristic fiction like Brave New World but rather like Animal Farm by Orwell. It’s a terrifying masterpiece, severely underrated.
“In interviews, Bowie remarked that the album was meant to reflect the anxiety of the last five years of the millennium, saying "Overall, a long-term ambition is to make it a series of albums extending to 1999”
This song is a summation of the whole album. What David is saying is that the dystopian world presented in Outside is happening at the present moment, it’s not some futuristic fiction like Brave New World but rather like Animal Farm by Orwell. It’s a terrifying masterpiece, severely underrated.
“In interviews, Bowie remarked that the album was meant to reflect the anxiety of the last five years of the millennium, saying "Overall, a long-term ambition is to make it a series of albums extending to 1999”