Chad Taylor

We're a long way out to sea


"So you’re standing on the Earth. Let’s assume the Earth is a perfect sphere, because that makes things a lot easier. What does our situation look like?"

The moment you know



Gaga did Bowie. Duncan Jones tweeted:
The problem with Bowie tributes is that Bowie left all that stuff behind. He didn't linger when he could or should have: it wasn't the changes but the changing. He left a trail of fans holding moments that were important in their lives, which is what pop does: it marks time like a photograph of summer. But then the seasons shift, and no matter how good they were to recall them is to roll in melancholy.

Bowie himself was never truly melancholy until the goodbye wrench of 'Where are we now' -- his last album, Black Star, is filled with a resolved sadness but it's nothing like the beautiful dejection of that 2013 single. The cover of The Next Day is Heroes, patched with text like an afterthought: the moment when the artist reached back for his Berlin self just for a moment, then let go.