David Bowie's "Let's Dance"

The album I chose is by one of my favorite men of all time, David Bowie. Bowie's career was an incredible journey, and although he was at times thought to be insane, his fans will always stick by his side. The album that I have chosen isn't all in first person, but all of the songs are about the feeling of love or about a person he is in love with. The songs tones and lyrics are almost melancholy, he has a sense of calm feelings of love, or of a lost love. In "Without You," Bowie is singing about how he wouldn't be able to live without them, and they give him a purpose. The musical tone gives the song a melancholy feelings. The song "Ricochet," if analysed in a certain light, can be seen as what the world is like without love, and how love is sometimes not enough to shield someone from the cruelties of the world. "Criminal World," is written in the third person, but it is a great example of betrayed love. The narrator finds out that he doesn't really know who the person he is in love with is. He one line that "the girls are like baby-faced boys" shows that women can be just as cruel as men, and just as deceiving.

This album represents different types of love and how love can be cruel or doesn't always give you what you want.