Way to butcher a classic.
I don't think I've seen any thread-title so clearly stating the obvious on the Paizo boards before. ;)
And yes, singing in outer space is worth at least three cheers!
Way to butcher a classic.In space!
I'll entertain your astute ear for music the day you post a video of yourself singing in outer space!
Not sure I'd call that singing. Caterwauling? Bleating?
See, this is why the U.S. needs to push manned space programs again. Canada beat us in being the first to record a music video in space. Canada! My nation needs to hang its head in shame.
Seriously though, the guy has some cajones to do that particular song. That's like watching Titanic while on a luxury cruise. I would have picked "Rocket Man."
Seriously though, the guy has some cajones to do that particular song. That's like watching Titanic while on a luxury cruise. I would have picked "Rocket Man."
Yeah, that too. I don't think he gets what the song is really about. Either that or it's a desperate cry for help.
Also, rocket man sucks.
Also, rocket man sucks.
Especially that version.
Seriously though, the guy has some cajones to do that particular song. That's like watching Titanic while on a luxury cruise. I would have picked "Rocket Man."Yeah, that too. I don't think he gets what the song is really about. Either that or it's a desperate cry for help.The lyrics were adjusted, and David Bowie was involved.
That article says no such thing.
*scratches head*
He's thanked in the credits and almost certainly permission was sought and this was in works all mission long.
And how is Bowie's official website posting an article praising it and with links to it and Bowie tweeting a link to that article and retweeting the CSA and Commander Hadfield's tweets about it not promoting it?
This is getting boring and pedantic, but here goes:
You said "The lyrics were adjusted, and David Bowie was involved."Suggesting that David Bowie was involved in adjusting the lyrics. The article linked says no such thing.
You said Bowie has been promoting it. I am saying that, yes, a third party posting on a blog for someone on their official website is not promoting, let alone promotion by Bowie himself, which is what you said. I mean really *suspicious eyebrow raise*.
But whatever.
Look, I'm an enormous Bowie fan. To a degree most people cannot fathom. I think it's great that his first real hit song has has this kind of longevity. But I think the video was boring, the astronaut has a singing voice not unlike a cat being skinned alive, the arrangement was all wrong, the "adjusted" lyrics are dumb, and no amount of "but...SPAAACE" can make me like it.
*shrug*
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No one's asking you to like it, just to stop being a killjoy.
It's on his official website and twitter feed.
If he didn't write it himself (which he probably didn't) he most certainly knew about and approved it. Our are you saying his official media outlets don't speak with his voice?
On the Bowie blog, this article is just one blurb in a long line of posts to the newsroll. Do you genuinely think that the person who runs his blog and/or other social media feeds gets express permission from David Bowie himself before every re-post of an article in a magazine about a reissue or blah blah blah?
Or is it more likely that they're Bowie's social media guru/PR wizard and they're simply paid to do that all day every day. In fact, with all the media coverage he's gotten lately, with several high-profile covers of classic songs (this, Beck's "reimagining" of Sound+Vision, Flaming Lips covering Heroes, etc.), multiple magazine covers, making headlines with a risque music video, and releasing his first album in roughly a decade, one might almost say he's in the middle of a comeback ;)
I think it's more likely you just can't accept that Bowie thinks it's cool.
Why would that bother me?
I'm merely voicing skepticism about wholly unsubstantiated claims.
Eh, I prefer the astronaut's song about singing in space that he wrote with the Barenaked Ladies.
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I see your bad remake of a bad remake...and I Raise you this
I can take about 3 minutes before I have to bail. This belongs in Guantanimo.
20 seconds. Terrible. Guess even musical geniuses have off days.
It probably would have been cooler if they'd performed it in space.
Also, rocket man sucks.Not this version.I see your bad remake of a bad remake...and I Raise you this
I can take about 3 minutes before I have to bail. This belongs in Guantanimo.
John, can you just......plox get her the f%!@ outta here. Plox.
Also, rocket man sucks.Not this version.I see your bad remake of a bad remake...and I Raise you this
I can take about 3 minutes before I have to bail. This belongs in Guantanimo.
John, can you just......plox get her the f&@~ outta here. Plox.
Jesus tapdancing Christ.
It's on his official website and twitter feed.
If he didn't write it himself (which he probably didn't) he most certainly knew about and approved it. Our are you saying his official media outlets don't speak with his voice?
On the Bowie blog, this article is just one blurb in a long line of posts to the newsroll. Do you genuinely think that the person who runs his blog and/or other social media feeds gets express permission from David Bowie himself before every re-post of an article in a magazine about a reissue or blah blah blah?
Or is it more likely that they're Bowie's social media guru/PR wizard and they're simply paid to do that all day every day. In fact, with all the media coverage he's gotten lately, with several high-profile covers of classic songs (this, Beck's "reimagining" of Sound+Vision, Flaming Lips covering Heroes, etc.), multiple magazine covers, making headlines with a risque music video, and releasing his first album in roughly a decade, one might almost say he's in the middle of a comeback ;)
Of course Bowie would not be aware of the video, not be in the slightest bit interested, not take an interest in any social media activity around the issue or, heaven forbid, be chuffed that an astronaut chose to sing a song he wrote in, as you put it "SPAACE". Nah, complete non-issue for him.....