This spare, coolly elegant performance video is Bowie at his most David Byrne-iest, which makes sense now that both have gracefully aged into the elder statesmen of pop artifice. Best song on The Next Day. Hands down. I only wish he were holding a cooler guitar. But that’s my issue to work through, not his.
PREVIOUSLY: The Thin White Duke goes nuclear on Catholicism — not that it didn’t have it coming — with help from Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard. Sort of a Station To Stations of the cross. The song is pretty funk to funky. Warning: some bloody stigmata, dirty priests, self-flagellation, beating up on the poor and Jesus Christ posing included. Best one yet from the new album. Pretty sure Rome will disagree. MORE