The video for David Bowie's 1973 single "Life on Mars?" stands out for being simplistic and engaging, yet incredibly creepy. Made during the peak of the androgenous Ziggy Stardust phase off the record Hunky Dory, it features Bowie in a white room with a equally white visage dressed in a ever so stylish powered blue three piece. What's continually overlooked because of Bowie's overt sexual overtones and over the top esthetics was his incredible talent as a lyricist. "Mars?" is a ballad heavily critical of humanity and the authority that lurches over it, with a graceful piano building each verse to the triumphant chorus. When he sings "Sailors fighting in the dance hall/oh man, look at those cavemen go/It's the freakiest show", you can literally feel his disappointment in his fellow man. In many ways the man born as David Robert Jones was a extraterrestrial outsider searching for man's need for innate destruction.
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