At 1.25.50 in this video, David Bowie utters the words "meme school". This is in 2002. This may well be one of the most advanced human beings who has ever lived https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnnY_Z9OtC0
david bowie dying was the worst thing to happen to his career
I thought you were just shitposting but he very clearly says meme school
Holy fuck
>>61879817
Was just about to post this.
>oh he's just going to say mime with a british accent
>he obviously and deliberately says "meme school"
Was Bowie sending the audience a message from the future
best new thread
>>61879676
scaruffi beat him to it
http://www.scaruffi.com/memejam/
>>61879912
Actually I'm pretty sure if anyone beat him to it it was Richard Dawkins...
>>61879676
lmao he just says it for no reason at all
what a genius
>>61879912
https://www.facebook. com
/Iloveyoujesuschrist.Ido/videos/vb.351411594956203/863420937088597/?type=2&theater
absolutely cracking up at how absurd this post is.
meme (n.) Look up meme at Dictionary.com
1976, introduced by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in "The Selfish Gene," coined by him from Greek sources, such as mimeisthai "to imitate" (see mime), and intended to echo gene.
SOMEONE MAKE THIS A WEBM
>>61880055
i keep replaying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnnY_Z9OtC0&feature=youtu.be&t=5148 and laughing
if david bowie was 19-24 y/o now would he be a 4channer?
>>61880102
if trips op is bowie
>>61880184
>wore women's clothing
>lusted after jailbait
>idolized Hitler
yes
>>61880076
But why does he say it there?
It has no relevance to anything else they were talking about apart from sounding a bit like "mime". He just sneaks it into the dialogue and nobody even reacts to it.
WHAT THE FUCK
WHAT ELSE COULD HE HAVE POSSIBLY SAID??? THIS IS BLOWING MY MIND RIGHT NOW
He is just pronouncing 'mime' 'meem'
What did he mean by this (seriously)
>>61880395
But why?
this is the most hilarious thing i've seen all fucking day
>>61880421
Im guessing he is using the french pronunciation.
I wonder what's meme101 at meme school?
>>61880468
...oh fuck
thanks for ruining my dreams
posting in the greatest thread in /mu/ history
he was observing off-hand that miming is really just another form artistic memetic representation, and he thought, oh, well it's funny bc sounds similar, os why not?
liek if you wou;d go to meme school
>meme school
>>61879713
Tru
>>61879713
yea his career is finished now. can't imagine him making a comeback from that stunt
>>61880395
>>61880421
>>61880468
I was listening to the NPR Fresh Air episode the day after he died, which was a replay of an old interview, and David tells Terry Gross on the subject of his miming past that he thinks Americans pronounce MIME as MEME, which I've never heard and thought was odd.
>>61879713
it also happened to be the worst thing to happen to his life
>memedeath
bowie sent yall to meme school. how can you top a memedeath?
I'm geekin
>>61880393
He was simply intentionally mispronouncing mime to be funny, as the context was him talking about mime school.
>>61882063
The word already existed at that time it just hadn't become a popular meme yet
>>61882063
also mime is pronounced "meme" in some languages.
I knew about memes back in the early 90s.
>>61882137
True... and 'meme' is a French word that we simply didn't adopt into English vocabulary until the 2000s.
>>61879713
Are you kidding? His album went #1 in like seven countries. He had songs in the charts that hadn't been there since the 70's. It was probably the best thing to happen to his career.
>>61882294
Meme is a word invented by Richard Dawkins in his book "The Selfish Gene".
>>61882294
are you retarded
>>61882361
https://translate.google.com/#fr/en/meme
It is a French word but I think the pronunciation is different and the meaning isn't anything close to the English definition.
>>61882377
Totally irrelevant.
well ok then
http://webmshare.com/WNxYn
>>61882463
The autoplay makes it amazing. You could build a track from that.
>>61882486
memes cool memes cool memes, cool? memes cool
>>61879676
He was one of the first professional internet memers, this is commonly known.
I had never watched Bowie live befrore this. How can you hate this guy? Such a nice dude.
he clearly says "mean"
they laugh at him for studying being a mime and he says "mean school"
like the internet has literally warped your brains if you think he would say "meme school"
>>61882377
>>61882390
>>61882361
Ackshually it's a letter from the Arabic alphabet but whatever.
>>61882793
1. Check your hearing.
2. Learn to read lips, his mouth returns to a close position from the regression needed to make a "eee" sound. If it was an n, his lips wouldn't have had to come back as far.
>>61882793
he's just mispronouncing the word "mime" you dumb fuck
>>61883019
no he's not he's pronouncing it in a french accent you dumb fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m41PUX630Kk
I can't get over this thread. The way Bowie says "meme school" is just so jarring and hilarious.
Chuckled. Nice find OP.
>>61882463
KEK
LOLLLLL GODS GONNA FLIP
https://youtu.be/x22swFn52Ng
>Bowie trolled the world before trolling was a thing
Bowie talking about the internet in 1999 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg He had his own ISP soon after this too.
>>61884123
>ISP
>1999
thats pretty far behind the curve, I hope he didn't lose too much money
>>61879676
>memes are retroactively changing history
>>61879676
this is the funniest thing i've ever seen in my life
>>61884102
the cincinatti one
There is a band called meme.
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/めめ
>>61884137
He was ahead of the curve, a lot of people didn't realize how big it would become. Paxman looks bewildered in that interview.
>>61884199
ちとてとち is unironically a fantastic album
Its probably just his french pronunciation of mime
I love this thread so much.
Bowie was very well-read, it's not implausible that he had read The Selfish Gene and knew what a meme is
>>61884353
It's in the list he published of his top 100 books.
BOWIE Intl. Meme School
>>61884102
Fuuuuuck I had forgotten about that segment.
>>61884210
I worked for a small ISP in 2001. It went bust in '03. Lots of small ISPs who did great in the 90s folded in the early 2000s a s telcoms ate their lunch.
And your fucking daft if you think the internet was some new concept in 1999. AOL was one of the biggest companies in the world at that point
full disclosure: I cba to watch a 15 minute video atm
>meme school
>>61884102
>Somewhere out there
>There are people that tasted Bowie-touched straws in McDonalds.
>>61879676
Why the fuck am I laughing so hard
Have you guys seen the comebacks he used to give to other people on the internet? It's beautiful. Here's a free sample(sorry about the size)
''YOU WANNA PLAY WITH DADDY, ASSHOLE!?''
>>61884539
That's so 2016.
>>61884445
Of course it wasn't some new concept. But Bowie believed the internet would be even bigger than the general public ever imagined, the interviewer doesn't think it would become big and thought it was "just a tool."
Here's an excerpt:
"During a Newsnight interview in December 1999, Bowie found himself evangelising the impact of the internet to a mostly disbelieving Jeremy Paxman. “We’re on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying,” he said. “The actual context and the state of content is going to be so different to anything we can envisage at the moment – the interplay between the user and the provider will be so in simpatico it’s going to crush our ideas of what mediums are all about.
“Artists like Duchamp were so prescient here – the idea that the piece of work is not finished until the audience comes to it and adds their own interpretation, and what the piece of art is about is the grey space in the middle. That grey space in the middle is what the 21st century is going to be all about.”
He was envisioning something we all take for granted now – that link between popstar, Twitter, Instagram, fanbase and culture; that frisson between the artist as an aloof creator and the artist as an active participant in their own community."
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/11/david-bowie-bowienet-isp-internet
>>61879676
Hey, OP. I couldn't a fuck. But that A&E live set you posted is fucking solid
>>61884539
Fuck that was funny. Where can I find more?
>>61884660
http://gloopychepooka.tumblr.com/post/29937327126/part-2-of-david-bowie-being-a-badass-motherfucker
3 is my personal favorite
>>61884539
Hang on, is this actually him? This is from the forum Teenage Wildlife, I know he was called Sailor on Bowienet but I didn't know he was active on there too.
>>61884654
That was nothing new either - WIRED magazine (and MONDO 2000 before that) was preaching that gospel every issue and had been available on every magazine stand in the country (well the US) for the previous 5 years
Paxman was just incredibly out of touch.
Also the idea of a meme as we know it today (an idea that rapidly moves through a population) was complete known by 99. Just read Snow Crash, which came out what? 12 years? prior
>>61884714
I vaguely remember Sailor on TW always making similar outlandish comments; I doubt it's really him.
>>61884539
>>61884701
I'm sorry, this is too good to be true
>>61884714
>>61884749
It is him, check out the link on >>61884701
>>61879676
what did he mean by this
>>61884763
So because some chick's blog says so, it's automatically fact?
>>61884782
Stop crushing my dreams, anon
>>61879713
>album goes number 1 after his death
>ranking in all the money because people are buying the fuck out of his albums
All the money he's getting from that is going help his family even more than they already had.
>>61884782
Is the misogyny really necessary?
From now on, all memes I read will be read in Bowie's voice.
"I didn't go to meme school. I went to memes."
there was a short time in his life when he was having a lot of failure in the music biz and thought about quitting to go to mime school.
Pretty funny anecdote
>>61884654
for an old guy bowie was really pro internet, some people suspect this might be his tumblr, i wonder if he ever posted on 4chan.
http://thevillaoformen.tumblr.com
>>61885670
>>61879676
avant af, it's like he's from the future and just said this word out of the blue to fuck with us in the present, the look on his face when he says it says it all
>>61884102
r9k : the person
>>61885670
I've seen it, wouldn't be surprised at all if it was his.
>>61885256
fug :DD
This is one of the best threads I have ever seen.
He had a preminition that he would die of meme magic
MEME SCHOOL
>>61880468
wouldn't that be "mem"
>>61885955
only school that taught me something
They should make the next GTA set in the 90s, then they could have Bowie from 3 decades in different radio stations.
>>61886013
>They should make the next GTA
ffs no
>>61884539
you guys do realize that he's just saying mime in a pseudo-french accent. Reading the I as an 'e' sound is just a common thing in latin-based languages, or most languages that aren't english. you're all uncultured swine
>>61885670
>November 2015
It checks out.
>>61886474
bowie would know what a meme is. sounds like an offhand quip a witty person would make
>>61879952
that stupid memetics theory of him is fucking flawed. And btw, he popularised the term, he did not coin it.
He's a crazy man.
https://youtu.be/QVbUhY-tTls
>>61886810
>And btw, he popularised the term, he did not coin it.
cite your sources friendo. who exactly used "meme" to mean "replicating unit of culture" before dawkins?
>>61886923
bowie
>>61887041
i mean on planet earth tho
>>61882349
when he was most relevant there wasn't a billboard 200 or shit like that
>>61886810
>Richard Dawkins coined the word meme in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.
except you're wrong
>>61885750
this desu
>>61887147
Nigga there have been charts forever, you have to be 18 to post here.
>we will never have a musician this ebin again
>>61879713
and a blessing in disguise for his wife and kids, since Blackstar is selling a million trillion copies
Don't even feel like shitposting or making epic maymays about Bowie now.
It's like, even when he's dead, he'll out-meme, out-shitpost you. You, me, we're all like gullible cubs compared to the thin white duke.
>>61886827
Shush Lorraine.
>>61887751
that's not true
I think I love Bowie more than I love masturbating.
>>61888028
Id do her
>>61884701
This can't be fucking real. Holy shit.
>>61886474
He doesn't speak French but he does speak memes
>>61885237
Fuck off, tumblr.
>>61888293
i tend to combine the two
>>61885670
This is amazing.
>I didn't go to meme school, I went to memes.
What did he mean by this?
>>61882463
You magnificent bastard you!
>>61882463
this goes hard lmao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk6e9j9g8aI
memes
>>61888851
>I began composing Glass Spider in my head as I jogged
>>61888851
>>61889209
He seemed to have a sense of humor about his not so good albums at least.
>>61888851
holy shit
how was bowie ahead of his time on everything
he was doing the social-media-idgaf thing 10 years before artists started doing so on twitter etc
fucking genius goddamn
Did the man who invented meme school go to meme school?
You're face to face with the man who sold the memes
THIS IS WHAT BOWIE WAS REFERRING TO
HE PREDICTED THIS
>>61888851
Ayy lmao
How do we know that's actually Bowie though?
>>61889593
JESUS CHRIST
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0jwzQ28ho7m
>>61889642
SOTY
>>61889593
Would totally take Women's Studies with Prince tbqh
>>61888851
Holy shit. If that was really him, that's fucking great.
>>61889642
XO. I'm totally going to go jog to this later.
>>61889164
Hah!
Did Bowie ever post on /mu/?
>>61889913
Everyone on 4chan is David Bowie, Major Tom.
>>61889594
It isn't.
If you go to the thread on teenagewildlife.com you'll see that the username is "SaiIor" and not "Sailor".
Still, he's funny.
>>61889983
>tfw bowie created 4chan to keep track of his multiple personalities
HOLY FFFFFFUUUUUUCK
http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Interact/cp/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=newstoday&Number=538119&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&part=
>>61880102
This is the greatest meme of 2016 so far
>>61890161
God damn ancient meme magic!
>>61884102
I believe the trojan horse ordeal was the first public trolling
>>61888851
I'M A BANTZ STAR
>>61888851
Top banter
>>61879676
>>61890227
This is the first time I've laughed on /mu/
fucking dying over here
bestnewmeme2016
>>61888851
lol mao
>>61889399
this, wtf
>>61888851
Found his account
http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Interact/cp/showprofile.pl?Cat=&UID=12653&Number=412105&Board=feedback&what=showflat&page=&view=&sb=&part=1&vc=1
>>61891146
> I was tossing around the idea of retirement the other day with Laurie Anderson. She says I should stop releasing new material and simply focus on remastering, remixing, and mostly repackaging old stuff to sell to you: the fans. But she said it in a really crass way. I think she referred to all of you as "[my] mindless, droolling bitches." I didn't like that. So I punched her in the snatch and laughed. Just kidding.
>But I digress...
>What do you think? Should I retire now or not?
>>61885237
Very necessary, bitch.
>>61889913
i wanna believe
https://rbt.asia/mu/thread/S53907529
This was 2004
>>61888851
BASED
I used to go on TW a lot, pretty sure that isn't Bowie, unfortunately.
I do believe that tumblr was his though.
>>61879676
I'M A MEMESTAR
>>61891929
I do recall an interview where he talks about his internet activity and how he has accounts on forums. Interviewer tries to get his username but he wouldn't give it.
>>61892091
He was called Sailor on his own official forum, I doubt he'd use the same name twice to be honest.
>>61892236
Don't see why not.
>>61892091
>>61892236
in the profile someone posted the username is Sailor, but the letter "L" is actually an uppercase i, so it's probably fake
(unless of course somebody else already took "Sailor" before bowie registered there. i want to believe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJdA7dwx6-4&feature=youtu.be
here u go
"meme school"
>>61892897
berlin school of memes im proud
>>61879817
I'm exactly like that. It's not misheard stuff
>>61884102
This is killer
>>61879676
Was Bowie the original patrician?
>>61882361
it's based off of the french word which means "(the) same"
>>61892537
I just don't think he'd make it so obvious it was him, especially on one of his fansites and also when you had to pay to access his forum. Would be great if it was him though!
Oneohtrix Point Never - Rush/Meme School (feat David Bowie)
mashups when
You guys are retarded, and clearly haven't heard many Bowie interviews. They even played one on NPR the day he died where he was talking about his work with Kemp's mime company, and he refers to it as "meim" and then "meem," sarcastically, to emphasize its European nature and lack of American appeal.
So just to clarify, you're retards.
>>61894100
There are like 3 people posting in this thread, trying as hard as they can to make a hehehehehe funnnay mammammaay. Ignore them
>>61894143
>100 IPs
>>61879676
im losing my mind about this wtf
>>61879676
There's a few interviews where Bowie talks about anonymously posting online during the earlier years of the internet. Bowie was probably one of the first shitposters in history.
>>61884102
You're face
To face
With the man who trolled the world.
anyone have any more rare Bowie vids?
>>61894384
>>61884102
based
truly a man ahead of his time
>>61891833
The writing style adds up. I choose to believe.
meme school
a college you apply to incase you dont get into an actually good school
>>61882349
Edgy
>>61896505
no, he's kind of right. it sucks he's dead, but man, his albums and songs that had been on peoples shelves for a few decades hit the charts again, and Blackstar was already doing well
>>61896185
>'yeah im trying to get into USC but if that doesn't work out, _______ has a really good Interdisciplinary Arts program and they let you capstone the internet too, i mean internet the capstone'
i can see that
This shit is blowing my mind, especially if that forum account is legit. I really wouldn't be surprised if Bowie shitposted on this site at one point.
He was one of us.
http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Interact/cp/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=coffee&Number=529865&Search=true&Forum=All_Forums&Words=SaiIor&Match=Username&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=529702
>>61898700
http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Interact/cp/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=newstoday&Number=537871&Search=true&Forum=All_Forums&Words=SaiIor&Match=Username&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=537871
>>61898767
>My Jews have pointed out that a lot of my fans have Myspace and Facebook accounts
This can't possibly be real.
>>61898767
Le ebin xD
http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Interact/cp/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=news&Number=529811&Search=true&Forum=All_Forums&Words=SaiIor&Match=Username&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=527004
Holy shit, I'm dying
>>61891146
>his last post was a list of people he thought would die that year.
>>61892897
oh sheit, i think i'm in love
>>61898924
its fake, the guys username is SaiIor with a capital I in place of the l
>>61884102
fuck cincinatti
>>61900162
It's not fake and those are the same fucking letters.
>>61900214
lel
dude just lookt this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAyHQcZnWRA
yo who did this
>>61900388
>tfw when you would fuck bowie and let him fuck you, no homo.
>>61879676
Holy fuck it's like he's being fed a constant stream of glimpses into future pop culture so he can remain ahead of his time.
It looked like he had had seen the word in his head for the first time and wanted to know how it would sound.
>>61879676
Why did he beef up Fame like that for that live rendition? I hate it. It's supposed to be funky and bouncy, not heavy and rocky. :(
>>61885750
Holy fucking shit.
Is that one of Kanye's designer t-shirts?
...The prophecy is coming true.
>>61888851
wow, I sarcastically thought Bowie was a god before, but now I unironically think he was a divine creature
>>61893947
oh man don't do this t me
>>61902288
Probably the greatest man who ever lived.
>>61896018
i hope it was real cause it means i actually got to interact with bowie while he still was with us
BOWIE CONFIRMED HIGHER BEING
Man I fucking love Bowie. I'm glad he went out with a bang, I'll miss you man but I missed you for a decade. :'3
>>61888851
B A S E D
>>61888851
Muh bobo. it still hurts moo when does it stop. ;____;
I'm just gonna add my post here so I can tell my children about this thread.
>>61888851
that's not Bowie btw
>>61904179
never
Friendly reminder that Bowie predicted NEETS shitposting on chinese cartoon boards a few decades back.
>The shrieking of nothing is killing me
>Just pictures of Jap girls in synthesis
>And I ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair
>But I'm hoping to kick but the planet is glowing
>>61904496
neets are junkies too?
>you better not mess with major tom
>>61904550
Major Tom was the original waifu.
>>61904550
Addicted to internet and porn, sure.
An earlier analysis:
>The shrieking of nothing is killing me
>Just pictures of Jap girls in synthesis
Shitposting on a chinese comic site.
>And I ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair
NEET.
>But I'm hoping to kick but the planet is glowing
Didn't mean to post tonight but now it's morning.
>Time and again I tell myself
>I'll stay clean tonight
>But the little green wheels are following me
>Oh, no, not again
Little green wheels = 4-leaf clovers = 4chan.
>I'm stuck with a valuable friend
>"I'm happy. Hope you're happy, too."
>One flash of light
>But no smoking pistol
My only friends are faggots in the same boat as me, and all we do is get mad at each other over nothing.
>My mama said, "To get things done
>You'd better not mess with Major Tom."
Major Tom = Moot.
>>61879676
>Time to say goodbye
Fuck. I hate that everything has a different meaning now.
>>61879676
It's like he was expecting a laugh after it, but then he realized that the general public were still behind on the whole memes and shitposting thing. I'm convinced Bowie actually was both a pioneer in internet memes and shitposting.
>>61887751
you have to realize that the time will soon come when 18 year olds will know only the internet age
>>61884123
Wow, informative interview, he really predicted how the way internet would change music and everything. I'm impressed.
I was already a big fan but this thread is making me realize that I underestimated him. Bowie was not just a talented artist, extremely intelligent, cordial and funny in interviews, he left a legacy on the finance world with his bowie bonds and he was also a talented internet troll... Oh, and he could sing and dance wearing high heels.
>>61904723
This thread is amazing
>>61905508
You realize that that time is now, right?
>>61890116
>"Sailor" and not "Sailor"
>>61891146
>Hobbies:Counting my money and laughing till milk comes out of my nose
How can one man be so based
>>61904671
>I don't know if I shit myself
>but I need a wipe
>all these little black flies are following me
>woh-oh-oh-oh
>I'm stuck with a horrible smell
>kind of crappy, is it crappy poo
>one shart of shite
>but no smoking pistol
>>61904671
DAMN...
best new meme
>>61885731
Im happy my screenshot is still alive, keep it on the internet anon.
>>61879676
>believing the strangest things
the look on his face and his delivery is like he knows that in 15 years people on the internet will be lauging at "meme school" for days.
>>61906918
LOVING THE ALIEN
The most accurate depiction of Bowie
https://youtu.be/yc4efBM_9JM
https://youtu.be/g8f_XCH3zmM
http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Interact/cp/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=coffee&Number=543863&Search=true&Forum=All_Forums&Words=SaiIor&Match=Username&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=allposts&Main=543786
In the context of the thread, this is Bowie picking people he thinks are going to die soon.
Note Lou Reed at the top.
