Friendly reminder that David Bowie wasn't actually gay and that he literally appropriated gay culture as a marketing tool.
In the late 60s Bowie used sex as a tool to try and get signed by rich homosexuals, and throughout the 70s he amended his original claim that he was gay to being only bisexual. All the while he was married to a woman and having high profile affairs with British actresses while Lou Reed had been sent to psych wards for jacking off to gay porn everyday and was dating a 6 foot 5 peruvian transexual.
Bowie admitted later in his career that his bisexuality was "more of a product of the times than actual biology".
Why does he never get shit for this?
why don't you get shit for posting bad bait
He probably got shit from Mick Jagger's asshole when they fucked.
>>62002495
It's not bait. I haven't said anything untrue.
>>62002489
because this was too cool of a t-shirt for people to want to call him out
>"dude im gay lmao"
>explodes in popularity the next day
>>62002489
>Why does he never get shit for this?
because even if he wasn't actually gay, he still helped make it be okay to be gay,
who cares
>>62002495
do you know what bait means cause i don't think you do
Ayy lmao that was a good documentary
>>62002489
he still helped gay people become more accepted and took a dick up the ass every once in a while atleast he was committed.
>>62002505
>>62002534
This is bait, he's baiting for responses by posting trite and unfounded rumors with no citation.
Lou Reed's girlfriend was so fucking hot
man he really turned marketing into the essence of his art and focused on the phenomenon rather than the content
>>62002564
>Source on Bowie using sex to find management.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-2759919/David-Bowie-He-feel-person-exists-centre-universe.html
"Without introducing them, Horton took Napier-Bell aside and put forward the following proposition: ‘He said that if I were to agree to come in on the management, he would allow me to have sex with his young protégé,’ says Napier-Bell"
>source on bowie not actually being gay
In a 1983 interview with Rolling Stone, Bowie said his public declaration of bisexuality was "the biggest mistake I ever made" and "I was always a closet heterosexual."
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-05-30/news/9305300344_1_david-bowie-mick-jagger-ziggy
>>62002571
>Why does he never get shit for this?
He did back in the 80's.
>>62002539
What documentary?
>>62002489
hes a goat for it
>>62002503
lmao
>>62002571
that's a dude isn't it
>>62002705
it's a grill
if u know what i mean....
>>62002525
this
>>62002558
also this
>mfw tranny's are going to look back and laugh at themselves for their short-lived trend
>>62002705
Pretty sure one of his 'girlfriends' was an inspiration for some songs on Transformer. That's probably her.
>>62002705
nuh uh, shes the cutie in the middle in pic related
>>62002722
people actually think like this fuck
>>62002489
>mfw this is the first photo ive ever seen of david bowie where he doesn't look like a woman
>>62002741
He stopped looking like a woman by 1975
>>62002722
>mfw trannies are gay as fuck right as soon as you stop looking like a woman
>>62002489
>Bowie during his 90's boyband buttrock pleb years
Yuck.
>>62002794
Too bad every single album he made in the 90s except for Black Tie White Noise was an 8/10.
>>62002705
lou was bisexual
Bowie was bi, there are more recent interviews where he confirms this. He says as homosexuality became more accepted he retreated from becoming defined by a cause, because he simply wanted to be an artist judged by his work.
Bowie's supposedly a closet torrie, and I think with Thatcher in office and his sources in the gay community confirming the aids epidemic, he was frightful and denied his bisexuality around the time Let's Dance was released.
I'm too drunk to find this interview, I think it was around the time hours was released, but he's basically like "yeah I'm bi but I hate talking about it."
>>62002489
lou reed got shit for being gay
bowie wasn't gay
therefore, he didn't get shit
Q.E.D.
>>62002890
>Bowie's supposedly a closet torrie
Wrong, there's references to the Labour movement in his song "Star" ("Bevan tried to change the nation" is about the NHS). Bowie grew up in the post-war welfare state, that would have undoubtedly had an influence on him. In the lead up to the last UK election David Bowie's facebook page basically backed Labour's legacy of the NHS.
>>62003004
That's cool. I know he also praised John Lennon for being "a true socialist." I read an article that implied that Gary Oldman called him a secret conservative.
because i like him for his music, not what gender he sleeps with.
>>62003004
>>62002890
Bowie, like many others, probably had mixed political views.
He was a known admirer of Camille Paglia, who is a persona non grata among the left today. He was also a businessman as well as a musician, and you don't be one of those without having your view on taxes changed. Not too long ago he asked Scotland to stay with the UK, showing that he was also a British nationalist.
On the other hand, he was absolutely socially progressive. Let's Dance and China Girl's music videos both had a racial message behind them. He was also a fighter for blacks in the music community and industry. And like what you said as well.
It's an interesting topic to look into for sure.
>>62002572
undrated post my homie
what a #banterlad
>>62002489
>peruvian
>6'5"
the fuck
>dreamt that I was at Bowie concert
>he let me come on stage and play bass for Ashes
>wake up and realize he's dead
this weighs heavy on my soul
That wasn't very friendly.
he was epic wasnt he
>>62002572
kek
>>62002489
>Why does he never get shit for this?
Because there's nothing wrong with it.
Sex sells.
>>62003592
this
people need to stop being so hush hush and taboo about sex. its just outdated puritanical attitudes that are still prevalent in american society that make people afraid to acknowledge sex is a thing and the driving force behind everything
>>62002489
dude him and mick jagger definitely banged and everyone knew about it too
>>62002725
During his transformer album he was married.
Although rachel was inspiration to some of his songs on coney island baby.
>>62003592
>>62003638
It's not about being puritanical it's that he faked being gay for controversy.
>>62003702
Him and Rachel were a thing for like 5 years.
>>62003724
Well yeah, but not during when transformer was being recorded and while he was touring it. I can find the source, it's all from his exwife in the pic i posted.
speaking of reed and bowie in general,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2p9Er-3rDA
can you imagine if they had become musical partners for like all of the 70s. Imagine what they could have put out.
>>62003749
Yeah it's ridiculous. Apparently they had an argument after making Transformer and didn't speak for most of the 70s. Can you imagine if Reed went to Berlin with Bowie instead of Iggy?
>>62003765
It woulda been great, they could have incorporated some of the characters from Reeds album Berlin and everything. Speaking of, Berlin is a great album. It gets overlooked so much though.
>>62003724
>he faked being gay for controversy
I highly doubt that. First of all, I don't think he "faked being gay". Unless you lied and told people he fucked other men faking had nothing to do with it. Second, I strongly doubt he did anything with the intention of causing controversy. Atleast not in the context of his sexuality. You want an example of someone doing that look at Britney Spears kissing Madonna at the MTV Music Awards or other shit of that ilk.
>>62003802
Unless he lied*
>>62002564
You fucking idiot everything OP posted is true
>>62003802
>I strongly doubt he did anything with the intention of causing controversy.
Do you know who David Bowie was? He matured over the years but Bowie was literally a Manson tier edgelord as far as the public was concerned in the early 70s.
>>62003841
>Bowie was literally a Manson tier edgelord as far as the public was concerned in the early 70s
>as far as the public was concerned
>in the early 70s
>the public
>in the early 70s
what is your point
>>62003802
By faking being gay I mean the guy was just a bit bicurious and intentionally used it to further his career by blowing it out of proportion. Remember, early in his career Bowie literally told interviewers he was a full on fag and then realized that didn't work so well when he was fucking married to a woman.
>>62003856
Oh shit, I almost forgot.
>literally
>>62003864
>Bowie literally told interviewers he was a full on fag
I'd love to see a source.
>>62003724
I'm not sure he faked being gay maliciously. He was young, on a bunch of drugs and banged Jagger a bunch of times. It's not like sexuality is necessarily some set-in-stone forever thing. I don't think it's outrageous to think that he was adventurous at the time but realized as he got older that it wasn't really his bag.
Guys like Tom Hardy have said similar things, that they experimented sexually when they were young and 'grew out of it'. Bowie just happened to be edgy enough to parade his non-standard sexuality at a time when it was very haram.
>>62003856
What is your point idiot? That audiences were more prude then? That public opinion doesn't matter? He made himself into a controversial figure intentionally regardless of either of those things.
>>62002489
>Lou Reed had been sent to psych wards for jacking off to gay porn everyday and was dating a 6 foot 5 peruvian transexual.
>>62003887
Both of those things are true.
>>62003884
I'm not talking about public opinion or what people thought back then you stupid fuck.
I'm talking about the intent he had, looking at it as someone who isn't a repressed idiot from the 70s, which you'd know if you weren't a fucking twelve year old.
>>62003498
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNqo0kIR-TU
Me in the bandana.
>>62003871
Bowie declared himself gay in an interview with Michael Watts in 22 January 1972 issue of Melody Maker, a move which coincided with the first shots in his campaign for stardom as Ziggy Stardust.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jan/22/popandrock.davidbowie
>>62003915
Meh, I take it with a grain of salt. Its a 2006 article about some nobody reporter recalling a conversation that occurs several decades ago with an artist who had just begun immersing himself in a character.
>>62003908
No but what people thought is actually important here you fucking retard. Obviously some of the shit he did wouldn't raise an eyebrow today, but it wasn't normal shit to do in 1972 and he did it intentionally to drum up controversy.
>>62003937
>and he did it intentionally to drum up controversy.
Except you wouldn't fucking know that in the first place, would you?
>>62003883
>I don't think it's outrageous to think that he was adventurous at the time but realized as he got older that it wasn't really his bag.
/thread
>>62003965
I'm not going to argue with you because you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Go watch a documentary or read a book about Bowie or some shit the guy fucking invented the whole hypersexual media toying persona that people like Madonna and Lady Gaga took after.
Just watch an interview with him he was confrontational as fuck.
Friendly reminder that David Bowie wasn't actually a pedo and that he literally appropriated pedo culture as a marketing tool.
In the late 60s Bowie banged a 13 year old in order to make the elite pedo community respect him. All the while he was married to a ADULT woman and having high profile affairs with ADULT British actresses while Michael Jackson had been sent to court over his alleged pedoness.
Bowie admitted later in his career that his pedo behavior was "more of a product of the times than actual biology".
Why does he never get shit for this?
>>62004010
Reminder that if you're as talented and influential as someone like Bowie then no one gives a shit what a reprehensible, monstrous human you are.
>>62002489
>implying cultural appropriation is a bad thing
back to tumblr faggot.
>>62004042
>cultural appropriation isn't real nigger go back to tumblr
>why the fuck are normies stealing my nerd culture and using it as a fashion statement
>>62004025
but people love subway
>>62004052
I don't actually believe in "nerd culture" and I don't really care if people "steal it" anyway. I don't feel some kind of pride for playing video games or browsing some shitty laotian cooking board. It's just something I do. Pathetic attempt at defeating an argument that wasn't ever made though sport.
>>62004025
He wasn't monstrous at all and that allegation of statutory rape is totally fucking bogus, but in this day and age we've decided that evidence isn't important when you have a fucking agenda to push, haven't we?
>>62004084
I don't believe in ghosts.
>>62004130
>in this day and age
Like 3 people on tumblr posted "bowies a rapist". Wow that sure is an example of a generation wide issue.
>>62004145
Guess you haven't checked up on any of the major rape hoaxes that have been happening for the past couple years have you buddy?
>>62004145
Bill Cosby is innocent
>>62004130
I'm not being serious. I don't think Bowie is a monster I love him. I just mean that even if famous people do reprehensible things, like Chris Brown beating up Rhiana, people don't give a shit. It's only when you've fallen out of public favor that they'll turn on you, like Cosbie. And Bowie was never not relevant.
Is his son as handsome as his father? He's making the Warcraft movie which is weird but cool I guess.
>>62004154
What major rape hoaxes? If you mean >>62004161 you're a fucking idiot
>>62004163
His son looks like your average hipster dork, unfortunately. Bowie was one good looking mother fucker, shame it didn't pass on.
>>62004174
UVA Rape hoax, duke lacross rape hoax, the false rape allegation against the dude from bright eyes, there's tons. Do some reading on it if you get the time.
>>62004195
These things have been happening forever and none of the ones you named are even that high profile. Your worldview is being skewed by 4chan.
>>62002489
I do the same thing as Bowie, in this sjw age I pretend to be an effeminate faggot while still subtly asserting alpha tendencies. I have an abundant social life and fuck hot girl friends who think I'm a cute charming gay guy
>>62004178
Ugh I just looked him up. Damn shame. Bowie was one of those strangely attractive people. Like Benedict Cumberwhatever I guess, not handsome in a traditional masculine sense but very handsome regardless.
>>62004211
s-sufjan?...
>>62004203
You're a fucking faggot.
>>62004274
Is your inability to be civil and follow a conversation a generational issue?
I actually don't know. The whole bi chic is fucking retarded. And there are gay people who actually look up to him. I fucking read Editorials about how Bowie was their gay idol. Holy shit, baka. Fucking queers with shit taste are worse than Bowie fans.
>>62003724
he was a closet heterosexual
he enjoyed the rebellion and fasion that came with being gay
if Bowie pretending to be gay offends you, that's really pathetic
b-but did bowie and jagger really fug??
>>62004178
>His son looks like your average hipster dork, unfortunately. Bowie was one good looking mother fucker, shame it didn't pass on
She's only like 15 now, but I bet his daughter with Iman will grow up to be gorgeous. Halfbreeds usually are.
>>62006249
Yeah is there any proof of that? I've heard people who don't know shit about bowie say he fucked jagger but is any of it true? I understand why none of them would admit it but then where did the rumor even come from then?
>appropriation is a bad thing
>gays have culture which makes them separate from the rest of society
You can only pick one
God I wish sjws would know what survival of the fittest meant
>>62002523
This is very current
>>62002890
THIS
Wasn't coming out as gay on the media a career ruiner back on those days? How the fuck did it work for Bowie?
>>62002489
>muh cultural appropriation
gb2 tumblr
>>62003802
>Second, I strongly doubt he did anything with the intention of causing controversy.
Watch any in-depth interview on youtube and he says he did on no uncertain terms.
>>62006742
His wife supposedly walked in on them having sex.
>>62007494
Yeah but is this confirmed? Did she say this in an interview or anything? That's the thing right, if his wife supposedly walked in on it then it might aswell never have happened. It's like if i said that Eno fucked Bowie during the making of Low.
>>62004010
Pretty good bait 6/10
>>62006996
He made it HIS thing.
>>62003908
>I'm talking about the intent he had, looking at it as someone who isn't a repressed idiot from the 70s
so you're just gonna completely ignore the context then?
I dream that I was stranded on an alien planet and Bowie was there.
Not even making this up.
>friendly reminder
>acts like an asshole
>>62002489
why would he get shit for it?
