Though I was just a child who wasn't a fan of his music at the time, I still distinctly remember the day David Bowie left this Earth. I remember being so surprised that someone so massive could just be...gone. As I grew up and began to love and appreciate his music, I eventually found myself listening to his final record, "Blackstar." From that moment on, it has been one of my favorite albums of all time, and what I believe to be Bowie's best album.
Released 2 days before Bowie would ultimately pass away from his battle with cancer, the record finds Bowie once again reinventing himself. He was famous for being a stylistic chameleon throughout his whole career, and yet it was still incredibly surprising to hear him make a hip-hop inspired jazz rock album with his darkest themes yet.
"Blackstar" is an album about Bowie staring his own death in the face and reflecting on all that has brought him to this moment. It is a snapshot of a man being faced with the ultimate end and finding the height of his creative expression within it. This is apparent from the beginning of the record with the behemoth title track that swallows you up in its atmosphere of mortality.
Bowie's cries of "I'm a Blackstar" feel like an admission of his time coming to an end, as a literal "black star" is a dead star that is floating out in space, emitting no light at all. It seems to be a fitting description for the "Starman" who is no longer with us. This song to me feels like the sonic experience of dying, and what follows is reckoning with that fact.
My favorite song by Bowie as well as my favorite on the record comes two tracks later with "Lazarus," which feels like the thesis statement of the album. The song opens with an eerie verse that always affects me whenever I hear it.
Look up here, I'm in heavenI've got scars that can't be seenI've got drama, can't be stolenEverybody knows me now
Bowie throughout the rest of the song eludes to this idea of how this album along with the rest of his career will make him immortal, in a way. He'll be free from this mortal world, but his music remains. This would become eerily true as "Lazarus" became Bowie's first top 100 hit in decades, landing at spot 40 on the charts.
"Blackstar" epitomizes everything I love about Bowie. A tireless work ethic to constantly push the artistic envelope and therein discover more within himself. The album is a monumental achievement in artistic expression, as well as artistic integrity. It's an album that sounds nothing like anything he had made previously, and yet is still so emblematic of who David Bowie was.
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