Bowie is an absolute master. Bowie was making a statement about the struggle of the aboriginal people and how the red shoes represented western civilization. Very powerful narrative. He was a cool dude.
@JAGreen-lj9zi2 жыл бұрын
Yes it's about how white Western Civilization has taken the natural natives the Aboriginal people and convince them to sell some of their history and cultural identities and works of art desperately cheap for money to live in the modern Western Civilization that only benefits white Western and keep them underpaid and working cheap because they are looked upon as being second class because of their color and being native. And the young girl and her people are struggling to try to fit into all the glamor by taking jobs that underpays them as a struggle to try to catch up to the ideal lifestyle that Western Civilization says that you supposed to look like and dress like in order for them to survive they see they are still selling their cultural identity cheap that's why you see the girl go back in her mind to step in and mingling up the shoes on the ground because they see exactly now what is happened to them and the ideas that keeps them at the bottom of the heap pretty much the way Black America in America has been done and native America in America United States.🙆🏾♀️
@JAGreen-lj9zi2 жыл бұрын
🙆🏾♀️ oh by the way my great grandmother was an aborigine who came to the states when she was about 12 years old with her parents from Australia and she married a black American man when she was 16 in the early 1900s
@dalesco4205 Жыл бұрын
Like China Girl, Let's Dance is a commentary about modern civilization, here embodied by the red shoes, and its destructiveness
@user-zy1ku2he1n6 ай бұрын
Thank you for saying what you know. Red shoes represent western civilization. I never heard of that. Very informative.
@superbatfirenze4 жыл бұрын
i swear i got tears in my eyes listening and seing this...Bowie was such a pure Talent and, as most of the Englush Acts, he had that Style in doing songs ....Unique
@colonelpeppers1994 жыл бұрын
Bowie was a genius an absolute legend, you could pick his songs out of a hat to react to and you would be guaranteed a good video and even better song. Tons to choose from but one of his most underrated songs was absolute beginners. A great video as well. Great reaction Dereck.
@californiahummus4 жыл бұрын
Looks like a statement on the settlement of aboriginal lands and the struggle of being second class in your own country. The red shoes represent the western life. Also China Girl is a great song from the same album.
@SpaceCattttt4 жыл бұрын
Isn't it also meant as a rejection of consumerism? i always thought that would be rather ironic (if true) seeing as how this was arguably Bowie's most commercially successful song.
@Yamaha.ha.ha.ha.4 жыл бұрын
It’s about sacrifice. Pause the video at 2:30 and look at the paintings on the wall. Left is a one eye monster and on the right is a painting of a woman being sawn in half by someone wearing red shoes. Then watch the red shoe club with the podesta. There is even a less dance David Bowie video with all this played out and explained very well. I love this song and grew up with David Bowie but the evidence can’t be ignored.
@nigelralphmurphy28528 ай бұрын
Glad someone actually got it.
@momastone3 жыл бұрын
"Put on your red shoes and dance the blues." is my favorite line in rock.
@jerryb92074 жыл бұрын
Bowie in the Australian Outback, what a contrast, just like his entire career. He was a groundbreaking artist. Check out Lazarus, his last video when he knew he was dying. Deep!
@fionatsang93534 жыл бұрын
He loved it out here in Australia; he gave a whole heap of money to the dance school that the kids in this video were from, and he had a house at Elizabeth Bay in Sydney for a while.
@Peter.484 жыл бұрын
Stevie Ray Vaughan plays the sologitar on Lets Dance 😎
@shirleybuffington64204 жыл бұрын
He also played several other songs on that album
@SuperPlacido14 жыл бұрын
Wait... What? Is this true? Amazing! I don't knew that!
@eggy19624 жыл бұрын
Nile Rogers was heavily involved in this song, a large chunk of "Chic" influence
@XercesandAlexander4 жыл бұрын
The story was the David wanted something people could dance to but wanted to combine blues-rock. That was a great album Bowie, Niles Rogers, and Stevie Ray Vaughn.. even Giorgio Moroder. Great combination.
@Radagast-4 жыл бұрын
That bass line is his.
@sexysadie29013 жыл бұрын
So heavily he produced the whole album.
@lamusiclover22643 жыл бұрын
Nile Rodgers produced this entire album.
@willrichardson5193 жыл бұрын
His remix of Steven Wilson's Personal Shopper is must recommended!
@sweeperboy4 жыл бұрын
There's so much David Bowie material out there, it's like another Madonna series if you do it. And I wouldn't mind one bit. "Ashes for Ashes" is my favourite song, but there are so many others.
@vendelayindustries4 жыл бұрын
Produced by Nile Rogers, pure genius. Check out We are family, He's the greatest dancer, I'm coming out, Upside down. Sooo many great songs he has produced over the years.
@pailbadcock4 жыл бұрын
This was filmed in Australia. This is one of Bowies best songs. You have great taste, Dereck!
@supralumina4 жыл бұрын
I love Bowie! Madonna loves David, her first concert go as a teenager was a Bowie one - she worked with Nile Rogers on the Like a Virgin album after hearing this album. You should review China Girl, the beat is instantly memorable.
@sallysteele92204 жыл бұрын
"Fame" and "Fashion" are two of my favourites by David Bowie.
@marymary54944 жыл бұрын
Bowie’s work is a whole other world. Please react to some of his older stuff. 👌💕
@martinaboro14514 жыл бұрын
Yesss Lets Dance is one great David Bowie songs, My faves are Changes, Life on Mars, Space Oddity, Starman, Young Americans, Heroes and Rebel Rebel tho... I hope you would react to them ^^
@sito71864 жыл бұрын
Ashes to Ashes
@michaelmyers754 жыл бұрын
Bowie’s video for Jump They Say is pretty intriguing. Great review as always.
@drewg56374 жыл бұрын
Bowie's "Modern Love" features some great drum and piano and an out of this world sax.
@scarlett76134 жыл бұрын
David Bowie. What a great choice😀
@ReactionsByJeff4 жыл бұрын
1983 was (one of) the best years in music. #eighthgradememories
@toast81863 жыл бұрын
The backing vocals were performed by George & Frank Simms who David Bowie invited to play on the album's promotion "Serious Moonlight Tour"
@jerrycote6594 жыл бұрын
Great choice as a starting point for Bowie who decided to do a “pop” record, but, on his terms which elevates this “pop” song to another level and I think you definitely got that based on your reaction. I suggest you check out “Sound and Vision” which is an amazing song.
@timothytaylor91534 жыл бұрын
A bit of trivia. Madonna is a huge fan of Bowie - it was this album that drew M to work with Nile Rogers on Like A Virgin. Also, the String version of this song is amazing. It’s on iTunes.
@andrewstolpman67433 жыл бұрын
The coolest cat in the room at any given time! Genius and iconic!
@kyloren10144 жыл бұрын
David Bowie on his “Glass Spider Tour” along with Duran Duran and The Outfield was my first concert :)
@barbaramcgee89334 жыл бұрын
That was a great show! Only concert I saw that was better was Prince. Bowie and Prince are two of my all time favorites. Losing them both in the same year gutted me.
@danielsegen4 жыл бұрын
Love Bowie.... Modern love is super upbeat.... love also Young Americans, Heroes (there is a beautiful version from Depeche Mode), Thursday’s child, This is not America...
@danielmurphy44293 жыл бұрын
Let’s Dance as well as Bowie himself, were of it’s own paradigm. You had a challenge in categorizing this song, because there’s nothing to compare it to. His genius made him legend. Good job!
@englandportugal914 жыл бұрын
This Is An Iconic Singer & Song! Great Reaction!
@ladykaycey4 жыл бұрын
This is my favourite David Bowie song. I absolutely love it. It does something to me. The music, beat and vocals are perfection 👌
@timredfern12824 жыл бұрын
Rip David a true superstar 👍🇬🇧
@joelscottarnold32624 жыл бұрын
Without question one of my top 5 songs EVER. I could be anywhere in the world and hear this and know things were going to be awesome. Nile Rogers production is dripping from this entire album, and really introduced Bowie to the MTV generation. Just SUPERB!!! Thank you so much for reacting to this!!
@stephen67994 жыл бұрын
Great song! Bowie was the artist that most influenced Madonna. She credits him with changing her life forever.
@shirleybuffington64204 жыл бұрын
The guitar player in this song was Stevie Ray Vaughn in case you didn’t known
@bburgjaco4 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget Stevie Ray Vaughn on the guitar solo at the end!
@Ontir3 жыл бұрын
Bowie said only Nile Rogers could talk him into starting the song with the chorus.
@SoftKitteh2 жыл бұрын
The whole "red shoes" and dancing is very interesting. The Red Shoes was originally a story by Hans Christian Andersen where the shoes were the most important thing in the world to the little girl who was given them. And then there was the film The Red Shoes in the 1940's where they were given to a dancer and when she danced with the red shoes, she couldn't stop. Another legendary song from the hugely missed David Bowie.
@minnidrake85163 жыл бұрын
Bowie voice gives that magic quality to this song
@Cybus20064 жыл бұрын
Great reaction thank you! There is a LOT of Bowie (50+ years!) to check out should you choose, if you do I think you'd like "Ashes to Ashes"! x
@sweeperboy4 жыл бұрын
I second this! The heavy synth organ used is to die for, and I'd love to see how much his hand wiggles when he hears *that* outro!!
@davidfrania89904 жыл бұрын
Thanks Dereck! This is one of my very favorite 80s songs. Interestingly enough I heard it the other day while I was in Target!
@NoahBodze3 жыл бұрын
Nobody - literally NOBODY - starts a song as well as Bowie. Queen Bitch. Spiders from Mars. Young Americans. Modern Love. Sound and Vision. All of it.
@snorpenbass41964 жыл бұрын
David Bowie actually started out as an art school nerd (much like many other genius Brit musicians of that time), who got into music because he liked it and felt it could express his art better. He struggled for a long time to get taken seriously, and finally found his preferred artistic combo (to make personas, very much inspired by improv theater and mime) in the late 60's. He went through multiple personas, then finally abandoned them in the 90's when he started out his experimental heavy rock band, Tin Machine, where he was basically himself, and kept doing it even when being just solo. There's often both experimental art and political content in his songs - from critiquing celebrity culture to being snarky about (mainly the UK's) imperialism or racism or the likes (China Girl is about orientalism, exoticizing Asian people and cultures, Running Gun Blues is about the arms industry promoting and fueling wars just to make their billions, Golden Years is about wearing nostalgia blinders). But he also made songs just to have fun, or about love or whatever topic he felt like writing about.
@susannewitt61124 жыл бұрын
The nice, handsome and easy listening Bowie. Good time.
@leonline34244 жыл бұрын
You should check Bowie's "I'm AFRAID OF AMERICANS" or "BLACK TIE WHITE NOISE"
@andreassn50504 жыл бұрын
Wikipedia says it's: Funk, new wave, dance-rock, post-disco, dance-pop, funk rock (a lot lol)
@stevenatkinson23603 жыл бұрын
This song has a duet recorded on Tina Turners private dancer tour where she sings let's dance with David Bowie. It was from the same concert where they sang tonight but then followed with let's dance . You might wont to check that one out.
@yolandeclaes33992 жыл бұрын
The best song of the 80s... Still sound as good now as it did in 1983..
@kevincinnamontoast36692 жыл бұрын
This song also showcases bowies ability to make a radio HIT to help his finances. Bowie needed to scramble out from a MOUNTAIN of debt. Bowie is an artist and was both a struggling artist and a transcendent one on different days of his long career.
@RR644343 жыл бұрын
Thank Nile Rogers for the funky bass and rhythm guitar
@chrismeadows42164 жыл бұрын
You'll get a bunch of singles in these requests and songs about space, but I've gotta request a song I feel is very profound. David Bowie - We Are the Dead.
@hejmuesli4 жыл бұрын
Check out China Girl with David Bowie also. He wrote it with Iggy Pop. A great song from the same album.
@ThefetchNZ4 жыл бұрын
A David Bowie rabbit hole is a lovely thing to find. If u wanna know that aliens exist your in the right place in the best way. ❤️
@danijel834 жыл бұрын
please react to the Blackstar video, it's possibly one of the best music videos for the past 20 years, it's an eerie masterpiece
@nickavenoso78513 жыл бұрын
David Bowie asked Nile Rodgers to come and play on his song. David Bowie came into Nile Rodgers’ room in the studio and showed him this arrangement he came up with. David played it on a 12 string guitar and it sounded like a folk song to Nile. Nile asked David if he could write a song using this arrangement. Nile added some things to it, and it became Let’s Dance. Nile talks about it in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNJ0drN03Lyyhas.html Steve Ray Vaughan also played guitar on this album.
@Dannyboy.4 жыл бұрын
Please react to David Bowie's video of "Jump they say". Amazing video (and song) !
@mariostylianou77254 жыл бұрын
Hi dude.. his best work ever!! I'm glad you react to this song..my favourite song of his..
@Joshualuv132 жыл бұрын
Bowie produced this during his time living in Australia Or from his experience here .Think it was about the divide or his observations of the division between white Australians and the indigenous Australians.The original Australians .Was his more commercial music.Was filmed in an outback Aussie pub ... Well some of it ...He looks so hot ! Voice incredible and the music arrangement and musicians are always going to be good in a Bowie collaboration as he had a knack of doing that .I love him now and forevermore.
@ALBERTMIRC4 жыл бұрын
LOVE this song!
@DawnSuttonfabfour3 жыл бұрын
This is the tour I saw him on. We had all seen loads of top bands, but were super excited to see Bowie and almost jumping up and down before he appeared. He totally brought his A game. Most excellent day. Yes it's dance music and sounds funky to me. Also, as a BTW, the BEST KEPT OUTDOOR TOILETS EVER. The Rolls Royce of portable toilets. Bowie had such class. This is important, as when I saw Queen the toilets were unusable from the get go. Never held my wee so long before (it was a long day and I peed behind a bush when nearing the unleavable car park at Knebworth in the early hours) tho they were worth it! That's rock n roll for ya!
@Terri68684 жыл бұрын
Love Bowie♥️Please do more. Star Man, Blue Jean, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Jean Genie, Changes, Fame, China Girl, Hero’s, Cactus, Slip Away,
@rw44873 жыл бұрын
Always loved this song
@TheGuerillapatriot3 жыл бұрын
Bowie is a savage, a fother mucking rock god. What a mastrful artist, the gawdamn video is f'n awesome.
@teresaluz9754 жыл бұрын
If you love Tina Turner and David Bowie, you should see them sing together live. It's epic. They were friends.
@VIDSTORAGE2 жыл бұрын
AHHHHH AHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH TWIST AND SHOUT
@rhondalamb70533 жыл бұрын
They are looking a bond going off in the back ground . Same girl David is tell a story
@rochelymedina18344 жыл бұрын
Yesssss!! My favorite song from David ❤️
@tonybarruk23 жыл бұрын
In case no-one else has mentioned it, the Let's Dance album was DB's first after his previous long-standing record contract with RCA had expired. DB was a famously a very shrewd guy and felt his previous contract wasn't good enough, so he (temporarily) ditched his most regular producer Tony Visconti (causing great friction between them), and engaged Nile Rodgers specifically to make a very commercial album (other singles were China Girl and Modern Love), which he paid for himself, and used these new recordings as leverage in negotiations (EMI were the eventual winners.) Rodgers has said that the fantastic drum sound was sampled from an undisclosed country song, triggered by Omar Hakim's live drumming.
@hooverguy60723 жыл бұрын
putting on the shoes allowed her to see the commericialised world for what it is.
@HelenBeeee3 жыл бұрын
Bowie was an active supporter of human rights at the time. The red shoes represent the lure of the city/western life. But instead of the promise of prosperity the girl and boy find that they are treated as second class and return to the land hence stomping on the shoes. It was experimental at the time was shot in Australian outback.
@Zac-si3zq2 жыл бұрын
WE want more songs by David Bowie !!!
@chrissahar20143 жыл бұрын
The guitr solo is done by Stevie Ray Vaghan a wonderful guitarist who died young.
@joelscottarnold32624 жыл бұрын
Also- the video is a huge commentary on the systemic racism that exists in Australia towards the indigenous people of that country. I think the red shoes represent working towards the kind of success the boy and girl imagine having in the “Other Australia”. Bowie was WAY ahead of his time. Notice she puts on the red shoes and they see an atomic blast? “ Western Culture will end your world.”
@willynilly25453 жыл бұрын
I miss Bowie the most
@TheGuerillapatriot3 жыл бұрын
Nile Rogers did Daft Punk too. Bowie is a savage, that album was f'n great.
@thankyouforthemusic48814 жыл бұрын
If you want to. Check out "Space Oddity". I am spellbound everytime I listen to this song.
@joebrown95862 жыл бұрын
This hole album is brilliant
@TheMadonnasummer4 жыл бұрын
Nile Rogers Chic !!! This was the 80’s Some of the best period in music Nile Rogers bass , also playing on Like a Virgen
@tommycrawford62773 жыл бұрын
This is a Nile Rogers (Chic) produced album. Check out the song "China Girl".
@haydenwittig88773 жыл бұрын
As an australian the song was about the Aboriginals treatment in their homeland.
@carlosmarin437711 ай бұрын
heyyy ...is a classic
@WallyStreetify3 жыл бұрын
The "dance" is life itself
@gojira544 жыл бұрын
The long version which is the album track is the best when the track breaks down in the middle.
@alejozam3 жыл бұрын
this style was taken for the song Lets Dance from Craig David. Epic sound 👌🏼
@aladdinsane43454 жыл бұрын
Had to give this a thumbs up. RIP.
@Yamaha.ha.ha.ha.4 жыл бұрын
Red shoe club. Pause the video at around 2:30 and look at the paintings on the wall. Woman being sawn in half by a red shoe wearer. And a one eye monster on the other painting. Red shoe club.
@carlosfranco7282 Жыл бұрын
Nile rodgers el director hizo un trabajo tan genial en esta canción ...
@standafan41412 жыл бұрын
The funk riff was written by Nile Rodgers who had a much funkier riff to offer Bowie originally. Nile Rodgers was a little intimidated by Bowie so he slowed the riff down to what it stands here.
@douglascampbell98094 жыл бұрын
Just think Stevie Ray Vaughan was the lead guitar on this album and he walked away from the tour because this really wasn't his kind of music.
@marceltroia97504 жыл бұрын
Your on the right track Dereck
@silverstitch283 жыл бұрын
Filmed here in Australia ❤
@___David___Savian5 ай бұрын
As far as the instrumentation to answer you Dereck, The sound was heavily influenced by the Michael Jackson Thriller album that had been released just four months earlier in 1982. So, Niles Rodgers who wrote Lets Dance (and wrote hits for Madonna such as Like A Virgin and Get Into The Groove) copied the bass technique in Billie Jean to add an underlying Moog Synth low layer to this song Lets Dance. Also, the clear drum mixing which cuts through very well in this song was also because of the influence from the song Billie Jean from Michael Jackson that did not use to much reverb and low delay. That coupled with Niles great guitar rhythm riffs made this a no brainer hit for Bowie. If you want to see Niles Rodgers perform live a lot of the hits he has written himself click this Tiny Desk Concert link. You will be shocked at how many hits this man has written..kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prh1hcqUtsuRloU.html
@drunk19983 жыл бұрын
another giat of the music, new sounds before the others
@exos2823 жыл бұрын
This Song and " china girl" were written by Iggy pop to thank Bowie after he got Iggy out of prison.
@taherehvanderpuije96 Жыл бұрын
1983 I didn't know the movie that old
@SouthernArtist77 Жыл бұрын
Stevie Ray Vaughn played guitar on this song.
@SuperZiggy824 жыл бұрын
Bowie was nominated for 3 Grammmy's for both the song and the whole album that year (1982???) but some "dude" called Michael Jackson won a huge amount of Grammy's (including the one's that Bowie was nominated for) that year. I believe it was Jackson's Thriller album so it's kind of understanding aswell
@willswomble72744 жыл бұрын
It is highly political but seems to go completely over your head? Paradise lost and treated like dirt in their own land, now highly commercialised, militarised and defiled. Australia not the only land that has happened to....
@cameron45994 жыл бұрын
PLEASE. BOWIE - LIFE ON MARS!
@sweeperboy4 жыл бұрын
Good musical review but I think you're right: you got lost in the music and didn't quite "get" the video and its message the first time around. If that happens, I think the best thing to do is to do a cut of the video and come back after re-watching it. Although you kind of caught up a bit at the end, it was clearly by researching it and not your own thoughts. The key part of this - that it's about the experience of the *Aboriginal people* of Australia and how they are treated in a country that's been their home for tens of thousands of years before white people arrived there, needed to be stated more. I think it should be obvious seeing that they are Aboriginal people and there's a clear interface with "white" Australia.
@carolynwhetham9514 Жыл бұрын
Turn up in an Australian outback pub to Film this. Is about the systematic racism against our First Nations ppl. He loved here for years. Locations included Syd, beaches & Blue Mountains