There are days that you wake up and think, "nothing very special is going to happen today." But then, while browsing through facebook you just happen to see a post that really catches your eye. You immediately learn something that fills you with hope and happiness and a light you can't explain. Your hero, your idol, the man who wrote songs you found yourself singing in the shower some mornings - the man whose last blog update was his excitement to voice a fish on spongebob - has released a new song, and a new album. The first one in ten years.
Why hadn't I heard anything about it until today, it's been out for five! Well, because he did it secretly. No build up or media hype, just -- there it is. And it's already in the top UK charts. Never mind that he's living in New York.
I found myself giddy and raced to google to search for "David Bowie, Where are we now?"
The video was beautiful. It made me choked up and gave me an intense desire to cry. If I wasn't poor I'd be purchasing the album on iTunes right this minute. The song is so sad and melancholic, Bowie looks as if he's going to cry the entire song. I wanted to commit the entire song to memory.
This is a great day for me, since I first realized who David Bowie was - and being that he's getting to be rather old, I never thought I would live to experience a day like this, to feel the joy at my musical hero releasing a song. I imagine it's what it would feel like if the Beatles were all alive and happened to get together to put a little number out there. The fact Bowie's voice has aged and it can be heard in his singing, means little. It just adds a maturity to the song a feeling of, "I know."
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