![]() ![]() It’s oddly fashioned, for one thing, being hung up on refrains and verses that blur into each other, sung over endless shifts between F# minor and D major chords (hinting at an A major key that never establishes itself). Familiar enough in voice a lyric with “stars” in the title the guitars genteelly distorted: enough to stand out in the mix but not causing trouble. ![]() Had “Stars” come first (Tony Visconti thought it a contender for debut single), would it have made a stronger mark? Most likely, but there’s something off about the track, despite it sounding like one would expect Bowie to sound in 2013. Floria Sigismondi’s video for “Stars” (see below) earned a few “think” pieces but evidently didn’t move sales that much. Some of it was simply timing-“Stars” came out seven weeks after “ Where Are We Now?,” which had soaked up the “Bowie’s back” hype. The huh-huh-HUH-HUH vocal tag goes further back-an Elvis loop or maybe a hook filched from the grotesque UK #1 “ Cinderella Rockafella.”īut in 2013 “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)” stiffed: peaking at 102 on the UK singles chart, 21 in Billboard‘s US Adult Alternative Songs and in the low 80s in the Irish and Dutch charts. Mike Campbell-esque lead guitar a Traveling Wilburys acoustic shuffle. At first, it sounds like a comeback single from some lost 1987. ![]()
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