Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles I'm feeling very still
Space Oddity, låtens mening.
This song, written during the height of the space race, is more about bowie's looming alienation than space travel. This is a romanticized conception of casting out from the normal crowd and becoming something new and different. Something Bowie still succeeds in doing.
Major Tom is a fictional, autobiographical character written by bowie about bowie. Bowie was young and idealistic when he wrote space oddity and like most idealistic and creative individuals he saw the world as selfish and materialistic and just wanted to leave.I've always heard it was about a drug overdose, and it makes perfect sense to me. He takes his pills, he's ready for liftoff, he goes into orbit, but something goes wrong and he can't find his way back to Earth. I don't know about any actual evidence to that effect, but I've always thought it was a great way to look at it. It's also a really unique song (despite the fact that it's about drugs) because most drug-related songs of the time were about good trips and opening your mind, while "Oddity" highlights the darker, deadlier side of drugs while still managing to make it seem romantic and even heroic to lift off and never come back.
Tre teorier om vad låten Space Odditys innebörd är. In my opinion så låter alla extremt trovärdiga.
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