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* ConceptVideo: "I'm Afraid of Americans" pays homage to ''Film/TaxiDriver'' by seeing Bowie flee the "Johnny" of the song, who may or may not be a figment of his paranoid imagination.
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* ConceptVideo: "I'm Afraid of Americans" pays homage to ''Film/TaxiDriver'' by seeing Bowie flee the "Johnny" [[Music/NineInchNails "Johnny"]] of the song, who may or may not be a figment of his paranoid imagination.
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* ConceptVideo: "I'm Afraid of Americans" pays homage to ''Film/TaxiDriver'' by seeing Bowie flee the "Johnny" of the song, who may or may not be a figment of his paranoid imagination.
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''Earthling'' is the twenty-first studio album by Music/DavidBowie, released in 1997. It is also his first self-produced album since 1974's ''Music/DiamondDogs''.
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''Earthling'' is the twenty-first studio album by Music/DavidBowie, released in 1997.1997 through Creator/RCARecords in the UK and Creator/VirginRecords in the US. It is also his first self-produced album since 1974's ''Music/DiamondDogs''.
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* LoudnessWar: ''Earthling'' is the first Bowie album to suffer from this trope, coming in at just [=DR7=]; later Bowie albums would continue to be compressed, with only ''[[Music/{{Hours}} 'hours...']]'' surpassing this album in dynamics (even then, it only marginally exceeds it, at just [=DR8=]).
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* LoudnessWar: ''Earthling'' is the first Bowie album to suffer from this trope, coming in at just [=DR7=]; later Bowie albums would continue to be compressed, with only ''[[Music/{{Hours}} ''[[Music/HoursDavidBowieAlbum 'hours...']]'' surpassing this album in dynamics (even then, it only marginally exceeds it, at just [=DR8=]).
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* BackToCameraPose: The album art depicts him standing over a green field while doing a ReverseArmFold with his back to the camera. According to collaborator Reeves Gabrels, the cover was intended to reconnect Bowie with his homeland of England, having lived in the US for roughly 23 years by that point; fittingly, Bowie's back is emblazoned in a Union Jack.
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* BackToCameraPose: The album art depicts him standing over a green field while doing a ReverseArmFold with his back to the camera. According to collaborator Reeves Gabrels, the cover was intended to reconnect Bowie with his homeland of England, having lived in the US for roughly 23 years by that point; fittingly, [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead Bowie's back is emblazoned in a Union Jack.Jack]].
* GhibliHills: The album cover depicts Bowie gazing at a lush, pastoral field ahead of him.
* ProtestSong: According to Bowie, "I'm Afraid of Americans" was written as a "sardonic" critique of corporate globalization, which he characterized as a form of colonialism.
-->"The invasion by any homogenized culture is so depressing, the erection of another Disney World in, say, Umbria, Italy, more so. It strangles the indigenous culture and narrows expression of life."
-->"The invasion by any homogenized culture is so depressing, the erection of another Disney World in, say, Umbria, Italy, more so. It strangles the indigenous culture and narrows expression of life."
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* TranslatedCoverVersion: A Mandarin version of "Seven Years in Tibet" can be found in 2002's Best of Bowie DVD as an EasterEgg.
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* TranslatedCoverVersion: A Mandarin version of "Seven Years in Tibet" can be found in Tibet" was recorded for the Hong Kong release of the album, which features the track on a bonus CD single. It was later included on the DVD release of 2002's Best ''Best of Bowie'' as an EasterEgg.
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: The album cover depicts BowieDVD in a Union Jack longcoat designed by Alexander [=McQueen=]; according to collaborator Reeves Gabriels, the outfit was intended to reconnect Bowie with England after having spent much of his life outside of the country. Biographer Nicholas Pegg also described the coat as an EasterEgg.a nod to the turbulent history of the Union Jack's meaning since the start of Bowie's career in TheSixties, up to the "Cool Britannia" movement associated with {{Britpop}} (which was at the height of its popularity when the album released in early 1997).
* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: The album cover depicts Bowie
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* AnimalEyes, HellishPupils, SupernaturalGoldEyes: All apply to Bowie in the latter half of the [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsbj33ZRuk1qk98y7o1_1280.jpg "Little Wonder" video]].
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* AnimalEyes, HellishPupils, SupernaturalGoldEyes: All apply to Bowie in the AnimalEyes: The latter half of the [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsbj33ZRuk1qk98y7o1_1280.jpg "Little Wonder" video]].music video depicts Bowie with bright yellow cat eyes.
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* GratuitousPanning: The outro of "Little Wonder" does this. Also, some of the synth beats in "I'm Afraid of Americans" do this.
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* GratuitousPanning: The outro of "Little Wonder" does this. Also, and some of the synth beats in "I'm Afraid of Americans" do this.jump around the left and right audio channels.
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* SpokenWordInMusic: "Law (Earthlings on Fire)"
-->''Sure I get a little bit afraid, sometimes''
-->''Sure I get a little bit afraid, sometimes''
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* SpokenWordInMusic: Most of Bowie's vocals in "Law (Earthlings on Fire)"
-->''Sure I get a little bit afraid, sometimes''Fire)" are spoken rather than sung, save for the lines "with the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground" and "earthlings on fire."
-->''Sure I get a little bit afraid, sometimes''
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* GratuitousPanning: The outro of "Little Wonder" does this.
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* GratuitousPanning: The outro of "Little Wonder" does this. Also, some of the synth beats in "I'm Afraid of Americans" do this.
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* {{Expy}}: [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] described his character in the "I'm Afraid of Americans" music video as an imitation of Travis Bickle from ''Film/TaxiDriver'', noting that this stemmed from the film being a direct source of inspiration for the video. The key difference is that Reznor's character is much more malicious, actively stalking Bowie throughout the video with apparent intent to cause harm.
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* {{Expy}}: [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] described his character in the "I'm Afraid of Americans" music video as an imitation of Travis Bickle from ''Film/TaxiDriver'', noting that this stemmed from the film being a direct source of inspiration for the video. The key difference is that where Bickle was impulsive, attention-seeking, and hugely ambiguous in morality, Reznor's character in the video is much a more malicious, actively clear-cut villain, stalking Bowie throughout the video with apparent visible intent to cause harm.
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Nine Inch Nails' [[IAmTheBand then-only member]], Trent Reznor himself, would later remix one of ''Earthling''[='s=] singles, "I'm Afraid of Americans", and star in its music video. Other singles include "Little Wonder", "Dead Man Walking" and "Seven Years In Tibet". "Telling Lies" was notably the first work by a major popular music artist to be released over the internet, being officially available for download in three different versions, released on September 11, September 18, and September 25, 1996. The campaign was launched by a promotional activity on an online chat in which he and two impersonators tasked fans with identifying the real deal through an inversion of Two Truths and a Lie, in which the real Bowie would tell factoids about himself and the impersonators would tell equally-convincing fibs before asking the chat to vote on which Bowie they thought was the real one. [[YourCostumeNeedsWork The real Bowie came in third.]] The three versions wouldn't be available physically until the CD single and 12" single releases on November 4, both of which would offer the full lot of them on one package; until then, the digital versions were collectively downloaded by over 300,000 people, which in 1996 was beyond impressive.
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Nine Inch Nails' [[IAmTheBand then-only member]], Trent Reznor himself, would later remix one the last of ''Earthling''[='s=] singles, "I'm Afraid of Americans", and star in its music video. Other video, which became Bowie's first in over a decade to see heavy rotation on Creator/{{MTV}}. The four singles include prior to it were "Telling Lies", "Little Wonder", "Dead Man Walking" and "Seven Years In Tibet". Tibet".
"Telling Lies" was notably the first work by a major popular music artist to be released over the internet, being officially available for download in three different versions, released on September 11, September 18, and September 25, 1996. The campaign was launched by a promotional activity on an online chat in which he and two impersonators tasked fans with identifying the real deal through an inversion of Two Truths and a Lie, in which the real Bowie would tell factoids about himself and the impersonators would tell equally-convincing fibs before asking the chat to vote on which Bowie they thought was the real one. [[YourCostumeNeedsWork The real Bowie came in third.]] The three versions wouldn't be available physically until the CD single and 12" single releases on November 4, both of which would offer the full lot of them on one package; until then, the digital versions were collectively downloaded by over 300,000 people, which in 1996 was beyond impressive.
"Telling Lies" was notably the first work by a major popular music artist to be released over the internet, being officially available for download in three different versions, released on September 11, September 18, and September 25, 1996. The campaign was launched by a promotional activity on an online chat in which he and two impersonators tasked fans with identifying the real deal through an inversion of Two Truths and a Lie, in which the real Bowie would tell factoids about himself and the impersonators would tell equally-convincing fibs before asking the chat to vote on which Bowie they thought was the real one. [[YourCostumeNeedsWork The real Bowie came in third.]] The three versions wouldn't be available physically until the CD single and 12" single releases on November 4, both of which would offer the full lot of them on one package; until then, the digital versions were collectively downloaded by over 300,000 people, which in 1996 was beyond impressive.
* {{Expy}}: [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] described his character in the "I'm Afraid of Americans" music video as an imitation of Travis Bickle from ''Film/TaxiDriver'', noting that this stemmed from the film being a direct source of inspiration for the video. The key difference is that Reznor's character is much more malicious, actively stalking Bowie throughout the video with apparent intent to cause harm.
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* WholePlotReference: The music video for "I'm Afraid of Americans" is an extended homage to ''Film/TaxiDriver'', featuring similar themes of urban paranoia and violence on the streets of New York. Incidentally, the poster for ''Taxi Driver'' was done by the same painter as the cover for Bowie's earlier album ''Music/DiamondDogs''.
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* WholePlotReference: The music video for "I'm Afraid of Americans" is an extended homage to ''Film/TaxiDriver'', featuring similar themes of urban paranoia and violence on the streets of New York.York; [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] even described his character in the video as an {{expy}} of Travis Bickle. Incidentally, the poster for ''Taxi Driver'' was done by the same painter as the cover for Bowie's earlier album ''Music/DiamondDogs''.
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* BackToCameraPose: The album art depicts him standing over a green field while doing a ReverseArmFold with his back to the camera. According to collaborator Reeves Gabrels, the cover was intended to reconnect Bowie with his homeland of England, having lived in the US for roughly 23 years by that point; fittingly, Bowie's back is emblazoned in a Union Jack.
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* RearrangeTheSong: "I'm Afraid of Americans" was originally recorded during the ''Music/{{Outside}}'' sessions and included in ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' as "I'm Afraid of the Animals", featuring considerably different lyrics (among other things lacking the first verse and mentioning "Dummy" and "the animals" instead of "Jonny" and "Americans"). The song was rewritten and re-recorded for its inclusion on ''Earthling''.
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* Main/{{Eagleland}}: "I'm Afraid of Americans" is Type 2,, depicting America as depraved, dysfunctional, and something to be feared rather than admired.
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* Main/{{Eagleland}}: {{Eagleland}}: "I'm Afraid of Americans" is Type 2,, 2, depicting America as depraved, dysfunctional, and something to be feared rather than admired.
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* ReverseArmFold: Bowie strikes this pose in the cover photo, gazing at a green field.
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* TimeTitle: "Seven Years in Tibet" is named as such after the 1957 novel of the same name, tying in with its lyrics about the killing of a Tibetan monk; incidentally, the song released 40 years after the book did.
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* BoomHeadshot: "Seven Years in Tibet" starts in the immediate aftermath of a Tibetan monk being fatally shot in the head, with an old woman holding his blown-out brains while asking the monk if he's somehow okay.
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* LighterAndSofter: Is this compared to ''[[Music/{{Outside}} 1. Outside]]''-- but not by much.
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* LighterAndSofter: Is this compared to the very bleak and very violent RockOpera ''[[Music/{{Outside}} 1. Outside]]''-- but not by much.
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: The music video for "Dead Man Walking" prominently features a little person with a gash in his head feeling around a room with a large rack of beef ribs.
* PerformanceVideo: "Seven Years in Tibet" mixes videotaped footage of Bowie performing the song live with images from the album liner notes and Tibet manipulated with video editing effects.
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* SurrealMusicVideo: All of the music videos from this album have shades of this.
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* SurrealMusicVideo: All SurrealMusicVideo:
** "Little Wonder" mixes together various video editing techniques to provide an ethereal portrait ofthe Bowie and a [[Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars Ziggy Stardust]] lookalike frantically wandering around and beneath New York City, including scenes of living severed eyes and Bowie becoming a floating, ghostlike figure in a subway tunnel.
** "Dead Man Walking" combines unnervingly abstract art installations, a little person and a rack of beef ribs, and Bowie and Gail Ann Dorsey mucking about in a longcoat and a demon costume, respectively.
** "I'm Afraid of Americans" starts in a grounded, everyday manner, but gradually grows more and more weird as Bowie's character continues to get wrapped up in his paranoia, culminating in a vision of Jonny carrying a cross down an alleyway alongside a dark parade.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The "I'm Afraid of Americans" musicvideos from this album have shades video shows that Bowie's character isn't exactly right in the head, with his paranoia leading him to see visions of this.people pointing guns at one another-- and at him-- across the streets of New York. The video only gets stranger and more disjointed as it goes on, encouraging the viewer to ask how much of it is actually real.
** "Little Wonder" mixes together various video editing techniques to provide an ethereal portrait of
** "Dead Man Walking" combines unnervingly abstract art installations, a little person and a rack of beef ribs, and Bowie and Gail Ann Dorsey mucking about in a longcoat and a demon costume, respectively.
** "I'm Afraid of Americans" starts in a grounded, everyday manner, but gradually grows more and more weird as Bowie's character continues to get wrapped up in his paranoia, culminating in a vision of Jonny carrying a cross down an alleyway alongside a dark parade.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The "I'm Afraid of Americans" music
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* WholePlotReference: The music video for "I'm Afraid of Americans" is an extended homage to ''Film/TaxiDriver'', featuring similar themes of urban paranoia and violence. Incidentally, the poster for ''Taxi Driver'' was done by the same painter as the cover for Bowie's earlier album ''Music/DiamondDogs''.
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* WholePlotReference: The music video for "I'm Afraid of Americans" is an extended homage to ''Film/TaxiDriver'', featuring similar themes of urban paranoia and violence.violence on the streets of New York. Incidentally, the poster for ''Taxi Driver'' was done by the same painter as the cover for Bowie's earlier album ''Music/DiamondDogs''.
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* WhamShot: Occurs 2 minutes 40 seconds into the video for "I'm Afraid of Americans". Bowie catches a taxi to leave New York to escape a stalker named Jonny (played by [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]]), only to have the taxi operator licensee's name change to Jonny.
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* WhamShot: Occurs 2 minutes 40 seconds into the video for "I'm Afraid of Americans". Bowie catches a taxi to leave New York to escape a stalker named Jonny (played by [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]]), only to have the taxi operator licensee's name change to Jonny.Jonny.
* WholePlotReference: The music video for "I'm Afraid of Americans" is an extended homage to ''Film/TaxiDriver'', featuring similar themes of urban paranoia and violence. Incidentally, the poster for ''Taxi Driver'' was done by the same painter as the cover for Bowie's earlier album ''Music/DiamondDogs''.
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