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* ContestedSequel: The album blindsided fans and critics with its shift to {{soul}} and {{funk}} after Bowie's previous success as a GlamRock star, and it still generates mixed responses from audiences today. Some enjoy it for having the audacity to make such a drastic left turn and praise it as a fun, passionate soul album, while others consider it awkward and inconsistent, not helped by the fact that much of it was retooled midway through production.
* RetroactiveRecognition: The album features contributions from a young Music/LutherVandross, who sings backing vocals, provided vocal arrangements, and co-wrote "Fascination". Vandross was completely unknown at the time, but would go on to achieve success as an RAndB singer throughout the '80s and '90s.
* SignatureSong: "Fame" remains the best-known track from the album and one of Bowie's most famous songs overall, being his American BreakthroughHit and a staple of {{Greatest Hits Album}}s. Bowie himself was aware of the song's huge standing in his catalog, choosing to remix it in 1990 for the soundtrack to ''Film/PrettyWoman''.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks:
** Fans of Music/TheBeatles were not pleased by the decision to omit the "jai guru deva, ohm" chant from Bowie's CoverVersion of [[Music/LetItBe "Across the Universe"]], stating that doing so missed the point of the song, which Music/JohnLennon and Music/PaulMcCartney wrote as a reflection on the band's fascination with Transcendental Meditation. Ironically, Lennon played guitar on Bowie's version of the song and thus had a say in the lyric's omission.
** Fans and critics weren't keen on "Fame '90", considering it superfluous and inferior to the original; the fact that it was included on ''Changesbowie'' in place of the original "Fame" only emboldened negative reactions to the remix. It got to the point where Creator/{{Rykodisc}} eventually reissued the compilation in 1996 with the original version of the song in place of the remix.
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