Amusing that you like Radiohead, and are my age, and actually made the connection to the Nazis, but the experiments he’s talking about are the MK Ultra projects that were conducted in the US, UK, Canada, France, and Germany by Nazi scientists on civilians.
Amusing that you like Radiohead, and are my age, and actually made the connection to the Nazis, but the experiments he’s talking about are the MK Ultra projects that were conducted in the US, UK, Canada, France, and Germany by Nazi scientists on civilians.
Bowie is writing about his “creation.” It doesn’t take much to see that someone who changed persona abruptly, repeatedly, has dissociative identity disorder - he’s telling you what happened to him as a child to make him how he was.
Bowie is writing about his “creation.” It doesn’t take much to see that someone who changed persona abruptly, repeatedly, has dissociative identity disorder - he’s telling you what happened to him as a child to make him how he was.
Librium and E.S.T (electric shock treatment) are clues as they featured in programming sessions - Combined with him, they make 3 (the magic number)... in other words, they split his personality
In the middle, when he says they must be dim, you can hear a little child saying “can I keep him?” - inferring a pet. Then at the end, ouvre le chien - open the dog. A hallmark of MK Ultra was giving a child a pet, and then once the child was bonded to the pet, they’d be forced to kill it - causing a trauma sufficient to create a dissociative split.
Finally, it’s clear throughout that he’s being threatened with severe consequence for non-compliance. Given the point in his career he’s writing this, the other references on this album, the fact that the following year he releases hunky dory which all but spells it out for you in Quicksand and The Bewlway Brothers, I think it’s reasonable to conclude the song’s meaning is literal, and about Bowie himself. He’s trying desperately hard to get out of being what he would become because he understood that no matter what he did, that he and his talent were going to be used to further an agenda he didn’t agree with.
about the holocaust, i'm guessing, and the horrible experiments the jews were subjected to, resulting in loss of sanity (among other things).
not sure what the last two lines translate too, "Zane, Zane, Zane, Ouvre le Chien"
my fave song on Man Who Sold the World
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Amusing that you like Radiohead, and are my age, and actually made the connection to the Nazis, but the experiments he’s talking about are the MK Ultra projects that were conducted in the US, UK, Canada, France, and Germany by Nazi scientists on civilians.
Amusing that you like Radiohead, and are my age, and actually made the connection to the Nazis, but the experiments he’s talking about are the MK Ultra projects that were conducted in the US, UK, Canada, France, and Germany by Nazi scientists on civilians.
Bowie is writing about his “creation.” It doesn’t take much to see that someone who changed persona abruptly, repeatedly, has dissociative identity disorder - he’s telling you what happened to him as a child to make him how he was.
Bowie is writing about his “creation.” It doesn’t take much to see that someone who changed persona abruptly, repeatedly, has dissociative identity disorder - he’s telling you what happened to him as a child to make him how he was.
Librium and E.S.T (electric shock treatment) are clues as they featured in programming sessions - Combined with him, they make 3 (the magic number)... in other words, they split his personality
In the middle, when he says they must be dim, you can hear a little child saying “can I keep him?” - inferring a pet. Then at the end, ouvre le chien - open the dog. A hallmark of MK Ultra was giving a child a pet, and then once the child was bonded to the pet, they’d be forced to kill it - causing a trauma sufficient to create a dissociative split.
Finally, it’s clear throughout that he’s being threatened with severe consequence for non-compliance. Given the point in his career he’s writing this, the other references on this album, the fact that the following year he releases hunky dory which all but spells it out for you in Quicksand and The Bewlway Brothers, I think it’s reasonable to conclude the song’s meaning is literal, and about Bowie himself. He’s trying desperately hard to get out of being what he would become because he understood that no matter what he did, that he and his talent were going to be used to further an agenda he didn’t agree with.
In my opinion, that is