Loved this song the first time I heard it in '74 at a party! Always loved this song and felt that it was about the fakery and shallowness of the modeling world, seeing that Bryan Ferry has always had a penchant for young models,and how he felt. Read more into the lyrics than just seeing "take a powder" and assume it means blow. Take a powder also means take a rest or slow down. Maybe some of you out there are too young to know that expression.
@Organicmom in the context of the party, in which the author is fully engaged with a party, “take a powder” is more likely to refer to a line of cocaine or similar. But that is incidental to the song and just another example of the artifice of his life.
@Organicmom in the context of the party, in which the author is fully engaged with a party, “take a powder” is more likely to refer to a line of cocaine or similar. But that is incidental to the song and just another example of the artifice of his life.
Loved this song the first time I heard it in '74 at a party! Always loved this song and felt that it was about the fakery and shallowness of the modeling world, seeing that Bryan Ferry has always had a penchant for young models,and how he felt. Read more into the lyrics than just seeing "take a powder" and assume it means blow. Take a powder also means take a rest or slow down. Maybe some of you out there are too young to know that expression.
@Organicmom in the context of the party, in which the author is fully engaged with a party, “take a powder” is more likely to refer to a line of cocaine or similar. But that is incidental to the song and just another example of the artifice of his life.
@Organicmom in the context of the party, in which the author is fully engaged with a party, “take a powder” is more likely to refer to a line of cocaine or similar. But that is incidental to the song and just another example of the artifice of his life.