David Bowie rarely wrote for a defined audience. He assumed listeners would change, disappear, or arrive late. Songs were built to withstand that uncertainty. 🧵 1/7

David Bowie knew when enough had been done. Overworking flattened impact. Stopping preserved energy. 🧵 1/7

Welcome to the latest episode of ‘Why Does The USA Even Have Laws Anyway?’

I just cancelled our Family Premium Spotify account. We’ve had it since pre-covid. Their prices are ludicrous, they are involved in some heavy political shit, and we’re officially going analogue again. Spotify can fuck off. Look at the alt text for their choice of cancel reasons. They’re poor.

Have all the snipers retired? I don’t get it.

David Bowie trusted specialists. He didn’t pretend to know everything. Expertise was invited, not overridden. 🧵 1/7

David Bowie didn’t eliminate tension from collaboration. He managed it. Productive friction sharpened decisions. 🧵 1/7

🚨 Breaking: Starmer tells Trump* “Stop talking about Greenland and release the Epstein Files, you orange buffoon” * I guess it is possible that Starmer did not actually say all of those words, in that order. But the message still stands.

#GVerse #FuckICE is asking the public for volunteers right now. Black Panthers are NOT having the same issue!

David Bowie’s authority rarely arrived loudly. He didn’t dominate rooms to prove control. Direction was often minimal and precise. 🧵 1/7

Today I was Kidnapped By ICE - Dawokefarmer

David Bowie didn’t need to complete every idea himself. He often stopped short deliberately. Leaving space allowed others to finish the thought. 🧵 1/7

David Bowie understood that space shapes thought. Not just acoustics - atmosphere, layout, and light influenced focus. He sought unconventional rooms that sparked unexpected behaviour. 🧵 1/7

Bluesky is doing for SM what the Labour Party should be doing for the UK public that voted for them. For those that might be confused, that’s seeing the problem and providing the best solution. 1st time.

I admire the positivity. But there won’t be any mid-terms in 2026. LW “plans” to overthrow tRump post-election won’t work. Only strength in numbers.

Apropos of nothing, this is a great tune imo. youtu.be/__TDCSNnG5w?...

David Bowie didn’t treat collaboration as delegation. He treated it as a system with shared risk. Authority existed, but it wasn’t enforced constantly. Trust did the work instead. 🧵 1/7

At what point are the American public going to accept they need to come together en-masse to take down the current regime?

David Bowie didn’t wait for inspiration - he chose constraints. Each new phase began by deciding what would *not* be allowed. Limits created direction. 🧵 1/7

1. What a speech 2. WHAT an introduction! Well done.

@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com congrats on your honour. Looking forward to seeing you later.

After periods that looked like endings, David Bowie rarely rushed to explain himself. He recalibrated quietly. Instead of summing up, he reset conditions. Work resumed without announcement. 🧵 1/7

Play, for David Bowie, wasn’t downtime. It was investigation. Trying ideas without attachment produced information. And failure became data. 🧵1/7 #musicsky

David Bowie didn’t see disruption as chaos - he treated it as discipline. Habit produces fluency, but also complacency. However, disruption forces attention back into the work. 🧵1/7

If Trump was assassinated at this point, would the future of the planet become better? Asking for a planet of friends.

10th January 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of David Bowie’s death. It’s often framed as an ending, but of course his influence didn’t pause. What changed was perspective - the work became newly legible. 🧵1/7

“Lazarus” sits at the centre of Blackstar but behaves differently. It gestures toward endings while resisting explanation. Bowie uses narrative as framing, not confession. Meaning remains unstable by design. 🧵1/7

I made unexpected inroads recently with my parents in this regard. I decided to speak to them about “the (other) people that RW media aim their lies at”. Rather than blame ‘those ppl’ I referred to them as victims of propaganda. I used a couple of provable examples. 1/3 @manmademoon.bsky.social

Bowie’s final album Blackstar wasn’t just a farewell - it was a redefinition of expectation. Released on his 69th birthday, it pivoted into jazz, experimentation and unease. Rather than reassuring listeners, it unsettled them. Blackstar was never comfortable or predictable. 🧵1/7

#RadioheadTop30 24: How To Disappear Completely As a song that Thom York himself once confirmed was his favourite Radiohead song of all time, it would be odd for this beautiful tune to not figure in a Top 30 countdown. I assume this would be amazing to see live one day. youtu.be/6W6HhdqA95w?...

Even late in his career, David Bowie worked like someone unfinished. Completion was temporary. Curiosity remained permanent. Bowie | creative process | January 2026 🧵 1/7

David Bowie chose collaborators who challenged him. Agreement wasn’t the goal. Creative pressure was. 🧵1/7 Bowie | creative process | January 2026

#RadioheadTop30 26: Exit Music (For a Film) When Baz Luhrmann makes a movie, you know it will be entertaining. When Radiohead provide music for a movie, you know it will sound outstanding & powerful in context. Both together? Let’s fucking go! youtu.be/Bf01riuiJWA?...

#RadioheadTop30 26: Sail To The Moon This song largely passed me by for years. Earlier this year I got tix for Hamlet Hail To The Thief and the performance of this tune (by ‘Ophelia’) was beyond perfect. As with the whole LP, it was placed front & centre once again. youtu.be/INvrv9ppxvQ?...

David Bowie didn’t treat his voice as a fixed signature. Accent, tone, restraint, and theatricality were all adjustable variables. The question was always what the song required. 🧵1/7 Bowie | creative process | studio work #musicsky

#RadioheadTop30 27: My Iron Lung You have a song so popular that it turns you insane from all the excessive promo work, and the antidote to all that is that you need to write another song about how much you hate it plus how you aren’t able to live without it. youtu.be/pRU-6vaKaf4?...

Has anyone actually read Project 2025? This is ALL in there. In B&W.

#RadioheadTop30 28: Lift Radiohead has a long history of writing songs and not releasing them for decades. Most of them sprung out of the post-Bends era when they created “The Bends 2” in the studio but knew they didn’t want to take that road. ‘Lift’ is one of those. youtu.be/QBGaO89cBMI?...

We were in London this weekend and I admired the King’s Cross station ceiling properly for the first time. Look up more.

David Bowie’s personas weren’t disguises. They were tools - frameworks that allowed access to ideas otherwise out of reach. The persona served the work, not the ego. 🧵 1/7 Bowie | creative process

For David Bowie, the studio wasn’t a neutral container. It was an active instrument, shaping performances and decisions in real time. Recording was a way to provoke change, not merely document it. 🧵 1/7 Bowie | creative process #musicsky

#RadioheadTop30 29: Lucky When War Child approached Radiohead to contribute a new song for the Help charity LP, which had to be recorded in 1 day, they were touring The Bends. They went into RAK studios to create their song, and within 5 hours had created ‘Lucky’. 1/2 youtu.be/rU9wbh7xWhY?...

We’re back in London and attending Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes at Sadler’s Wells theatre. A bit of new year culture.

We’re baca in London and attending Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes at Sadler’s Wells thestre. A bit of new year culture.

David Bowie didn’t rush to resolve uncertainty in his work. He allowed ‘not knowing’ to remain present longer than most artists would tolerate. That patience fundamentally altered where the work eventually landed.🧵1/7 Bowie | creative process

#RadioheadTop30 30: Decks Dark One of the album tracks that passed me by for years. Yet it makes the list; when a song has an interesting melody, unusual rhythm, unexpected chord changes, etc. I’m usually hooked. youtu.be/Del3C2W63Pk?...

The gap between art-house cinema and modern blockbusters is smaller than it looks. Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (2017) feels closer to David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986) or Fire Walk With Me (1992) than most people realise. 1/2 🎬

Sometimes the music we listen to has so many elements to it, we actually don’t notice it all unless we look for it. I was recently lucky enough to see Radiohead in London and on so many songs, band members are playing parts that aren’t traditionally theirs. 1/2 youtu.be/mrzhjIYYB6E?...

We often say David Bowie “reinvented himself”, as if each phase arrived fully formed. In reality, he tested ideas publicly - vocally, visually, collaboratively - and adjusted in real time. What we later read as confidence often began as visible uncertainty. 🧵1/7 Bowie | creative process #musicsky

Our family like to watch movies 🎬 in a club, where we each nominate a new film each month. We’ll watch some of them together and discuss what we saw - this often helps to fill in gaps about the story or the plot. A great example of this was Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. 1/2