FIRST TIME HEARING David Bowie - Let’s Dance REACTION | THE RED SHOES?! 😳👠

[@jrr1814]

Bowie had various stages to his career. This is from the 80's, and is considered more POP than his earlier stuff.

[@jessii27star]

David Bowie is/was quite the musical wonder. This was filmed in Australia. This was created there to show attention to systemic racism that was being focused on indigenous Australians. Well done!

[@yournamehere6002]

Aborigines

[@lewistasso8866]

Kids, Also with David Bowie, legendary musicians Tony Thompson and Stevie Ray Vaughn played on this track. Tony Thompson was a legendary drummer from Chic and The Power Station. Stevie Ray Vaughn was one of the all-time best blues guitarists ever. Rest in Peace, gentlemen.

[@dunhill1]

Yes, and since Nile Rodgers produced Madonna's Like a Virgin album, he had Tony do the drums on that megahit song. He also is drumming on Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love, and Led Zeppelin hunted down Tony and wanted him to play drums with the band for Live Aid. Trent Reznor also asked Tony to play on one his albums. Now those are signs of an amazing heavy hitting drummer. RIP Tony and also SRV.

[@lewistasso8866]

@@dunhill1 Tony was probably my all-time favorite drummer.

[@James-wj8eq]

Tony Thompson was not the drummer on this recording, it was Omar Hakim.

[@gus4u2c]

Omar Hakim was the drummer on the Let’s Dance album, not Tony Thompson

[@kathyembley455]

Everything Bowie did was musical art! That’s why so many other artists collated with him!❤️

[@kathyembley455]

I meant collared 😂

[@bobbyn.9773]

@@kathyembley455 collared? Or do you mean collaborated?

[@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA]

@@bobbyn.9773 No no. They went to the celebrity kitchen and prepared collard greens. Tradition.

[@kathyembley455]

@@bobbyn.9773 Of course I meant collaborated 🥲😂

[@bobbyn.9773]

@@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA 🤣

[@bobbyn.9773]

Love Bowie and he was one of the few artists that complained at why MTV was not playing black music or videos in their channel and that opened the door and it started MTV showing more videos by black artist and eventually it took over, and yes he had two different colored eyes...died to young

[@dannycasson1551]

No words can adequately describe the impact Bowie had on music, fashion..the list goes on.

[@skinmeister1]

I suggest you guys check out “Space Oddity” by David Bowie next, for some different vibes - and earlier material - from him.

[@TheOneAndOnlyFloridaMan]

You can definitely hear SRV's signature tone in the guitar at the end. In the full version of the song, his guitar part goes on way longer. You should check it out just to hear it when you get a chance.

[@0okamino]

Though SRV would have been my second guess, I gotta admit my first guess for those licks might have been Albert Collins if I didn’t already know it was SRV.

[@stevenjolly8851]

Yes definitely

[@rifki9055]

Check out "LAZARUS " it's David's last video before he passed away! RIP 🙏 DAVID BOWIE

[@deborahzuchero7348]

David was a pioneer for helping Adrian American musicians have their songs played & their videos on MTV watch Labrynth 🤪

[@michaelpryor8015]

Labyrinth is still on Netflix I think

[@studdsreturbo]

Two more Bowie songs to hear are' Young Americans' with Earl Slick on guitar and 'I'm Afraid of Americans' with Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails.

[@nessaseetah1805]

Bowie was 🔥. Loved that he honored so many cultures. Brought the Australian aboriginal community to many of us. ♡

[@santacruz7455]

It was shot in Australia, in the outback and in Sydney..

[@78yestor93]

David Bowie was heavily influenced by 'Syd', Barrett the flawed genius and founding member of Pink Floyd😲❤

[@MrBillyboyroge]

Iconic beat, kudos to Nile Rodgers who produced this track. You might want to check out what Puff Daddy, Notorious BIG & Mase did with this beat with their track ‘been around the world’ with added sample from ‘been around the world’ from Lisa Stansfield

[@MrSpikeMilligan]

The video was filmed in Australa and the kids in the video are indigenous Australians.

[@ChrissyRaeofsunshine]

Aborigines is their race.

[@damonhines8187]

Bowie's left eye was damaged when he was younger in a sports or similar conflict-y situation. Lends an odd, arresting quality to his gaze. You should definitely bounce around his timeline to get an overview of his ever-changing personae. See 'Ziggy Stardust', 'Hang on to Yourself', 'Life on Mars', 'Blue Jean', 'Boys Keep Swinging' on SNL, 'Wild Is the Wind', and 'Loving the Alien'. 'TVC-15', 'Look Back in Anger'. Tons to discover, you've no idea, but enjoy. ;>D

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

It was in a fight with his school mate over a girl. He liked how it made him look :D

[@Bekka_Noyb]

Some great songs on this album! I suggest the following Bowie 80s songs: China Girl, Blue Jean & Fashion

[@SweetThing]

This was filmed in Australia. David Bowie filmed it there to draw attention to the racism against the original Australians, the Aborigine people.

[@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA]

He got hit in the eye when he was young, the eye changed colour.

[@James-wj8eq]

Omar Hakim was the drummer . Erdal Kizilkay was the keyboardist.

[@Eric4471066]

This song is was David Bowie's comeback hit for the 1980s. The song spend two weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the spring of 1983. The late, great Tony Thompson from the r&b disco group, Chic played lead drums. What a great comeback from David Bowie!!!

[@looneygardener]

Bowie, performance artist, musician, icon. Check out the very early Space Oddity.

[@ronsmac]

Modern love is my favorite Bowie video.

[@rodrigosantos2071]

This is just the radio edit single. If you get to listen to the full length version of it , you'll check how monumental is!!! The sax solos against or along the guitar ones get me everytime

[@onlymeian58]

For an 80s album, Let's Dance (& Tonight) are pretty good, middle of the road albums. But from an artist of Bowie's calibre they were very much a low point. All of his albums up to this part of his career, he was an innovator. someone other musicians could only emulate & copy. Yes, they were big sellers, but he himself knew he had kinda sold out when instead of seeing lots of Iggy Pop & Lou Reed fans in the audience, he was attracting more Phil Collins type fans. Luckily, this period didn't last too long & he returned to his roots of being ahead of the trends until he passed away.

[@richlisola1]

They were still fun!

[@joehynes5452]

Listen to the extended version on your own, it's so much better!! SRV really shines more than this radio edit version, plus you get a very nice saxophone solo. Space Oddity and Life on Mars? is a must reaction for Bowie

[@heavybrett-al4082]

The video was shot in Australia 👍one of the greatest country's on this crazy planet!

[@virginiav1704]

Another great 80's song with dance in the title to check out is, Men Without Hats "Safety Dance" I also enjoy watching you both appreciate the music from the 80's that I grew up with :))

[@poppad331]

This was filmed in Australia, David used the video to highlight the systemic racism towards the Aborigine people...the native Australians.

[@CBGB_1977]

There’s so many fascinating things about Bowie. His eyes: His eyes are actually both blue but when he was a teen, he got into a fight with his friend over a girl. During the fight they fell to the ground and David hit his head so hard it permanently dilated his left eye. Making it appear a different color. Amazingly he retained full sight after his iconic injury. Also: Another song on this album called “China Girl”. It was a huge hit! It was written by Iggy Pop.

[@sannaolsson9106]

I thought something got into his eye. Like poked his eye. Or is that just a myth??

[@antoniocarlin5026]

George Underwood was the kid to punch Bowie´s eye...then Bowie gave work to George...and George made a Bowie albums covers, George Underwood is now a GREAT painter check it out his work on Facebook and Instagram

[@buzzardbeatniks]

@@sannaolsson9106 In 2004 He was stuck in the eye with a thrown lollipop stick while performing onstage. He wasn't injured.

[@sannaolsson9106]

@@buzzardbeatniks Oh ok. I thought that was what made his eye that way but when he was a teenager haha

[@oliverhaggenmuller582]

The meaning of the songtext, is so dark and psycho.

[@starfire6122]

Thumbs up for SRV in this! Speaking of SRV how about Tin Pan Alley w/Johnny Copeland live! Lol Loving you both!💞

[@irresistablegraceinchrist6690]

You look like Jay Z's little brother.. lol

[@sumonjamal1653]

P. Diddy sampled this track for his rap single 'Been around the world' (feat. Notorious B.I.G. and Mase)

[@DavidTate-nn5ie]

Produced by Niles Rodgers... The sound You can hear it more on China Girl (cover of an Iggy Pop song) from the same album.

[@shannontrough2680]

You should check him out in the movie "Labrinyth". Such a cute movie where he plays the goblin king and sings throughout the movie.

[@coreyrees840]

Golden years and Space Oddity

[@chris-julian5537]

Australia

[@MAZE4]

It's an absolute classic.

[@johntash5895]

China girl from the same album is an interesting contrast to Let's Dance, more introspective, another audio painting by Bowie.

[@kimtalley4496]

This is my most favorite song by David Bowie. ❤

[@willynilly2545]

This video was filmed in Australia featuring local aborigines (native indigenous people)

[@NativeNYerChicHK]

His eyes are crazy cool! That darker eye isn’t natural, it happened in a fight over a girl. He was born with two blue eyes. The one that appears darker is just his eye permanently dilated from being punched particularly hard and from that it was permanently damaged.

[@guyturbide6348]

Try 🎵 HEROES🎵 Live by David Bowie You gonna adore this song ❤ 🎵 💕 Love you guys Keep the GOOD WORK my friend ✌

[@daveborder7751]

It was shot in Australia & they are Aboriginals-the original population before white colonials, they have generally been treated appallingly for hundreds of years.

[@Alithia451]

space oddity, starman, life on mars, ashes to ashes, rebel rebel, china girl, modern love, this is not America

[@davidfisher8821]

Bowie changed sound from album to album. For different sides of Bowie, try Moonage Daydream, Station to Station, The heart’s filthy lesson, and ashes to ashes. You’ll love them all!

[@kylerasmusson9109]

U should do ziggy stardust by David bowie Has always been my favorite

[@myownchannel247]

Guitar solo 🎸 by Stevie Ray Vaughan

[@terrylynnheinrich8777]

Changes is a great song too!

[@catjanco]

This was filmed in Australia and with aboriginal people from there :)

[@scottcrosby-art5490]

SRV on guitar 🔥

[@xanajak]

Population 194 lol. ....... In 1983, David Bowie, video director David Mallet and a skeleton crew traveled from London to the town of Carinda, - population: 194 - to make the video for “Let's Dance,” the title track from the singer's best-selling album.

[@sandiflinchum6925]

I love you two. The open mind for ALL music and the honest reactions on the things you catch on the videos that most people miss is priceless. I've tried to sub to both her channel and the vlog and it won't let me. I don't know why. I sub and the next day it says I'm not anymore.

[@simonpanter3627]

That's Stevie Ray Vaughn playing guitar on that song, before He got famous on his own

[@andy.8455]

Yeah he had two different coloured eyes for real...

[@fridaylong2812]

It was filmed in Australia.

[@Deyonkersny]

You mention his eyes he has heterochromia,but it is said that he had a fight with friend over a girl and got punched in the eye causing his eye to change like that.

[@visionritual]

Pls do absolute begginer by bowie

[@zenf1sh]

That song was killer when it played in that Howard Stern movie, Private Parts. Drums and bass are IN THE POCKET! Looks like New Zealand, or Australia.

[@EiriUesugiKun]

His eyes look like different colour because one of his pupils was damaged back when he was ... 14 or 15. He told that he had tried to get too cozy with his friends girl and that said friend punched him which then caused the pupil to paralyze and gave him his most recognizable look. Then again, Bowie told so many crazy bullshit stories to unaware interviewers one really can't be sure which of them were true. :D

[@Mainecoonlady.]

Bowie❤️. We all had a pair of bright red pumps because of Bowie!

[@jeffhughes1039]

David Bowie was blind in one eye. Australia is where the video was shot.

[@jimooijevaar6894]

I have a pair of red shoes

[@FrankCastlesConscience]

Just to educate those that dont know: it WASNT SRV playing the signature riff for this song. It was a black guy called Nile Rodgers (Chic) a guy who is massively underrated in my view. Bowie needed to remodel his career and asked Rogers to help him create a hit, the rest is history. SRV’s solo was nice, but it wasnt what made this a hit.

[@julienielsen4462]

Im an 80s kid when music videos were first showing on tv these were the first songs we saw. What’s love got to do with it- Tina Turner was another one. What memories. Bowie had another song called Little China Girl , I love the fast songs.

[@ghostpeper2a165]

Fkkk everything else! React to Roll the windows up (Smoke and drive part 2) by MGK! 🔥🔥🔥🔥 GUARANTEED

[@brianguy4333]

Australia mate

[@carolynwhetham9514]

Tuned up In an Australian outback pub randomly to film this. Then Sydney & Blue Mountains. It’s about the racism against our first nations ppl. China Girl filmed on a Sydney beach. He loved Australia & lived here anonymously for a few years late ‘70’s/early 80’s. Most ppl don’t know this.

[@sarasmile11]

David got into a fist fight as a teenager and his eye was scratched. The result was the pupil in that eye stayed permanently dilated. His iris color did not change, but the size of the pupil in that eye makes it look like it is a different color.

[@mcrae9650]

🙌🏻

[@phohead]

I'm surprised these kids did not know that this must be filmed in Australia... What are they teaching the youth in American schools these days? I can remember learning about the indigenous people of Australia at a very young age. I think I was in elementary in Texas maybe 9 or 10 years old. I remember the text book referring to them as the Pit-jant-jat-jara people.

[@JosephY88]

this was shot in the Australian Outback, Indigineous Aboriginal community

[@MrMoggyman]

David Bowie was Wall Eyed......one eye blue, and the other brown. This was filmed in Australia. This video has a message. It shows how the Aboriginals tried to integrate with white society (i.e. put on the red shoes) but how because of that they were exploited in menial poor paid jobs. So they decided that they were better off being Aboriginals in the land (i.e. taking off the red shoes) and leaving the white society to its own end (i.e. the nuclear plume seen earlier in the video). Aboriginals have lived on the land for years before the white man came to Australia.

[@bobcorbin3294]

Frank Zappa does an excellent parody of this song called "Be In My Video"P.S. Boys eyes aren't color different one of his pupils is permanently dilated because of a fight he had when he was a kid with a childhood friend who sang backup for him on this door

[@rrhondarrenee]

To stick with the dancing theme should listen to David Bowie and Mick Jagger dancing in the Street Mick Jagger is from the rolling Stones

[@TheStefan6969]

Love the funk he has in this one!!!! 😉❤✌

[@TheStefan6969]

Did you guys check out Golden Years by Bowie yet??? Fantastic song!!!!

[@actuariallurker9650]

His eyes actually aren't two different colors, the black part of his eyes- the pupil are different sizes ! and this makes them look slightly different colored by contrast

[@ramkraken8242]

SRV played the lead guitar on this track and was offered a contract to tour with Bowie for this Album but he declined and took his own path!!!!

[@charlesconnors4871]

This was Bowie best selling record...some would argue bc of SRV

[@fridaylong2812]

Bowie had written the song Under Pressure, then ran into Queen, who were also recording at the same studio. They started talking, and all FIVE of them sat down and rewrote the song. The five of them shared the writing credits. I'm sure you can tell who wrote the bass line, and it wasn't that loser Van Twot.

[@scousemouse9715]

David's school friend accidently poked him in the eye with a protractor.

[@kierstenridgway4634]

He did not have two different colored eyes. One pupil was much larger . It did appear though that they were different colors.

[@ceemartin5624]

Yes he has two different coloured eyes because when he was a kid another kid hit him in the eye and it changed colour (well, the retina expanded so it just looks dark). The video was shot in Carinbah, a small town in the Australian outback and the reason Bowie wanted to shoot it in Australia was to address the racism he had noticed on prior visits to the country as he noticed you never really saw Aboriginal people anywhere in the cities: not in the beaches, shops, restaurants, bars. So he made the protagonists two aboriginal teenagers and shot it in that town. Bowie and the film crew just turned up to that pub in that little town in the middle of the outback and started shooting, and he used in the video the real people who drank in that pub as he didn't want to use actors. Another video he shot in Australia from the same album as Let's Dance was China Girl which was shot in Sydney. The video could only be shown after midnight in Australia because of it was x-rated, although it would seem tame for nowdays.

[@rodrigocardenasholik8914]

Sounds like a song from Mase...

[@TheApilas]

I was 9-10 when this song was released.. it was really fun and enjoying to listen to the music back then

[@bradlynelson357]

Bowie is awesome . It’s kinda hard to see but he has Heterochromia. His eyes are different colors . Pretty rare . . He has so many songs but another I really like is “China girl”

[@electrichorseman7158]

John Lennon helped out David when he was doubting doing music anymore ..

[@xanajak]

Bowie's early and mid '80s songs and videos were really fucking tight and beautiful and intense. You should really do China Girl next and listen to the lyrics and watch the video. This song too is an all-timer and is made even greater by the video.

[@MrHoppy-so2no]

Bowie was a genius!

[@sarablack2547]

David had different personas characters he would be at different stages of his career Ziggy stardust was the first one the ginger hair and lighting bolt across his face that's used for t shirts etc.then Aladdin Zane then this blonde suited image. Please do space oddity, Starman, life on Mars, China girl,gene genie and ashes to ashes.

[@stanandnila]

Stevie Ray Vaughan is playing lead guitar on this song. Bet you didn't know that.

[@thisworldofwater8017]

Did you notice how he SANG? "Tremble like a floooweeer!"

[@mrysedeers]

that's Stevie Ray Vaughn on solo guitar...just sayin':)

[@jacqueline4514]

Haha; my husband and I were singing this about a month ago when it was on; we sounded good and loud on the "Serious Moonlight" part :)

[@MsCatmando]

David Bowie suffered from anisocaria where one pupil is bigger than the other and doesn't get the right sunlight something to that effect that's why it's two different colors

[@robertasirgutz8800]

Funky as hell. Looks like indigenous people, New Zealand????

[@stevenmclaughlin6034]

The style singing was eventually called glam rock where he painted his face and would actually wear a dress

[@carrillowu2006]

Puff Daddy used some of this beat for one of his 2000s hit - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZTYf2CemcaEhbs

[@michaelcantwell711]

When he was young he got into a fight and his eye was damaged and that later became a part of his persona. So I've heard.