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Reality (Music)
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Reality, released in 2003, is the twenty-fourth studio album by David Bowie and the second album produced after the reunion of Bowie with longtime collaborator Tony Visconti.The album began production unusually quickly, with Bowie first writing the songs for it while the sessions for Heathen were wrapping up. This overlap enabled Reality to be the fastest-released studio album of Bowie's (by distance between its own release and the release of the preceding studio album) since The Buddha of Suburbia in 1993note it's not the top contender for fastest-released Bowie studio album though; that position goes to Pin Ups, which was released just six months after Aladdin Sane.Containing more straightforward Alternative Rock compared to its predecessor, the album was followed by A Reality Tour. It was the highest-grossing tour of 2004, gaining more than 700,000 attendees and a DVD release in 2010. However, Bowie suffered an eye injury from a lollipop being thrown at a concert in Oslo, and only a week later had a heart attack while performing at a festival in Germany in what would be his last major concert.The events led to a long break, during which time Bowie would become more involved with raising his young daughter, save for the occasional guest vocals, acting role or assistance with music production. For nearly ten years, Reality was considered his last album, with fans and press accepting that Bowie had comfortably retired, until an unexpected comeback in 2013 occurred with The Next Day.The album peaked at No. 3 on the UK Albums chart and topped both the Danish Albums chart and the Billboard European Albums chart (on the broader Billboard 200 though it ranked at a more modest No. 29), in addition to being certified gold in the United Kingdom, France, and New Zealand.The singles released from the album were "New Killer Star" and "Never Get Old", the latter of which was later mashed up with a re-recording of "Rebel Rebel" and released as the non-album single "Rebel Never Gets Old" in 2004. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: "Pablo Picasso" with the line "the girls would turn the colour of a juicy avocado". | |
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Stealth Pun: What better way to promote an album titled Reality than with a cartoon drawing of your likeness? | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: The cover art features an animesque portrait of Bowie. | |
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Title Track | |
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Title Track: "Reality", the tenth track on the album. | |
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Alliterative Title: "Pablo Picasso". | |
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Longest Song Goes Last: At 7:45, the closing track "Bring Me the Disco King" outpaces every preceding track on the album. | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: "New Killer Star" is a play on the words "nuclear star". | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: David Bowie and Tony Visconti. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: "Bring Me the Disco King" clocks in at just a quarter under eight minutes. | |
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Rhyming Title | |
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Rhyming Title: "Try Some, Buy Some". | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man | |
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Sharp-Dressed Man: Bowie in the pose that inspired the cover for the album (included alongside the Title Track's lyrics as the CD release's tray art). | |
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Chick Magnet | |
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Chick Magnet: "Pablo Picasso" plays off of the titular artist's well-documented history of womanizing, depicting him as a charismatically irresistible playboy. | |
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Word Salad Title | |
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Word Salad Title: "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon". | |
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Animated Music Video | |
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Animated Music Video: The video for "New Killer Star" uses a mix of live-action photography and CGI effects to depict its story (about a group of people watching an astronaut who just barely avoids a fatal crash-landing) as a series of lenticular prints. | |
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Rearrange the Song | |
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Rearrange the Song: "Never Get Old" was mashed up with a re-recording of "Rebel Rebel" from Diamond Dogs and released as a single as "Rebel Never Gets Old". "Bring Me the Disco King" was intended to be released on Black Tie White Noise but ended up being reworked twice, first unsuccessfully for Earthling and then successfully for this album. Although ultimately still a Cover Version, Bowie's version of "Pablo Picasso" added two Spanish guitar solos and a refrain ("Swinging on the back porch...") | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: To the Bush/Cheney Administration through the songs "New Killer Star" and "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Three guesses as to what the song "Pablo Picasso" is about. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Compared to the dour, ambient-influenced, and introspective art rock of Heathen, this album is definitely a step in a more upbeat direction. Much of the lyrical content is fairly sardonic and/or moody and the music definitely has a rough edge to it, but the moodier elements act more as a trimming on this record than the main feature. Songs such as "Pablo Picasso", "Never Get Old", "Try Some, Buy Some", and the Title Track also have considerably lighter lyrical content compared to Heathen as well. | |
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Cover Version | |
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Although ultimately still a Cover Version, Bowie's version of "Pablo Picasso" added two Spanish guitar solos and a refrain ("Swinging on the back porch...") | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: Reality, "Days", "Reality". | |
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White Void Room | |
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White Void Room: Bowie stands in one in the photograph included under the disc tray. | |
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Performance Video | |
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Performance Video: The music video for "Never Get Old" consists mainly of Bowie performing the song on a glitzy sound stage. | |
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Animesque | |
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Animesque: The anime-influenced cover art of the album was created by Rex Ray, an American graphic designer. | |
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Limited Lyrics Song | |
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Limited Lyrics Song: "The Loneliest Guy" | |
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Awful Wedded Life | |
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Awful Wedded Life: Implied by both "She'll Drive the Big Car" and the Gender Flipped B-Side "Fly". | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: The end of "Never Get Old" segues into the start of "The Loneliest Guy". | |
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Series Fauxnale | |
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Series Fauxnale: Following Bowie's heart attack in 2004, he withdrew from the public eye over the course of the next two years; by the time "Where Are We Now?" dropped in 2013, everyone had accepted the idea that Bowie had retired, with Reality (and especially "Bring Me the Disco King", with such conclusive lyrics as "stab me in the dark, let me disappear") being his accidental Grand Finale. Of course, that surprise release of "Where Are We Now?" acted as a sudden statement that the story wasn't over just yet for Bowie. | |
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