Will you see that I?m scared and I?m lonely?
As we promised you a couple of weeks back, (07.02.08 NEWS: UNCUT READERS CHOOSE THEIR OWN BOWIE TOP TEN) we can now exclusively show you a few of the celebrity comments regarding David’s music that didn’t make it to UNCUT’s 30 greatest Bowie songs in the UNCUT Bowie special that was published in April. (04.18.2008 NEWS: BOWIE’S 30 GREATEST SONGS IN UNCUT NEXT WEEK & 04.29.2008 REMINDER: BOWIE’S 30 GREATEST SONGS IN UNCUT)
First up is
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JOAN WASSER (JOAN AS POLICEWOMAN) on “Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing”
I didn?t really have any trepidation about covering “Sweet Thing” a couple of years back. I love this song so much and there was no way I was gonna make it as enormous as Bowie did. So I just decided to do my own thing and make it a lot smaller. Bowie?s one of my all-time favourites and this is one of the greatest things he did. “Will you see that I?m scared and I?m lonely?” I mean, thank you for that line! It?s just genius.
I listened to Bowie from a very early age. I remember listening to Hunky Dory and Ziggy? and Diamond Dogs in high school and then hearing about all this other stuff that he?d done after that, like Low and Heroes. Putting it on for the first time was a combination of real fascination and horror. It was like What the fuck is this?!
And through living your own life, you get more into different phases of his life. Because I play violin and more orchestral stuff, I think I was more open to hearing that stuff on Low. But all of it is so fabulous. It?s hard to be more fabulous than that motherfucker! He is unique in so many ways. The fact that he could go from being this sort of glam alien to making the soul stuff, all pretty effortlessly, just drives me nuts. And he does it all with such flair.
I?ve never actually met him, but I have passed him in rehearsal spaces. I really stay away from attacking celebrities like that. I respect people?s privacy.
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Thanx to Rob Hughes at