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12:27 pm - 03/12/2013

David Bowie Releases The Next Day, is Real-Life Space Alien. No, Seriously.

David Bowie is an Alien. No, really. We Mean it.

I've had this idea marinating for a long time. Like, years. I've floated it to various sources and it's been met with reactions that vary from amused to annoyed, but I'm dead serious: I really think David Bowie is an alien. An extraterrestrial. A being from another planet.

I'm kind of into conspiracy theories. To some degree, many people will entertain one theory or another. I think we can all agree that there was a cover-up involving JFK assassination, that electoral fraud is widespread and that Freemasons run the world. (And, c'mon, Paul is dead, right?) But I'm also pretty interested in lesser known conspiracies. Just a few weeks ago, I got really into researching the "Bill Hicks is now Alex Jones" idea. And don't even get me started on green fireballs and Project Twinkle.



But this Bowie thing is a different kind of conspiracy theory. And by that I mean that it seems to be a theory supported only by two people in the world: me, and his former wife, Angela Bowie. I'm not sure why this is, because it seems dead obvious to me, but I'm willing to share my findings in the name of scientific research.

I think this is a case of hiding in plain sight. Since the very beginning of his career, Bowie has presented himself as a space age being from another universe, a star from the stars. There is scarcely a Bowie song or piece of art that does not reference space or aliens: Space Oddity, Starman, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Moonage Daydream, Hallo Spaceboy, Earthling, Life on Mars, Loving the Alien... the list could go on and on. (And if you can show me that "Oh, You Pretty Things!" is about any subject other than the impending extraterrestrial colonization of Earth, then I'm all ears.)



His newest album, The Next Day, is released today and it continues along this theme of space. When the second single off of the album, "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" was released, I threw my hands up in exasperation. Dude! I get you! I hear you loud and clear, Bowie. You ain't from 'round these parts.

This kind of overkill involving otherworldly oversaturation is suspicious to me. It's like turning Area 51 into a tourist destination for UFO enthusiasts. If you take something like this and make it so blatant and so cheesy that only a nut job could possibly believe that it's true, then it is automatically unjustifiably discredited.

One of Bowie's personas, Ziggy Stardust, was represented as an alien who visited Earth in the form of a rock star. In the movie The Man Who Fell to Earth, Bowie played an alien who crash lands on Earth, becomes highly successful and well known and then records messages to his home planet that he hopes will be sent through the radio. Sheesh. Obvious, much?

Bowie's recent role on Earth is to act as an internationally successful music icon with unprecedented staying power. The job of "rock star" really is the perfect cover for an alien: he can easily influence the masses, any odd or outrageous behavior is expected and he has the ability to freely spread his alien seed among unsuspicious females. (Groupies.) (I CANNOT)

Glam rock, specifically, helped Bowie to blend in. Seen as a fashion trailblazer, he could appear weird and shiny and futuristic and he was just seen as a leader among the glittered masses. Aliens must be able to see the future, too, because they seem to have set Bowie's human time clock improperly. He's always been a little bit ahead of the trends, be it through embracing glam, utilizing electronica or pushing new genres and styles. Recently when he's caught by paparazzi on the streets, he seems to always be wearing a version of an all gray outfit-- is it the uniform of the future? I guess we'll find out. (in tears at this oh my god....)

Even now, his health, productivity and good looks just don't make any sense. He's aged very well-- a little too well, if you ask me. In his work, he's always shown a unique ability to collaborate with the unique, the talented, the odd and the unexplainable. His long-time bass goddess, Gail Ann Dorsey, is too amazing to be real and what's up with his alien twin sister, Tilda Swinton? He finally broke down and featured her in his new music video. Again, putting the obvious right in our faces as to avoid suspicion.

And how in the heck did he manage to record his entire new album in secret? In the age of the Internet over-sharing and social media, where everyone's damn sandwich is considered news, keeping a secret of this scale is unthinkable. Clearly, there is some kind of mind control at work here.

In the alien's personal life, his choice of mates is also suspect. His rumored relationship with Iggy Pop, explored in the film Velvet Goldmine (the greatest accidental pornography of our generation), hints at both a network of gifted beings and the from-the-stars theory. In the movie, there's a magical absinthe-colored crystal from the sky that gives those who possess it some kind of amazing power to dazzle people with charisma. It is passed on and on, from Oscar Wilde to Iggy Pop to Brian Ferry to David Bowie.

Bowie is currently Earth-married to Iman, a supermodel. With their big heads and long limbs, supermodels are the closest thing we have on this planet to an alien-looking female. But his former wife, Angela, is the only person to publicly discuss his alien-ness. She wrote a book in which she straight up described her own husband as an "alien" who was "lit from within" and "one of the Light People." (Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie, pages 56-57, check it out.)

Bowie, I believe you. You aren't from here. You've said it a million times in a thousand different ways. I'm receiving your signal and I welcome you and what I assume are other super-hotties from your planet.

So, what do you guys think? Do you think interesting physical traits like his intense, uneven eyes are a reflection of something non-human? Or that his hospitalization in 2004 for an angioplasty was a cover for something else? Or that his long-time refusal to fly in airplanes should be seen as a distrust of subpar human flight technology?

And while we're at it, what do you think about Prince? He's from the same planet, right? Yeah, I thought so. Keep exploring, people of Earth. The truth is out there.~~~

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BOWIE IS NUMBER 1 IN 50+ COUNTRIES!! Notable mentions:










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I had to post the alien article. I had to. It's just too good. LMFAO... also BOW to the one true #1 King
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rhapsodeeinblue 12th-Mar-2013 07:36 pm (UTC)
GET IT, BOWIE.

lol @ the alien stuff
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:49 pm (UTC)
It's amazing. I was reading it at work with the most puzzled face expression ever.
takingthewalk 12th-Mar-2013 07:36 pm (UTC)
His flawlessness is unparalleled so I wouldn't be surprised if he was some kind of supreme being.

Like I can't believe the album actually *exceeded* my sky high expectations. Oh Bowie.
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:50 pm (UTC)
lol as horribly funny as this article is, there's a small part of me that would accept this as a possibility. Like I'm agnostic when it comes to Bowie lmfao
levenah 12th-Mar-2013 07:36 pm (UTC)
He needs to tour with this album. I'm dying to see him.
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:50 pm (UTC)
A tour must happen. Even if it's just a few shows. I'LL FLY ANYWHEREEEE
xaristotlex 12th-Mar-2013 08:14 pm (UTC)
ikr, if he played one show in Antarctica I would find a way to see it
rimbaudacious 12th-Mar-2013 07:40 pm (UTC)
SLAY

I get legit emotional @ the fact that we have new Bowie music tbh.
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:50 pm (UTC)
I'm still fucking emotional. Every time Love is Lost comes on I want to weep at how fucking amazing that song is. it's legit my favourite song of the last ten fucking years
rimbaudacious 12th-Mar-2013 07:59 pm (UTC)
yasssssss

Someone making a comeback that is not only not shit, but proper fucking quality. Not that we needed proof as to who the real king is but it's nice to have it re-established nonetheless.
yurasama_love 12th-Mar-2013 07:59 pm (UTC)
LOVE IS LOST IS PERFECTION
I get lost listening to it.
lipsticktraces 12th-Mar-2013 07:41 pm (UTC)
tbh if ANYONE on this planet turned out to be an alien, i'm sure it would be him.

i can't even compare him to anyone he deserves all the success + more

like he deserves everything idek
xaristotlex 12th-Mar-2013 07:49 pm (UTC)
ikr, can we all just agree that Bowie has reached the absolute pinnacle of human perfection
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:51 pm (UTC)
And yet he continues to exceed my expectations. Like how is that even possible?
lipsticktraces 12th-Mar-2013 08:00 pm (UTC)
don't you mean ***alien

lol but yes, he is the complete form, ubermensch
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:51 pm (UTC)
Mte lol
20727 12th-Mar-2013 07:43 pm (UTC)
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:52 pm (UTC)
ugh wish I could do a gif war with you. All my gifs are at home and I don't feel like browsing tumblr at work lol
20727 12th-Mar-2013 08:05 pm (UTC)
lol i should get back to studying, i guess.

idk what to do with myself when i see mwfte-scary monsters bowie though.
stormer1_1 13th-Mar-2013 12:15 am (UTC)
ugh GOD just give it to me hard
buncha_cruncha 12th-Mar-2013 07:43 pm (UTC)
*BOWS TO THE KING*

He's aged very well-- a little too well, if you ask me.

Accurate!!
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:52 pm (UTC)
He's aged ridiculously well. Bow to my flawless Alien Overlord
jesusbitches 12th-Mar-2013 07:44 pm (UTC)
i predict bowie will cock block jt in a lot of categories next year at the grammy's.
buncha_cruncha 12th-Mar-2013 07:44 pm (UTC)
pleeeaaaaaassse let this happen!!
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:48 pm (UTC)
ugh fingers crossed but I'm a cynical bitch when it comes to award shows. Especially when it comes to music.
rimbaudacious 12th-Mar-2013 07:46 pm (UTC)
But that would mean there's justice in the world. I want to believe.
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:48 pm (UTC)
The grammy's have for the most part sucked the last decade or something, idek if I trust them with this. The five star reviews are one thing, popularity is another. Although Bowie being number 1 in North America surprised even me. I was hoping for top 10.
20727 12th-Mar-2013 07:48 pm (UTC)
i doubt it tbh
fancycarousel 12th-Mar-2013 07:51 pm (UTC)
Pls let this happen. Plssssssss.
rhapsodeeinblue 12th-Mar-2013 07:57 pm (UTC)
crying at the idea

if only
spankmypirate 12th-Mar-2013 07:57 pm (UTC)
Grammy's are for peasants lbr
gogeta1 12th-Mar-2013 08:47 pm (UTC)
Yessss
trials_by_fire 12th-Mar-2013 09:20 pm (UTC)
gods be good
stormer1_1 13th-Mar-2013 12:17 am (UTC)
i would jizz
tiki876 12th-Mar-2013 07:44 pm (UTC)
get it bowie!
natalitabonita 12th-Mar-2013 07:45 pm (UTC)
yes! get it!
20727 12th-Mar-2013 07:47 pm (UTC)
did you guys see the pitchfork review? their attempt to make sense of the nme mask photo was interesting. anyway, i find it a bit strange that bowie is so attached to his meeting with burroughs - it would be lolz if this article worked that into bowie's true alien identity~ somehow.
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:53 pm (UTC)
I haven't seen it. link?
20727 12th-Mar-2013 07:58 pm (UTC)
here

gives it the same rating as heathen.
xaristotlex 12th-Mar-2013 07:48 pm (UTC)
oh god I'm dying at this article

also, this isn't true: "there is scarcely a Bowie song or piece of art that does not reference space or aliens" - replace "song" with "album and then yeah sure

I'd love for him to be an alien who ends up faking his own death after he gets suspiciously old, and tbh I'll probably choose to believe that when (if) the time comes

ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:55 pm (UTC)
This is me. I refuse to even acknowledge the possibility that in the next 20/30/however many years he'll be gone. Like part of my life will be lived without Bowie on this planet. brb booking my place at the mental institution.

Also I guess if you read too much into every song, you'll find something scifi-ish? Maybe? No? lol
xaristotlex 12th-Mar-2013 07:58 pm (UTC)
haha, I suppose you COULD, but you'd really have to reach for it
supernature_971 12th-Mar-2013 07:48 pm (UTC)
Fuck yes !
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:55 pm (UTC)
Overwhelming tbh. This year has been amazing jfc
fancycarousel 12th-Mar-2013 07:50 pm (UTC)
KING OF THE UNIVERSE imo.
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:56 pm (UTC)
*and beyond obvs
dives 12th-Mar-2013 07:51 pm (UTC)
This week = Bowie Week imo
xaristotlex 12th-Mar-2013 07:55 pm (UTC)
this month - Bowie month
this year - Bowie year
this millennium - Bowie millennium

alternatively, every week is Bowie week
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:57 pm (UTC)
Accurate
ladyofmachinery 12th-Mar-2013 07:57 pm (UTC)
IA. I'm shameless rn. I did my make-up Aladdin Sane style last night with my friend. Was tempted to post it here but then I remembered ONTD's weirdness about this so called ~privacy~ lol (i'm horrible sorry)
spankmypirate 12th-Mar-2013 07:58 pm (UTC)
No it's Depeche Mode week. But it can be Bowie week as well, I'm not complaining, seeing as DM are Bowie stans anyway.
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