Black Tie White Noise (1993)

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Black Tie White Noise is the title track from David Bowie's album that was released in 1993 with the same name. The song was featuring additional vocals by Al B. Sure!, and was released in June 1993 as a second single from the album.[1]

Key Lyrics

We reach out over race and hold each other's hands

Then die in the flames singing "We Shall Overcome"

What's going on?

There'll be some blood no doubt about it

But we'll come thru, don't doubt it

I look into your eyes and I know you won't kill me

I look into your eyes and I know you won't kill me

You won't kill me

You won't kill me, no

But I look into your eyes and I wonder sometimes

Background

The track was inspired by Bowie's experienced of staying in Los Angeles in April 1992, where he saw the city's race riots in reaction to the Rodney King killing incident. It is the epitome of its parent album's feelings towards conformity and firms, with Benetton and the saccharine charity single "We Are the World" among the targets. Bowie later explain that the track was expressing his anxiousness regarding the black community's own name, and how it didn't need to be adjust and occupied into the white community.[2]

Reception

Released as the album's second single, "Black Tie White Noise" was a top 40 hit in Britain and subsequently reached 36th position in the UK chart and 74th position in Australia.[3]

Reference

  1. Black Tie White Noise. Wikipedia. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  2. "Bowie's Wedding Album" by David Wild, Rolling Stone magazine, 21 January 1993, page 14
  3. "Official singles Chart results matching: black tie white noise ft al b sure". Retrieved January 30, 2021.