| "New Killer Star" | ||||
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| Single by David Bowie | ||||
| from the album Reality | ||||
| B-side | "Love Missile F1-11" | |||
| Released | 29 September 2003 | |||
| Recorded | Looking Glass Studios, New York City | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 4:40 (Album version) 3:43 (Radio edit) | |||
| Label | Columbia/ISO Records COL 674275 9 | |||
| Songwriter | David Bowie | |||
| Producers | David Bowie, Tony Visconti | |||
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| Music video | ||||
| "New Killer Star" on YouTube | ||||
"New Killer Star" is a song written and performed by the English singer David Bowie in 2003 for his twenty-fourth studio album Reality . This was the first single from the album. The song title is a play on the words 'nuclear star'. [1] The B-side is a cover of Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Love Missile F1-11".
Contents
- Music video
- Track listing
- CD: ISO-Columbia / COL 674275 1 (Italy)
- CD: ISO-Columbia / 38K 3445 (Canada)
- DVD: ISO/Columbia COL 674275 9 (Austria)
- Charts
- Personnel
- See also
- References
While it is uncertain what the song is really about (like other Bowie songs), the lyrics make oblique reference to life in post-9/11 New York City. However the video clip, directed by Brumby Boylston of National Television, tells a surreal story using lenticular-postcard-like images of a spaceship almost crashing into the modern American heartland. Bowie himself said of the song: "I'm not a political commentator, but I think there are times when I'm stretched to at least implicate what's happening politically in the songs that I'm writing. And there was some nod, in a very abstract way, toward the wrongs that are being made at the moment with the Middle Eastern situation. I think that song is a pretty good manifesto for the whole record." [2]
