Tune of the Week: Loving the Alien

It is arguable that David Bowie had a creatively tough time in the 1980s. After making big waves in the rock scene throughout the 70s, the turn of the decade saw him leaning less towards innovating and more towards entertaining. His first album of the decade, “Let’s Dance” saw him relying heavily on producer Nile Rodgers. While it produced monster hits, the deep cuts were lacking much of the creativity that made his previous albums so great. The follow-up release to this massive success was “Tonight”, a massive flop. One of the highlights of this venture was the lead-off track, “Loving the Alien”, a rare glimpse into Bowie’s anti-religious beliefs. The video is perhaps one of the most creative things to come out of the period. Band members and sets were modeled off of surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico’s works.