• TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    We were playing a music trivia game and the question was “what planet did david bowie sing about life on?”

    And my buddy says “earth?” Lmao

          • Ziglin (they/them)@lemmy.world
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            5 days ago

            I’m sure there have been original compositions on space stations before, the people up there should be nerdy enough…

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              5 days ago

              Yeah, but it’s still a song by a person from Earth on an Earth instrument and in an Earth language and almost definitely Earth related somehow.

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            5 days ago

            Nah. The song in the triva question was Mars, for example. There’s plenty of songs about things other than earth, and other than life.

            I know what you’re saying though.

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      The song is called life on Mars, but it’s all about Earthly things, so I reckon he was singing about Earth problems and only contrasting it to the highbrow idea of life on Mars

      Looking at the lyrics again it seems to mostly be about a film, or films in general