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Originally Posted by stretch37
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I am really hoping this song is the "Where are we now" of the album. For anyone that isn't a Bowie fan, this song was by far the most boring of the album The Next Day (heavily IMO)(Although many felt it was very emotional, like Speaking in Tongues has some doing), I really enjoyed the more upbeat, hard hitting Bowie tracks on the album like Love Is Lost, and If You Can See Me, or God Bless The Girl off the Extras bonus CD.
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Would it surprise you if I said I've been a big Bowie fan since the early nineties, too? But I've got to agree with you -- I really thought that (You Will) Set The World On Fire should've been a single, but at the same time I love the surreal and eerie disquiet of Where Are We Now (which was, quite literally, a comment on society AND Bowie's own return to music at the same time), and I loved the way in which is just quietly seeped back into mainstream culture again after all of that time. Was deeply shocked and saddened by his death this year. I honestly just never saw it coming at that time (1 day after the album release).