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- The album itself saw Bowie’s first foray into the “plastic soul” sound consisting of R&B and Philadelphia soul music.
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Mar 7, 2021 · Fame is the epitome of Young Americans within the scope of plastic soul. The track has energy and some danceability and certainly sounds like it belongs in its time. However, it is also a devastating imitation of the disco period – a hollowed-out soul, as if Bowie is mocking the times.
Nov 10, 2023 · His blue-eyed – or as he put it, “plastic” – soul switched a generation of white boys on to the joy and pain of black music. His alleged inauthenticity was of no significance. He sang it, felt it, transmitted it.
Young Americans presented a new musical direction for Bowie, [28] exploring blue-eyed soul [29][30] and R&B. [31][32][33] Bowie himself labelled its sound "plastic soul", [13] or, in the words of the author Benoît Clerc, "a pale synthetic derivative of authentic soul music". [9]
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Feb 21, 2020 · Within two years of Ziggy’s onstage demise at the Hammersmith Apollo in July 1973, David Bowie ’s deep soul infusions would culminate in Young Americans, his legendary “plastic...
Mar 7, 2016 · Bolstered by "Fame" and the Top 40 success of the title track, Young Americans rose to No. 2 in the U.K. and No. 9 in the states, turning Bowie's self-described "plastic soul" into...
Jul 16, 2024 · Let’s go back to David Bowie’s “plastic soul” period (as he called it) and find out how “Young Americans” came to be. Restless Bowie. At the time David Bowie made the shift to...
Mar 15, 2024 · A drastic departure from his Ziggy Stardust days, “Young Americans” it’s one of David Bowie’s most out of the box albums. The record marked the beginning of his troubled American period and was inspired by the Philadelphia soul and R&B music scene.
