Hi Estefanie,

Loved your reaction to Scary Monsters and Super Creeps. It is genuinely one of Bowie's best records and your take really captured why it still holds up. It's fascinating how the album sits right at the hinge point of his career, closing out the Berlin era while pointing straight into where music was heading in the '80s. Bowie wasn't just riding the New Wave movement, he was one of the people who planted its seeds, you can hear it in the jagged guitars, the drum treatments, the whole nervy, angular energy of the record.

A bit of trivia you might enjoy: "It's No Game" actually has roots going back to Bowie's teenage years. The lyrics and melody grew out of one of the very first songs he ever wrote, called "Tired of My Life". He revisited and reworked it a decade later for Scary Monsters, recording it twice for the album. If you're curious, the early acoustic 1970s demo floats around online and it's wild to hear the bones of that song a decade before it became something so much darker.

"Ashes to Ashes" has some interesting melodic phrasing: Bowie said in a 2003 interview that the whole thing wouldn't have happened without "Inchworm," a wistful little song sung by Danny Kaye in the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen. He talked about how it had that deliberate nursery-rhyme cadence to it, sad and simple at the same time, and said he kept circling back to that feeling throughout his career. You can hear that same nursery-rhyme quality land in the song's closing chant, "My mother said, to get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom", a lullaby-like phrase sitting on top of all that cold, synthetic dread, which is part of what makes the song feel so eerie. Similar to "Ring-a-ring of Roses..." a dark subject, but is used as a child's nursey rhyme.

One last piece of history worth knowing: Bowie actually had plans to tour behind Scary Monsters but those plans were scrapped after his friend John Lennon was murdered in New York in 1980. It hit Bowie hard. He pulled back from touring entirely after that, and wouldn't return to the road until the Serious Moonlight tour in 1983, which makes Scary Monsters the last album of his most experimental run that the world never got to see performed live in its own era.

Thanks again for the reaction, this album deserves every bit of the attention you gave it.🥰😘

Great reaction video. This is my favorite Bowie album and has been since the very first time hard it almost 46 years ago. It just spoke to me. It took a few decades to digest all the lyrics, but the sound, voice, production and Fripp's guitar resonated with me immediately. Oh, and thank you for not keeping me wating for this one. I wasn't expecting such a quick follow up to the Lodger reaction. Looking forward to the next one.

“Curious, searching, seeking” those are excellent descriptions of Bowie.

A fabulous album.

That is my favourite Bowie Album cover artistically.Love this album as it was released when I was 18 years old and now I'm 64 years old ,when I listen to it ,I'm transported back to those carefree days.  Especially when .I hear teenage Wildlife.❤

Such a masterful album. You can feel that David Bowie was at the height of his creative powers and took his time crafting this shimmering gem, that grows on
the listener every time you listen to it... Bowie, part of a handful of true musical performance artists that kept working at reinventing themselves, all through their significantly long careers, that I would include with the likes of Peter Gabriel and David Byrne, from Talking Heads.

For several years, my favourite Bowie album was The Man Who Sold The World. Scary Monsters was the first of his albums to challenge that. So many great albums since, but those two are always in my top five. So much creativity!

Un dei migliore album di bowie ❤ it 's no game pazzo ! Ashes to ashes major tom 🖤 una buona sera d Italia a tutte e Tutti

The final album of probably the best decade long (1970-1980) run by any musician ever.

great album and reaction, just so you know there was no audio in the video for It's no Game part 2.

One of my favorite

My favourite album.

After the Bowie great reacts, hope you will do Prince!!

With Robert Fripp (King Crimson) on guitar.

Oh so nice to see your emotion on space oditty. I am going to watch if you enjoy scary( my favourite)

It's very hard to pick a favorite Bowie album for me because they range from good to amazing to incredible.
It all depends how I'm feeling at the time.
I love this album.
I was 15 years old in 1980 when this album came out.
There was nothing like this on the radio at the time
Michael Jackson's Thriller didn't come out until 3 years later in 1983.❤

Nice shirt

Great reaction! Now you need to do part three of The Major Tom trilogy… the video to Black Star shows the fate of Major Tom, but the video is a must watch to discover the end of Major Tom. Do yourself favor and watch the videos to Ashes to ashes and Fashion, they are a lot of fun. Ashes to ashes was the most expensive video produced at the time until Michael Jackson produced Thriller

el proximo album, lets dance, ese seguro te va a gustar mucho, es mucho mas agradable y dulce de escuchar

Let’s dance is next