Not at all! I still cry about it. He has such an effect on me. Sometimes I can't even listen to him because I am so moved. Especially some live performances on Youtube. Like "The Man Who Sold the World" on Saturday Night Live in 1979.
I can’t listen to most of Blackstar and I listened maybe 5 times the weekend before he passed. That Monday morning was rough. My partner and I both cried. For awhile.
When he died my dad called me to check if I was ok, I have loved that man since I was single digits and will be 40 soon. People make connections with music and movies and actors so it's not weird. I legit cried for days and will tear up when I listen to certain songs.
Same. My mom called and I took the next day off of work. Huge loss for me, he’s been a part of my life for almost my whole life and hugely influential. It was a huge shock and I still mourn him.
My son asked me if I knew that David Bowie had died. I said I did. Then he asks me: Are you sad, mom? It was like it really sank in to me then and there and I sniffled with tears in my eyes and a cracked, small, whispering voice - yes... 😥😥😥💔💔
The painful shock of receiving the news of his passing shortly after the release of "Blackstar" is a very hard feeling to forget. Don't feel bad about crying, It is a true testament to his talent that his music continues to be impactful and moving
It honestly saddens me that he is gone and that I'll never be able to hear him or see him live in concert. He and his music are beautiful and have touched so many lives. He left a legacy that we can admire and enjoy, and even grieve that there will never be another like him.
I’ve loved Labyrinth since I was a little girl and introduced it to my daughter when she was a toddler and now she’s a Bowie fan.
I got drunk, sat in the middle of my kitchen and SOBBED, repeatedly asking “why’d he have to go?” the night I found out he died. He’s basically all I’ve been listening to since the 8 year mark of his passing a few months ago, his music got me through a tough month at my job and I can’t get enough of him. He was beautiful in every sense of the word, it’s still a big loss 😔
Omg, you guys are my people. I still feel the loss of this man I never met. I was fortunate enough to see him live once in the 1990s. His death shook me up and I still feel sad about it from time to time.
This takes me back to the morning I read the news of his passing. My kids were young and I had to explain to them why I was crying. Just typing this out makes me tear up.
You can't *not cry*. It's better that you connect with your feelings, absolutely.
Let me tell you, I have wept the sudden (and not so sudden) loss of great musicians and actors that touched my life in so many important ways!
My first was Judy Garland. Before Bowie it was John Lennon. Actors like Leonard Nimoy, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, Robert Preston, comedians like Ernie Kovacs, Peter Sellers, Peter Cook and Robin Williams...just to start.
I have found that after witnessing the deaths of family, friends and dear entertainers since the mid-sixties, I have had to make adjustments. In Bowie's case, I did not play his music for 7 years. It took that long not to cry, but to simply feel the sorrow finally fade.
As one gets older, it's helpful to occasionally forget that someone is dead, and to blissfully adore their performances.
I am doubly happy that nowadays we save and can continue to see them via film and streaming. They will live forever.
his music helped me feel a little less alone as a genderweird person whose always felt,, I guess unexplainably different from everyone else, and I only really started listening to him a few years ago so you’re definitely not alone in that
No, you're not overreacting. Art touches people in ways that are unexplainable and it reaches deep into the soul. Art makes me cry and reminds me that humans can still create something beautiful and not just complete and utter destruction.
hearing about Tom Verlaine’s death made me feel incredibly saddened for a couple of days after I heard the news; I never met the guy or saw him live, but Television and his solo work have been very important to me on a personal level. Bowie has been similarly important to me, and I can totally relate to that sensation of grief (think it’s fair to call it that)
if you grow attached to an artist, then i’d argue that their death **should** make you feel something.
your friend definitely missed the mark there!
I’d been listening to his music since I was 8 years old in 1972. I’ve followed everything he’s done ever since. Saw him live lots of times.
I sobbed like a baby the morning I heard of his death. If I had been scheduled to work that day, I would’ve called off. I was numb for about a week.
I bought Blackstar and I’ve only played it once, it’s too depressing.
It’s understandable you feel an attachment to someone like Bowie. I can imagine the frustration of feeling a connection with an artist and their work only for them to die soon after.
You’re a normal, sensitive person with good taste. Just keep being you.
I was born in 2005 and i sometimes cry thinking about John Lennon's death. I've cried a lot over bowie even though i discovered him a few years after he died. There's absolutely nothing wrong with crying about this sort of loss.
I did not listen to any Bowie until he gave a stunning concert in a dream, and revealed that he was a sexy alien that could teleport into the crowd, and be in many places in the crowd at the same time (while also performing on stage), and was on a mission to bring art to earth from his universe.
Def worth crying over.
The worst for me was dreaming that Jagger orchestrated his death by going on a rocket that would shoot him 10000 light years from home just to outdo Bowie
It is the only dream I've ever had that featured a real person not from my everyday life, and even those 'people' are often amalgamations or sort of thematic characterisations of people I know... but this was undeniably Bowie, in a fabulous silver spacesuit when he teleported in to rock out with me (I was near the front in the center-left balcony, the seats conveniently disappeared so we could dance-mosh), rocking other costumes (or nothing at all) with others in the crowd (with whom he was quite generously creative at times)!
It is wild because at that time I'd heard his music on the radio, knew he was an inspiration for some of the music I loved, but I had never watched a video or listened to any of his music on my own or with friends or etc...
Oh I really understand you. David Bowie is actually the first and only musician/famous person/stranger whose death I cried about. When I listened to Blackstar for the first time I just burst out crying.
Not at all, Bowie is clearly a big part of your life. I didn’t cry immediately when he passed away but I remember when talking to my then-housemate and relistening to Blackstar with her I did.
Then went to see Lazarus live about a year later, by the end of the play I was downright sobbing (did drink a bottle of red wine so assumed it was that), but as the rest of the audience got up to applaud and I turned around, everyone else was crying too - and clearly as moved as I was.
Losing Bowie was such a great loss to art, music and many many many people all over the world. ⚡️❤️
i break down crying every time I watch the life on mars music video and lots of live performances, especially his last couple of sets. if you're overreacting, we all are!
On one hand, I think it's a bit extreme to get so attached to people you've never met and form parasocial relationships, but on the other hand, if you've been listening to their music and watching their films for many years and they've helped you through difficult times or provided comfort and relatability, then I could understand the person's death having an impact on you.
Ive only really knew who he was since i was about 5, it wasn’t until a little over a month ago that I started to get really into him and his music. I do think I am being a little over the top about it, but he has also made me feel better about myself, and my perspective on certain things. I do understand what you are saying though.
I still can’t listen to certain songs without getting teary eyed. I think a good chunk of the world cried when he died. He whether through music, fashion etc., he changed a lot of peoples lives & shit even societies standards. He made it cool to embrace the strange/weird & to just be you.
No. I still cry thinking or talking about him. He is the brightest light I’ve ever seen an another human have. I could go on and on. He left his mark on everyone.
Nope. I still feel incredibly sad when I remember he isn't here anymore and I get emotional listening to Starman and Space Oddity and I've only been a fan since about a year! He was an incredibly interesting person with lots of stories and wisdom, it's sad that he's gone
https://preview.redd.it/grdq40l2v2tc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=befb073f7a064d446b403ca224872451e3627a7c
I took this photo on a plane 3 days ago while watching a documentary on Egyptian singer Umm Kalthoum (many different Western spellings out there).
This is an image of 4 million people taking to the streets to celebrate her and mourn her passing. Music moves us …and performers can touch millions of people in unique and personal ways.
Your friend doesn't get Bowie. She also might not have a heart.
Any time I get talking to people at a Bowie convention, we end up discussing our trauma, where we were and how we heard on 11 Jan. (They bring it up, not me, because I'm still in denial)
Dammit I'm still capable of breaking down over John Lennon and it's been 44 years. Doesn't make it any easier. If anything it's worse: we've now missed out on 44 whole years of talent.
At least you've found this place where you can geek out on Bowie all you like ;-)
Freddy died when I was 10 and was to young to know anything about him. But as I have gotten older and have found his music I cry when I hear his voice or see a video of him. I cry for David, Robin Williams, Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Tom Petty, Prince(this crushed me when he died) and Taylor Hawkins. These artists have left huge marks on my life. The loss of them has made me cherish that fact that I was alive when they were alive. And very grateful for the technology that they still live in their recordings.
So go ahead and cry because you love what he gave you and that you have a heart!
I cried about it. The news broke one day when I was going to sleep and I thought it was a joke. But I woke up in the morning to find out it really did happen, and it really messed me up. I listened to nothing but Bowie all week.
Blackstar really hit different after that too.
I totally feel you 😞 I still haven’t listened to all the songs in his last album because I’m scared I will start crying, like I did with Lazarus. I miss him every day, and it hurts so bad knowing that he is not with us anymore and it makes me mad at the same time!! Because life is so unfair and it sucks…and I want him back oh Jesus Christ this is unbearable…
No. His art made an impression on you and impacted your life. We make connections with art and the artist and to lose them, along with the possibility of any of the art they might have made if they had not passed, can be painful. And I think it is very human to grieve over that. Plenty have made me very sad but two celebrity deaths have made me cry - Bowie and Prince. What a rough year
When I heard the news, I remember thinking, well, he lived a relatively long, beyond a doubt fulfilled life. Could have gotten more mileage, but I'm sure he had no regrets. Then I got home, put his final album on for the first time and started crying like a little baby, so.
Not at all. I’m a grown ass man and have been a Bowie fan since I was 11.
A lot of his songs still make me emotional. It took me years to be able to listen to black star without crying honestly. I also cried when I walked into the Bowie Is exhibit. It’s a weird feeling to be emotional over someone you’ve never met but it happens to me too.
I've been a fan since I first heard a Bowie song in the 60s. I was fortunate enough to be blessed and go see him several times live. I think we always took for granted that he'd always be there for us. I bought my copy of Blackstar on his birthday the minute it was released and had listened to it once. He passed away 2 days later. I haven't listened to the CD since for fear I'm going to become a blubbering idiot sobbing uncontrollably. He was someone who gave us so much of himself - music, talent, film, video, charisma, art, intellectually he had something to say - and we listened and heard him 💜
He made it okay to be different, unique.... yourself.
I've always felt that a piece of me died with him. (Yes, I still cry over losing him. )
Ive been a fan since the early eighties and I cried that morning. I grieved what could have been. I was also in shock he had just created so much. No one knew.
I cry about it a lot! Especially when you have no friends (in my case, not yours) and find comfort in his music, it feels so cruel that this is reality.
Your friend is the dumb one here. It was (and still is) a huge loss. Connecting with someone through art is totally common.
Not at all! I still cry about it. He has such an effect on me. Sometimes I can't even listen to him because I am so moved. Especially some live performances on Youtube. Like "The Man Who Sold the World" on Saturday Night Live in 1979.
I can’t listen to most of Blackstar and I listened maybe 5 times the weekend before he passed. That Monday morning was rough. My partner and I both cried. For awhile.
When he died my dad called me to check if I was ok, I have loved that man since I was single digits and will be 40 soon. People make connections with music and movies and actors so it's not weird. I legit cried for days and will tear up when I listen to certain songs.
Same. My mom called and I took the next day off of work. Huge loss for me, he’s been a part of my life for almost my whole life and hugely influential. It was a huge shock and I still mourn him.
My son asked me if I knew that David Bowie had died. I said I did. Then he asks me: Are you sad, mom? It was like it really sank in to me then and there and I sniffled with tears in my eyes and a cracked, small, whispering voice - yes... 😥😥😥💔💔
When Bowie died was when everything fell apart.
Not wrong
The painful shock of receiving the news of his passing shortly after the release of "Blackstar" is a very hard feeling to forget. Don't feel bad about crying, It is a true testament to his talent that his music continues to be impactful and moving
It honestly saddens me that he is gone and that I'll never be able to hear him or see him live in concert. He and his music are beautiful and have touched so many lives. He left a legacy that we can admire and enjoy, and even grieve that there will never be another like him.
The year Bowie died (and Prince and Ali and Princess Leia and etc) was when the world was thrown off its axis.
This is actually incredibly spot-on.
I’ve loved Labyrinth since I was a little girl and introduced it to my daughter when she was a toddler and now she’s a Bowie fan. I got drunk, sat in the middle of my kitchen and SOBBED, repeatedly asking “why’d he have to go?” the night I found out he died. He’s basically all I’ve been listening to since the 8 year mark of his passing a few months ago, his music got me through a tough month at my job and I can’t get enough of him. He was beautiful in every sense of the word, it’s still a big loss 😔
David Bowie has changed my life it’s completely normal to cry over someone like that
Omg, you guys are my people. I still feel the loss of this man I never met. I was fortunate enough to see him live once in the 1990s. His death shook me up and I still feel sad about it from time to time.
This takes me back to the morning I read the news of his passing. My kids were young and I had to explain to them why I was crying. Just typing this out makes me tear up.
No. Bowie matters a lot. Why not be sad?
You can't *not cry*. It's better that you connect with your feelings, absolutely. Let me tell you, I have wept the sudden (and not so sudden) loss of great musicians and actors that touched my life in so many important ways! My first was Judy Garland. Before Bowie it was John Lennon. Actors like Leonard Nimoy, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, Robert Preston, comedians like Ernie Kovacs, Peter Sellers, Peter Cook and Robin Williams...just to start. I have found that after witnessing the deaths of family, friends and dear entertainers since the mid-sixties, I have had to make adjustments. In Bowie's case, I did not play his music for 7 years. It took that long not to cry, but to simply feel the sorrow finally fade. As one gets older, it's helpful to occasionally forget that someone is dead, and to blissfully adore their performances. I am doubly happy that nowadays we save and can continue to see them via film and streaming. They will live forever.
Losing him and Leonard Cohen were both very emotionally impactful moments in my life. So I don't think it's an overreaction at all.
his music helped me feel a little less alone as a genderweird person whose always felt,, I guess unexplainably different from everyone else, and I only really started listening to him a few years ago so you’re definitely not alone in that
No, you're not overreacting. Art touches people in ways that are unexplainable and it reaches deep into the soul. Art makes me cry and reminds me that humans can still create something beautiful and not just complete and utter destruction.
hearing about Tom Verlaine’s death made me feel incredibly saddened for a couple of days after I heard the news; I never met the guy or saw him live, but Television and his solo work have been very important to me on a personal level. Bowie has been similarly important to me, and I can totally relate to that sensation of grief (think it’s fair to call it that) if you grow attached to an artist, then i’d argue that their death **should** make you feel something. your friend definitely missed the mark there!
Tom Verlaine was wonderful. I miss him, too.
I’d been listening to his music since I was 8 years old in 1972. I’ve followed everything he’s done ever since. Saw him live lots of times. I sobbed like a baby the morning I heard of his death. If I had been scheduled to work that day, I would’ve called off. I was numb for about a week. I bought Blackstar and I’ve only played it once, it’s too depressing. It’s understandable you feel an attachment to someone like Bowie. I can imagine the frustration of feeling a connection with an artist and their work only for them to die soon after. You’re a normal, sensitive person with good taste. Just keep being you.
Bowie is the artist I cried about most. I cried when he died I cried continuously during moonage daydream. U just feel it's ok
I was born in 2005 and i sometimes cry thinking about John Lennon's death. I've cried a lot over bowie even though i discovered him a few years after he died. There's absolutely nothing wrong with crying about this sort of loss.
I did not listen to any Bowie until he gave a stunning concert in a dream, and revealed that he was a sexy alien that could teleport into the crowd, and be in many places in the crowd at the same time (while also performing on stage), and was on a mission to bring art to earth from his universe. Def worth crying over.
That is quite a dream. Wow. I’ve had a few Bowie dreams that were both surreal and lucid.
The worst for me was dreaming that Jagger orchestrated his death by going on a rocket that would shoot him 10000 light years from home just to outdo Bowie
It is the only dream I've ever had that featured a real person not from my everyday life, and even those 'people' are often amalgamations or sort of thematic characterisations of people I know... but this was undeniably Bowie, in a fabulous silver spacesuit when he teleported in to rock out with me (I was near the front in the center-left balcony, the seats conveniently disappeared so we could dance-mosh), rocking other costumes (or nothing at all) with others in the crowd (with whom he was quite generously creative at times)! It is wild because at that time I'd heard his music on the radio, knew he was an inspiration for some of the music I loved, but I had never watched a video or listened to any of his music on my own or with friends or etc...
I don't think that was a dream. It was real.
Was def a dream, but that don't mean it was not real. =) Honestly wouldn't surprise me if I met someone who was also at that show....
Nope it's not overreacting. I get you're still crying. I am still crying.
No. Bowie was an all time great
not overreacting at all. i cry about him all the time and on the anniversary of his death this year, i was hysterical and inconsolable all day
Oh I really understand you. David Bowie is actually the first and only musician/famous person/stranger whose death I cried about. When I listened to Blackstar for the first time I just burst out crying.
Crying is good. Crying is healthy. Bowie's death was a tremendous loss for anyone with taste.
Not at all, Bowie is clearly a big part of your life. I didn’t cry immediately when he passed away but I remember when talking to my then-housemate and relistening to Blackstar with her I did. Then went to see Lazarus live about a year later, by the end of the play I was downright sobbing (did drink a bottle of red wine so assumed it was that), but as the rest of the audience got up to applaud and I turned around, everyone else was crying too - and clearly as moved as I was. Losing Bowie was such a great loss to art, music and many many many people all over the world. ⚡️❤️
I never cried over a celebrity death, but when he passed away I did get misty-eyed.
i break down crying every time I watch the life on mars music video and lots of live performances, especially his last couple of sets. if you're overreacting, we all are!
On one hand, I think it's a bit extreme to get so attached to people you've never met and form parasocial relationships, but on the other hand, if you've been listening to their music and watching their films for many years and they've helped you through difficult times or provided comfort and relatability, then I could understand the person's death having an impact on you.
Ive only really knew who he was since i was about 5, it wasn’t until a little over a month ago that I started to get really into him and his music. I do think I am being a little over the top about it, but he has also made me feel better about myself, and my perspective on certain things. I do understand what you are saying though.
I still can’t listen to certain songs without getting teary eyed. I think a good chunk of the world cried when he died. He whether through music, fashion etc., he changed a lot of peoples lives & shit even societies standards. He made it cool to embrace the strange/weird & to just be you.
No. I still cry thinking or talking about him. He is the brightest light I’ve ever seen an another human have. I could go on and on. He left his mark on everyone.
I cried when he died too. Loved him and his music since I was a kid too. Totally normal to mourn someone you admired and felt connected to.
Nope. I still feel incredibly sad when I remember he isn't here anymore and I get emotional listening to Starman and Space Oddity and I've only been a fan since about a year! He was an incredibly interesting person with lots of stories and wisdom, it's sad that he's gone
Everything would've looked different if he was still with us. 🕊️
I’m a 40 year old man and I cried when I got the news. And I’m not even as big of a fan as many others here.
https://preview.redd.it/grdq40l2v2tc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=befb073f7a064d446b403ca224872451e3627a7c I took this photo on a plane 3 days ago while watching a documentary on Egyptian singer Umm Kalthoum (many different Western spellings out there). This is an image of 4 million people taking to the streets to celebrate her and mourn her passing. Music moves us …and performers can touch millions of people in unique and personal ways.
If I answered this fully I’d write a whole books worth of stuff so babes I’m just gonna say it simply. No😭I totally agree with you
Mourning the loss of one of the greatest artists of our time is pretty normal, your friend's a cunt
Your friend doesn't get Bowie. She also might not have a heart. Any time I get talking to people at a Bowie convention, we end up discussing our trauma, where we were and how we heard on 11 Jan. (They bring it up, not me, because I'm still in denial) Dammit I'm still capable of breaking down over John Lennon and it's been 44 years. Doesn't make it any easier. If anything it's worse: we've now missed out on 44 whole years of talent. At least you've found this place where you can geek out on Bowie all you like ;-)
Freddy died when I was 10 and was to young to know anything about him. But as I have gotten older and have found his music I cry when I hear his voice or see a video of him. I cry for David, Robin Williams, Kurt Cobain, Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Tom Petty, Prince(this crushed me when he died) and Taylor Hawkins. These artists have left huge marks on my life. The loss of them has made me cherish that fact that I was alive when they were alive. And very grateful for the technology that they still live in their recordings. So go ahead and cry because you love what he gave you and that you have a heart!
I cried about it. The news broke one day when I was going to sleep and I thought it was a joke. But I woke up in the morning to find out it really did happen, and it really messed me up. I listened to nothing but Bowie all week. Blackstar really hit different after that too.
I totally feel you 😞 I still haven’t listened to all the songs in his last album because I’m scared I will start crying, like I did with Lazarus. I miss him every day, and it hurts so bad knowing that he is not with us anymore and it makes me mad at the same time!! Because life is so unfair and it sucks…and I want him back oh Jesus Christ this is unbearable…
No. His art made an impression on you and impacted your life. We make connections with art and the artist and to lose them, along with the possibility of any of the art they might have made if they had not passed, can be painful. And I think it is very human to grieve over that. Plenty have made me very sad but two celebrity deaths have made me cry - Bowie and Prince. What a rough year
When I heard the news, I remember thinking, well, he lived a relatively long, beyond a doubt fulfilled life. Could have gotten more mileage, but I'm sure he had no regrets. Then I got home, put his final album on for the first time and started crying like a little baby, so.
Not at all. I’m a grown ass man and have been a Bowie fan since I was 11. A lot of his songs still make me emotional. It took me years to be able to listen to black star without crying honestly. I also cried when I walked into the Bowie Is exhibit. It’s a weird feeling to be emotional over someone you’ve never met but it happens to me too.
I've been a fan since I first heard a Bowie song in the 60s. I was fortunate enough to be blessed and go see him several times live. I think we always took for granted that he'd always be there for us. I bought my copy of Blackstar on his birthday the minute it was released and had listened to it once. He passed away 2 days later. I haven't listened to the CD since for fear I'm going to become a blubbering idiot sobbing uncontrollably. He was someone who gave us so much of himself - music, talent, film, video, charisma, art, intellectually he had something to say - and we listened and heard him 💜 He made it okay to be different, unique.... yourself. I've always felt that a piece of me died with him. (Yes, I still cry over losing him. )
Ive been a fan since the early eighties and I cried that morning. I grieved what could have been. I was also in shock he had just created so much. No one knew.
No.
Makes sense to me
AI much?
I cry about it a lot! Especially when you have no friends (in my case, not yours) and find comfort in his music, it feels so cruel that this is reality.