{"id":118,"date":"2019-12-13T18:36:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/?p=118"},"modified":"2020-04-25T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T18:04:45","slug":"tis-a-pity-she-was-a-whore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/201x-favorites\/tis-a-pity-she-was-a-whore\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201c\u2018Tis a Pity She Was a Whore\u201d \u2013 David Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Bowie - &#039;Tis a Pity She Was a Whore [Audio]\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-zF2tsBJnpk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We lost David Bowie on January 10, 2016. It would have been less of a shock if we\u2019d lost him years earlier. After a series of middling records and ambitious tours throughout the \u201890s and early \u201800s, Bowie suffered a heart attack in Germany, then quietly receded from public life for most of the following decade. It was concerning, inconceivable that he of all people would voluntarily retire on such an abrupt down\u00a0note. In 2012, The Flaming Lips even released a song called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CH4vhlkkbbU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Is David Bowie Dying?<\/a>\u201d and a lot of us thought shit, yeah he probably is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then in 2013, as suddenly as he\u2019d vanished, Bowie returned with a new album. <em>The Next Day<\/em> was recorded at a deliberate pace and in absolute secrecy (NDAs for everyone involved), and it was his best LP in 30 years. From the first few seconds of the opening title track, there was an urgency we hadn\u2019t heard in his music since the Berlin Trilogy. While he still wasn\u2019t doing any live publicity, Bowie made a few videos and looked healthy. He\u2019d simply taken us into an unexpected new phase of his career \u2013 more mysterious than past Bowie phases, but no less inspired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following year saw two new songs released as part of a career retrospective, and then in 2015, an epic ten-minute single called \u201cBlackstar.\u201d As exciting as it was to get any new Bowie material with <em>The Next Day,<\/em> \u201cBlackstar\u201d was even more significant. He was making radically new, vital music, years after many had counted him out. I was preemptively budgeting in my head, optimistic I\u2019d finally get a chance to see him live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Blackstar<\/em> LP was released on January 8, 2016. I listened immediately, repeatedly, and loved it. It\u2019s a completely original, chaotic, jazz-inspired classic. Two days later, Bowie succumbed to liver cancer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coinciding with the album\u2019s release was a video for the song \u201cLazarus,\u201d featuring Bowie writhing in a hospital bed and dancing backward into a wardrobe before closing himself in. The man choreographed his own death, and none of us had a clue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My favorite track on <em>Blackstar<\/em> is a re-recording of one of the two songs he\u2019d released with his 2014 retrospective. Apparently inspired by a controversial 17th century play of the same name, \u201c\u2018Tis a Pity She Was a Whore\u201d is hyper, relentless, and progressively menacing. Bowie\u2019s vocal performance, composed at first, grows to a strained yelp as he competes with bleating saxophones and discordant piano, all struggling to cling to the beat. 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