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[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 days ago (2 children)

We were playing a music trivia game and the question was "what planet did david bowie sing about life on?"

And my buddy says "earth?" Lmao

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He's not wrong.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It applies to most songs lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You could argue it applies to all songs in some sense (at least, the ones we've heard).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure there have been original compositions on space stations before, the people up there should be nerdy enough…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Yeah, but it's still a song by a person from Earth on an Earth instrument and in an Earth language and almost definitely Earth related somehow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Nah. The song in the triva question was Mars, for example. There's plenty of songs about things other than earth, and other than life.

I know what you're saying though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The song is called life on Mars, but it's all about Earthly things, so I reckon he was singing about Earth problems and only contrasting it to the highbrow idea of life on Mars

Looking at the lyrics again it seems to mostly be about a film, or films in general

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I didn't write the question. It's a trivia game that came in a box.