David Bowie: The Next Day (Columbia, 3/12/13)
Though the words David Bowie and Tilda Swinton should be enough to get you to click that little “read more” button, the new video for Bowie’s “The Stars (Are Out Tonight),” directed by Floria Sigismondi, is a pleasure to watch. Starring the strikingly similar entertainers as a suburban married couple, a bit of David Lynch-esque intrigue is injected when a celebrity pairing shows up in town.
A commentary on our celebrity obsessed culture, “The Stars (Are Out Tonight)” features voyeurism, sexuality, and androgyny in heavy doses. A marriage is dissolving, but with kiss-stealing succubi, dinner-table puppetry, and instances of role reversal, the next chapter is anyone’s guess.