Ich bin

In his newest song, this weeks entrant to the Friday Soundtrack, David Bowie asks "where are we now"? The answer, apparently, is Berlin. 

Even though "Where Are We Now" is chock-full of references to the city, I'm not certain it's strictly about Berlin. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Either way, it's Bowie and I'm digging it-- the seasoned and swaying voice; the art-music aesthetic; the whirlwind tour of Germany's capital city (the Wall, Potsdamer Platz, the Bundestag, Fernsehturm, Brandenburg Gate, Bose Brucke). Bowie's tour arguably places subtle emphasis on the East-West divide of 20 years ago. 

My only question for Mr. David Robert Jones: did you ever leave the city of the bear? Or are you just reflecting on the time you stood by the wall? When the guns shot above your head. When you were a hero.

As long as there's you, Mr. Jones, I suspect we'll never know.

 Bowie was edgy.

Bowie is edgy.