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2006, inspired by David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "Little Prince".Page 1
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Thanks so much for liking it!
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This is great. I just heard this song. My friend recommended it to me. Its so sad. I cried.
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Omg this is the first time you heard it?? I so wish I was in your place. 
Yes it's totally sad and melancholic. My little brother was the one to recommend it to me (I was totally clueless believe it or not 
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Awwww thanks so much, dear..
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No way! Today I just started a comic-like strip inspired in my interpretation of this very song (but only from the "your circuit's dead" part to the end). I love your style, also I find this one of the most uniques rendition of this song here in DA.
Anyway, I think I'm the only one in the world who interpreted the song as if Tom willingly cut off all communication with that blue planet of us (to ground control's dismay haha)
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Ah wow, will you give me a link when you finish it??
Thanks for loving my style! Oh god, there's more renditions of this song here in dA?? Where where??
Hmmm willingly cut off all communication, and why not..! I think it makes sense.
Well here's what, when my bro introduced me to this song (and he's younger than me, go figure lol) his interpretation was that in reality Major Tom was a junkie hallucinating (kinda like the hallucinations of Pink in "The Wall"), maybe bro was even influenced by "Ashes to Ashes" ("We know Major Tom's a junkie").
Myself.. well I see him as an astronaut for sure, I guess that's what Bowie had in mind too. And to be more precise, I think he is Sam Rockwell's character from "Moon" (which was directed by Bowie's son - coincidence? I think not. 
But I think Major Tom's character can indeed be interpreted as kind of suicidal. He loves his wife but at the same time he just wants to cut off any communication with earth, explore the big black nothingness and die. Your idea is awesome!
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Haha, sure, here it is [link]
Yea, the "Major Tom's a junkie" thing, I think all of the song can be seen as a metaphor of drugs. But even then, everybody seems to see it as a "bad trip" story, of a man who got high and never came back... Still I think it could be about a man who, after getting high saw reality and everything with different eyes (or while being in space, he saw the beauty of universe hence the "stars look very different today") while "ground control" (his friends, family etc) kept asking thing mundane or frivolous things ("the papers want to know whose shirt you wear")... Eventually he sees life in Earth/normal life as a sad thing, and he makes his decision, regretting only leaving his wife behind. After that, he does not go back and leave everything "planet earth is blue and there's nothing I can do"
OR, or I'm just wrong and just give the song a completely erroneous interpretation xD
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I agree with everything you just said, it sounds legit! Our astronaut seems to be such a lonely man, doesn't he? He chooses loneliness because he's seen the world with different eyes. Have you seen "The Fountain" with Hugh Jackman? Especially the part where he's like a Buddhist monk in a bubble in space, only him and the tree of life/his wife. That's the kind of feeling I get from this song.
I love your version of the end of the song! And your artist's comment at that.
I *love* how you give credit to both interpretations (astronaut dying/junkie overdosing). Only an artist could be so fair and open to the multiple interpretations of a work of art.
Have you noticed the people commenting the youtube vid you linked me, how they're SO sure they know what Bowie meant just because later on he said "We know Major Tom's a junkie"? 
I read an interview he once gave to a Greek reporter, that guy was trying to fish out a 9/11 comment from him ("Slow Burn" was launched around that time). The reporter soooo wanted to believe that the song was Bowie's take on 9/11 but Bowie shrugged and said "No, it's about loneliness and isolation".
But still, the most sincere thing an artist could say to his audience would be "I did the painting, you do the thinking".
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Ah yeah, "El árbol de la vida", I remember that movie had a ton of symbolism (as everything Aronofsky has done xD)... And I just noticed the main character was also named Tom (I'm also fan of Aronofsky's btw)
I've always thought art shouldn't be something with a still interpretation (there are numerous artist who seem pretty fond of that -their pieces almost come with a manual guide). True that some forms of art can be more open to interpretation (instrumental music, painting) while other are more specific (literature, cinema)... I find poetry and songs great because it's right in the middle: can be very suggestive and at the same time can tell us a story.
On the "Major Tom's a junkie", well I think Bowie could be referencing the way society see people like Tom (both `literal` junkies and people who willingly isolate themselves -but then again isn´t drug abuse some form of self-isolation?). He left alone his friends and loving wife and thus he's not a member of society anymore, he's a junkie. An outcast.
That also reminds me of The Wall... remember how even Pink saw himself as a bad person (after isolating himself behind his Wall) to the point of imagining an entire trial against him? "The way you made them suffer, your exquisit wife and mother...")
Well I hope I'm not wandering too much. I'm seriously loving this discussion!
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Great work! Loved to see it while listening to Space Oddity.
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Awww you did??? I'm so glad you played Space Oddity hahaha! 
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Yeah, I actually let it on the messages for later just because I wanted to read and listen at the same time xD
I know your feeling, I often write songfics and hope that everyone will match the song and the fic the way I did.
Bowie always FTW
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Hahhahha that's great, it feels so good to know that the comic gave you (yet another) excuse to listen to that wonderful song..
Actually there was a time when I tried to make a 3D animation video of this song, I had designed Bowie's Prince, the rose and the planet but I never got to animating the whole thing. -__-; [link]
Omg "songfic"?! I never heard of that genre! What kinds of songs have you written stories about?
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Not that we need any excuses, of course xD
Oh, that's sad, I bet it would be awesome! Bowie look rather nice in 3D
No? It's my favorite genre of fic! Basically you just mix a song with a storyline. I did it with a lot of songs, from Bowie to Placebo, Franz Ferdinand, Mika and mostly My Chemical Romance, because is their fandom I usually write to. I just haven't translate it to english yet xD
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Love it. The composition, colours. The lines. It is really cool! You did a great job. And! I love The Little Prince >D
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Thank you!! 
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Είναι πάρα πολύ ωραίο! Κοίτα να δεις πόσο ταιριάζει ο μικρός πρίγκιπας με τον Bowie!!!!
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Δεν το περίμενα να σου αρέσει τόσο πολύ!
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