It seems like checks and balances are important, and that bands or projects with multiple voices on creative input can outcompete solo projects. But on the other hand, too much workshopping (too many cooks) and you get MFA-syndrome: bland, personality-less.
Brian Eno.
You've also got Marilyn Manson appearing between Madonna and Gaga and taking a lot of cues from Bowie.I would agree that Madonna is a bit like Bowie but within a narrower spectrum and with far fewer good tunes. But that's how everything works, you get a pale imitation (of Bowie's imitation) and then a bit later you get Gaga as a paler yet imitation of Madonna.
You've also got Marilyn Manson appearing between Madonna and Gaga and taking a lot of cues from Bowie.
I do recall Ferry was pissed when Bowie rushed out his album of cover tunes "Pin-Ups" after Ferry told him that was what he [Ferry] was working on - a covers album - "These Foolish Things". Apparently this added some "fuel" to Mick Jagger's famous snark, "Never wear a new pair of shoes in front of David."
oliver i know belinda whispered you this - gave you her come-to-bed eyes butBelinda Carlisle was greater than the Go-Go's.
her entire origin story is straight white girl using the gay NY underground to catapult herself to mainstream stardom
Bowie is a (basically, I know he dabbled) straight white dude who used queerness and then black music to build an image of himself as a singular chameleonic pop avatar
stay in your lane straight white people or he'll come for you!
I'm not straightwe think as straight white people (me and you and padraig and the rest of us)
when it applies equally to two similar cases, you betthe same line of argument
it's no big deal. I'm not closeted or anything but I generally default pass as straight and I don't make a big thing of it.so assumed you were
when it applies equally to two similar cases, you bet
not equallyit would apply to any succesful artist in the history of music with debts to minority / marginalised cultures