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David Bowie/Trent Reznor - "I'm Afraid of Americans"

theo47says...

This song is coming up on 10 years old now, which puts it pre-Dubya - but one could argue it's taken on a completely different meaning now.

Bowie, then:
"It's not as truly hostile about Americans as say 'Born in the USA': it's merely sardonic. I was traveling in Java when the first McDonalds went up: it was like, 'for fuck's sake.' The invasion by any homogenized culture is so depressing, the erection of another Disney World in, say, Umbria, Italy, more so. It strangles the indigenous culture and narrows expression of life."

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