she sings in six languages

25. sagittarius sun. taurus moon. cancer rising.

SHUT UP I GOT UP FRONT MY BED TO REPPLT TO THIS ON MY LAPTOP

you wouldn't because you're based and godlike and because it doesn't make any sense to take any bowie but especially berlin trilogy into lodger as cis or heterosexual Nor western. it makes sense only if you have no sense of the sublime and the innate. lodger is an album i have centred the majority of my public facing users on for like a real specific reason which is coz it's the most overlooked album of his entire career and because the exploration of a sexual and gender stateless-ness through the lens of a constant traveller, a lodger, a stranger in a strange land with a new career in a new town explicitly ties our perceptions of men and women to our colonised world view. david travelled constantly and sought out new worlds constantly and lodger as an album covers the bases of a myriad of pan african in specific but also elements of middle eastern and japanese artistry into it, blending it with elements found in german krautrock, american funk, and english garage rock to form a record which introduced a totally new subject matter for 1977. and the world at large which is:

maybe the view you have of the world is so torturous to you because you don't consider the whole of the world to be 'earth.' maybe you're trapped in confines white nationalism created thru colonialism. and maybe you'd do well to challenge that.

and Yes. he did mean it like that. i hate this idea of hush hush as if david wasn't aware of what he was doing he and eno stated their goals to be attempting to decentralise the west in their explorations by inviting the world outside the west in to create this separate structure wherein we all eat together. this thought occured me when reading what i can find of john mbiti's 'african religions & philosophy' and through thiongo's 'decolonising the mind.' it ties well also in a baldwin quote i had on my walls for years: "we must not adhere to society's definitions." basically, the central argument is to reclaim and reinstate legitimise african thought, life, philosophy, religions, and cultures outside of the framework or academic colonialism which tells us africa has no concept of 'the right way.' the response being, of course, "why do you get to decide for us what the right way is?" and why do they? should they? well i say pos NO!!! chingados!!!!!! ejole usteded wedos malditos!!!!!!!! NO. let people live their lives. in the same way the colonised history of africa should be questioned we should question as well our view of our roles in a society under colonial capitalistic thought.

lodger is alienating to people because david crosses instrumentation from around the african diaspora as well as upcoming innovations in the west's rock scene with even middle eastern classical tones turned from ornate string to electric guitar. he's purposing that if we just restructured our minds away from the idea that the western world is the only way, we would be able to find truth and spirit and he uses this sound to communicate himself an unfixed point sliding all over the binary, sometimes entire outside of it, thus being an embodiment of abandoning the west to embrace the "other" within himself. that because he is a traveller in the world, he picks things up and he puts them in his bag. one stone from here one stone from there at the end he will have a mountain made of a million stones from all over the world which could nourish you. if that tower of babel fell into you, you would get lodger.

"lodger," david, lodger, as he/it were are signalling implications of masculinity and femininity both in his physical appearance during 1977-1981 he was being himself which is what he said. that he wasn't playing a character. and so we see his world: everyone's. he lives with everyone else on the planet. he was using his natural hair colour and using blush, bronzer, and nude tones to enhance feminine features in billowy clothes and whatnot - because he is just as much she and she is they. we are all rootless, only rooted to ourselves and the world we create for ourselves. and david is rooted in his own world, which is in turn, our world and the whole of the planet. it's a non-binary experience definitionally.