";s:4:"text";s:3032:" ", David Bowie Is the Sickly Thin White Duke in 'Lazarus' Video. With an un mistakenly Australian cast, the video featured a series of themes from both rural and urban Australia - aborigines, Sydney Harbour and outback scenes. Show{{#moreThan3}} {{value_total}}{{/moreThan3}} comments. Not only did Bowie bring a song about the homoeroticism intrinsic in machismo to network TV in 1979, but he managed to get a marionette with a pretty obvious raging erection (2:05) on American TVs, too. It ends with a Day of the Dead-esque procession lead by Reznor, because... well, why not? The mini-movie for the title track to his new album is one of the better entries in the Bowie video canon. David Bowie's latest clip wasn't so hunky-dory for some folks at YouTube.. A man who bucked, created and followed trends over the course of his impossibly fascinating career, Bowie was a true icon who successfully reinvented his career more times than any other figure in music history. Melding Pina Bausch-esque dance with Jodorowsky symbolism (religion and darkness factor heavily) with sci-fi tones as a nod to Bowie's Starman past, the 10-minute clip is one of the most cohesively arty videos in Bowie's career. That marionette, incidentally, was Bowie himself. It's supposed to be oblique. The best scene finds modern-day Bowie confronting a younger version of himself to demand the raucous youngster turn down that damn noise you kids call music. David Bowie's 'Blackstar' Full of Death & Doom: Album Review. For this single from the Labyrinth soundtrack, Bowie travels through past personas including Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke and Jareth from the movie.