"HALLO SPACEBOY" (1995) DAVID BOWIE & THE PET SHOP BOYS
Here's the google translate, so bear with me:
Back in 1997, when MTV still played music, JMJ did a list of favourite videos. Hello Spaceboy was one of them.It’s a pop song in a noble and futuristic sense. He is also both happy and dark. So it corresponds well to this period of confinement which brought both its dose of dramas, and this kind of jubilation of the imposed time.
This piece sums up this story of internal travel in the face of the sudden impossibility of mass tourism. The confinement sparked the dream of the impossible trip because we couldn't move. He inevitably prompted us to develop our appetite for motionless and inland trips and excursions, with music in particular. We don't need Elon Musk and Space X to go to the moon. Just listen to Bowie!
Today we are getting out of confinement a bit knocked out, as if we had been emotionally and psychologically plastered for two months. Now we need to do rehabilitation and I think music, in terms of resilience, is a priority. It's funny and paradoxical to see that the two things we've been doing in those two confined months are going out to eat and listen to music, watch movies and read books. If we needed to convince ourselves, culture is a basic good.