David Bowie's son slammed Lady Gaga's tribute at the Grammys

by Dan MacRae

February 18, 2016

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Bowie and Gaga collaborator Nile Rodgers has defended the homage.

Did you catch Lady Gaga’s big, flashy, Intel ad-friendly tribute to David Bowie at last Monday’s Grammy Awards? Judging by the ratings for this year’s shindig, there’s a pretty good chance you caught Mother Monster’s medley online, but you still likely came across the homage in one capacity or another. If not, we have it plunked down below, because we’re your bud like that.

Reviews for the performance have included some pans and there’s one particular assessment that’s scored a lot of attention. David Bowie’s son, Moon director Duncan Jones, tweeted something that social media sleuths are still in the process of unpacking. Is it a slam? (Possibly.) Is it a dictionary definition of “gaga?” (Looks like it.) Is everyone going to make a bigger fuss out of this than they should? (Of course.)

Chic god/frequent Bowie collaborator Nile Rodgers paired up with Gaga for Monday’s tribute and he’s also used Twitter to chat about the performance. Rodgers defended the homage he directed in a series of 140 character or less responses and comes across as the world’s most patient dude.

Rodgers also chatted with Rolling Stone about the Gaga Does Bowie Grammy spectacular and was asked what he thought the man being celebrated would think of the tribute. He says Bowie would have enjoyed the multi-character medley.

“In my heart, I think he would have loved it. I think that because David was such an artist and he channeled characters — and let’s go out of the realm of music and let’s go into the realm of acting where he had to play the Elephant Man with no makeup, and he had to contort his body and he had to really channel the character. That’s what Gaga was doing with this tribute. You look at what he did as an actor and he was living those characters, and Gaga, up until the countdown, she was just trying to channel Bowie without compromising her voice and talent.

We’ll give you a moment to decide if you would have liked some Tin Machine tacked onto Gaga’s Grammy performance.

Tags: Music, News, David Bowie, Duncan Jones, lady gaga, Nile Rodgers

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