# David Bowie tribute at The BRITS **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2016, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077 "2016-02-25T08:42:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/1 "2016-02-25T08:42:50Z")
last night. well I cried: Don't have a link to the music segment atm but[it was pretty much the opposite of what Gaga did](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/lordes-tribute-to-david-bowie-brit-awards-2016-heartbreaking/). ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/2 "2016-02-25T09:21:45Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > Don’t have a link to the music segment atm This link has the music. > **[Rap, R&B and Hip Hop News & Breaking Stories | Rap-Up](https://www.rap-up.com/category/news)** > > Find the latest rap news including breaking stories, album announcements, tour updates, and more. Get all the Hip Hop and R&B news on Rap-Up. Lorde doing _Life on Mars_ was just great, I thought. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/3 "2016-02-25T09:32:24Z")
Here [you go.](http://jezebel.com/seems-like-david-bowies-son-preferred-lordes-tribute-to-1761182695) Lorde sounds a little ropey to me, but having his band do it was moving. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/4 "2016-02-25T09:47:46Z")
Yep, his band and someone he admired from the new generation. I thought it was heartfelt and sincere. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/5 "2016-02-25T10:29:33Z")
That just absolutely outshone the horrorshow that was the Gaga … thing. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/6 "2016-02-25T13:12:18Z")
Now \*that \*is how it’s done. Thanks for sharing **up\_the\_junction**. I seem to have something in my eye. . . ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/7 "2016-02-25T13:38:28Z")
I loved the way she was dressed, the whole thing had a respectful, extended family feel. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/8 "2016-02-25T15:29:13Z")
It was a good tribute. Interesting about **Lorde** - she was picked as one of the vocalists standing in for **Kurt Cobain** at Nirvana’s induction into the RRHoF, too. Pretty respected in the industry - hope she can produce more interesting work, like **St. Vincent** , one of the other Cobain stand-ins who is respected and has produced more work. Or **Jack White** - who got tapped as the Next Guitar Hero in things like the Stones live film Shine a Light, or the documentary It Might Get Loud. He produces a ton of material so there is no problem with people forming opinions about his trajectory 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/9 "2016-02-25T15:33:44Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > That just absolutely outshone the horrorshow that was the Gaga … thing. It may not have been good, but I have to admit hearing his son’s response made me not care. At least she tried–no need to make fun of her. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/10 "2016-02-25T15:53:23Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > It may not have been good, but I have to admit hearing his son’s response made me not care. At least she tried–no need to make fun of her. Agreed. I’m a fan of Duncan Jones and was disappointed to see him act like such a dick. I’m choosing to chalk it up to grief. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/11 "2016-02-25T16:35:23Z")
Personally, I’m with Zowie… ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/12 "2016-02-25T16:45:25Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Personally, I’m with Zowie… Oh he’s correct \ It _stinks_; just seems like bad form. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/13 "2016-02-25T19:08:41Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Personally, I’m with Zowie… Don’t pick fights with the bullies or the cads. ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/14 "2016-02-25T22:15:21Z")
“…cause I’m not much cop at punching other people’s dads.” Yes, I cried after watching Lorde and David’s band. It was all about David while Gaga’s was all about her. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/15 "2016-02-25T22:53:01Z")
Here’s the official BRITs upload of the whole tribute The more ad-hoc videos seem to be getting culled. Watching it again, I’m actually really quite moved - I think Bowie would have been pleased. Lennox is a bit over earnest as usual, Oldman with the personal anecdotes, Lorde and the old touring band doing right by the music. Yeah, that’s good. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/16 "2016-02-25T23:27:57Z")
> [@up\_the\_junction](#): > > I loved the way she was dressed, the whole thing had a respectful, extended family feel. Oh yes, and also Annie and Gary in the presentation were quite right for it in their respective ways. They made me think of something Pete Townshend once said about some other departed stars “these were \*your \*idols and icons… they were _my friends!_” ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/17 "2016-02-26T11:26:23Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > It was a good tribute. > > Interesting about **Lorde** - she was picked as one of the vocalists standing in for **Kurt Cobain** at Nirvana’s induction into the RRHoF, too. Pretty respected in the industry - hope she can produce more interesting work… Actually, I was thinking about her a few days ago and was wondering whether she was on her way to becoming another one hit wonder. I kept on seeing her name mentioned everywhere a couple of years ago and since then, nothing. Admittedly, I don’t have my finger on the pulse of pop music but I honestly thought she’d started fading away. It looks like I was wrong. Good for her. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/18 "2016-02-26T19:36:47Z")
So I’ve just watched both the Grammy and the Brits tributes back to back, and though the Brits had certainly more class (of course, they’re the _Brits_ for God’s sake), Gaga’s performance wasn’t that bad. Just two different approaches, the Brits performance focusing on the music and Gaga, as always, on the visuals, but why critize that, because, well, Bowie was always about sound AND vision. The Brits band played better and closer to the originals, but any band that has Nile Rodgers on guitar (who’s got some genuine Bowie creds himself) can’t be too bad either. I didn’t like their singalong treatment on _Heroes_, that doesn’t suit the song, but the rest was ok. Gaga was certainly a logical choice for the tribute, and did quite well. Lorde’s version of _Life On Mars_ OTOH sounded heartfelt and restrained, and since it’s probably my favorite Bowie song, I liked it very much. I had heard about Lorde, but she was somehow never on my radar (I know _Royals_, but find it only so-and-so), but for her age she gives a very mature and graceful performance. Both Lennox and Oldman spoke very well and moving. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-bowie-tribute-at-the-brits/747077/19 "2016-02-26T20:04:42Z")
The music part of the tribute is free to download on Google Play if anyone fancies it [https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bjnwscxvpe2prp4gkcqjroyqq6u&tid=song-Tv7tgzuhkcb7lecq64mpwft7j4i](https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bjnwscxvpe2prp4gkcqjroyqq6u&tid=song-Tv7tgzuhkcb7lecq64mpwft7j4i)