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As for the "list": go ahead and tease Turkish, you know very well how things are. I can only tell you that several users have left the site because they are tired of the attitude, yours and your "little friends'". I won't name them out of respect for them, "respect": do you know this word? Should I spell it out for you? Based on your behavior, I don’t think so. You say I think I'm "superior," but the truth is that you are so childish that you put me in a position to believe I am. Today I’m leaving, okay 'screw it, you might think. I live well regardless, if that's fine with you, okay. Just yesterday I received a message from a user who wrote to me, "I won’t give them anything of myself anymore," and maybe this phrase sums it all up. Have a good life.

This is the treatment I deserve after 29 reviews and 8 months during which I gave and shared a lot of myself and tried to make the best possible contribution to the site. I’m not saying anything extraordinary, but if one day you still have that little shred of conscience left to be able to look at yourselves in the mirror, maybe you’ll understand that most of the ton of shit you threw at me was completely uncalled for. This speaks volumes about the credibility of this site, which started with a good idea but is probably run by the wrong people. When you realize that my so-called "provocations" were a way to defend myself from all the insults I received, maybe you’ll show a little less arrogance.

Dear Turkish, I don’t like you because you’re a HYPOCRITE. I wonder why you only come to bother me about the length of reviews; it doesn’t seem that you’ve played the police towards the good 70% of users on this site who exceed 1800 characters. Apparently, you don’t know what else to do to attack me. But this time you’ve won, I’ll leave you the lollipop. You show me that you’re premeditated and a fascist, and honestly, as far as I’m concerned, the limit has been reached: I withdraw for manifest superiority, I won’t waste my words on those who try to belittle the work of others with meanness of every kind. I’m only sorry that I wasn’t the first; I see the list is long: I wonder why. Farewell.

The review is long, but it had to be that way. I’m not interested in "casual" readers, those who get bored after three lines, I don’t give a damn about them.

Despite its good commercial potential, the album is not performing as expected in the charts. It seems to have reached the 3rd place only to collapse in the following weeks.

But who the hell is bothering with this joke thing and doesn't even sign their name?

Moreover, a small appendix: I don't know why, but I've always had the impression that Bowie was a bit of a joker, enjoying throwing people off in every possible way. It’s no coincidence that 31 years later we're still talking about the groupies that surrounded him when he was young and cool. He really was a major son of a bitch!

Then I don't know, personally I still believe that "Jean Genie" is about the iguana, but you might be right. It doesn't seem like Bowie was ever very clear about it, actually.

Your analysis is beautiful and convincing; that doesn’t mean I’m persuaded (it’s a matter of opinion, I believe it’s more credible that it was written for Iggy Pop, Tyler was nobody in 1973) and Google has nothing to do with it. Keep in mind that I wrote the comment just before leaving the house; I do my best not to miss any interesting points in the various comments, but obviously, it’s not always the case. The period when I have the most free time, that is on the weekend, is when there are very few people on Debaser. Why do you accuse me of responding in the first person? In what person should I respond to you?! Plural Maiestatis? Well, that wouldn’t be bad. Returning to Bowie (and to us), if you go looking for various monographs, biographies, encyclopedias, television broadcasts, websites, each often says something different about many of his songs. Some say that “Velvet Goldmine” is a song about the vagina, while others say it’s dedicated to a friend of his: I have always known that “Lady Grinning Soul” was about Aretha Franklin; according to Iko, it’s about London. Honestly, what you wrote is coherent but inevitably ends up being another “version of the facts,” another, though suggestive, nuance. I have my doubts that Bowie had gone crazy at that time for a girl, considering he could have anyone, males and females. As far as I know, however, Tyler at the time these events are narrated was pretty much nobody; Aerosmith were yet to discover fame, money, and women. I don’t know if Bowie considered him important enough to dedicate a song to him, and what a song it would be. On the other hand, he was completely infatuated with Iggy Pop, and in fact, Lou Reed was jealous.

For Manic: I don't think I slammed the album, on the contrary. However, I had to warn about its content, which is definitely different from the classic standards of the Welsh band.