Everything Went to Pieces After David Bowie Died
At its best, music is able to summon a feeling, which can be a joy, but it can also be the expression of an inchoate background fear, sadness, or yearning desire, which is deeper than cognition, concepts, or consciousness. With Bowie, it is often all these feelings at once. Music can somehow hold that emotion and hold us there for that moment. And we are the music for as long as it lasts.
