"I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural"
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That line lands like a studio aside that accidentally becomes a manifesto: curiosity without commitment. Coming from Tony Visconti - the producer-musician who helped build David Bowie's most shape-shifting eras - "I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural" reads less like a ghost story and more like a method. Review is an engineer's verb. It suggests rewind, playback, another take. He isn't chasing certainty; he's managing a mix of belief, doubt, and awe, listening for what still rings true.
The subtext is about permission to be unsettled. In rock culture, the supernatural has always been a useful prop: occult chic, sci-fi mysticism, religion-as-stage-lighting. But Visconti's phrasing dodges both credulity and mockery. Reviewing implies a living archive of feelings that change with age, grief, fame, substances, proximity to genius. If you've spent decades watching performances become personas - and personas become myth - the "supernatural" starts to look less like séances and more like the eerie force of creation itself: the moments in the room when a song seems to arrive from somewhere else.
Context matters: Visconti's career sits in the long afterglow of 20th-century counterculture, where cosmic talk, Catholic hangovers, and avant-garde art all cross-pollinated. The quote works because it's emotionally modest but philosophically loaded. It doesn't claim a revelation; it admits ongoing calibration. In an era addicted to hot takes, he offers something rarer: a quiet, repeatable practice of wonder with the faders kept firmly in reach.
The subtext is about permission to be unsettled. In rock culture, the supernatural has always been a useful prop: occult chic, sci-fi mysticism, religion-as-stage-lighting. But Visconti's phrasing dodges both credulity and mockery. Reviewing implies a living archive of feelings that change with age, grief, fame, substances, proximity to genius. If you've spent decades watching performances become personas - and personas become myth - the "supernatural" starts to look less like séances and more like the eerie force of creation itself: the moments in the room when a song seems to arrive from somewhere else.
Context matters: Visconti's career sits in the long afterglow of 20th-century counterculture, where cosmic talk, Catholic hangovers, and avant-garde art all cross-pollinated. The quote works because it's emotionally modest but philosophically loaded. It doesn't claim a revelation; it admits ongoing calibration. In an era addicted to hot takes, he offers something rarer: a quiet, repeatable practice of wonder with the faders kept firmly in reach.
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| Topic | Faith |
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