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- The song's music video, filmed in Australia, provided commentary on the treatment of Aboriginal Australians, using the red shoes from a line to symbolise their abuse.
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The music video for "Let's Dance" was shot in February 1983 in Australia, together with "China Girl", after Bowie officially signed with EMI. Co-directed by Bowie and frequent video collaborator David Mallet, the video starred Terry Roberts and Joelene King, two students from Sydney's Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre.
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Mar 14, 2023 · The video: “The Let’s Dance clip showed the rest of the world that there are modern Aboriginals”. Bowie’s statement took on a more critical hue with Let’s Dance’s promo video, as cultural integration made way for a comment on the relationship between Western capitalism and racism in Australia.
Mar 14, 2023 · More than a call to the dancefloor, Let’s Dance knowingly winked at its title’s meaning in vintage slang: an invitation to fight, with Bowie silhouetted in a boxer’s pose on the single’s artwork, the song saw its creator come out swinging as he took on the mainstream. Here is the story of how Let’s Dance turned David Bowie into a ...
Mar 14, 2022 · Many of you will recognise ‘Let’s Dance’ from the Craig David number ‘Hot Stuff’, but unlike the dignity and duty of the original, this was a garish production number that held little of the beauty of the Bowie original.
Dec 6, 2020 · The music video to “Let’s Dance”, which was filmed in Australia, had David Mallet as its director. Bowie used the clip to tackle the issue of racism.
Apr 18, 2023 · The David Bowie of Let’s Dance was a world away from the guy in the Ashes To Ashes video. Clean-cut, healthy, handsome, he was also unambiguously hetero: the video for China Girl featured him shagging on the beach, in a nod to the 1953 film From Here To Eternity.
Apr 14, 2016 · In 1983, David Bowie, video director David Mallet and a skeleton crew traveled from London to the town of Carinda, Australia – population: 194 – to make the video for “Let’s Dance,” the...
