Teenage Wildlife

Teenage Wildlife

Song infobox
Name = Teenage Wildlife


Artist = David Bowie
Album = Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Released = September 12 1980
track_no = 6
Recorded = The Power Station, New York; Good Earth Studios, London February-April 1980
Genre = Rock, New Wave, Post-punk
Length = 6:56
Label = RCA Records
Writer = David Bowie
Producer = David Bowie, Tony Visconti
prev = "Fashion"
prev_no = 5
next = "Scream Like a Baby"
next_no = 7

"Teenage Wildlife" is a song written by David Bowie in 1980 for the album "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)". Running at almost seven minutes, the song was the longest track on "Scary Monsters", and Bowie's longest composition since "Station to Station" four years prior in 1976.

Aside from "Ashes to Ashes", "Teenage Wildlife" was perhaps the album’s most personal lyric. Against a musical backdrop that owed much to his classic song "Heroes", including textural guitar work from both Robert Fripp and Chuck Hammer, Bowie appeared to take aim squarely at his post-punk artistic godchildren, particularly Gary Numan:David Buckley (1999). Ibid: pp.363-375]

:A broken-nosed mogul are you:One of the new wave boys:Same old thing in brand new drag:Comes sweeping into view:As ugly as a teenage millionaire:Pretending it’s a whiz-kid world

In a recent article for the Mail On Sunday, Bowie revealed that his vocal performance on this song was an imitation of American girl group singer Ronnie Spector.

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