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* [[Never Live It Down]]: His [[Glam Rock]] period; it yielded a lot of great work, but its campiness and glitter can unfairly overshadow what he did later. A related issue is his flip-flopping over his sexuality.

* [[Newbie Boom]]: After ''Let's Dance''.

* [[So Bad ~~Its~~ Good]]: Some of his pre-1969 songs, especially the novelty tune "The Laughing Gnome", and his "Dancing in the Street" duet with Mick Jagger in 1985, mostly because of the goofy, [[Ho Yay]]-fueled video (another reason the mid-'80s are often called Bowie's big [[Dork Age]]).

* [[So Bad It's Good]]: Some of his pre-1969 songs, especially the novelty tune "The Laughing Gnome", and his "Dancing in the Street" duet with Mick Jagger in 1985, mostly because of the goofy, [[Ho Yay]]-fueled video (another reason the mid-'80s are often called Bowie's big [[Dork Age]]).

* [[So Cool ~~Its~~ Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|So Cool It's Awesome]]: In particular, ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars'' is often considered one of the best albums of all time.

* [[So Cool It's Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|So Cool It's Awesome]]: In particular, ''The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars'' is often considered one of the best albums of all time.

* [[Tear Jerker]]: See the [[David Bowie (Music)/Tear Jerker|tearjerker page for this artist]]. Beyond songs, ''[[The Man Who Fell to Earth]]'' can also qualify as this.

* [[They Changed It Now It Sucks]]: Due to his frequent reinventions, Bowie has faced this constantly -- "I preferred him as singer-songwriter, space alien, blue-eyed soul singer, [[Kraftwerk (Music)|Kraftwerk]]-esque krautrocker, etc." But it was '''especially''' bad after ''Let's Dance'', partially because it overlapped with [[~~Its~~ Popular Now It Sucks]].

* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Due to his frequent reinventions, Bowie has faced this constantly -- "I preferred him as singer-songwriter, space alien, blue-eyed soul singer, [[Kraftwerk (Music)|Kraftwerk]]-esque krautrocker, etc." But it was '''especially''' bad after ''Let's Dance'', partially because it overlapped with [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]].

* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]], [[True Art Is Angsty]], and [[Mind Screw]]: The premise of the ''1.Outside'' narrative.

* [[Vindicated By History]]: ''Hunky Dory'' didn't get much attention until after the success of ''Ziggy Stardust'', but once it did...well, two of the tunes that are [[Signature Song]] candidates ("Changes" and "Life on Mars?") are from it. This also applies to the Berlin Trilogy, which underperformed on the charts compared to his previous albums (especially outside of the U.K.) -- in fact, ""Heroes"", now another [[Signature Song]] candidate, did not make waves as a single when it was new.

* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs]]: Averted with ''Station to Station'' -- see [[Creator Breakdown]] above. And this was right after he was in [[The Man Who Fell to Earth|a movie]] that also begs this question, but the filmmakers themselves weren't on drugs.

* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?]]: Averted with ''Station to Station'' -- see [[Creator Breakdown]] above. And this was right after he was in [[The Man Who Fell to Earth|a movie]] that also begs this question, but the filmmakers themselves weren't on drugs.

* [[The Woobie]]: As Bowie has a good deal of sympathy/empathy for the plight of the "freaky" folk of the world, tales of misunderstood, suffering souls turn up occasionally in his work.

** The old veteran in "Little Bombardier" (from his debut album). After years of loneliness and depression, things seem to turn around for him when he strikes up an [[Intergenerational Friendship]] with some schoolchildren -- and then the police, who suspect he means ill, nip that in the bud.