David Bowie's video for The Stars (Are Out Tonight), the second single from his album The Next Day, stars the singer and actor Tilda Swinton pretending they're a normal suburban couple

Bad news for the authors of the blog Tilda Stardust, a noble attempt to prove that David Bowie and British actor Tilda Swinton are one and the same person through the painstaking juxtaposition of photos of the pair. Because here she is, starring in the video to Bowie's second single from The Next Day, The Stars (Are Out Tonight), as his happily married wife.

Never mind that Dave and Tilda don't necessarily make the most convincing suburban couple. Soon their life is interrupted by new noisy neighbours, a celebrity couple played by Andrej Pejic and Saskia De Brauw.

Directed by Floria Sigismondi and shot by Jeff Cronenweth, the video is certainly a striking piece of work – dealing with androgyny and musing on the meaning of fame, and illuminating the meaning of the lyrics. (In his review of the album, Alexis Petridis has already tried to work out just what exactly Bowie's banging on about throughout the new album.)

See what you make of it.

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