About “Girl Loves Me”

Of all the tracks on Blackstar, none is more opaque than “Girl Loves Me”. The song’s lyrics are half Nadsat, the language used in Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and half Polari, a slang language from gay clubs in 70s London. Bowie encapsulates what it’s like to be in hard-core pain and on heavy medication. The instrumentation meanwhile, is bare, dissonant, echoing the song’s sparse and loose structure.