I'm a black star

>I'm a black star

What does that mean? What is your interpretation?

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IM A MA FUKN STAR BOI

(1) A black star is a form of cancer lesion. The lyric alludes to his disease. (2) A blackstar is a sun which has run its course and is now old, putting out very little light; in the stellar equivalent of a low smolder. The "blackstar" in the album I believe ties into both of those ideas.

I think it means that he's a star but a flawed one.
Like Iggy Pop and Lou Reed would be considered black stars too. Someone like Drake or Justin Beiber would be regular stars because they are perceived to be perfect and didn't really have that bad of a upbringing

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These answers are good. Also, Bowie sings that "Somebody else took his place/And bravely cried,/'I'm a blackstar.'" From the beginning I've thought of that as Bowie sort of "passing on the torch" to younger musicians who love Bowie's music, like telling them to carry on his legacy after he's gone. And it might also be a Biblical reference or whatever but I forget.

>Bowie died of cancer in january 2016.

Holy fuck that's actually really smart, I haven't thought of that line like that before.
Go away Scaruffi nobody wants you here

(not true, by the way)

>From the beginning I've thought of that as Bowie sort of "passing on the torch" to younger musicians who love Bowie's music, like telling them to carry on his legacy after he's gone.
This is the impression I get too, and I think it would be really cool to hear people accept the passed-on torch in their own music, but I feel like it would come off as self-important lol.

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I could see someone like Kanye West writing a lyric like that
>Y'all remember when D. Bowie died?
>Sheeit, man, I just remember how I cried (out)
>[sample] I'm a blackstar! [/sample]
>I can go far
>I do it for my man up there Ziggy
>You can trust your good pal Yeezy
Gonna be on Turbografx, screenshot this

after Bowie died didn't he say he wanted to make a Bowie inspired album but everyone screamed no so he gave up that idea?

Yeah, I think that an album would've been a bit too much but a song or at least a few bars dedicated to him would be more than fitting
I feel like he, of all people, would be best at doing it, partly because he's mainstream enough to get people to care about Bowie but also because his name was printed on the front of The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust before he was even born

that's not how stars work
they don't fucking run down like a battery into a low smolder

Taken from skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-resources/how-long-do-stars-live-stars-die/

>The most massive stars quickly exhaust their fuel supply and explode in core-collapse supernovae, some of the most energetic explosions in the universe.

>Average stars with up to 1.44 solar masses, such as the Sun, face only a slightly less exotic fate. As they run out of hydrogen to fuse in their cores, they swell into red giant stars before shedding their outer layers. The remnant left behind in these planetary nebulae is a white dwarf star.

>Left to their own devices, white dwarfs will eventually fade into black dwarfs. No black dwarfs have been observed yet because a white dwarf takes longer than the current age of the universe to fade away.

so that's the kind of research you should do before making rash statements on topics you don't know too much about or haven't studied frequently, thanks

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i want you to reread that very carefully before being so arrogant
please tell me:
how many black dwarfs have we ever seen?
how many WILL we see before the universe implodes?
how common are stars roughly the size of ours, leading to what conclusion about the scarcity of eventual white dwarf remnants?
what kind of self-important faggot ends his post with, thanks

I'm not an astrophysicist and I'm not speaking literally you gay fag

IM NOT A PORNSTAR

1. None
2. Maybe some if we stick around long enough
3. See pic related (taken out of a HS text book), our star is actually among the most common type of star in the universe, hence it being referred to as an "average star" in the article I referenced, meaning that eventually there will be thousands upon millions of white dwarf remnants in the future
Also, the "rarity" of such an event isn't what's being discussed here, it's the fact that they do in fact exist, in which currently no, they do not, but scientifically speaking they are a thing that occurs within our universe making them a factual thing that happens
I am not a scientist, so I cannot tell you off the top of my head how or why we have come to this conclusion, but if I were to take a shot in the dark it's probably because white dwarfs use materials so much slower than our star or red giants that the reaction that is produced when it runs out is probably much less than that of a differently classed star
4. Me, thanks :^)

they will be the end product of about 97% of all stars in the universe. the only thing that will outlive them are fully convective red dwarfs, which will likely be wanly glowing right up until everything gets swallowed.

white dwarfs are a degenerate matter stellar remnant. they do not produce heat. they are a star in retirement, they don't have fuel to run out of. they're the closest thing to actual ash in the stellar lifecycle, a hunk of charcoal that eventually turns cold

so at some point, far in the distant future, when most of the matter in the universe has dissipated & only faint red shadows remain in the night sky, you would be right to point out that "black stars" do exist, & are in fact exceedingly common. i warmly welcome your ghost to rub that fact in my face at such a time.

right now, there are no black stars. there won't be for several hundred million more years, & we won't see them for another several hundred. so right now, at this exact moment in time, calling them real is factually incorrect.

so fuck you bitch

I'M NOT A WANDERIN STAR

I never said that they are "real", I only ever said that they happen within our universe. None have happened yet, but all evidence that we have points to them happening when the time comes, which is not now, not before now, and not in the near future. You seem to be trying to argue that since black stars don't exist right now that they aren't a thing that happens, but right in that 3rd and 4th paragraph you say that they do. Either way, I'm not David Bowie so I couldn't tell you what he meant when he wrote "I'm a Blackstar", specifically his definition of what a "star" is. Either way, black stars are called "stars", making the lyric correct and metaphorically coherent, no matter what your definition of a star is. you've pretty much admitted that I'm right with that last paragraph there, with
>there won't be for several hundred million more years, & we won't see them for another several hundred. so right now, at this exact moment in time, calling them real is factually incorrect.
so I would calm down and stop insulting me when you know I'm right. I have not insulted you once this whole time, yet you continue to call me arrogant, self-important, a faggot and a bitch at this point. I hope you have a wonderful day.

I'M NOT A HOMESTAR

IM NOT A MEMESTAR