I ain't combed my hair and need to take a shower so don't turn camera on, me looks like an old man and the sea that little China girls want to live with I'm their fishing villages.
@@johnshirley5222 No both are the writers. Bowie wrote the music and Pop the lyrics whilst they were in Germany in 1976 working on Pops album 'The Idiot'.
+dawn marie carroll-leckie-murphy ... I know right!! I was trying to tell a friend my fave song & I just couldn't...so many were so perfect....love them all!!!
Stevie Ray deserved better than to be the shadow of Bowie, don't you think? The two playing together would be great, but the guy deserved his own spotlight, I guess.
Q the omnipotent Yeah. Stevie Ray was playing a concert one day, and Bowie was in the audience, he loved the performance and asked Stevie if he wanted to open up for him on his upcoming tour, STEVIE SAID NO bc he wanted to work on his bands (double trouble) upcoming album, Texas flood. SRV was practically unknown at the time, while Bowie was a huge superstar, and it’s considered one of the most gutsy moves in rock history. Texas flood was a HUGE hit, and they collaborated from time to time. Thanks class for coming to my rock history lesson!
This is a classic one from David Bowie, my ex and I used to have fun with this song every time we heard it, we would always laugh, cause she would sing the China girl part for real, those were good times.
I've been listening to Bowie for a while but I've never came across this song until recently..now I've got it on repeat playing x5 today & this song is my drug
I once heard a statement that you can make ANY love song you can think be about drugs. Although this is too easy with the title, I'd like to think he really did have that fling with a beautiful chinese girl.
@@valvalvalval25 the girl in the video (whom he did indeed date for a while) is actually from New Zealand. The original "China girl" was in fact Vietnamese and told Iggy Pop to shut up a decade before.
I used to listen to the fabulous Stevie Ray Vaughn when he played at the Rome Inn in Austin, TX just off the drag down by UT in the late 70s and early 80s.
I always knew this song was dark when I was a teen in the 80s, but now that I'm older, HOLY SH_T! Bowie was a truly renaissance man. Moonbeam dust for everybody! RIP
China girl and 84-86. Thank you Meg and Brook and Melissa. You shared so much of who I am. I write this here because it's worth my hope you see it some day. Thank you for all your trust and wisdom. I'm sorry I wasn't as good as you deserved. I will always be grateful for your honest deep friendship. May God bless you and fill each hole you may have to overflowing Love and Peace. Life's better when... You have peace & Love Wanda says hi, but we never got married. I'm too selfish.
That bass line is out of this world... who the hell disliked this R.I.P...David Bowie...too many good songs love them all this is one of my favorites....💔💔
Probably the best rock/pop song that ever hit Billboard's Top 40. That is, if you exclude the other genres like alternative, classic rock and metal. The bass line is seductive, the lyrics are thought provoking and the SRV solo at the end completes one of the best songs in modern rock.
RIP David Bowe. There is a fantastic documentary that ran on Showtime a few months ago. Legendary producer Nile Rodgers has a great antidote of how this song was put together. Bowie was pure genius.....
Krysten55 Stevie Ray Vaughn played that little guitar riff. He went on to have one amazing solo blues career! Legendary musician but sadly, he died back in 1990 I believe in a helicopter crash.
From Songfacts: "In this song, the singer warns the China Girl that he will destroy her culture by imparting Western values of materialism and superficial beauty ("I'll give you television, I'll give you eyes of blue,I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world"). Paul Trynka, the author of David Bowie's biography Starman, claims the song was inspired by Iggy Pop's infatuation with Kuelan Nguyen, a beautiful Vietnamese woman. She was staying at the studio and Bowie encouraged the couple's relationship. It has also be argued that the song is about heroin addiction, as "China White" is slang for the drug. "
I'm thinking it's a dual meaning, with both meanings given being what makes the most sense. A musician like Bowie had the skill to pull that off and for it to still sound good and not overly abstract.
+Greg Palmer ,,,yeah that's what I heard that it was actually about a Vietnamese woman & a knock on western culture....I mean he says that perfectly...
He's singing a song about the men that really are going to rule the world. Itsfunneh the songs that I like so much when they were new and even today came true 1984 and this one.
how dare all my favourite singers and musicians die of late. it's some nerve they have. what with me going through adjustment issues and needing these guys to sooth my broken heart. sure their musical legacy had already been made manifest. it's just that every time I hear of one passing it's part of my life,the good parts that seem to go with them
I just heard this today on 102.9 and this rocks, Great background, lyrics any pleasant to listen to makes me wish I dated one. and lovely people to know, sad to say RIP David Bowie Rock away in heaven Bro.
Ahhhh!!! Sir David! and there you go! simply Magic!!! We all have you, hold you and Move in a Way like you! God Bless You sir!!! For all Eternity!!! and Beyond!!! may your Music go out to other Galaxies so they too can be Moved by You!!! Thanks For Eva! and More!! *)
my love for this song has lingered over many years. I have just come about it it on net as an older person.It still instils in me the same principle that all is possible where hope is alive
I always get chills listening to this. what a pop masterpiece!!! lives on forever and ever RIP Bowie 😭 I will miss you if you think about it, he sounds like Dracula ,,, lol
you missed the whole song - But if he was Dracula he could bite my neck any time!!! LOL Let's just leave it at that he was a great singer, composer, loving husband & father. We Good
For what its worth, I always thought "china girl" meant that she was fragile (as in a China teacup). After all, he doesn't call her a "Chinese girl". Now that you mention it, thought it is obviously a reference to heroin.
First time I heard this song I was like "eh"...until it got to the guitar solo at the end. Totally blew me away. Didn't find out until many years later that it was SRV playing it.
when I was a toddler I would always dance and jump around when my parents played this song. rip to the starman who wrote my childhood theme song and many more...💔
This song brings back memories from my New York City youth. Great place to grow up. Great diversity of culture. Great diversity of women! Of course, going to an all boy Catholic high school, I'd listen to this song on my walkman & just watch...imagining what a date would be like. :)
That bass line is out of this world...
The guitar player ain't bad either!
Maybe to you! ^_^
I ain't combed my hair and need to take a shower so don't turn camera on, me looks like an old man and the sea that little China girls want to live with I'm their fishing villages.
I mean in their fishing villages
It's so exciting!
"oh baby, just you shut your mouth!"
I always get chills listening to this. what a pop masterpiece!!! lives on forever and ever
written by Iggy Pop, covered by David.
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@@johnshirley5222 No both are the writers. Bowie wrote the music and Pop the lyrics whilst they were in Germany in 1976 working on Pops album 'The Idiot'.
This song never gets old. Love it
Absolutely I would love to try to sing with him
This is my absolute favorite David Bowie song. Rest in Peace.
is not a Bowie song was cowritten with Iggy Pop
@@patriciozazzini8302 stop man. u know what he means
R.I.P...David Bowie...too many good songs love them all this is one of my favorites....💔💔
+dawn marie carroll-leckie-murphy ... I know right!! I was trying to tell a friend my fave song & I just couldn't...so many were so perfect....love them all!!!
+Karen Arthur Yes they are all good I was gonna post my favorite but I'd be posting all day...no one ever in this world could even come close to BOWIE
Yuupp. ,
Overrated propagandist. May you forever be forgotten like the rest and the rot feast your remains. >:)
@@Mayhzon you are so alone. Dipshit.
Rip David Bowie, even though a legend will never die. Just the body dies but never the soul or the legacy
R.I.P David Bowie (1947-2016) and Stevie Ray Vaughn (1954-1990).
"Life's a circus and I'm the clown."
-Leon Scott Kennedy
FMS Leon
Ah, I see your a man of culture as well.
"So what, you're just gonna sit here and listen to David Bowie ?"
"It's worked a thousand times before."
Man I love Leon
He was so damn groovy.
And beautiful.
Everytime I even think of this song it gets stuck in my head. The mark of a good song ❤
Yeah I'm not so sure if I hear fucking achy breaky heart for like 20 seconds and stuck there for like three weeks. Pure hell.
Mark of 🔺️
This song is one of my most favorites of all time! ❤️
I must have been born under a rock. I just found out Stevie Ray Vaughn was the lead guitarist on this album.
wow.
bowie and stevie ray.
awesome.
but.. when Stevie was asked to tour at $300 a night to support Let's Dance, he refused.
Stevie Ray deserved better than to be the shadow of Bowie, don't you think? The two playing together would be great, but the guy deserved his own spotlight, I guess.
@@MrDiegocastr0 dude idk....Bowie was an absolute SUPERSTAR around the world. i dont think any guitar player would deny that.
@@TylerANDBABE So was Stevie Ray. I don't think any lead vocalist would deny that.
Q the omnipotent
Yeah. Stevie Ray was playing a concert one day, and Bowie was in the audience, he loved the performance and asked Stevie if he wanted to open up for him on his upcoming tour, STEVIE SAID NO bc he wanted to work on his bands (double trouble) upcoming album, Texas flood. SRV was practically unknown at the time, while Bowie was a huge superstar, and it’s considered one of the most gutsy moves in rock history. Texas flood was a HUGE hit, and they collaborated from time to time. Thanks class for coming to my rock history lesson!
I always get chills listening to this. what a pop masterpiece!!! lives on forever and ever
no one:
Not a single soul:
my brain at 4 am: mUst PlAy ChInA GiRL
oh baby, just you shut your mouth!
No one.. I'm in a packed dive bar on a friday night.. Play china girl .. get dancy
B-52's
our brains are like brothers
LOL this was totally me this morning no joke
This song takes me back to 1983 when I fell in love with my high school crush. She was my first and I will always remember her!!!
The melody randomly popped into my head one day and now I’m back here again❤️
This is a classic one from David Bowie, my ex and I used to have fun with this song every time we heard it, we would always laugh, cause she would sing the China girl part for real, those were good times.
I've been listening to Bowie for a while but I've never came across this song until recently..now I've got it on repeat playing x5 today & this song is my drug
I once heard a statement that you can make ANY love song you can think be about drugs. Although this is too easy with the title, I'd like to think he really did have that fling with a beautiful chinese girl.
He did! He briefly dated this girl
@@valvalvalval25 the girl in the video (whom he did indeed date for a while) is actually from New Zealand. The original "China girl" was in fact Vietnamese and told Iggy Pop to shut up a decade before.
I used to listen to the fabulous Stevie Ray Vaughn when he played at the Rome Inn in Austin, TX just off the drag down by UT in the late 70s and early 80s.
F**king amazing!! Play full blast in memory of Bowie. Our musical genius!!
Doing it!!! This is such a bad ass girl
R.I.P. David Bowie! Thank you for all those great Years of Music you gave us!
I miss you David Bowie huge fan. Your music and phenomenal voice
Wow.. I love him so much
😢 he was too great for this world
Yuupp ,👣
He was a gift to this world, I miss him so much 😞
I've listened to his music forever 💞
I always knew this song was dark when I was a teen in the 80s, but now that I'm older, HOLY SH_T! Bowie was a truly renaissance man. Moonbeam dust for everybody! RIP
China girl and 84-86. Thank you Meg and Brook and Melissa. You shared so much of who I am. I write this here because it's worth my hope you see it some day. Thank you for all your trust and wisdom. I'm sorry I wasn't as good as you deserved. I will always be grateful for your honest deep friendship. May God bless you and fill each hole you may have to overflowing Love and Peace. Life's better when... You have peace & Love
Wanda says hi, but we never got married. I'm too selfish.
David Bowie and Stevie Ray Vaughan = one of the greatest albums ever
You forgot Nile Rodgers!
RIP! ZIGGY STARDUST" AKA David Bowie your music will live on!!
The first 20 seconds take me into another world . . .
That bass line is out of this world...
who the hell disliked this
R.I.P...David Bowie...too many good songs love them all this is one of my favorites....💔💔
stevie ray's little solo ends it so perfectly
Damn the drum sound on this album is just fantastic!
Probably the best rock/pop song that ever hit Billboard's Top 40. That is, if you exclude the other genres like alternative, classic rock and metal. The bass line is seductive, the lyrics are thought provoking and the SRV solo at the end completes one of the best songs in modern rock.
RIP David Bowe.
There is a fantastic documentary that ran on Showtime a few months ago. Legendary producer Nile Rodgers has a great antidote of how this song was put together. Bowie was pure genius.....
Love the drum beat with this song.
I'm so glad I grew up listening to his music and I'm so glad I still do. ❤️
Also, their drummer, Omar Hakim, was the one who played on Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing." Similar drum sound.
I love the music that plays at the beginning!
Krysten55 Stevie Ray Vaughn played that little guitar riff. He went on to have one amazing solo blues career! Legendary musician but sadly, he died back in 1990 I believe in a helicopter crash.
Oh, I like Stevie Ray Vaughan! I love his song "Pride and Joy"!
I read that when Bowie first heard that opening he was appalled and wanted it changed
It'S from CHYNAH!!!
I love that thumping bass.
This is one of my favorites of his...R I P David...Peace and Love!
Currently my third favorite Bowie song. Second is Starman. First is Moonage Daydream. He was awesome...rest in peace,sir.
RIP David Bowie
+SuperRod88 R.I.P man ;-; So sad, woke up in the morning with the news that he died the day before yester day
From Songfacts: "In this song, the singer warns the China Girl that he will destroy her culture by imparting Western values of materialism and superficial beauty ("I'll give you television, I'll give you eyes of blue,I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world").
Paul Trynka, the author of David Bowie's biography Starman, claims the song was inspired by Iggy Pop's infatuation with Kuelan Nguyen, a beautiful Vietnamese woman. She was staying at the studio and Bowie encouraged the couple's relationship. It has also be argued that the song is about heroin addiction, as "China White" is slang for the drug.
"
1983.
I'm thinking it's a dual meaning, with both meanings given being what makes the most sense. A musician like Bowie had the skill to pull that off and for it to still sound good and not overly abstract.
+Greg Palmer I just read a post from WP,which wrote the song was inspired by heroin.
WP?
+Greg Palmer ,,,yeah that's what I heard that it was actually about a Vietnamese woman & a knock on western culture....I mean he says that perfectly...
i think they should put this in the gta 5 classic rock radio...
Dam right!
RIP David Bowie you were a great song writer, and singer you will be missed by many!!!!
He's singing a song about the men that really are going to rule the world. Itsfunneh the songs that I like so much when they were new and even today came true 1984 and this one.
I so want to be his china girl. His voice and his lyrics gets my heart raising.
Me too he's a babe
you are Chinese？
Those are iggy pop's lyrics
I want to be his china girl too e he he he he he
@@mirageundertaker7741 I’m Chinese so I pretend he’s talking to me😂
David Bowie’s voice is very seductive.
TCB now that’s true
Even straight men becomes gay once they hear his voice
This song makes me want to go get Chinese food
Magic💖💖💖
👌 100% agreed!
This song is done so beautiful, I love the "Ohh Ohh Ohh OOOOOO little china girl" thast what hooked me !
nobody can mix comedy and seriousness like bowie, how fantastic..)d
Rest in Peace David Bowie. Cancer took another gifted musician from us. Your music will live on!!
što više slušam ovaj "tvoj mix" sve mi se više čini kao "moj mix" :D odličan izbor .....pozzzzz
"oh baby, just you shut your mouth!"
that is what we say to the dislikers
@@SeantheBlueFox true
@@nightmare8096 and if they don't shut up..it's their fault, they should've listened to Bowie before
I always get chills listening to this. what a pop masterpiece!!! lives on forever and ever
who the hell disliked this
David Bowie....sexiest voice evveerr... 😝 A soul to be missed
This was always my favorite song from David Bowie!!!
Still one of my favorites
R.I.P. David Bowie
I danced many of time to this song while stationed in Scotland! wow such memories
Steve Ray Vaughan is bad on that guitar gives me chill bumps WOW that drummer is really GREAT.
Omar Hakim on drums
how dare all my favourite singers and musicians die of late. it's some nerve they have. what with me going through adjustment issues and needing these guys to sooth my broken heart. sure their musical legacy had already been made manifest. it's just that every time I hear of one passing it's part of my life,the good parts that seem to go with them
Rest in peace Mr. Bowie. Your music will live on.
The most distinctive feature about David is that he doesn't repeat himself like most rock bands
RIP Bowie 😭 I will miss you
The wedding singer brought me to this. One of my favorites growing up and now I finally found this 🎶
Be sure to check out the Iggy Pop version too, it has a darker sound. I like both versions but personally have a slight bias for Iggy's version
I just heard this today on 102.9 and this rocks, Great background, lyrics any pleasant to listen to makes me wish I dated one. and lovely people to know, sad to say RIP David Bowie Rock away in heaven Bro.
Excelente canción! Gracias David por brindarnos muchas alegrías!
Ahhhh!!! Sir David! and there you go! simply Magic!!! We all have you, hold you and Move in a Way like you! God Bless You sir!!! For all Eternity!!! and Beyond!!! may your Music go out to other Galaxies so they too can be Moved by You!!! Thanks For Eva! and More!! *)
David? Thanks for all the memories? Rest in Peace and have a pleasant and safe journey? to your final resting Place.
my love for this song has lingered over many years. I have just come about it it on net as an older person.It still instils in me the same principle that all is possible where hope is alive
RIP Bowie 😭 I will miss you
He was so damn groovy.
Shut up
I always get chills listening to this. what a pop masterpiece!!! lives on forever and ever
RIP Bowie 😭 I will miss you
if you think about it, he sounds like Dracula ,,, lol
He's so hot.
Amen
Yes he is, rest in peace gorgeous 💜
I love this song it holds a very special meaning to me of someone
Preciosa canción!!
I love you still David. You were a great artist with class and style. I saw you in Vancouver and it was amazing!
if you think about it, he sounds like Dracula ,,, lol
you missed the whole song - But if he was Dracula he could bite my neck any time!!! LOL Let's just leave it at that he was a great singer, composer, loving husband & father. We Good
Lol true but ofc David Bowie is wayyyyyy more charming and good looking
Nah... sounds like david
Rip
Buwahhhhh! I can't unhear it now.
filipinobean yes, he was a vampy in the hunger, if you haven’t seen it, watch it ASAP thank us later
Großartig ❤
we already miss you
Fantastic! Can’t understand why anyone would give this song a thumbs down
Kuelan Nguyen
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David Bowie is a once in a generation mega talented performer and singer.
R.I.P :'(
this was my favourite song EVER when I was like nine :) its still pretty awesome
That bass ;3
Dang. That was unexpected.
For what its worth, I always thought "china girl" meant that she was fragile (as in a China teacup). After all, he doesn't call her a "Chinese girl". Now that you mention it, thought it is obviously a reference to heroin.
A shoutout to Eric Swalwell!
Hey,
Forcément inoubliable et extraordinaire génial. Grand merci. 👍👏🎵💃🐉
Theme of Leon .S. Kennedy
Everytime I even think of this song it gets stuck in my head. The mark of a good song ❤
He's so hot.
The Late Great " Thin White Duke ", Party On Dude !
🚬👓...
3:30 she says! Wow so well said, RIP my friend.
First time I heard this song I was like "eh"...until it got to the guitar solo at the end. Totally blew me away. Didn't find out until many years later that it was SRV playing it.
muzik dude Yes Stevie plays in this song, Love it!!!!
The rhythm in this song is epic.RIP David you were really something special.
workin' class hero (ine):
... You know, I'll give you television
I'll give you eyes of blue
I'll give you a man who wants to rule the world...
when I was a toddler I would always dance and jump around when my parents played this song. rip to the starman who wrote my childhood theme song and many more...💔
As the lyrics say:
Oh baby just you shut your mouth
She says : sh-sh-shhh
And just listen to the damn song..........
I love the way this groove just sits
who the hell disliked this
idiots without taste for real music.
Neenah ! Then why did they come here 🤔
people with shit taste
Big china girls
maudina palmer right? Ugh
This song brings back memories from my New York City youth. Great place to grow up. Great diversity of culture. Great diversity of women! Of course, going to an all boy Catholic high school, I'd listen to this song on my walkman & just watch...imagining what a date would be like. :)