10 Music Genre Switchups That Made Absolutely No Sense

The idea of David Bowie taking a wild left turn is basically just saying that the sky is blue. Bowie was always an artistic chameleon, and he was never really content to stay in one lane for too much longer. While he was still in the glamour mode though, he went in the opposite direction with something a lot more mechanical for Station to Station.

Even with Bowie's history of evolving characters, this turn into the world of krautrock was almost a bait and switch considering what we had heard on his last record. Though not in his glam mode anymore, Young Americans was already hinting at a more soulful version of Bowie, even giving us a hint of what was to come with the song Fame. As soon as he got to California, Bowie ushered in the Thin White Duke, bringing in a certain darkness that many of us weren't prepared for.

Along with the different fascist beliefs that he talked about in interviews, this was also at a point when Bowie really started to lose control of himself, making this record in a slew of cocaine and getting clean when making the rest of his Berlin trilogy in the coming years. Although Bowie has said that he doesn't even remember the sessions for making most of this record, these are still phenomenal songs that show us a glimpse at the power of the Thin White Duke: the true dark mirror to Ziggy Stardust.