Rate Your Music score: 3.25 out of 5!
You'd think a top 10 hit wouldn't be lost, but David Bowie was so sparse on our major local radio stations that it's as if we can deduct 30 notches from the chart peak of each of his mid-'80s singles. David is also one of these acts who I didn't fully appreciate in the days when it seemed like everyone (even performers who had no chart hits at the time) seemed to be competing against Men At Work for chart success.
But there's a story behind "Blue Jean." It happened in 6th grade when I was in the gifted class one day a week. I think we were at the table with the microscopes, but this wasn't the same day someone broke the microscope slides by running them under hot water. Also, I'm not sure if it was the same day I tried going to my regular classes instead but got caught.
Anyway, I made up a humorous song that I kept singing to myself. I think this was the one that went, "Poo-poo is fun to eat...It's the all-around extraordinary breakfast treat." In any event, I was quietly singing it to myself at the microscope table. Then a girl sitting in the seat next to me started snickering and asked, "Are you singing 'Blue Jean'?"
Whatever I was singing, it sounded nothing like "Blue Jean." The melody sounded more like Gordon Lightfoot's "Sundown."
Also, I never really understood the "Blue Jean" video, but that's true of a lot of music videos of the time, although music videos were at their peak then.
When you saw David Bowie in the header for this entry, you were probably hoping most of it would be about the guy who looked like David Bowie talking about "elimination" because someone shit on the school bus, but I'm sorry to disappoint you.
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