How Has David Bowie's Music Changed Over The Years

May 19th, 2004. This was the day the classic children’s animated movie Shrek 2 was released in theaters. Through this movie I heard for the first time the 1971 David Bowie hit, “Changes”. Fast forward to high school, I was in my basement looking through old CD’s my dad had and found a David Bowie one that I decided to take. Once I heard the song again it instantly brought back memories from my childhood. The song has a way of staying with me no matter how my music preferences change. The song about how Bowie’s music style has changed and is changing over the years fits in very well with almost all young adults. We are still college students but the upcoming years are going to bring big changes to our lives. Bowie has an interesting melody and tempo, using the piano which gives this song a different ring than some of his other songs. Using pitch and vocals he also gives us a heterogeneous sound which adds to the meaning of the song. This is also a song that has a very strong lyrical presence which complements its instrumentalist.

We can first see this in the use of the piano and saxophone in the firs 30 seconds of the songs. They are both playing the same melody but they are both a little different. This makes way for a great sound and the idea that there are multiple songs being combined into one. This idea is what Bowie was trying to get to. While his musical taste was changing he did not do a 180 from what he did previously. The change in tempo from the first verse to the chorus and throughout the chorus leads from a slow steady section of the song about regret to a more upbeat part about what is coming in the future. The vocables of the stutter ‘ch-ch-ch-ch-changes” (“Changes, 0:54) also contribute to the melody. The piano is what drives this change in tempo and gives us this