Heavily influenced by producer Nile Rodgers’ work with his band Chic, “Let’s Dance” features a thumping bassline, and was arguably Bowie’s most commercial record up to that point. While the lyrics are ostensibly just those of a dance song, there is some discord struck by lines such as “Let’s dance, for fear tonight is all”. The 7:38 album version was heavily edited for single release, though the 12” single retained the full length. This loneliness and desperation seeps into the music video, made with David Mallet on location in Australia including Coonabarabran and the Warrumbungle National Park in New South Wales, as well as Sydney Harbour, which features Bowie watching an Aboriginal couple’s struggles against metaphors of Western cultural imperialism impassively while playing with his band. Red court shoes make several prominent appearances in the video, alluding to the song lyric “Put on your red shoes and dance the blues”.
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