Day 66 | The Jean Genie

I am posting this song because Bowie’s hand-written lyrics are going up for auction. It is also one of my favorite Bowie songs. Is it about Iggy Pop? Jean Genet? Drugs? Is it just a camped up and sped up blues song? I think that’s all beside the point. The point is, however captured in one of the lyrics: “Let yourself go!” Album: Aladdin Sane