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| Genre = | Length = 48:57 | Label = Virgin | Producer = | Last album = ''Outside'' (1995) | This album = ''Earthling'' (1997) | Next album = '''Hours...''' (1999) | Misc = }} ''Earthling'' (stylised as ''EART HL I NG'') is the twentieth studio album by David Bowie released in February 1997 via Virgin Records, later reissued on BMG Records. The album showcases an electronica-influenced sound partly inspired by the industrial and drum and bass culture of the 1990s. This was the first album Bowie self-produced since his 1974 album ''Diamond Dogs''. Shortly after the release of this album, Bowie received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ==Album background and development== David Bowie returned to the studio five days after finishing up his tour for his previous album, ''Outside.'' Bowie said "I really thought it would be great if we could do a photo, almost a sonic photograph of what we were like at that time. So, Reeves () and I started writing immediately after we finished on the road." Despite going into the studio with no material ready,〔 the album took only 2 1/2 weeks to record〔 (typical for a Bowie album). Bowie compared this album with his 1980 album ''Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)'', saying "I think there's quite a link between ''Scary Monsters'' and this album, to a certain extent. Certainly, the same intensity of aggression."〔"David Bowie: The FI Interview" by J.D. Considine, Fi magazine, October 1997, pp 36-41〕 Bowie described the album as an effort "to produce some really dynamic, aggressive-sounding material."〔 On the production of the drum 'n bass sound of the album, Bowie had this to say: ''Earthling'' was the first Bowie album recorded entirely digitally, "entirely on hard disk."〔 During interviews promoting the album, Bowie stated "I did nearly everything on the guitar. A lot of screechy-scrawly stuff was done on saxophone, then transferred to sampler, and then distorted and worked on on the synthesizer."〔 Bowie and Gabrels used a technique they'd started while working on Bowie's previous album ''Outside'', where they'd transfer bits of guitar to a sampling keyboard and construct riffs from those pieces. "It's real guitar," said Bowie, "but constructed in a synthetic way. But Brian Eno got in the way - in the nicest possible way - so we didn't get to that until this album. We want to go further with that, because it's a very exciting idea."〔 Bowie considered this album, along with its predecessor, to be a "textural diary" of what the last few years of the millennium felt like. Bowie's and Gabrel's musical influences at the time had a big impact on the sound of the album: Bowie was influenced by a "euro" sound and bands like Prodigy, while Gabrels was still into the American industrial sound and bands like Underworld.〔 Bowie said that he approached the production of this album similarly to how he approached ''Young Americans'': Bowie summed up the meaning of the songs on the album by saying: The album's cover features a photograph of Bowie wearing a Union Jack-based coat designed by Alexander McQueen, who had previously designed stage costumes for Bowie and his band. Before the album was released, Bowie considered using ''Earthlings'' (plural) for the album's title. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Earthling (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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