“I’m afraid of Americans”

Cool song and awesome video (1997)
I’m afraid of Americans



Little backstory-
The single version (the V1 mix) features additional vocals from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, who also contributed guitar, bass, and drums. Reznor, one of Bowie's touring mates, also starred in the music video as Jonny, stalking a terrified Bowie around New York City.

Reznor has a complicated relationship with the song. He was in the throes of a drug addiction and Bowie, who had kicked his own habit, was trying to help him see the light. Reznor recalled to Rolling Stone after Bowie's death: "Once I got clean, I felt a tremendous amount of shame, of my actions and missed opportunities and the damage that I've caused in the past. And I thought back to the time when [Bowie and I] were together a lot, and I wonder what that could have been like if I was at 100 percent. 'I'm Afraid of Americans' falls into that category of me at my worst - out of my mind and ashamed of who I was at that time. So when I see that, I have mixed feelings - grateful to be involved, and flattered to be a part of it, but disgusted at myself, at who I was at that time, and wishing I had been 100 percent me. And it nagged me."