Earthling  by David Bowie

During 1996, David Bowie recorded and prepared Earthling, his twenty-first studio album, which would be released in early 1997. David Bowie wanted to present a record that aligned with the musical reality of the mid-1990s or with a significant part of it. Thus, he created an album that moved in the industrial rock genre, incorporating elements of electronica, jungle, drum 'n' bass, and even techno (!) It was clearly a move that surprised many fans of the British songwriter’s work.

In David Bowie's effort to renew his sound, he was joined in production and composition by Reeves Gabrels and Mark Plati, while Brian Eno's name appears as a co-composer of the album's fifth and last single, I'm Afraid Of Americans. The artist is featured on the cover wearing a suit whose colors and designs clearly refer to the "Union Jack," the flag of the United Kingdom. The suit was a creation of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen.

Earthling managed to perform satisfactorily in the charts of several countries. In the United Kingdom, it reached No. 6, in Belgium and Sweden No. 5, in Italy No. 8, and in the U.S. it entered the Billboard Top 40. Its total sales in the global market are estimated at around 1,000,000. The truth is that in the subsequent official studio albums that David Bowie released during his lifetime, he did not attempt a similar sound again.