Teenage Wildlife

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“Teenage Wildlife”
Song by David Bowie
Album	Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Released	September 12, 1980
Recorded	The Power Station, New York; Good Earth Studios, London February-April 1980
Genre	Rock, New Wave, Post-punk
Length	6:56
Label	RCA Records
Writer	David Bowie
Producer	David Bowie, Tony Visconti
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) track listing
"Fashion" (5) “Teenage Wildlife” (6) "Scream Like a Baby" (7)

"Teenage Wildlife" is a song written by David Bowie in 1980 for the album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). Running at almost seven minutes, the song was the longest track on Scary Monsters, and Bowie's longest composition since "Station to Station" four years prior in 1976.

Aside from "Ashes to Ashes", "Teenage Wildlife" was perhaps the album’s most personal lyric. Against a musical backdrop that owed much to his classic song "Heroes", including textural guitar work from both Robert Fripp and Chuck Hammer, Bowie appeared to take aim squarely at his post-punk artistic godchildren, particularly Gary Numan:^[1]

A broken-nosed mogul are you

One of the new wave boys

Same old thing in brand new drag

Comes sweeping into view

As ugly as a teenage millionaire

Pretending it’s a whiz-kid world

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