“Boys Keep Swinging” Music Video

Boys Keep Swinging was the first single from Lodger. Bowie himself stated that the song was about “playing on the idea of the colonization of gender.” Bowie dances energetically at a mic throughout the video, interspersed with shots of him singing the song’s backing vocals as three different characters in drag. As Adrien Belew’s guitar solo wails at the end of the song, Bowie does a runway strut as each of the women, concluding with the elderly woman in purple shown here.