During that 1997 tour, Bowie sung his song, „I‘m Afraid of Americans,“ and spoke frankly to the Mexican press about how he feels about the United States, which has long considered Latin America “inferior” and its “backyard.”

Inter Press Service reports from the time that Bowie criticized the U.S. consumer culture and the media, which imposes universal benchmarks of behavior.

„I don’t like seeing its homogeneous nature, I don’t like McDonald‘s or Holiday Inn, they are things that come to flatten the culture and that scares me,“ he said.