Bowie described this video (and the video for his subsequent single, "China Girl") as "very simple, very direct" statements against racism and oppression, but also a very direct statement about integration of one culture with another. A strong evidence of it happened at the opening of the video in the bar: according to video director David Mallet, bar patrons didn't go over well with the locals, who in addition didn't appreciate Bowie and his fashionable crew. Besides, some of the patrons were resented with the Aborigines who starred the clip, mocked them with their own dance moves. Mallet decided shot it and edited it into the video: the white people whose are dancing in the bar were actually making prank or joke of the Aborigin couple.
