David Bowie was another master blender. When writing lyrics, he used a custom-developed computer program called the Verbasizer.70 Bowie would type up sentences from different sources—newspaper articles, journal entries, and the like—into the Verbasizer, which would cut them up into words and mix and match them. “What you end up with,” Bowie explained, “is a real kaleidoscope of meanings and topic[s] and nouns and verbs all sort of slamming into each other.” These combinations would then serve as inspiration for song lyrics.
