As noted on Bowie's Facebook page, one of the show's presenters, Matt Everitt, misquoted Bowie on the song: "If Vorticists wrote Roxy Music it might have sounded like this" - except Bowie actually said "rock music" instead of "Roxy." Bowie's team, seemingly amused, referred to to gaffe as "creating a new possibility."

Vorticism, for those not brushed up on their 20th century art terms, was a movement in British art and literature that ran briefly, from 1912-15. It turned away from emotion in favor of extolling machines and machine-made products. The art was abstract, influenced by Cubism and Futurism.