Young Americans is the ninth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released on RCA Records in 1975, and his tenth album including the immediately preceding live release David Live (1974). Young Americans displayed Bowie's mid-1970s "obsession" with soul music. He let go of the influences he had drawn from in the past, replacing them with sounds from "local dance halls", which, at the time, were blaring with "lush strings, sliding hi-hat whispers, and swanky R&B rhythms of Philadelphia Soul." Bowie is quoted describing the album as "the squashed remains of ethnic music as it survives in the age of Muzak rock, written and sung by a white limey". Because of the strong influence of black music on the album, Bowie used the term "plastic soul" (originally coined by an unknown black music