Song Of The Day - Laurie Anderson - O Superman

One thing that gives me great pleasure is to surf youtube waters. I never know where the stream will take me. After anchoring in a place, I surrender and receive whats there for me. And this comes with a bonus, youtube comment section. Oh, how I love it.

Today, youtube comment section took me to this song from 1982 "Laurie Anderson - O Superman". Quite interesting and groundbreaking... and of course while listening to it, I read comments! 🍿

Nurture Horses
"And this was made in the 1980's and look how accurate it is to the present day. Take a look at phones, we just look and text through screens. We do not hear the person nor see the person. We very much live in an isolated and lonely world where technology has become our best friend, not people."

Maja Teresia
"The most creepy thing about this is that it gives the feeling of complete loneliness, in a future where intimacy has somehow been remvoed, it's kind of without time or space and yet you hea rint he background int he beginning the sound of birds chirping and "nature"-sounds... This is an amazing song but it gives me shivers."

David Rodwin
"One of the most powerful tracks ever recorded. And so prophetic. Heard her play it live after 9/11. Haunting. "Here come the planes... They're American planes.""

SuperBking1340
"Think this song is about the dehumanizing​ of the human race and the rise of the new world order. ​Where "mum and dad" are replaced by the state, technology ​,science and the military."

Cannabelle
"Apparently, Dennis Nilsen, a British serial killer, would get shit faced drunk and listen to this song over and over as the corpses of men rotted beneath the floorboards of his apartment. Their heads boiling on the stove, pieces of their dismembered bodies clogging the sewage pipes. He was known as "England's Jeffrey Dahmer." Pretty sweet, right?"

Laurie Anderson on German TV bei Bio 1984

Music is an explosive expression of humanity!