How Laurie Anderson created “O Superman”

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“I tell stories. And those look like paintings sometimes. They look like songs. They look like films.”
Laurie Anderson takes Anderson Cooper into her studio and shows him how she created her 1981 hit song “O Superman.” cbsn.ws/3NNcubu
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@xbrandi12345x 7 месяцев назад

I literally just discovered her tonight and I am hooked. She's so original and so far everything I have listened to I have absolutely loved. Her style is a little different than what I normally listen to but she's fantastic and unique and I love it!

@SweetMat 6 месяцев назад

Do you have any recommendations ?

@maha77 5 месяцев назад

Check out her album *BRIGHT RED* one of my favorite, another great one is a live album called *The Ugly One With The Jewels* , and of course her breakout album *Big Science*

@GlennTillema 3 месяца назад

I recommend watching "Home of the Brave," the whole piece is on RU-vid if you search for "Home of the brave laurie anderson." It's absolutely brilliant and has a lot of songs with great hooks.

@Michael-dy7zp 2 года назад

I love how at the end of this clip she got him to "sing" the lyrics.

@bernlin2000 Год назад

She gives me strong "music professor" vibes. Someone who clearly went into music to excite and inspire people, not to "score big hits". O Superman feels almost like a tutorial into modern electronic music.

@SocialistStrike Год назад

I love that she tried doing something human for that robotic ghost that interviewed her. She didn't have to flatter him like that. He knows he has no personality.

@spike120 5 месяцев назад

@@SocialistStrikeMore than you have

@MissAkashiya 29 дней назад

@@spike120 lol, acting like you haven't seen this man be so boring with everyone else

@ronkirk5099 2 года назад

This lady is still very cutting edge and very creative.

@KGBeast. 2 года назад

I don't know why as a kid when I first heard this song I cried so hard

@deanfowles3707 6 месяцев назад

The song is hideous

@SpuroWasDead_WakeMeUpWhen 6 месяцев назад

Lowkey first time hearing it it just hits. Like top picks for you by injury reserve

@ro2xl 5 месяцев назад

Lmao

@jacobmartinez8414 5 месяцев назад

if u cried as a kid that means it’s not good, she said it’s bout technology which turned into AI, we know a lot more as kids

@ecto1225 2 года назад

This song stuck with me from the age of 3. I am now 45 and still love the song

@PandemoniumMeltDown Год назад

It is, a sticky song 🙃

@thetruenolan6655 6 месяцев назад

I am 71 -- and yes, I still love this too!

@dragon-lf9ow 6 месяцев назад

Me too

@abraxasjinx5207 4 месяца назад

I didn't discover it till my 30s but I'm 44 and it still punches me in the gut.

@RothkoFridgeMagnet 3 месяца назад

That "hi mom" on the original breaks my heart...

@CrownRider 5 месяцев назад

Some songs from the past pop up from time to time. This is one of them. Laurie is still awesome after all these years.

@topangacreek 6 месяцев назад

Got this album from the library because of the cover art and brought it home. It blew my brain apart. As much as a hit as it was I never heard it anywhere else. Never spoke to anybody about it ever, was my own experience. It has stuck with me for 40 years, deep cut.

@brentchambers511 2 года назад

She's as charming as I had hoped...great interview clip.

@randomfella8084 7 месяцев назад

Pretty innovative for 1982. Her song is back as a tiktok trend.

@natbb9 11 месяцев назад

I love you, Laurie! Even though O Superman is not in the Music Appreciation book from which I teach, I make sure to teach it anyway. It's important, and there is prophecy. When 911 hit, it took a deeper meaning -- "They're American planes, made in America..." And with Katrina a few short years later, "When love is gone, there's always justice, and when justice is gone, there's always force, and when force is gone, there's always Mom... Hi, Mom!" Mom, in this case, being Mother Nature. Thank you for giving the world this piece. It's beautiful.

@bernlin2000 Год назад

That song is seriously out of time...just stunning, wildly influential.

@abraxasjinx5207 4 месяца назад

Tf are you on? It's perfectly in time. She even described the difficulty getting the loops to circulate with each other so perfectly. It's called polyrhythmic, read a book. Edit, do you mean timeless?

@Marius-eu8dh 2 года назад

Gotta love Laurie Anderson

@PandemoniumMeltDown Год назад

It is easy.

@williamwilson6499 4 месяца назад

I bought the album in 1984 when I was 25. Played it many times. That was 40 years ago. Still listening.

@khonsuthecore4788 6 месяцев назад

Oh he looked so happy when she gave him the mic.

@garrettkelly5568 2 месяца назад

There was a version we used to listen to in the mid to late 90's after we had come back from the nightclubs .. it was like a trance or rave version .. but ive never been able to find that particular version again no matter how hard i try 😢

@gabb05 2 года назад

classic tune...lovely segment

@gaudiumdesign7433 10 месяцев назад

I love her more after this interview! She is amazing!!!!

@violetdreams1799 Год назад

so good to see she's still working 👍

@ijustneedmyself 2 года назад

I first heard this song in a documentary about the artist Louise Bourgeois. Such a wonderful song and a wonderful lady 💗

@tydusrain4476 5 месяцев назад

i absolutely adore her and her stories. thank you for your art, laurie anderson💕

@calebwoods9029 2 года назад

Love you Laurie, and you too Lou!

@jameslawson9315 2 года назад

Thank you Anderson for allowing Laurie to decifer this Song, which is implanted in AMERICAN HISTORY

@visualthinking 4 месяца назад

I do some of my best thinking listening to this track on repeat. Thank you, Laurie Anderson.

@calliespltn 6 месяцев назад

she’s so dope

@GriffinDuyThespian 7 месяцев назад

One of my favorite songs ever made 💓

@zimmakimma7007 5 месяцев назад

Her way to convey her art is genuinely amazing

@oppositeofh8 5 месяцев назад

god, i love this woman. i discovered her around '81 & have been grateful ever since. she did outstanding work in "swimming to cambodia" with spalding gray. her strong smile is lit with the energy of creativity. 😻😻😻😻😻 5/5 lovin'-it kitty-catties

@Mimikyu_Lov3r 4 месяца назад

Recorded in 1980?! WHAT?! O.O

@dragon-lf9ow 6 месяцев назад

This has always been my favorite

@acetaminophetus 5 дней назад

I always hear echoes of Robert Ashley in Laurie Anderson's work. Both of them, just stunning musicians.

@jakemoeller7850 5 месяцев назад

One of my all-time favorite artists! I saw her in San Francisco...MEMORABLE PERFORMANCE

@kidMclean 6 месяцев назад

Loved it then and love it now , epic

@daizocapalbo8755 2 дня назад

I love her ❤

@davids7912 6 месяцев назад

Haunting yet mesmerizing song A++++

@stephenbrown1622 6 месяцев назад

When I first heard this I thought wow It’s so good It brain washes you you can’t move until It finishes

@jerryrichardson2799 2 года назад

Her segments for _Alive from Off Center_ were pretty smart and funny. I always liked her work.

@tescherman3048 2 года назад

Alive from Off Center was a great show! Among the best things to come out of Minneapolis-St.Paul (along with Prince and dozens of other bands of course :) )

@abraxasjinx5207 4 месяца назад

Why does this song always make me cry?

@user-sw2xj3mp3l 4 месяца назад

It's strangely comforting ngl

@genusrosaceous 5 месяцев назад

I, now, need a version with Anderson!

@JillKnapp 5 месяцев назад

She is brilliant and absolutely gorgeous, too. ❤

@leerush6978 2 года назад

Cool!

@noneya6052 7 месяцев назад

She is epic

@seungminisamaterialgirl1420 6 месяцев назад

0:55 I first heard it when I was 14 too…….today 😂

@SANITIZEDINC 6 месяцев назад

Legend.

@lilisama93 4 месяца назад

Love her

@johnp1911 7 месяцев назад

Way ahead of her time

@katecoffee4744 4 месяца назад

Laurie has been happiness for me for decades - Lou Reed rocks! The two of them…magic!

@wideawake5630 5 месяцев назад

Two national treasures.

@freshtony030 Год назад

❣

@crush3095 4 месяца назад

1:40 I could cry

@rubbernun66 2 месяца назад

Love Laurie A. Love White Lily.

@ErinT80 Год назад

I think she’s kinda cool.

@kristinaF54 3 месяца назад

I'm pretty sure they used a vocoder on Star Wars for the voices of Darth Vader and Stormtroopers.

@joebombero1 Год назад

A lot of essays after 9-11 about this song, that she somehow had seen the "attacks". Really amazing stuff at the time.

@joeruger5858 2 года назад

May God Almighty bless Laurie Anderson

@aprilk141 10 месяцев назад

In Her long arms.

@Confuzer 5 месяцев назад

What an interesting human being she is :)

@8thchaosemerald678 7 месяцев назад

TikTok finally got to this song

@ChristianBurnett Месяц назад

It sounded like he was going to ask her what the lyrics mean so she just gave him a mic instead 😂

@williambarry8015 Год назад

That song is the musical equivalent of the MLK sculpture.

@DeHashModeBowie 5 месяцев назад

101th comment!! Hello fellow 80s/90s/00s/10s/20s/+ kids :]

@LauraMoncur 5 месяцев назад

Seems a little short sided to not mention her effect on TikTok and that's WHY this song has become a hit again.

@bulcyob Год назад

Always found this to be unsettling. Serial killer Dennis Nilsen used to play this frequently in his apartment. Creepy.

@SadeWatkins 2 года назад

“& when force is gone, there’s always mom” May God Bless her in Jesus Name This song is so Powerful it makes me weep anytime I Hear it

@abfab7830 Год назад

I always thought Laurie Anderson was from Belgium. Actually I learned she's american

@PeterChoyce 2 года назад

O superman was the first use of the VOCODER, which since then has been corrupted into AUTOTUNE

@zaimusic_150 Год назад

They’re so similar it almost doesn’t matter tho. You could look at both as a “cheat”

@PandemoniumMeltDown Год назад

@@zaimusic_150 But, what regulation did she infringe?

@BlueManIan Год назад

Wendy Carlos used it about a decade before she did

@z.verdadero 9 месяцев назад

both statements of that sentence are false

@johnkountouris3288 6 месяцев назад

my God Anderson, you couldn't've put soul into that!?

@greg3284 6 месяцев назад

Idiot. Someone doesn't have a soul here, too dumb to have one.

@anthonynuttall9691 6 месяцев назад

Acid definitely acid

@Bikewithlove Год назад

“This is a song about how, basically, technology cannot save you.” - she says to a news actor working for billionaires with plans to ‘save the world’ by using technology to starve the world’s population - and she knows it. Her professional matter-of-factness about it went right past Anderson Cooper. Props to him though, for digging her music. It looks like he had a great time on this assignment & he seems relaxed & natural here. Good stuff :)

@PandemoniumMeltDown Год назад

Right out of his comfort zone, went to the inner child to, shyly and reverently wiped his fear and exposed his vulnerable, seldom exposed voice to the world and an idol. Then, his light grew 7 times bigger 🥲

@Bikewithlove Год назад

@@PandemoniumMeltDown - I have no idea what you mean, but I like it.

@deanfowles3707 6 месяцев назад

What technology to starve people are you talking about

@Bikewithlove 6 месяцев назад

@@deanfowles3707 - I’m very sorry that you still believe in news and mass media.

@Bikewithlove 6 месяцев назад

@@deanfowles3707 - I rest my case. ☕️

@user-bc9fh3jv3b 4 месяца назад

its not about technology

@lodgerxlodger6525 2 дня назад

Perhaps, after Andy Warhol, the most important American artist of all time.

@marashdemnika5833 6 месяцев назад

well you don't know me but I know you

@SocialistStrike Год назад

I love this woman. She owned the interview. Sucks that the honor went to Cooper to sit down with her. I had a snarl above my nose as he spoke. Man has no personality. Can't even belt out a few lyrics. She flattered him with that praise.

@GeorgiaGrowGuy Год назад

hope you get better

@SocialistStrike Год назад

@@GeorgiaGrowGuy how so?

@citizensnid3490 2 года назад

I listened 🎶to O Superman 🦸‍♂️when I was 8 years. Found it a bit tedious at this age

@1jbunceiii 2 года назад

Never heard of her....and I was born in 1970....

@KWizard__ 2 года назад

Did you grow up in Merica?

@Mark-zu6oz 2 года назад

And now you have.

@williambarry8015 Год назад

You're so lucky.

@PandemoniumMeltDown Год назад

It is never too late.

@PandemoniumMeltDown Год назад

@@williambarry8015 YES!

@alphaomega3499 Год назад

O Superman, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

@swampeh 6 месяцев назад

It's odd I'd rather listen to her just talk than listen to that 'song'... her voice is tonally pleasant to me. But the song drives me up the wall... like nails down a chalkboard

@blankvellummmmok4613 5 месяцев назад

Okay?

@chrispile3878 2 года назад

I like Laurie. Cooper not so much.

@GeorgiaGrowGuy Год назад

hope you get better

@Chinouk 20 дней назад

I am probably the only who doesn’t like this song 😭

@Pixistixandmaadtrix 8 дней назад

Do you understand it?

@Chinouk 8 дней назад

@@Pixistixandmaadtrix Yes I do, but I just don’t like it sorry

@Pixistixandmaadtrix 7 дней назад

@@Chinouk that’s alright. Synth stuff isn’t for everyone

@Chookity-Pok 5 месяцев назад

I remember playing this song on repeat while playing Subnautica and it was comforting yet eerie, those who played will know and those who didn't? I highly recomend you do without watching anything about the game first.