Sedgwick, who was born in California to an wealthy but deeply troubled American family, met Warhol in 1965 and began appearing in his underground art films, such as Kitchen and Poor Little Rich Girl.īut by 1966, Warhol and Sedgwick had fallen out, and the New York socialite could be found at the Chelsea Hotel, where she became linked with Bob Dylan. I said ‘Like what?’ and he said, ‘Oh, don’t you think she’s a femme fatale, Lou?’ So I wrote ‘Femme Fatale’ and we gave it to Nico.” “Andy said I should write a song about Edie Sedgwick. One of those stars was the heiress and socialite Edie Sedgwick.
That “problem” could also apply to the character from The Velvet Underground classic, “Femme Fatale,” with it’s famous line, “She’ll build you up to just put you down.”Īccording to Victor Bockris’s Lou Reed: The Biography, Reed wrote the song at the request of Andy Warhol, who at the time was managing The Velvet Underground, while making art and films with a group of “superstars” at his Factory loft in New York. Is there a man amongst us who has not run into something like that?” In an interview with the New York Times, Reed says Lulu is a “particular kind of woman,” and describes the project as “a vehicle for a certain kind of problem men have with women… The music is trying to give you that feeling of being upset or angry, wherever she takes you. But “Lulu” is also a character that seems to reappear from another part of Reed’s past. With this week’s release of LouTallica’s Lulu, an album of songs based on the work of German playwright Frank Wederkind that is sure to puzzle fans of both artists, Reed has returned in part to the strange theatrical world of Berlin. No, was something else: the one that almost sunk the ship.” “My major interests are the lyrics of that. In the eclectic interview (Reed is notorious for being a tough interviewee), the songwriter talks about the impact of revisiting Berlin.
Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, with an album and film of the performance following in 2008. At the time of the interview, Reed had recently performed his 1973 magnum opus Berlin at St.
We featured Lou Reed in a cover story in 2009. When downtown rock and roll legend Lou Reed and heavy metal gods Metallica shocked music fans everywhere with the announcement that they were collaborating on a project, we thought it’d be a good time to dig into the American Songwriter archives. Finding the roots of LouTallica’s “Lulu” in an early Velvets classic
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