13. Lou Reed “Walk On the Wild Side” (from
Transformer)
https://youtu.be/oG6fayQBm9w
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
In the Politics Forum, in the LGBTQ thread, there were a couple of people the other day that tried to argue that, while homosexuality had been around for ages, trans is a pretty new thing. Yet here is Lou Reed in 1972, singing about people he knew ten years earlier. Are you listening,
@IvanKaramazov?
@BladeRunner? Think what you want about trans, but it’s been around a long time.
Anyhow if it wasn’t for “Sweet Jane” (which was actually a Velvet Underground tune) this would be Reed’s signature song, the best composition of his career. Some people think it is anyhow.