Lou Reed is not satisfied. He has never been. Go on, listen to him.
A fucked up middle class college student, as he once said, Lou Reed is a walking contradiction. By hating everyone, by rejoicing from their suffering, their destruction he laid the foundations for punk-rock. He then repudiated them, I'm too literate to be into punk rock, he said. He went from doo-wop to glam-rock, from heroin to caffeine, from rockstar to accountant. What was his point?
If one thing, I admire him. As musical novelist, much of his work has reflected New York's underworld of prostitution, crime, drug addiction as well as its people. People with their own opinions, aspirations and often twisted conceptions of reality. Lou Reed sings them all, from his transexual girlfriend, to the masoquist girl who buys her love from a street gigolo. They are all part of his and our reality, they are citizens of our countries and yet we don't want to see them. He does.
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