Laurie Anderson - O Superman (Official Music Video)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- "O Superman," from Laurie Anderson's 1982 debut album, 'Big Science.' The album returned to vinyl for the first time in 30 years in April 2021: laurieanderson...
Laurie Anderson's new album, 'Amelia,' out August 30, 2024: laurieanderson...
Director: Josh White
Art Director: Perry Hoberman
Concept: Laurie Anderson
Music Director: Roma Baran
Sign Language Coach: Jane Comfort
#laurieanderson #bigscience #osuperman
this song is the definition of art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable
Damn right
Wow that's such a good quote
this is so scary 😢😅
What happens when I’m disturbed and comfortable?
@@gamerschoice3277 Spontaneous combustion
As a 32 year old it warms my heart seeing the younger kids discover artists like Laurie and Kate Bush. The stuff I got made fun of for liking in the 00s as a teen.
Exactly this.
Like my mom showed me Kate Bush and Laurie Anderson as a kid, and when I was in highschool people thought it was weird and dated.
Now the youth bringing it back.
thats why i like it when show's and other media use's old and obscure songs
I bet you turned out, “alright”
right!!! I don't get why they think this is a scary song but it makes me so happy that they're interested in her
Have you ever seen any episodes or clips from the old PBS show she did called Alive From Off Center when she hosted?
When I heard the lyric "there's always mom" I cried a lot... that's such impactful storytelling...
Hi, Mom! 😥 Yeah, my Mama's in a care home with Parkinson's. Nonverbal, pretty much paralyzed, but her mind's still sharp as a tack. Breaks my heart, and there's not a damned thing I can do to help her. Jesus won't either, so to hell with Him too.
"Mom" is about America resorting to emotional manipulation when all else fails to justify bombing innocent people. "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". There's nothing wholesome about it. Quite the opposite, in fact.
@@davesmith1695 Wow, i first didnt connect it like that but you're right.
Maybe let everyone to interpret it on their own? Thats Art, it may have many reasons and inspirations to its existence but I just hate when someone find in Art/Music something to relate to and there comes the Rocket Prophet and explains they are wrong. Andersons words and performance are timeless and the song can be related to many Situations in course of history and Life of many people. War can be fought on the Front, in the Sky, under the Sea or in somebodys head and heart.
@@davesmith1695 I know. I still cried. You are correct.
"Because 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. So hold me, mom, In your long arms."
that part is gonna stick with me for a while, this song is truly beautiful
@@anthonysimpson01 to be honest, same
I know, I miss orangumom - as she liked to be called.
@@anthonysimpson01 same
best lines
I do love that Laurie is getting a revisit on social media. She's an absolute pioneer in the world of electronic music.
I was completely unaware of her existence till now.
I recommend watching her 60 Minute interview from a couple years ago then digging in. @@MyNameisRevenant
Kate Bush effect
no she fricking isnt
You may want to google her career. lol@@herbert850
The difference in listening to this as an adult now compared to when I heard it as a child is breath-taking. It sounds so sinister and cataclysmic in an awesome end of the World way. You become so used to the constant beat that when it finally stops at the end it's like listening to a heart monitor stop ..... then all you are left with is silence wrapped in the petrochemical arms of 'Mom' .
Smoking or non smoking?
Blondie or brunette?
Yes, I get the final feeling like the heart has stopped.
Beautifully said!
This is absolutely remarkable; exactly the feeling I get from the song. It makes me like it's the absolute end. It makes me weep every time I hear it.
This song to me will always symbolize death's arrival to claim a loved one. I became obsessed with this song, constantly replaying the lines "Well you don't know me, but I know you" and "This is the hand that takes." I didn't realize it but my father would die after collapsing on the ground four days after I started listening to the song. I hadn't seen him in 3 three years and I know it probably sounds crazy but it felt it listening to this was a personal warning, as if the song was saying, "Death is coming for someone you love, so you better get ready." Such a powerfully haunting song and still one of the best I have heard.
You got me paranoid now😂
Fax bruh I lost someone around this time 4 years ago don’t play with me
Omg stooppp
R.I.P. your father 😭
Rest in peace to your father. Wishing you and your family well
I literally hear “Hello this is your mother are you there are you coming home” in my head when I’m trying to sleep at night
Same
Especially sleeping in a dark room and the closet door is slightly open 🫡
2 days ago i was trying to sleep and this exact part of the song started playing in my head. i genuinely had a panic attack and i couldnt sleep all night.
What part is that?
@@mummytrolls I can’t sleep at night bc I hear it over and over replaying in my I head
I'm a teenager just discovering this master piece of art. It's f amazing
As you grow older, you'll learn to stop calling things like this "art."
@@markv1274 boo
Everything Laurie does is art, she is far more than just a musician.
You should listen to Kate Bush-The Kick Inside and The Dreaming are two great Art Rock albums.
@@markv1274 you're disgusting, stupid and uneducated.
THIS is ART. with deep meaning
listen to the words and look at the visuals. this is about American Imperialism. watch it as many times as have to. this is the most genius thing i’ve ever watched and listened to.
No it's not. She explained in interviews it's about Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue hostages from Iran.
No it's not. Not sure why TH-cam erased my original comment, but she said it's about Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran in the 1980's
really sad state of affairs when it seems like most people don't understand its about imperialism, when it's basically explicitly said in the lyrics?!?!?!
@@notransitory1She said in interviews it was about Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue hostages
Has nothing to do with imperialism, it is in honor of those who were taken hostage and the six service members who lost their lives.
Listening to this feels like listening to a conversation someone else is having with God - You're outside of it, and none of it is directed at you, but it's still so incredibly poignant and beautiful to hear.
Personally I see a dialogue between the first strong AI and its designer, man. I see in this music the beginning of digital consciousness.
This is similar to what you are saying, the machine speaks to its creator God
OMORI PFP
When justice is gone, there's always force.
Yeah I know
When force is gone, there’s always mom
Hi Force!
@@hikariari-b9iWHAT DOES IT MEANNN
There’s always family but in the end that will get ruined too? (Electronic arms alluding to manufactured family)
This song always moves me to tears, and makes me realize how mean I was to my mom growing up my whole life, and how much I wish I could’ve changed my behavior. I love her so much and shes getting older, we’re losing time and I don’t want her to pass away thinking I didn’t love her with my whole heart.
Laurie Anderson really was way ahead of her time with this song, absolutely beautiful and brilliant.
You have time to make up for it, she knows you love her, she understands.
I’m glad the song moves you, but it’s about the botched 1979 Iran hostage rescue.
@@kd8opiShe made this song as a piece of performance art and I think she’d be okay with the different ways the song resonates with people.
Was your mother the american industrial war machine?
@@marielpare8290 I know. Just saying the “mother” character is not really anyones mother. It’s trying to fool the person being called. The song is deep.
Is it bad that this song comforts me without making me feel unnerved in the slightest? Like, it comforts me in a melancholic, doomed way, but comforts me still. Hard to describe.
Same; I listen to it when I have anxiety & it’s perfect 🥲 no idea why 😩❤️
Absurdism
I feel the exact same, I can’t comprehend the perspective of people who listen to this and are made to feel unsettled
This song has haunted me for over a quarter-century. I met Laurie Anderson once on a Northwest Airlines flight around 1987. She seemed taken aback that anyone would have recognized her then. As if she didn't realize her own influence. Today I still consider her as a master of her craft. She is a true poet.
+T Escherman: Amen. It's 37 years later, and I can't think of anyone whose had a hit that sounded ANYTHING like this.
Amazing Song....Went on a Surf Trip to Cape Hatteras when I was 14 and I have never forgotten this song....
T Escherman I’m 48 I remember being in my room lying on the bed listening to the radio charts this came on,, ,,,,felt in a trance
Met her outside of Borders Bookstore in Ann Arbor, MI... must have been around 1995, or so... still just as modest then, too. An amazing artist...
@@JKTube first time I heard this song on the alternative station where I live I thought it was Imogen Heap. I guess the vocoder-like effect she uses made me think of "hide and seek".
I don’t think you can appreciate now how incredibly unique this was then. I still feel like I did then watching this.
Fun fact: This was the first nickname given to me by a childhood friend in Los Angeles😉
Edit: My child hood friend would shorten my nickname to Supe. Ironically, he called our rival a bih in the very same breath. I thought that was pretty ironic.
in 2023 its still pretty unique
This song is just very weird. That’s all it is
It’s still incredibly unique ❤
This song makes me cry every time I listen to it. I would kill to hear that level of life in my mother's voice again.
The best Black Mirror ending brought me here, I was crying so much because of that scene, jesus that was such a deep masterpiece
Albert Damdin 😕🙁☹️😢😭 I think any “normal” person will agree with you!
@Amir Tamaddon Well put. It did for me too. I didn't even realize that until I read your comment.
@Anthony Andrea It's a TV show on Netflix. This particular episode is from an episode called Bandersnatch, which is an interactive episode. You get to make choices throughout the episode. Getting to this ending is kinda tricky though. I think you have to go through a bunch of others first.
Fr that ending got me bawling my eyes out but it was the best one in my opinion
I stumbled upon this song a few months ago through tik tok, I listened to it almost daily since.
When the doctor told me that my dog had cancer, this song was playing in the background.
When I saw him when I got back from school, this song was playing in the background.
When we sadly had to put him down so he wouldn't suffer anymore, this song was playing in the background.
Now when I want to remember my baby, this is the song I play.
If I had to explain grief to someone, I would play this song.
5:30
"And when force is gone, there's always mom.
Hi mom!"
Note: maybe 8 or 9 years ago Laurie Anderson composed and released music she composed specifically for dogs to listen to, there’s videos of her performing it for dogs online,
One of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. I have been listening to it since its release and have never grown tired of it.
❤️❤️❤️ I was fortunate to see Laurie Anderson in a live show in SF. I was 7 months pregnant so despite the fact that the show was over-sold, I was allowed a seat just a few feet away from where she was performing. Both of my sons heard very inventive music before they were born, and they are creative musicians and composers themselves now!
That's awesome! Do you have any other recommendations for inventive music?
@@joeybrazelton3069Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boards of Canada
Bob Marley, no womon no cry @@joeybrazelton3069
I've only just found this song bit there's something so comfortable about it. I cannot stop listening to it. It makes me feel so calm...
I know exactly what you mean
A serial killer loved this song
@@af_81which one?
@user-mg3go3qg4x Okay? Is that important in any way? Are you trying to imply something?
@@Behestofheaven yeah. That’s the songs a bit serial killer ish
LAURIE ANDERSON WAS & IS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF HER TIME ! ! !👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
The fragility of life and the possibility of mutual destruction, this is the hand that takes! Absolute masterpiece!
I think baby Clark Kent was implying I’m Dr. Manhattan as some sort of compliment.
The hand is still taking.
This song reminds me and feels like it was made as a precursor to 9/11. It reminds me of everything I felt that day as a kid in the 4th grade who didn't totally understand how much everything would change for America and for the world at large until after it all happened. It feels like "the hand that takes" is explaining to me how everything will be going Forward, a world where love, and even justice is gone, but where force and profit will be the new way of life. "Here comes the planes, they're American planes, so you'd better get ready, ready to go" just feels like a vague reference to the day that will initiate it all. Coupled with the stoic, nearly psychopathic blood thirsty, cold calculative, empty eyed stare in the video and rigid hand movements, ones where the hand seen to be separated from the mind completely seems like a perfect illustration of "the hand" it's just so haunting and nostalgic in an unexplainable way unless I think of it this way
I was looking for a comment like this I was thinking similar 😭
It was originally about the Iran crisis, but she did perform it after 9/11
@@DouglasWolf9059 it's almost like reverse nostalgia if that's a thing, where you get a sense of nostalgia for something that hasn't happened yet, but then once it comes you understand the feelings of anticipated familiarity. it's pretty haunting, almost like you would swear she knew what was going to happen before she wrote it, or as if she wrote it into existence
How old are you because i think i was in 3rd grade or 4th, i cant remember 😢 but i do remember that morning... I remember having my papa came and woke me up wayy earlier than normal and the look on his face and watching the planes... And my dad...and asking why somebody would do what they did... He passed away when i was 15...
I was wondering if anyone else thought of their experience with 9/11 while they listened to this song. I was in 4th grade.
I can tell this song means something, something important, but I can’t tell what it means, and that’s fascinating to me. This is complex music and I never expected to hear something like this.
IIRC it's a mid-80s song so with the references to 'American planes' and 'military' I took it to be about dropping the bomb.
Didn't she used to go on-stage in a green overall/flightsuit?
It's about operation eagle claw, a failed attempt to rescue us hostages that were taken from the US embassy in Iran that led to the death of six service members while attempting to rescue them.
@totallylegitenergy2559 is absolutely correct. The song was inspired by Operation Eagle Claw.
Another aspect of this operation that might of been of note to the U.S. public at the time, is the fact that the U.S. hadn't been involved in any military operations for some years. The last u.s. troops to be killed in action being the 1975 'Mayaguez' incident off Cambodia ( another rescue operation.)@@totallylegitenergy2559
God this song is amazing. Cold and warm all at once.
i agree fully, well described! i would go even further and reflect on if its simply a song, since it balances heavily between a message / art video / perfo act / song
god is your dimention x
It's like a venus flytrap. "Come closer, it's nice in here. See?"
My dad absolutely loved this song and he loved laurie Anderson and all of her songs. Thats why he named me like laurie Anderson. He showed me all of her songs. I'm so glad i still listen to these songs. I miss you so much dad. You died with your passion a month ago but i'll forever remember you with these songs and i'll show these songs even to my children one day and you'll be so proud.
jenny, he understood true art.
@@MrDayjur thank you
beautiful post
... :-)... Hi Laurie...
@@joedavis4150 its more like laura but its the same but hi!
I can recall when this was released way back in the 80s. Nothing else had ever sounded like it and going forward nothing else will ever sound like it; it's totally original. Superb piece of music history.
MiG23 Flogger lol What a dick.
I like Echoes by Don Diablo - it has a "O Superman-ness" about it.
Might be a reason no one else wanted to sound like this.
@@CelestialWoodway You had to be there. I had this and "Walk the Dog", they were catchy in a mesmerizing way, bizarre, avant-garde and unique at a time when there was a LOT of new direction and experimentation in music.
to be fair hide and seek is quite similar yet different enough
I’m a mom myself now. But this song makes my body feel like it’s 8 and I’m sitting on the swing set in my back yard not knowing this is the last time I’ll be sitting there.
i'm not sure why, but seeing her silhouette fade at 2:40 is one of the most unsettling things i've seen in my lifetime
what a precious piece of art, still love it after all this years. Close your eyes when you listen.
@@neilstevens9729 go back to listening to Whitney Houston
Justin bieber can top this
Neil Stevens so its all about vocals huh? Ariana grande has a great voice too
@@neilstevens9729 You sound really dumb right now just letting you know. Enjoy your pop music approved by a corporate board.
@@neilstevens9729 I'm not insulting you, on purpose. Just letting you know how you look to me. If you were insulted maybe there's a grain of truth in what I said
I was baked out my mind and saw /listened to this for the first time. This made me feel things i havent felt in years. Truly ahead of its time
Ive been dealing with addiction for years, recently moved away from my mom and dad. Ive always been a mommas boy but everytime i hear this i think about all of the innocent times ive had with my family and mainly my mom . Makes my cry everytime ... love you mom
From one stranger to another I send you an ethereal hug. I empathise. X
@@lionheart11381 thanks for the love, hopefully everything is well for you during these shitty times
Hope you're still well. From a mom
This beyond fantastic!! How is it that I’d hadn’t heard it before?? Light years ahead of her time!
Light years measure distance, not time.
@@vespadano1979whatever Nerd
@@vespadano1979can light years measure the circumference of my pussy then?
@@vespadano1979In the context of beeing ahead of the current time i think reffering to distance makes as much sense as naming a amount of time. So the original commentator may have been referring to distance all along.
@@MrGreen489especially when traveling at relativistic speeds
My friend who is two generations older just exposed me to Laurie Anderson today. I am so glad that I found this. I'm astounded and inspired by the bodies of work she's created
Yep, there truly was life before you were born. Dig deeper Emily....lots out there to enjoy.
I was 13 in 81’ and obsessed with this album. I didn’t understand the depth of it at all then, but loved it was so innovative.
I remember hearing this for the first time thanks to Bandersnatch on Netflix, and thinking it was incredibly unique and well crafted - stumbled upon it just now so many years later, I am glad to have found it again! What a song, and now I am looking through the Laurie Anderson back catalogue
Oh fuck I forgot about Bandersnatch but always meant to watch it. I might watch it tonight to forget I don't really have much of a family to spend christmas with anymore.
When I watched Bandersnatch It took me 3 hours, and I remember hearing this song where I got the ending where he was with his mother
@@zandrokos I’m sorry to hear that :( I hope your Christmas went by okay and you were able to find some ways to enjoy it, or at least, to pass the time along :)
Hearing it coming on in Bandersnatch made my jaw drop as I bought the song back in the day and occasionally revisited it throughout the years. It was absolutely perfect for that ending brought a tear to the eye and a chill up and down the spine.
so THATS why this song creeps me out so much😂
"Big Science" should be in everyone's album collection.
and "Mister Heartbreak"
It is ! Like all het other albums
It's in mine and I am destroyed and put back together during every listening
Imagine a 15 year old boy hearing this for the first time in Crossett Ark, in 1982...and loving Laurie Anderson! Imagine the same boy all grown up and still loving her poetrymusic as though for the first time. It never ages.
Did it turn you gay?
@@mavis3916 nothing can turn you gay if you aren't. Nothing can turn you straight if you are gay. Your born who you are. A little Laurie Anderson just brings back happy times. So what's gay about that?
@@davidfryer9359 stuff can turn people gay, films like the rocky horror show or music like frankie goes to Hollywood, it's no problem, you can be who you want to be🌈God loves everyone ❤️
There is no other truth besides the fact that G-d is perfect in every way. And if He is perfect and He made me, then I was born as I was entended to be! None of those factors you mentioned changes biology and genetics. As of this moment they cannot changed. You must be straight because no gay person could seriously, or joking, make sweeping, over-zealous statements of generality. Either that or you are 12. In which case, I should be apologizing to a child.
I was created at my very real and genetic conception. The union between my mother, a female, and my father , a male! It was determined that I was then, and will always be gay. Before the government bans them, educate yourself in some books at the library...OLD ONES free of the insanity and ridiculousness of identity politics; as it has no basis in truth or science. School yourself. You obviously can never learn it in school anymore.
Thanks Tom.
its 3am where im from, i sat in bed and listened to this for the first time a few minutes ago, im 18 and have been for a few months, i dont know laurie anderson, i didnt know this song or hear it anywhere or get recommended it- but i am floored, its so inexplicably emotional, i wish i could bottle this feeling
It's weird and fascinating, I feel like I haven't understood anything, while understanding everything
Dancing pineapple
P.A.C.S
JFD
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@@therealcreedbratton1325 I spent over 6.5 hours on this yesterday and never got the chance to input JFD as a password. Help?
kosmicwizard dont remember what option to choose. Just search brother. And watch out that you don’t watch it too much and end up like Stefan. I’ve seen it four times and ate a Weed cookie while watching it for the second time. That made it mad crazy
@@kosmicwizard dang you got way too much time on your hands 😂😂😂
@@therealcreedbratton1325 "weed cookie" lmao
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.
SirCamera exactly! i've tried finding songs that deliver the same feelings and fright that this one gives but I find nothing. It's unique, horrifying and absolutely magnificent.
***** Just looked it up. The Nilsen connection definitely adds to the creep factor, although the 'listening to it on loop before rampages' is actually just a legend.
One night, Nilsen invited a man named Carl Stottor over to his flat. Stottor told him 'O Superman' was his favorite song. Nilsen replied, "You haven't even heard it til you've heard it through these headphones."
As Stottor listened, he became aware that Nilsen was standing behind him, staring at his head. (shudder)
Later that night, Nilsen attacked Stottor, who managed to escape.
try listening to this stoned, holy cow
That could come true. If we continue to breed and rape the Earth in other ways, we may only have sound "samples" of bird calls and electronic human voices.
Breed and rape the Earth? Interesting.
This sounds so futuristic even now
It was the present back then and, unfortunately for us, it still is.
it's the vocoder
There is something mystical about this song and I don't know how to describe it. I just know that every time I listen to it, it makes me cry. Every single time.
I've always loved it since it first came out, but it's often been derided by people who don't appreciate how clever it actually is, because they've never bothered to properly listen to it; all they hear is the persistent "Ha-ha-ha-ha ..." and can't hear past that. Definite masterpiece.
the synths are such a subtle beauty,, when i visited this when I was 13 I didn’t get it at allllll,,,, years later my hearts torn apart by this sonng
i recall that Anderson in an interview described she wanted an empty sound like walking through a cathedral. I love how nothing really that interesting as such happens at all. One of the most unique and inspiring songs of all time imo
Everyone have a great day full of blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way o/
did David Lynch's Weather Report send you here ?
I don't know why, but i've broken into intensely emotional tears as ive been listening to this song
In highschool in 1987, we would get so stoned and listen to this!! 😂😂😂😂😂
"he just closed his eyes... I swear he just closed his eyes."
Golden Kaleo STOP I DONT WANNA CRY AGAIN :,,,O
just reading that sentence makes my stomach hurt
@@leviathanesque same 😢
@@beeanca8331 I CAN'T. I'VE BEEN CRYING FOR WEEKS. MAKE IT STOPPPPP.
@@leviathanesque same :(
Have told my children this song is to be played in full at my funeral. I just love to get lost in it.
This piece is so unbelievably layered in so many ways. 40 years now and it still sounds fresh. Listening to it is like trying to live next year, now. It's always gonna be ahead of you.
- AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE AND NOTHING ELSE.
The first time i listen to this track, it was on August 1981, i was 22 and Lorie Anderson gave me one of the bigest musical ass-kick of my life ! Thank you so much, Lorie !!!
Without a doubt one of my favourite pieces of art.
It sounds weird. It sounds disturbing. But that's what makes it great.
This song both holds nostalgia and sadness for me as my parents are no longer with us just makes me yearn for the past
Hypnotic, creepy and beautiful back then, hypnotic, creepy and beautiful today. I just cannot get enough of this song, and the more I listen, the more I discover in it! And to thing that this type of music was played in mainstream music stations in the 80s.
Perfect song.
She and Kate Bush probably had a big influence on Björk.
@@cyberserk5614 I am sure they did. Kate Bush's "Breathing" is even more devastating than this song in some ways.
This song is revolutionary because dark and disturbing songs like this didn't exist back then unlike today. This song was ahead of its time
There was plenty of dark disturbing music around at that time, and more disturbing than now.
Evokes feelings of sadness & joy all at once. Unique & beautiful classic. Some dont get it at all. Sometimes art is in the mind of the beholder
This song is now more relevant today, in 2017, here in America, than it ever has been in my lifetime.
I Agree.
THE Bowie song I hate Americans,remade by Dweezil Zappa watch it on youtube
Wonky Lommiter shitstain
I'm afraid of Americans.
Most disturbing, surrealistic, beautiful song ever made. Its tatood on my arm. I have a petrochemical arm, my mother passed away and I had an incredible dream about me and her in the universe, afyer listening to this song... It is part me in my heart, for ever and ever
I don’t even remember how I came across this video and Laurie Anderson as someone who was born in 2000 and never heard her name before, but ever since I did, there was no going back XD She is just the most fascinating artist I’ve ever come across, and I genuinely love all her stuff😍
Saaaame!!
Here from bandersnatch There’s 7-8 endings my favourite is the train ending and the final scene I saw before the credits played. I cried and I feel that’s the most appropriate, closure and everything.
same here :'(
When it was released, Reagan was POTUS, and it felt like a phenomenal portent due to his war mongering rhetoric at the time. When one is only 19, listening to this was chilling but so very enlightening. When I hear it, I remember everything about this time in history. It still resonates so deeply.
WTF is this song? It is so weird and hardly music in the normal sense. I love it and can't stop listening to it. I just want to sit in a dark room and listen to it on repeat.
Denis Nielsen did that hun ... take care 👀❤️🤣
more so performance art.
Darude - Sandstorm
Welcome to the world of non mainstream music. There's a whole lot out there.
@@puscha wow so cool
I’m hear coz Iam 42 and I remember it and it makes me think of my mum it was our song and it’s Beautiful.
me too can't believe this is 38 years old no2 uk charts
Gabby Cattell thought it got to #1 . When I ask people if they remember it my age obviously nobody does, weird.
@@brookienwo847 yeah no2 highest position uk 18th october 1981
Indeed...49...here...just wanted a Laurie Anderson moment....now off to Lou.....most won't get that.
@@ghoulronk In our sleep, as we speak. Listen to the drums beat. Lou married a rabbi?
It speaks of the unspeakable. It defines the undefinable. White empty circle invites infinity. Good and bad. A fantastic piece of art.
I like your perspective. 😉
No...not really. Your psychobabble doesn't work on some people.
i love words, have t0 be word careful x
@@twohandsandaradio some sentences are felt rather than thought. In your “heart” x
@@FNLN6446 That's bullshit. It's a great song, and genuinely powerful. But every word you type is complete and utter bullshit.
This song epitomises the timelessness of great art.
no it doesn't....its fking crap
never listened to this fascinating piece of music before. how come I've never heard of it until now?!!! why didn't anybody tell me it's existing? this artwork is amazing!
Music is a gift that keeps giving to those who appreciate it.
Thanks for such a great piece, Laurie!
This Black Mirror ending reminded me of similar Butterfly Effect ending. Anyone else got same feelings?
Yup
TOTALLY
for me it felt more like donnie darko.
Donnie Darko when the engine came through the house.
Paraphrased from original comment by Blunderkit
This song was written after the US sent military aircraft into Iran in an attempt to recover hostages, but several of the helicopters crashed in the desert and the hostages weren't recovered for another 270 days.
Its sort of a cynical commentary on how we idolize our military power, but it doesn't really solve the problems it attempts to fix, it just exists for its own sake.
"Mom and Dad" in this song is meant to represent parental figures protecting "their" children, and a sort of authority, a guiding force.
"O Judge" and "Well you don't know me, but I know you." represents the military acting as if they know people better than they do and know * the * best and being the judge over all.
"O Superman" represents the power which we boast, and she says this in a sort of ironic way, as if superman is a title that's not fulfilled.
"So hold me Mom, in your electronic, military, petrochemical, automatic arms." is meant to represent a sort of false comfort given by the military, and the methods they use to protect people, not really in the correct way, "if not justice there's always force", "this is the hand that takes". And "if there's no force there's always Mom", which is a jab at the military seemingly no longer being effective, and just being for show.
"Hello? This is your mother, are you there? Are you coming home?" Is either meant to represent "Mom" calling her children (soldiers) home that have been lost, or the hostages.
"They're American planes! Made in America!" said as if that adds any value to them. I would also like to add the detail of the "Here come the planes" sounding like the buzzing of propellers.
"So you better get ready, ready to go." said to these hostages.
Notice also how the singing voice joins the background "ha ha ha ha" at some points, not in a joyful way, but in an almost weary way; holding a superficial cheer of victory or that seems as if it is laughing at the claims that "Mom" is making.
Required to watch the whole thing for modern art history
woah ur from the future arent you?
Hahahahaha here because if bandersnatch
Watch Bandersnatch you fuck. Come back with actual appreciation. You should be crying right now.
bro did u look into yoko ono pieces as well
well arent u a future predictor
She was so far ahead of her time . . . and still is
I love this song because it perfectly captures how my mother would feel while I was running the streets.I’m a recovering fentanyl addict, having OD’s & being in out of recovery this song hits at a different level.
too grim. what u need is hits from the bong
Laurie Anderson hits the right chord. yet still 40 + years later in 2022, 2023 & On.!!!
In one word:MASTERPIECE
This song was used in a series of italian public information TV adverts about AIDS, in the Eighties. Made them scary as hell, especially for a little child like myself, and for the longest time I had no idea it was an actual song.
Stesso, pure io
Black Mirror really made me cry
Paulo Nunez Same here bud
Crying at a Netflix show? Lame
Same :(
This is a very creative use of the vocoder I love it you people in the comments have zero taste in music some of the comments not all
I locked myself in a locker at school and played this song through my headphones and I went absolutely manic
Rock on 🤘
Vibes
I can't even explain how this makes me feel
I always imagined this song to be about a child who is home alone and his/her mother rings the house phone to check up on them but leaves a message, except it's not the mother at all but a demonic force that is impersonating the mother's voice. The demon then gives the child cryptic messages of an apocalyptic future.
The child at that moment deeply wishes for their mother to come home and make everything okay again but the mother never returns home.
I want this to be a short story now.
Of course, it's actually about the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979-1981.
busterkeatonsbriefs doesn't mean we can't interpret it however we want...
+busterkeatonsbriefs
I want to develop your idea into a script for a short film. Would that be alright?
busterkeatonsbriefs I ve had almost the same interpretation of this song when I was a child listening to this song. Imagined it was a futuristic computer voice that said it was mom / to me this song was very unique anf cryptic /not like any song u hear today or even in the 80s. Just pure art to me 😊 and appreciated it cuz ut really hits the core of ur soul. Its deep and sad also.
Always loved this crazy song
1:49 This part is kinda creepy. Come to think of it the whole song is kinda creepy
ya think?💀
1:49 Huh Huh well you dont know me -uh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh
But i know you huh huh huh huh huh huh huh hu-
And ive got a message huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh
To give to you huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh h-
Here come the planeeeeeeeeeeeeeees
In Italy the first part of this piece became famous in the 1980s as it was used as the soundtrack to the terrifying advert "If you know it, AIDS won't kill you (on YT with the title "AIDS- se lo conosci lo eviti"), an advertising campaign for the prevention of HIV.
Before there was Kanye and T-PAIN, there was Laurie Anderson. “O Superman” was released in 1981.
When I listen to this song it scares me....and it like makes me think of something scary like a figure in my room but I'm always hallucinating
I loved this song since the first time ive heard it in the mid 80s
“This is the hand”
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
This song reminds me of the feeling I got when my dad died. It's oddly comforting/validating
Spooky lyrics
O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad.
O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad.
Hi. I'm not home right now. But if you want to leave a
Message, just start talking at the sound of the tone.
Hello? This is your Mother. Are you there? Are you
Coming home?
Hello? Is anybody home? Well, you don't know me,
But I know you.
And I've got a message to give to you.
Here come the planes.
So you better get ready. Ready to go. You can come
As you are, but pay as you go. Pay as you go.
And I said: OK. Who is this really? And the voice said:
This is the hand, the hand that takes. This is the
Hand, the hand that takes.
This is the hand, the hand that takes.
Here come the planes.
They're American planes. Made in America.
Smoking or non-smoking?
And the voice said: Neither snow nor rain nor gloom
Of night shall stay these couriers from the swift
Completion of their appointed rounds.
'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justive is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom!
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. So hold me,
Mom, in your long arms.
In your automatic arms. Your electronic arms.
In your arms.
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
Your petrochemical arms. Your military arms.
In your electronic arms.
kpeecee it's even spookier when you find out some serial killer from the UK (as I have read) was listening to this song to get him in the mood for killing like years ago. Also, the video fucks my brains up even more idk how and why. Have a nice day tho
Senior year 1985 I had a breakdown due to.my narcissistic mother. Sat under baby grand piano at school.rocking myself listening to O superman. O judge . O mom.and dad uh oh uh uh uh...all these years latee, after decades of psychiatric incarceration drugs and psychiatric abuse I am able to listen to it and know that I was right. My parents were, are crazy. I am sane and my mother is going into a facility now. KARMA BITCH.
@@moldovanteodora-ana6520 which U.K. serial killer was that?
"And I've got a message to give to you.
Here come the planes.
So you better get ready."
Did she prophesy the attack on the Twin Towers 20 years later? Eerie song!
Sam Struyven: I think I read somewhere that it was some kind of answer she had to what happened in the Iran crisis in the late 70s
If Alexa became an artificial being and decided to pursue music and performance art.
Totally!
@burteriksson it's Amazon's interactive speaker.
burteriksson bruh
This comment makes sense on many, many levels.
This is such an insult
had a missed video call today from my mother who passed away over a year ago. this was the first thing to enter my mind.
Oh my god.. this song creeps me out and the context just makes me even sadder.. this really makes me visualize all the broken homes destroyed by losing a loved one in the war.
This is like an art installation.
Dayna Winer that's exactly what it is lol
Whaddya mean “Art?”
The "well you don't know me but I know you" is so real and the other line is too since my disorder and eating disorder made me collaps 4 times without eating.
O Superman.
O judge.
O Mom and Dad.
Mom and Dad.
O Superman.
O judge.
O Mom and Dad.
Mom and Dad.
Hi.
I'm not home right now.
But if you want to leave a message, just start talking at the sound of the tone.
Hello?
This is your Mother.
Are you there?
Are you coming home?
Hello?
Is anybody home?
Well, you don't know me, but I know you.
And I've got a message to give to you.
Here come the planes.
So you better get ready.
Ready to go.
You can come as you are, but pay as you go.
Pay as you go.
And I said: OK.
Who is this really?
And the voice said: This is the hand, the hand that takes.
This is the hand, the hand that takes.
This is the hand, the hand that takes.
Here come the planes.
They're American planes.
Made in America.
Smoking or non-smoking?
And
the voice said: Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay
these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
'Cause
when love is gone, there's always justice. And when justive is gone,
there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi Mom!
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
In your automatic arms.
Your electronic arms.
In your arms.
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
Your petrochemical arms.
Your military arms.
In your electronic arms.
This should be pinned before it gets lost in the Bandersnatch avalanche.
@@kosmicwizard I know, this guy was here a year ago listening to this unlike us posers here just cuz we heard it on a streaming service
Who else cries whenever they hear this song?
every single time
I get a bit sad when she says "Hi mom and" so hold me mom in your long arms ". Lost mine two years ago.
Me
i know what you mean
My parents bought this single when i was little and it captured me then when i was 9 years old. My Mum died in 2011 and the line "So hold me mom, in your long arms" gets me every time.
I remember when I first heard this in the 90's. It's still as beautiful today as it was then.
They used to play this song every morning at a boarding school I went to, every time I hear it I remember getting up at 7:30 to get ready and go to breakfast with a disgusted face together with my friend. Haha, it makes me very nostalgic
Lyrics:
O Superman
O judge
O Mom and Dad
Mom and Dad
O Superman
O judge
O Mom and Dad
Mom and Dad
Hi, I'm not home right now
But if you want to leave a message
Just start talking at the sound of the tone
Hello, this is your mother
Are you there?
Are you coming home?
Hello, is anybody home?
Well, you don't know me, but I know you
And I've got a message to give to you
Here come the planes
So you better get ready, ready to go
You can come as you are, but pay as you go
Pay as you go
And I said, "Okay, who is this really?"
And the voice said
"This is the hand, the hand that takes
This is the hand, the hand that takes
This is the hand, the hand that takes"
Here come the planes
They're American planes
Made in America
Smoking or non-smoking?
And the voice said, "Neither snow nor rain
Nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers
From the swift completion of their appointed rounds"
'Cause 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!)
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms
In your automatic arms
Your electronic arms
In your arms
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms
Your petrochemical arms
Your military arms
In your electronic arms