Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side (Official Audio) ( FIRST TIME REACTION )

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@Squeekyleaks 6 күн бұрын

We used to sing along to this song every time it came on the radio, and it was played often! Everyone seemed to enjoy it. 😂

@debbers 2 күн бұрын

Hey Ace! I loved watching your friends hear this for the first time, it was so funny when they heard the lyrics! I didn't catch their names though if they threw them out!

@debbers 21 сағат бұрын

Thank you for the heart, I appreciate it!

@chris...9497 7 күн бұрын

So, the backstory: Lou Reed was a member of a band called The Velvet Underground, essentially the house band for an establishment known as The Factory, which was Andy Warhol's NYC loft art studio, exhibition gallery, filming studio, office, party center, and place for Happenings. This was Lou's first solo album after leaving The Velvet Underground (a band worth reacting to). The five individuals named in this song were actual people, denizens of The Factory, who did minor volunteer work and art participation in exchange for 'crash space' (a place to sleep). They were all five born biological males, but some sought to change that. As of the present, only Little Joe survives. Jackie overdosed on heroin in 1985, the other three each succumbed to some form of cancer. The 'colored girls' remark I suspect was Lou Reed making a tongue-in-cheek slap at older music industry execs who at the time still referred to black backup singers as 'the colored girls'. Actually, the backup singers on this song are white British women who were a vocal group named Thunderthighs. Lou Reed's third and final marriage was to Laurie Anderson, avant-garde multimedia performance artist, filmmaker, and musician who built her career to international fame before even meeting Reed. She was widowed by Reed's passing in 2013. (You should react to her songs "O Superman" and/or "Sharkey's Day" and/or "Language is a Virus".)

@cindyhudson8066 2 ай бұрын

This was on all radio stations. Our parents listening right along side us.

@Barbara-s9c 3 ай бұрын

The magnificent bass player Herbie Flowers died recently RIP

@MetalRHeadReacts1985 3 ай бұрын

Oh my

@daiorama3196 4 ай бұрын

The verse that tickled you is actually more or less factual. Candy did come from out on the island ( Massapequa, Long Island). She/he was everybody's darling in the backroom at Max's Kansas City which was a "club" at the time on Park Avenue Sth NYC where Andy Warhol would hold court. The sexual activity described was apparently not an uncommon occurrence and Candy did effect an air of glamour. The other verses likewise are vignettes of other Warhol acolytes. I'm sure wiki will say the genre is glam rock or some such but in truth that was only because the album WOWS came from. Transformer, dropped during the glam rock period so it got pigeonholed as such. You could pick anything else Lou did between 1964 and 2012 and it will be very different, but I'd recommend 'Romeo Had Juliet' from the 1989 album New York; you'd find that interesting.

@827dusty 4 ай бұрын

You couldn't get this on the radio today. Back in the early 70s, nobody batted an eye over these lyrics at all. Have we become too soft and really are little snowflakes these days? Great song Thanks guys

@60secthebaptist9 4 ай бұрын

The themes in this song are LGBTQ. crossdressing, transexual, there are mentions of drugs, sex, sex work, etc. Its been my experience that there really is only one group of people that object to all of this. The snowflakes you refer too are probably not the people that would have a problem with this song. But to your point... The reason this couldn't get on the radio today is that clearchannel owns the majority of the radio stations in the US and they get to decide what gets on the radio. so the corporation decides not any specific group of people. and.... I even disagree with that, cause... Have you heard the lyrics to WAP (Cardi B)? that was a huge hit and all over the radio.

@tamiw.166 3 ай бұрын

Do do doot, baby - take a walk on the 70's side. A lot of ---- going on!❤

@nicolegoehr5618 2 ай бұрын

ace of ♥️🤚

@nicolegoehr5618 2 ай бұрын

Not gay or Trans just one self Remember everyone Free speech when🫵want to say words others my not agree with🇺🇸♥️🤍💙

@nicolegoehr5618 2 ай бұрын

Ace Laughing🤣♥️🫵Knew what coming

@Belluser-we1uc5cb2l 4 ай бұрын

1972 this came out. I was 6 or 7 and heard it on the radio. Way ahead of it's time. If you sang this today, it would be offensive.

@janna2245 4 ай бұрын

Offensive? Just wondering: the trans stuff or the word colored

@O_Towne_Bear 3 ай бұрын

@@janna2245 Yes

@K9-Crazy 2 ай бұрын

Same here i was 10 and remember heavy rotation on AM and FM radio. Wasn't offensive back then. I love seeing young people react lol😂

@shaunlawrie2514 2 ай бұрын

Only offensive in the heads of morons. This guy was progressive before these people were born

@SG-js2qn 4 ай бұрын

This song has been used in commercials. Apparently a 2024 beer commercial just used it. Honda has used it. FWIW, it was produced by David Bowie, and it has appeared in no less that 3 episodes of "The Simpsons."

@seansersmylie 4 ай бұрын

I would say Mick Ronson did most of the actual producing work...