Laurie Anderson, whose new album, Amelia, is due August 30, has shared music videos from the archives for two of her projects from the 1980s, originally released on Warner Records, on the Nonesuch Records YouTube channel, joining her previously posted "O Superman" video: "Sharkey's Day," from her 1984 album, Mister Heartbreak, and "Language Is a Virus," from her 1986 film, Home of the Brave. You can watch them both here.
Laurie Anderson, whose new album, Amelia, is due August 30, has shared music videos from the archives for two of her projects from the 1980s, originally released on Warner Records, on the Nonesuch Records YouTube channel, joining her previously posted "O Superman" video: "Sharkey's Day," from her 1984 album, Mister Heartbreak, and "Language Is a Virus," from her 1986 film, Home of the Brave. You can watch them both here:
"A goofy song with lots of images from my dreams," Anderson says of "Sharkey's Day." "I believe in dream language and like to picture the sun that looks like a big bald head rising up over the grocery store."
Of "Language Is a Virus," she says: "Dedicated to William S. Burroughs, who said, 'Language is a virus from outer space.' What a wild thing for a writer to say, that language is a disease communicated by mouth. And now that we know that virus is also a language, it makes even more sense that word codes are hard to crack."
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