The song is full of sinister lines that make you smirk. It’s on a different level to anything before or after it. It just makes you appreciate music in a different way. But, like I’ve stated- this song changed everything for me. The rest of the song? I cannot relate to. I guess it is because I constantly feel like this. No other song can actually get to the core like he did with this song : Lou manages to sum up exactly how I feel in one verse. There are parts of this song that mean more to me than any other song I have ever heard. It makes your face crease up, you squirm. It sounds a bit like nails on a chalkboard. The intro of the song is carried throughout the song. He does it in a way that sounds like something that just happens, anyone else would make it extremely perverse. The way Lou delves into this world is in a way that, anyone else would probably make it so smutty and degrading. The song oozes ideas of bondage and submission. The lyrics in this song are sheer poetry. Others probably try to write something as powerful as this. Lyrically it’ll leave you weeping into your hands because you know that there is no other song in the world that has been written like this since. You don’t allow yourself to feel this strongly towards any other song because this one.man this one just makes you come alive. Then it eventually wraps itself around you like a serpent, holding onto you for the rest of time. There is something about the way it creeps up on you, swirls itself in and out of you. Venus In Furs is a song that hypnotises you. It is Lou’s lyrics in general that have this wonderful grip on me. I was hearing music that would go on to play such a huge role in my life. I wasn’t just hearing a collection of songs. My uncle is a HUGE fan of anything Lou Reed has ever done (doubt he rates the Metallica thing.) And I remember one day being played the first Velvet Underground record. I remember first hearing Venus In Furs when I was very very young. Let’s hope it does, just to shock everyone. Can you imagine if that ever happened? “Yeah what happened was.I was err…well, Lou Reed’s voice just turned me on and this happened.” It could happen.
I’m not saying let’s all go have drug induced orgies in the street. Thing is, these things are only seen as decadent by those who are small-minded and prudish, you know? No good ever came from being small-minded. Velvet Underground indulged in drug riddled, sexually fuelled and decadent lyrics. But if we’re going back in time, I’m taking it back to the time of Velvet Underground. Certain songs have precise moments that conjure up this feeling. For instance, most of these intense feelings for me, come from hearing Warpaint. It’s all about that moment, and how it makes you feel. It could be a song you heard this week, there’s no time constraint on this. It doesn’t have to be a song from decades ago. THIS IS IT.” You don’t care if the end of the world comes because you’re in the midst of hearing something truly incredible. It can be specific point in a song that just makes you think “Oh shit.this is it. There’s always a band, a song, a record that changes everything for you. “Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart.”
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