Reed, Lou - Women Lyrics

Ich denke, es ist das beste Meisterwerk von Lou Reed.
Ich werde weiter zuhören, bis dieses Leben ausläuft.

Perfect trolling of the feminists who had always accused Lou Reed of being misogynistic. This is Lou Reed's ironic response to these accusations. Completely tongue-in-cheek.

lou's a funny guy, just cracks me up everytime

i absolutely agree with Ross T - this is Lou Reed singing here, remember? it just feels and is so ironic

love lou reed hate women

I don't think Lou was trying to make a statement on his sexuality. I think he was just happy to be married to Sylvia and happy to be clean. Nothing more than that. Not to mention being funny.

Brilliant.

Um artista completo

I remember seeing/hearing this on MTV in 1982 and thinking it was silly and pointless.

Today, at 46, I appreciate the instrumentation much more than I did, but it's still not much of a lyric.

Maybe you don't love women?

Gorgeous.

Wouldn't this video fall foul of the #Metoo brigade??

Don't think so, the #MeToo crowd is too mainstream to put attention on an artista as Lou Reed; but I wonder is what would be Lou's response to it.

Tinker bell... he wrote what was in his heart. He was not trying to convince anyone of anything... his greatest being his last wife. Theirs was the tale only said in children’s fables. She was the missing half of his soul all along. She was always what he needed. At least he found his.

Bellísimo, Lou

Just listened to this album yesterday. It would have been Lou's Birthday today. I feel your spirit, Lou. I miss you!

Where's the bass in this upload?!

I think your earbuds are broken, mate.

Just what I was thinking. Bass is there, though shit 80's fretless sound. Damn Pino Palladino!

This song is like an advertisement: You know what you should try Women, I've got one myself!

Hahaha right, you made me laugh man

I think some of you miss that Lou understood irony. Irony then turned inside out, so you can't make blanket statements like "gay' or "straight. " Lou was Lou. A tad complex, ya know?

Anyway, what really pisses me off is the video cuts off before the end! What a great band this was though....

The sort of song i'd write if I were trying to convince the world I were straight. Poor Lou.

+SoulStylistJukeBox Amplified by your "Poor Lou" comment, your statement comes off as if Lou's trying to prove the world that he's straight, which he is not. He's bisexual. However, if you really are simply pertaining to yourself, trying to convince the world you are straight, the "Poor Lou" was unnecessary; which would have avoided SoulStylistJukeBox /appropriate/ comeback.

Context of the song is just plain and simple. Delivered, written, sang, /narrated/ by Lou in his very LOU REED way; he loves women. Period. None of that gender shitty, shitty bang-bang shenanigans. He loves women. Dot.

Or the sort of song a bisexual would write knowing that it would be that much funnier in context. You're really taking him too seriously. Like e has a song about being "a gift to the women of this world." The dude was seriously funny and dry as hell.

That’s exactly what I think every time I hear this song 😂poor lou, the 80s were rough

I don't think he cared to convince the world of anything.

These lyrics would sound innocuous coming from anyone but Lou Reed...

How sad the comments posted here. Poor Lou Reed would turn in his grave...

Miss you Lou!

I can't handle this video

+I Kill Communists Wooo , who peed on your Cheerios???

WTF is this?

It's the sort of rubbish one writes when bored and coked out of their head.

+SoulStylistJukeBox lol drugs are bad!

+SoulStylistJukeBox

Completely sober when this album was written and released.

+Kill Communists I don't believe that for a second.

The best part of this song is the intro. Fantastic tone, beautiful chords and riffing.
Robert Quine is tuned down to DGCFAD, while Lou plays in standard tuning.
I don't, however, dig what this song represents -- the Sylvia era, during which Lou's very PUBLIC declarations of being gay ("a gay man, head to foot"), and living with MTF transgender Rachael, was simply _denied_; it never happened, as long as those two were concerned. Reporters were not allowed to ask about that. Sylvia "rehabilitated" him as a straight man.
It was the 80s. Even Boy George and Elton John were officially in the closet, back then. Bowie was butching himself up. George Michaels was in the closet. It was becoming safer to "come out", but it wasn't safe quite yet.
Something to remember when we miss the "good old days".

Spot on Ben. I have bought every album as he made them since Transformer..... seen him at gigs in oz many times. He liked hanging out here. Rock N Roll Animal was his best to my ears ...

@Petra Crete Well, he was a magnificent live performer. I love "Berlin" on _Take No Prisoners,_ "New Sensations" on _Perfect Night,_ "Hey Mr. Rain" live with the VU, that's never long enough! or "Ecstacy" on _Animal Serenade,_ even "Beginning of a Great Adventure" from _The New York Album_ VHS! And from _Animal/Lou Reed Live_ I hearing like the songs from _Berlin_ best. That was an ambitious album that caused monstrous emotion (I also have the recent Berlin live DVD, but not really familiar with it.)
I was on my way to see Lou in 1996, Dallas TX USA, and the cops pulled me over thru no fault of mine, but -- wouldn't you know it -- I had a fucking arrest warrant for traffic tickets and not showing up for court. So instead I spent the evening in jail. Unluckiest day ever. Wow, this comment went bad fast.

As God is my witness, I once saw this on MTV, sure, it was at 4 in the morning...but there it was!

and that was a moment to remember

I saw it many times, back in 1982-1983. JJ Jackson might've been the only veejay who was familiar with The Velvet Underground.

I saw it on MTV several times back then lady what are you trying to say