Lou Reed - Hooky Wooky

What this video is

Released in early 1996 as a single from Lou Reed's seventeenth studio album 'Set the Twilight Reeling' (Warner Bros. Records, February 20, 1996), 'Hooky Wooky' represents Reed at a transitional personal and artistic apex. The album was dedicated to Laurie Anderson, and Rolling Stone critic David Fricke identified Anderson as the subject of 'Hooky Wooky,' a song exploring jealousy and romantic vulnerability set…

Why it matters

Emblematic of the literary rock / New York art-rock tradition Reed pioneered with the Velvet Underground and sustained through his solo career. 'Hooky Wooky' exemplifies Reed's deadpan narrative vocal style applied to intimate urban romanticism, bridging his 1970s street-poet persona with a…