Watch Liz Phair’s “Hey Lou” Music Video
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Liz Phair has shared her first new song in two years in “Hey Lou,” a song that pulls from Phair’s fascination with the relationship between Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. The song comes ahead of Soberish, which will be Phair’s first album with new material since 2010’s Funstyle.
The music video for “Hey Lou” stars puppet recreations of Reed and Anderson, with a cameo from a likewise puppet-ified Andy Warhol. The song is told from the perspective of Anderson, who was married to Reed from 2008 until Reed’s death in 2013.
Phair said about the single: