El auténtico sonido urbano en las palabras del maestro Reed...

En estos días donde uno llega a parecer león de zoológico, enjaulado, por las contingencias, paranoias y constantes amenazas de la influenza, la ciudad ha estado muerta, y por mera precaución, nos hemos alejado de los ritmos urbanos de la ciudad. Aquella ciudad que esta acompañada por una serie de acordes sucios y desenfrenados, reflejando la decadencia social en la que coexistimos y habitamos día con día. La búsqueda de lo urbano, no fue tan coincidental, sino que surgió en una mesa de discusión llevada a cabo por WNYC (una estación afiliada a NPR), en la que se discutía la relevancia del urbanismo o lo urbano en la cultura contemporánea.

Lou Reed, fue seleccionado para participar dentro de esta mesa de debate, por ser uno de los representantes más importantes del rock y de lo considerado dentro de los cánones "urbanos". Las líricas de Reed, centradas en hacer retratos de caricaturas urbanas y personajes neoyorkinos, mezclados con un poco de mitología clásica griega y Shakespereana, que resultan ser fábulas urbanas, donde la filosofía de banqueta, la sabiduría de la calle y el instinto urbano se ven cómo si fueran una película vieja.

Con Ustedes... Lou Reed - Romeo Had Juliette

Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map
that brought Columbus to New York
Betwixt between the East and west he calls on her wearing a leather vest
the earth squeals and shudders to a halt
A diamond crucifix in his ear is used to help ward off the Fear
that he has left his soul in someone's rented car
Inside his pants he hides a mop to clean the mess that he has dropped
into the life of lithesome Juliette Bell

And Romeo wanted Juliette
And Juliette wanted Romeo

Romeo Rodriguez squares his shoulders and curses Jesus
runs a comb through his black pony-tail
He's thinking of his lonely room
the sink that by his bed gives off a stink
Then smells her perfume in his eyes
and her voice was like a bell
Outside the streets were steaming the crack dealers were dreaming
of an Uzi someone had just scored
I betcha I could hit that light with my one good arm behind my back
says little Joey Diaz
Brother give me another tote those downtown hoods are no damn good
those Italians need a lesson to be taught
This cop who died in Harlem you think they'd get the warnin'
I was dancing when his brains ran out on the street

And Romeo had Juliette
And Juliette had her Romeo

I'll take Manhattan in a garbage bag with Latin written on it that says
"It's hard to give a shit these days"
Manhattan's sinking like a rock, into the filthy Hudson what a shock
they wrote a book about it, they said it was like ancient Rome
The perfume burned his eyes holding tightly to her thighs
and something flickered for a minute and then it vanished and was gone

(Lou Reed, 1990)
Álbum: New York

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