Fifty-sixty

[heyamigo]

Originally Posted by Fixty Sixty

How can that be when the first 3 lines of the song are:

Pretty sixteen
Beautiful heroine
Of the sixties

Edie Sedgwick was 16 when the 1960's decade began. The song continues describing aspects of an individual using the pronouns you, yourself, she, her and your, and then indicates that Nico wants that person kept far away from Lou Reed.

i didn't say the song wasn't about her. it might be her they are talking about in those lines, but they mention of other characters too. not everything in the song points specifically to edie so that's why i said that the song covers more of warhol's universe. when they talk about nico and lou reed, they aren't talking about edie. they also talk about velvet underground which edie wasn't part of.