Lulu (Lou Reed and Metallica album)

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"The View" was released for streaming online in late September 2011. Examining reaction to the track and a previously released 30-second preview of the same, The New Zealand Herald reported that there was much negative reaction by fans online, and that the song had about twice as many dislikes as likes on YouTube. [16] Not all reaction to the song was negative; Rolling Stone gave "The View" a 4 out of 5 star rating [17] while the same song was rated 4.5 out of 5 by Artist Direct [18] and positively by One Thirty BPM. [19] The song's music video was directed by Darren Aronofsky, with cinematography by Matthew Libatique and produced by Scott Franklin through Protozoa Pictures, his and Aronofsky's production company. [20] Originally it was planned that Aronofsky should helm a performance video for the album's second single "Iced Honey" [21] but "when everyone got together, it became obvious 'The View' was the way to go." [22]

Reception

Lulu
Lou Reed and Metallica - Lulu.jpg
Studio album by
Lou Reed and Metallica
ReleasedOctober 31, 2011 (2011-10-31)
RecordedApril–June 2011
StudioMetallica's HQ (San Rafael)
Genre
Length87:05
Label
Producer
Lou Reed chronology
The Creation of the Universe
(2008)		Lulu
(2011)
Metallica chronology
Death Magnetic
(2008)		Lulu
(2011)		 Beyond Magnetic
(2011)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 45/100 [23]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [24]
Consequence of Sound F [25]
The Daily Telegraph Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [26]
Entertainment Weekly D [27]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [28]
Montreal Gazette Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [29]
NME 7/10 [30]
Pitchfork 1.0/10 [31]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [32]
Spin 6/10 [33]
Drowned in Sound 10/10 [34]

Lulu received polarized reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Lulu received an average score of 45, based on 31 reviews. [23] Staff reviewer Joseph Viney of Sputnikmusic rated it one and a half out of five and commented: "The fallout from this could have dire consequences. A lot of people, already placing Metallica at the best seat in the house at the Last Chance Saloon have now called last orders. It's genuinely difficult to guess what their next move will be. As for Reed, his legacy, whatever that means in his case, is cemented and this will have no real effect on him." [35]

Pitchfork critic Stuart Berman assigned the album a rare 1.0 rating, writing "for all the hilarity that ought to ensue here, Lulu is a frustratingly noble failure. Audacious to the extreme, but exhaustingly tedious as a result, its few interesting ideas are stretched out beyond the point of utility and pounded into submission." [31] Essayist and pop culture writer Chuck Klosterman, in his review for the website Grantland, wrote, "If the Red Hot Chili Peppers acoustically covered the 12 worst Primus songs for Starbucks, it would still be (slightly) better than this." [36] Reviewer Julian Marszalek of The Quietus gave it a very negative review, commenting that "the effect is that of Lou Reed ranting over some Metallica demos that were never intended for human consumption." Marszalek summarized the review by suggesting that time spent listening to Lulu could have been better spent watching grass grow, "or perhaps wanking into a sock." [37] Furthermore, longtime reviewer Don Kaye, who had previously defended Metallica's much-maligned 2003 album St. Anger, wrote on Blabbermouth.net that "Lulu is a catastrophic failure on almost every level, a project that could quite possibly do irreparable harm to Metallica's career." [38]

The German edition of Metal Hammer gave it four out of seven stars. The reaction of the reviewer, Metallica biographer Joel McIver, was mixed. According to McIver, Lou Reed and Metallica had created an "avant-garde theatrical" soundtrack that is "not easy to listen to" and recommendable for Lou Reed fans. However Metallica fans "will mostly ignore Lulu—and listen to Master of Puppets".

In contrast to the negative reviews, J. R. Moores of Drowned in Sound gave the album a perfect score of 10 out of 10 and praised it as "the second greatest record ever made in the history of the human ear drum" after Metal Machine Music. The review was misunderstood to be a joke as the writer stated that every point he mentioned about Lulu is sincere; saying the album is the most interesting Metallica album and Lou Reed's most enjoyable lyrics. [39] In a review titled "Metallica and Lou Reed's 'Lulu' Is Actually Excellent", James Parker of The Atlantic wrote "I don't think the record is crap. In fact I love it... Give Lulu a shot. Give it another listen. Offer it what Lou would call your 'coagulating heart,' and you will be rewarded." [40]

In the British avant-garde music magazine The Wire , David Keenan wrote, "Metallica's unrelenting sledgehammer style works as the perfect complement to Reed's vision of compassionless love" and concluded "[a]gainst all the odds, Lulu functions as the ultimate realisation of Reed's aesthetic of Metal Machine Music, cruel vulgar, half in love with power and pain but with a bruised, beating heart at its centre." [41] Uncut gave the record a positive review, [42] singling out the closer "Junior Dad" for praise and calling it "breathtaking" and "astonishing", a "perfect ending to the most extraordinary, passionate and just plain brilliant record either participant has made for a long while." NME, scoring the record seven out of ten, [30] praised it as "a surprising triumph", and said that the offering's "breadth and ambition is to be applauded. Metallica have performed way beyond what many thought them capable; they improvise freely as Reed's musical bitch, while for him this marks his most outré offering since Metal Machine Music". The Telegraph awarded Lulu three stars out of five, [43] stating that while it was "gruelling, even by latter Lou Reed standards," the sense of "unrestrained folly" and sheer lack of commercialism made the album feel "important".

Additional praise was received for the album when Lulu reached number nine on The Wire's 'year-end critics' poll. [44] Indeed, The Wire's Jennifer Lucy Allan commented about the bad reviews: "ultimately, the reaction to it is a testament to Lou Reed's ability to still get up the noses and under the skin of even the most open-minded listeners. He's probably laughing his head off at it all this very minute." [45] Moreover, Mattin in his review of Lulu for Volcanic Tongue agreed when Lou Reed said "This is the best thing ever done by anybody", and he adds: "Lulu is more Lou Reed than Lou Reed and that surely means that this is the best thing ever done by anybody." [46]

In a piece published on the day of Reed's death, Robert Christgau wrote that Lulu "probably didn't get enough" "mazel tov" from critics. [47]

At Reed's 2015 posthumous induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Reed's widow Laurie Anderson announced that David Bowie had referred to Lulu as Reed's "greatest work". [48] LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy later said Bowie had told him Lulu was "some of the best writing Lou's done. People are making a snap judgment and they aren't listening." [49]

Response to criticism

Reed stated that Metallica fans threatened to shoot him due to the collaboration on Lulu. In response to this and the overall negative reaction to the album, Reed commented, "I don't have any fans left. After Metal Machine Music (1975), they all fled. Who cares? I'm essentially in this for the fun of it." [50] Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich also noted the negative reaction to Lulu, and stated that he wasn't surprised by the criticism due in part because, "In 1984, when hard-core Metallica fans heard acoustic guitars on 'Fade to Black', there was a nuclear meltdown in the heavy-metal community," and also noted that Reed's poetry is "not for everyone." [50] Talking about the negative reactions, frontman James Hetfield expressed understanding of "fearful people", who are "typing from their mom's basement that they still live in", stating that the band needed "to spread our wings" and try something new, [51] while Reed stated that the album is for "literate people". [52] Robert Trujillo spoke about the album, saying, "Love it or hate it, it was definitely something that we enjoyed and that we embraced." [53]

Following Reed's death, Ulrich wrote the following about Lulu in The Guardian:

I played the record for my kids yesterday in the car, and it sounded as relevant and more intense than ever; it sounded incredibly potent, very alive and impulsive ... Twenty-five years from now, you're going to have millions of people claiming they owned the record or loved it when it came out, of course neither will be true. I think it's going to age well—when I played it yesterday it sounded fucking awesome. In some ways it's almost cooler that people didn't embrace it, because it makes it more ours, it's our project, our record, and this was never made for the masses and the masses didn't take to it. It makes it more precious for those who were involved. [54]

Commercial performance

In the United States, the album debuted at number 36 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 13,000 copies. [55] This made it Reed's highest-charting release since Sally Can't Dance , which reached number 10 in 1974. Lulu debuted in the top 10 of the charts in eight countries. Despite this, sales fell off exponentially; three years after its release, the album had sold just under 33,000 copies in the US, well below the average sales of both Metallica and Lou Reed. [56] As of March 2023, Lulu has sold 280,000 copies worldwide. [57]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Lou Reed; all music is composed by Reed and Metallica

Disc one
No.TitleLength
1."Brandenburg Gate"4:20
2."The View"5:15
3."Pumping Blood"7:25
4."Mistress Dread"6:50
5."Iced Honey"4:35
6."Cheat on Me"11:25
Total length:39:50
Disc two
No.TitleLength
7."Frustration"8:35
8."Little Dog"8:00
9."Dragon"11:10
10."Junior Dad"19:30
Total length:47:15

Personnel

Musicians

Additional personnel

Production and design

Charts

Chart (2011)Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart [61] 33
Austrian Albums Chart [61] 11
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders) [61] 17
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia) [61] 14
Canadian Albums Chart [62] 26
Croatian Albums Chart [63] 4
Czech Albums Chart [64] 4
Danish Albums Chart [65] 13
Dutch Albums Chart [61] 17
Finnish Albums Chart [61] 16
German Albums Chart [66] 6
Irish Albums Chart [67] 36
Italy Albums Chart [68] 9
Japanese Albums Chart [69] 14
New Zealand Albums Chart [61] 12
Norwegian Albums Chart [61] 11
Polish Albums Chart [70] 6
Portuguese Albums Chart [61] 8
Russian Albums Chart [71] 10
Spanish Albums Chart [72] 12
Swedish Albums Chart [61] 9
Swiss Albums Chart [61] 14
UK Albums Chart [73] 36
US Billboard 200 [55] 36

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