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I’ll Be Your Mirror

I didn’t know until yesterday and YouTube that Andy Warhol produced films. I knew of his love affair with the Polaroid SX-70 but I didn’t know he made moving pictures.

This film is of Nico and her son, accompanied by the music of the Velvet Underground. Nico sings Lou Reed’s I’ll be Your Mirror, one of the tracks on their first album. Of which Warhol produced and provided the design for the cover.

By produced I mean Warhol let the group do whatever they want. He was instrumental in promoting the Velvet Underground, often taking them to art galleries to play when they couldn’t get a gig. Which was always. He opened doors for them everywhere he could. An artist as a patron of the arts.

It’s said that only a thousand copies of the Underground’s first album sold. But all of the people who bought one started a band,

“I’ll Be Your Mirror”
The Velvet Underground

I’ll be your mirror
Reflect what you are, in case you don’t know
I’ll be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door to show that you’re home
When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you’re twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
‘Cause I see you

I find it hard to believe you don’t know
The beauty that you are
But if you don’t let me be your eyes
A hand in your darkness, so you won’t be afraid
When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside you’re twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
‘Cause I see you
I’ll be your mirror