Music dedicated to Edie Sedgwick

Edie has been referenced many times in popular music; mostly post death.

Someway or other it seems many bands have taken either the face of Edie to put as the cover of their albums or into a montage style in their music videos. Others have just lyrically place her in their music; either way it shows how much of an icon Edie became.

I studied three particular video's, that concentrated on and portrayed differently with Edie, which should give me ideas when finding the music and filming for my video.

The cult-"Edie (Ciao Baby)"


What i enjoyed about the video was it not only being in a hard rock style which i hadnt heard of before (only in an american folk style or soft rock) but also the band using an "Edie-Double" to make it clearer who there song is on about. The various clips of the Edie-double is what i would like to demonstrate in my piece but there will be more dedication with the stages of her life. I also liked the use of violins for a hard rock genre to give it a more classier feel to it.







Furious Apples- "Girl on Fire"



Though this isn't the official music video of "Girl on Fire", I still particularly enjoyed the whole montage dedicated on Edie Sedgwick. Everything about the video rings how glamorous and an artistic sensation she became which is the message i would like to bring across. The English band also did it in an Indie genre which is something more of my taste.



The Velvet Underground- "Femme Fatale"

(Though the enbedding has been disabled, you can find the video by this link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjjDmX9Tkss)

The message the song is trying to bring across about Edie is all in the name-"femme fatale" which means an irrisistably attractive woman who leads men into dangerous situations. Whether this is true about Edie can be debated however it shows another way she was seen and therefore a different way she was portrayed by another band. This song isn't all about Edie's appearance like other songs but makes a strong argument on who she really was underneath the glamour and angel like smiles. The music video i found was done in an acoustic style and what i particulary enjoyed was it being sung by a woman which differs from men who were most likely sexually driven to dedicate their songs on Edie.