Nico - Femme Fatale

[TheDman216]

Nico was a good singer in her own way..It sucks when everything is cookie cutter

[rogues70]

Die beste Mädchen! Great voice - everybody knows!

[dragonskinavi]

Sounds like a female version of DIO, rip....from his early singing days

[metramil]

me gusta!

[giusypaesano]

Stupenda Nico!

[nick40nick40]

merci

[ZenPapageno]

Occasionally, Lou has said it's about Nico, which sounds crazy, because Nico wasn't a clown with false-colored eyes, but then maybe he meant the song is about Nico *talking about Edie*. That's consistent with something John said - he wrote the song when he was together with Nico.

[sadodoc]

SLEEP WELL, MÄDCHEN!

[facundojuan]

The most erotic women voice i ever listen in my life..

[NerviFrank]

@facundojuan

True!

[primalsincerity84]

this is a velvet underground/nico song

[bobbystips]

Makes me think of looking at the rain through a window on a dreary morning, but that's probably just me.

And I mean that in the best possible way of course.

[dyr2323]

NICO

ICON

[dbayao]

@dyr2323

I love anagrams, man...

Can you get me one anagram for anagram itself?

[BlackMonk66]

@dbayao nag a ram?

[billysscreeningroom]

This is so great!!

[2dandami2]

I know, poeple don't understand what there lays behind a facade, and how painful it is to be up there... famous, an icon. Anyway I could see it also in Michael when he died I was so touched all of a sudden.

[2dandami2]

She had great charisma. An artist. One of those individuals who went all the way, in those incredible years.

A wave of European dark german sadness in the apparent flatness of the Warhol Factory... like a goddess, a valchiria from some other time... she was lucky she survived as opposed to Edie Sedwick, for instance.

[2dandami2]

So she must have had one of those german strict mothers?... The problem is when you're on heroin you lose credibility in our society. That's the reverse of the medal, the dark side of drugs dependency.

[charlyxz]

I love this girl !!!! She´s singin in the sky as an angel ;)

[GomhazO]

Nico es la mejor!!

[cwolferollus]

great photos

[orangedaypictures]

:-)

[Oloferne8181]

Una grandissima artista.

[helenlsb]

Grande Nico

[iloveparishilton666]

Nico fue una mujer fatal

[Diabolik771]

Nico's songs give me the feeling that she's smart enough to comprehend how pointless everything is so why try? Very odd vibe but I love her work.

[olli7776]

Christa was one of my all time favourite teenage pin ups along with Debby Harry; such an icon. I love this song but always felt that the accidental or deliberate odd production quality spoilt it a bit.

I knew folks in Manchester that claimed to have been out and about with Christa back in the late 70s? She certainly lent something of glamour to the Factory era.

[Dee123456788]

This is a great song!

[mokekita]

i knew Ari in Ibiza

[2dandami2]

You mean her son?

[alecny69]

she was a model.... at first...)))

[dubbedcrazy]

chelsea girls is one of the best albums ever made!!!

[maallou]

good she is very sexy

[dyr2323]

NICO

ICON

[fahrqueue]

All I can say is .... haunting.

[luizvga31]

This music is perfect on her voice.

I Think almost all the musics she sings fits very well with her voice.

[altastic1]

i stayed with nico many times when she lived with john cooper clarke and asked her how she stay so beautiful for her age just before she died she said plenty of sleep and no men i love her forever she was beauty from within too

[kablamman2007]

I quote a smart man when I say:

"Only one thing is constant in life; dying."

[rimbaudboy]

her voice is like wind sweeping thru the mountains of germany.

[Vanadio58]

"Femme Fatale", una de las composiciones mas bellas que jamás se han escrito. Nico, Christa Päffgen, la musa protegida de Andy Warhol, la interpreta con digna y soberbia maestría.

La belleza de Nico era devastadora y ella fue su principal víctima. Sabía que en este mundo ésa es la llave de todas las puertas, pero su voz distante y desolada nos habla de la angustia de lo que significa poder tenerlo todo, y aún así no encontrar lo que realmente se busca.

[lenfield]

I saw her at ERIC'S in Liverpool just before she died. I was shusshed by the Dead or Alive guy. She was brilliant.

[ariseherr01]

it's beautiful reminds me of my own femme fattale, nothing but nostalgic, I love it

[TheMeEvan]

nice...

[ariseherr01]

It's beautiful, reminds me of my

[Kikuko777]

I love her voice and the way she sings. I miss her a lot.

[eviledna69]

Beautiful Nico. Such a wasted talent. THey did not treat her very well in the end.

[kablamman2007]

because they all knew that she abused her body not unlike Lou Reed. And they were warning her of thedanger ahead. just shortly before she died, she revoked the habits of heroin, but it was too little, too late. just a week after beginning this regimen, she had a mild heart attack and fell off her bike. Ka-boom.

dead.

[davidwallace84]

una delle più belle canzoni di sempre

[0uf]

20 yrs after the day she died in Ibiza, 7/18/88. Still and 4ever Femme Fatale

[hddsmith]

its about edie.

[Comanic88]

I love this voice!!!

[tophiscool]

god i would love to be her i would have met andy warhol

[maybenotmanny]

it's soo true

[velvetunderground11]

i read in a book called please kill me that lou reed wrote this song about nico and to him it seemed like a good idea for her to sing it. kind of getting back at her

[xXPinkGoddessXx]

Lou didn't write it about Nico, he's said a number of times that it was for Edie Sedgwick.

[prettylilditty]

nico, ti amo!

[ZenPapageno]

I don't think Lou Reed really knew Edie Sedgwick. It wouldn't surprise me if the Femme were really a combination of Edie and some girl he knew in high school. Fiction writers often work that way.

[jimbomania001]

la plus mysterieuse ,la plus grande

sublimissime tout simplement

[gnarro76]

nico eri bellissima!hippy chic!

[AlJamalFeuerstein]

Such a beautiful voice on such an unfortunately odd woman!

[alespinellita]

This song is a remain of the relationship between Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick...and a very beautiful song in the voice of Nico!

[RandallJonesey]

Note that discreet electric guitar in the background. It's so typically Velvet, very simple - and absolutely magic.

[RandallJonesey]

Note that glittering little electric guitar in the background; so typical of Velvet and so bloody good.

[ktnarnia]

there are no songs of hers anywhere on myspace.. it's so weird that no one has decided to start a tribute page. i've been drinking, forgive me.

[LordOfTheUsernames]

wow her voice is pretty deep for woman...that's so unsusual...

...and sexy

[bigboytrehane]

there was a rumour she had an operation...

[maybenotmanny]

wha??

[oizephyr14]

Great video. Nico was so beautiful and mysterious. She beats all the female celebrity "icons" of today, definately.

[RandallJonesey]

what a beautiful song

[RandallJonesey]

so beautiful

[muffnofdoom]

Scarlet Johanson has a new song out and she sings simlarly.

[aviatrix5391]

what's the song playing in this?

[mearte]

Nico seems Sharon Tate.

Watch my videos.

[droeffi]

you're very right jim's widow

[Vanadio58]

"Femme Fatale", una de las composiciones mas bellas que jamás se han escrito. Nico, Christa Päffgen, la musa protegida de Andy Warhol, la interpreta con digna y soberbia maestría.

La belleza de Nico era devastadora y ella fue su principal víctima. Sabía que en este mundo ésa es la llave de todas las puertas, pero su voz distante y desolada nos habla de la angustia de lo que significa poder tenerlo todo, y aún así no encontrar lo que realmente se busca.

[Vanadio58]

Extraordinaria criatura, una diosa inmortal. Porque, a pesar de habernos dejado en nuestra querida Ibiza, su legado y recuerdo sigue siempre entre nosotros. Admito mi fascinación por esta compleja, enigmática y extraordinaria mujer. Su belleza y su adicción a la heroína la condenaron, pero ella, su música, su voz... siempre sobrevivirán.

[sisalrug]

Fairest of the Season, and Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams just stir the heart. So poetic and strange.

[JimMorrisonsWidow]

Nico was lovely.

[charliecraven92]

perfect tragedy

beautiful woman

[bales17]

this is the first Nico song I have ever heard, I like!

[mimicourt]

same!

[ZenPapageno]

Book: Rough Guide To The Velvet Underground by Peter Hogan - loaded with info about Nico as a solo artist.

[christlol]

haunting. beautiful. FIERCE.

[cadin2020]

Could I ask anyone remembering a little girl singing on a Nico album, I don't know if it was Desert Shore, but she sang in German or some similar language...???

[Alekandero]

I'm guessing you're talking about "Le Petit Chevalier" on Desertshore. It is sung by her son Ari when he was about 8 or 9 years old. The song is in french.

There are some other songs where Ari sings too.

[robotophobia]

diva

[thenifeelnothing]

you are #27.....

have

a

look

[husseochdoggen]

Borned in Köln (cologne) in germany. she died -88 in spain.

[pucci1981]

Viva Nico. I adore her.

[pucci1981]

Amo Nico. I love her

[bederk]

Nico is cool

many times artistically injusticed by the men around her but she wrote her name in the music history

very original style

rip, girl :)

[Saluret]

Let the seed that she sowed Blossoms, and does not die.

[lehipster]

Lovely...lovely track....I think there is a great strength in her voice....beautiful

woman as well. Is that atrue story sbout Delons mother bringing her boy up ?

[peterinamsterdam]

yes its true, but it was not really the right environment for him, not artistically at all, butcher family

[Eugenica1]

Thanks David from England...:)))

[lehipster]

Is she still alive ? And where was she from

originally...?

[ShannonDaily]

No she died in 1988 I think, and she was born in Germany

[peterinamsterdam]

died in 1987

[shizzlepie]

are you sure, i thought it was 1988?

[antiporcass]

nicoeternal. skyblog

[filizsher]

Great song, great performance by Nico...I just can't helping loving this song...

[HOMERSTATIONX]

Velvet it's the best!

[sheworeblack]

Edie was awesome I could careless what people say, even nico, I love this song tho

[ZachBalla]

FUCK THIS SONG IS SO GOOD

my fav velvet underground song

[BLZNDECHEEBA]

so this song wasnt directed towards edie??

[ivanofna]

I think it was. After her demise possibly but Im not certain. Anyway after she broke off with andy.

[punkace]

Warhol asked them to write a song about Edie. On the Live at Max's Kansas City album Reed explains its "about a certain someone who wasn't very nice." Its about Edie 150%. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about.

[BLZNDECHEEBA]

so this songs was directed to edie sedgwick?

[BigBlueLion]

Didn't she die falling off a bicycle?

[chenoaa31]

right, she died falling of a bicycle

[nevrozeman]

Well, it's not exactly true she died from a brain attack while riding a bicycle. Ironic, somehow.

[Laura238Laura]

I used to listen to this song with my mother..

It makes me sad when I realize she's dead

It makes me sad when I listen to this song..

[chenoaa31]

Yes it makes me sad too....

[discogutsting]

her voice is beautiful because it doesnt range or change very much and its very deep and feminine and easily recognizible I love nico to death

[novice8814]

The holocaust was horrible. I had relatives killed in the holocaust. We have gotten retribution and reparation for the holocaust. But what of the little German girl whose mom was butchered? Whose little brother was thrown under the tracks of a Russian tank for fun? The little German girl who was raped by Soviet liberators? People laugh at her and say " You deserve it you little nazi kraut". So she sinks in lonely depression. Finds solice in heroin. And dies childless and empty. That is sad.

[danokat]

that is sad, and that is reality...reality sucks. :(

[laurensadriaanse]

she had a son and died clean

[nevrozeman]

Really ? Is this the blonde boy that is often pictured on the velvet clichés circa 69 ? His name is Ari and he is supposed to be the son of French actor Alain Delon. Though Delon always denied being the father, the boy was raised by the mother of Alain Delon. He wrote a book about his chilhood, during the late 90's I believe. Didn't know he died. Too sad (again !).

[IceBurn0007]

she was NOT raped by Soviet liberators, but by some asshole US Air Force sergeant. And she wasn't childless either. She had a son. Where did u get all this info? Seems to me like you just made up a bunch of stuff and posted it.

[mosmerlas]

lousy voice... monitone no range... would she even have been noticed if she was not beautiful?

[dezertdog6]

Ich liebe dich, Nico...

[luizmanoel]

Nico eventum tantum ... pétalas em flor de sementes sem sabor

[johndy7]

ooo wat a shame <Nico dont want to be a beaty(and she was wow) so she take heroine and black hair ,to look ugly , o boy  o boy ,I was crying wen i saw this movie about her life ,snif snif ,she was the voice and face of the best band EVERRR ,stil now, it is so timeles, so good pff

[novice8814]

It seems that Nico was a victim of German defeat. After WWII many German children were consumed with self hatered. There were high suicide rates. It was common for German girls to look as ugly as possible to fend off rape by occupying soldiers. She appears to be consumed with guilt and worthlessness.

[merdufer]

the hotness really just belonged to the early years...(she had a superb model face didn't she?) later she became rather fat and looked really old. probably dued to drug use, alchohol and cigarette? and lack of exercise? (i remember she was afraid of bright light somehow)good thing her voice was still nice

[amosquitojustbitme]

even later on she was beautiful

[youleah]

the most beautiful women ever wiith the best voice of all times.

[lovejoydiver4]

i wonder if to most people she went by niceo or christa...

[lovejoydiver4]

wow, i didn't know this was about edie sedgwick.

her and nico were sooo beautiful!

it's so sad how she died.

[rosaire0]

According to Wikipedia, it was because Andy Wharol insisted that Nico was featured in the VU productions. She was considered an "associate," again according to Wiki. Of course, today it's clear the best VU was with Nico...

[rudegirl1989]

She hadn't a good voice but she was really good artist in my opinion. But Lou Reed and rest of VA didn't want her.

[rosaire0]

Politics? I saw a utube snipet (somehere?) where he makes fun of her galore. Maybe he is too good to be background vocalist...

[rosaire0]

No doubt they're all collecting royaties from their last joint venue "Le Bataclan 72," released in 2003, available at Amazon dott fr.

[ugenesfun]

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? She has a beautiful voice

[ShinMike]

hot

[Allwarmandred]

The beautiful Nico singing about the beautiful Edie Sedgwick. Can it get any better? The VU are phenomenal.

[julesalbertfab]

my god. :16 is gorgeous

[cincotti]

beautiful woman - fascinating voice - sad end

[harryishotermnah]

you do realise, this song is about edie sedgwick!

[haseleah]

Nico has a haunting voice that one can't get out of their minds easily.

[kistokesed]

i wish i was alive when this band was going. love their music, and nico is so sexy.

[Parmsingh1234]

This song conjures up so many memories even after 30 years when first i heard it.

[CapriciousRule]

Nico was not impressed by me, instead I got to slow dance with her 'sister,' Candy. Had to stop by for a laugh. Yoko, eat your heart out!

[xercessf]

Candy was a drag queen. Explain it to the straight people.

[jeffcox]

Andy's people--including Nico--were living works of art. Smiling didn't figure into her public persona. But I'm sure that behind closed doors, she was as human as the rest of us.

[TornadoTongue6211]

Yes, I agree. She is a work of art in that way as well as how she sang Chelsea Girls. That was so inspiring...

[julesalbertfab]

0:15. beautiful

[visualempire]

BEAUTIFUL!!!

ETERNAL LOVE...

[lizZzie12345]

beautiful... great singer. a woman, not a babe

[YRSAL]

Nico, a true artist ! RIP dark beauty, now your demons are gone.

[DehydratedManatee]

Can't describe the feelings this song always brings up..

[rohwercraft]

ihr habt recht! Eine wunderschöne Frau die ein wunderschönes Lied singt. Dazu noch so eine Stimme... Schade.

[eurythmech]

One of the most beautiful songs of all time, no doubt.

[CalandrielAurealin]

Where'd you get all those pictures? I've never been able to find more than a dozen!

It's just so sad, though... Is she smiling in a single photograph? No... And she was so beautiful! It just goes to show that beauty doesn't equal happiness.

[angelinakitty]

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL. I love Nico. I am so glad I saw her live so many times. A truly unique, talented and beautiful woman.

THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO!

[mycatwillXureyesout]

You saw her live?!I'm so jealous!!!!