But this guy's vision of a perfect day was the girl, sangria in the park, and then you go home a perfect day, real simple. I don't object to that, particularly.whatever you think is perfect. You're talking to the writer, the person who wrote it. In an interview in 2000, Reed stated, "No. However, this interpretation, according to Reed himself, is "laughable". This popular understanding of the song as an ode to addiction led to its inclusion in the soundtrack for Trainspotting, a film about the lives of heroin addicts.
Some commentators have further seen the lyrical subtext as displaying Reed's romanticized attitude towards a period of his own addiction to heroin. The lyric is often considered to suggest simple, conventional romantic devotion, possibly alluding to Reed's relationship with Bettye Kronstad and Reed's own conflicts with his sexuality, drug use and ego. The song was written after Reed and his then fiancée (later his first wife), Bettye Kronstad, spent a day in Central Park. The song has a sombre vocal delivery and a slow, piano-based instrumental backing. “ The original recording, as with the rest of the Transformer album, was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson (who also wrote the string arrangement and played piano on the track). In terms of its background and origin, I want to start with some information from Wikipedia: That version is twenty-five on 17th November – exactly twenty-five years since the original was released. I will come on to discuss Perfect Day in the context of the BBC charity single that was released in 1997.
Its third track in, Perfect Day is the standout for me. The Transformer album is one of Reed’s very best. Perhaps a generation who did not grow up with Lou Reed or his music with The Velvet Underground. After featuring in the 1996 film, Trainspotting, it became known to a wider audience. Released in November of that year, maybe people best associate Perfect Day with a BBC advert that ran in 1997. The song was the first single from his album, Transformer. For one, it must form one of the best double A-sides ever (its other being Walk on the Wild Side). In this light, “You’re going to reap just what you sow” sounds as though Lou is chastising himself for his ways, which have once again cost him the woman that he felt most compatible with.Why I am thinking about Lou Reed’s Perfect Day. She had an affair with Lou, who ultimately reverted back to his old ways (mind games, manipulation, etc.) and Albin left him for good. A few years after they split, Albin had returned to New York with her new husband. While the primary interpretation of this song is that it operates as a metaphor for drug use, it is worth noting that Lou’s first love, Shelley Albin, may be the inspiration for it. It was included in the soundtrack for the film adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, a film about heroin addicts expanding on the themes of the song. “Heroin” from his The Velvet Underground days) portrays why people, including him, do heroin, despite its dire consequences (shown in the “reap just what you sow” lines at the end). Lou Reed, having struggled with addiction himself (and having written other songs on the subject, i.e. This song describes what it’s like to spend a day on heroin from the point of view of the drug user.
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