Laurie Anderson accepts the Artist Indie Icon award from Justin Kalifowitz at Billboard's Indie Power Players 2024 event.
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00:00 Please join me in giving a big round of applause to the 2024 Billboard Indie Icon, Laurie Anderson.
00:05 I'm really overwhelmed. Thank you so much. It's great to be here.
00:19 I just want to play a little short song for you and
00:26 I'm a violinist and I also work with a lot of technology, but I always wanted to sing like a violin.
00:31 So I finally figured out how to do this and it involves this thing called a pillow speaker.
00:39 The pillow speaker is the thing that you put in your pillow at night so you can learn foreign languages in your sleep.
00:45 This never worked for me. I just woke up feeling super paranoid.
00:53 Anyway, so I figured out how to do this and because I'm kind of an oral person, I like putting electronics in my mouth.
01:01 So this is how this goes.
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02:57 Thank you.
02:59 I just want to say, whoa.
03:02 I want to say one more thing.
03:07 I was in Miami and I decided to do this song,
03:10 so I was rehearsing it in a hotel room.
03:12 But it was kind of an old speaker,
03:15 so the battery acid was leaking of the speaker
03:19 and this thing got stuck to the roof of my mouth.
03:22 And I was like, the roof of my mouth is being eaten away by battery acid.
03:26 So I ran to the elevator down to the street,
03:31 found a pharmacy, I ran to the pharmacy with this
03:34 cable hanging out of my mouth.
03:36 And I was like, "Oh, wait, check it out."
03:38 And the pharmacist was so cool.
03:42 He just took a Q-tip and went, you know, no questions asked.
03:47 Anyway, thank you so much for this wonderful honor
03:50 and thanks for being here.
03:51 It's really fun to meet you all.
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