Laurie Anderson accepts the Indie Icon Artist award from Justin Kalifowitz at Billboard's 2024 Indie Power Players event.
Justin Kaliforwitz
Please join me in giving a big round of applause to Billboard 2024 indie icon Laurie Anderson.
Laurie Anderson
I'm really overwhelmed. Thank you so much. Great to be here. I just want to play a short little song for you and that's because I'm a violinist and I also work with a lot of technology, but I always wanted to sing like a violin, so I finally figured out how to do this. And this is, it's something called a pillow speaker. The pillow speaker is what you put on your pillow at night so you can learn foreign languages while you sleep. This never worked for me. I woke up feeling super paranoid, yeah. Anyway, I figured out how to do this. And since I'm an oral person, I like to put electronic devices in my mouth. This is how this goes. Oh, you just want to say, wow, I wanted to say one more thing. I was in Miami and I decided to do this song, so I was putting it in a hotel room, but it was an old speaker, so the battery acid was leaking out of the speaker and this thing got stuck to the roof of my mouth like that. And I thought the battery acid was eating away at my palate. This is like. So I ran. I ran to the elevator, went down to the street. I found a pharmacy. I ran to the pharmacy with this wire hanging from my mouth. And the pharmacist was so cool. He just took a swab. It was, you know, no questions asked. Anyway. Thank you very much for this wonderful honor and thank you for being here. It's so much fun getting to know you all.
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