"Computer Girl" is a 1960s song by Sparks. It offers some nicely disturbing vibes for fearsome digital media.
Read the opening lines, while listening to this 1969 recording:
Computer girl
My computer girl
(this is a recording)She's got no arms
got no legs
For computers have no limbs
(this is a recording)
Very unsettling body language, especially in a song that might have seemed a love song at first. Note this female voice "This is a recording" as a kind of chorus.
There's more:
Body language becomes violent:
At first she did not work right
At first she did not function
I took a hammer
I took some nails
I went hammer hammer hammer
Rat tat tat
Fix fix fix
My computer girl
My computer girl
(this is a recording)
Is that a glimpse of earlier computer history, or just psychotic violence?
The song moves back to the 1960s for the rest, repeating versions of this:
Well if you like a date with her
Stick an IBM card in her stomach
Back to love, terror, and a reorganized body.
Here's a clip from a documentary, apparently.
(thanks and a punch card to keen-eared Jason K)
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