| Genre = Avant-garde| Length = 8:21| Label = Warner Bros.| Writer = Laurie Anderson| Producer = Laurie Anderson| Audio sample? =| Certification =| Last single =| This single = "O Superman" (1981)| Next single = "Sharkey's Day" (1984)| Misc =}} "O Superman (For Massenet)" is a 1981 song by experimental performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. Part of the larger work United States, "O Superman," a half-sung, half-spoken, almost minimalist piece unexpectedly rose to #2 on the UK Singles Charts in 1981}}. Prior to the success of this song, Anderson was little known outside the art world. Structure and release Anderson constructed the song as a cover of the aria "O Souverain, o juge, o père" (O Sovereign, O Judge, O Father) from Jules Massenet's 1885 opera Le Cid. She got the idea after listening to a recording of