"A disquieting undocumented alien among all those clichés"

Yes, the quote is about Laurie Anderson (who else), in a portrait of America's Multi-Mediatrix in Wired Magazine, written by Pamela McCorduck - from the time when her male clone was still nameless, Nerve Bible was the future, 'The Ugly One...' was a yet-untitled collaboration with Brian Eno, and Laurie was not on friendly terms with CD-ROMs.