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1993 single by Beck

1993 single by Beck

"Loser"
Beck Loser.jpg
Single by Beck
from the album Mellow Gold
Released
  • March viii, 1993
  • February 4, 1994 (re-release)
Recorded 1992
Genre
  • Alternative stone[1]
  • hip hop[2]
Label
  • Bong Load Custom
  • DGC (re-release)
Songwriter(s)
  • Brook
  • Carl Stephenson
Producer(southward)
  • Beck
  • Carl Stephenson
  • Tom Rothrock
Beck singles chronology
"MTV Makes Me Want to Fume Crack"
(1993) 		"Loser"
(1993) 		"Pay No Mind (Snoozer)"
(1994)
Music video
"Loser" on YouTube

"Loser" is a single by American musician Beck. Information technology was written by Beck and record producer Carl Stephenson, who both produced the vocal with Tom Rothrock. "Loser" was initially released equally Beck's second single by independent record label Bong Load Custom Records on 12-inch vinyl format with catalogue number BL5 on March 8, 1993.

When it was showtime released independently, "Loser" began receiving airplay on diverse modern rock stations, and the song's popularity somewhen led to a major-label record deal with Geffen Records-subsidiary DGC Records. Later the vocal'south re-release nether DGC, the song peaked at number 10 on the U.s.a. Billboard Hot 100 in April 1994, condign Beck'south first single to hit a major chart. The song performed well internationally, reaching number 1 in Norway and the peak ten in Australia, Austria, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. The vocal was subsequently released on the 1994 album Mellow Aureate.

Conception and recording [edit]

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Brook was a homeless musician in the New York Urban center anti-folk scene. He returned to his hometown of Los Angeles in early 1991, due to his financial struggles.[iii] Described by biographer Julian Palacios as having "no opportunities whatsoever", Beck worked low-wage jobs to survive, just nonetheless institute time to perform his songs at local coffeehouses and clubs.[4] In gild to keep indifferent audiences engaged in his music, Beck would play in a spontaneous, joking way.[5] "I'd exist banging away on a Son Business firm tune and the whole audience would be talking, so maybe out of desperation or boredom, or the audience'south boredom, I'd brand up these ridiculous songs just to see if people were listening. 'Loser' was an extension of that."[6] Tom Rothrock, co-possessor of contained record label Bong Load, expressed involvement in Beck's music and introduced him to Carl Stephenson, a record producer for Rap-A-Lot Records.[7]

"Loser" was written and recorded by Beck while he was visiting Stephenson'due south home.[8] Although the song was created spontaneously, Beck has claimed to have had the thought for the song since the late 1980s; he once said, "I don't think I would take been able to become in and do 'Loser' in a six-hr shot without having been somewhat prepared. Information technology was accidental, just information technology was something that I'd been working toward for a long time."[9] Beck played some of his songs for Stephenson; Stephenson enjoyed the songs, just was unimpressed by Brook's rapping. Stephenson recorded a cursory guitar part from one of Brook's songs onto an 8-track, looped it, and added a drum rail to it.[eight] Stephenson then added his own sitar playing and other samples.[10] At that bespeak, Beck began writing and improvising lyrics for the recording.[8] For the vocal's vocals, Beck attempted to emulate the rapping mode of Public Enemy'due south Chuck D.[ten] Co-ordinate to Beck, the line that became the song's chorus originated considering "When [Stephenson] played it back, I thought, 'Human being, I'm the worst rapper in the world, I'm just a loser.' So I started singing 'I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me.'"[eleven] According to Rothrock, the song was largely finished in six and a half hours, with ii minor overdubs several months later.[12]

Composition and lyrics [edit]

Beck acknowledged the impact of folk on the song, saying "I'd realized that a lot of what folk music is near taking a tradition and reflecting your own time. I knew my folk music would take off, if I put hip-hop beats behind it."[13] He had also perceived similarities between Delta dejection and hip hop, which helped to inspire the song.[10] The A.Five. Club's Annie Zaleski opines that the song imitates abstract hip hop,[14] while James Reed from The Boston World called it an alternative rock anthem,[1] and Veronica Chambers for Vibe magazine described the vocal as a "folk-based hip hop song."[2] "Loser" revolves around several recurring musical elements: a slide guitar riff, Stephenson's sitar, the bassline, and a tremolo guitar part.[xv] The vocal's drum track is sampled from a Johnny Jenkins comprehend of Dr. John'southward "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" from the 1970 anthology Ton-Ton Macoute!.[16] During the song's break, there is a sample of a line of dialogue from the 1994 Steve Hanft-directed pic Impale the Moonlight, which goes "I'chiliad a driver/I'm a winner/Things are gonna change, I can feel it".[x] Hanft and Beck were friends, and Hanft would go on to directly several music videos for Beck, including the video for "Loser".

Referred to as a "stoner rap" past AllMusic'southward Stephen Thomas Erlewine,[17] the lyrics are generally nonsensical.[18] The vocal's chorus, in which Beck sings the lines "Soy un perdedor/I'm a loser babe, then why don't you kill me?", is often interpreted as a parody of Generation 10's "slacker" culture.[19] Beck has denied the validity of this meaning, instead saying that the chorus is simply near his lack of skill as a rapper.[twenty] Jon Pareles wrote in The New York Times that "The sentiment of 'Loser' [...] reflects the twentysomething trademark, a mixture of self-mockery and sardonic defiance", noting Brook'south "offhand vocal tone and free-associative lyrics" and comparing his vocals to "Bob Dylan talk-singing".[21] After its recording, Beck thought that the song was interesting merely unimpressive. He afterward said, "The raps and vocals are all offset takes. If I'd known the impact information technology was going to brand, I would have put something a little more than substantial in information technology."[10] The relationship between Beck and Stephenson soured subsequently the release of "Loser" as a unmarried. Stephenson regretted his interest in creating the song, in particular the "negative" lyrics, saying "I feel bad nigh it. It's not Beck the person, information technology's the words. I but wish I could have been more of a positive influence."[22]

Release and reception [edit]

"Loser" was kickoff released in March 1993 as a 12-inch vinyl single on Bell Load, with only 500 copies pressed.[23] Beck felt that "Loser" was mediocre, and only agreed to its release at Rothrock's insistence.[24] "Loser" unexpectedly received radio airplay, starting in Los Angeles, where college radio station KXLU was the first to play information technology, followed by modernistic rock station KROQ-FM.[25] The song then spread to Seattle through KNDD, and KROQ-FM began playing the song on an near hourly basis. Past the fourth dimension stations in New York were requesting copies of "Loser", Bong Load had already run out.[23] Beck was shortly aggress with offers to sign with major labels.[26] Convinced that the song was a potential hit, Rothrock gave a vinyl pressing of the unmarried to his friend Tony Berg, who had been working in the A&R department for Geffen Records. Berg said, "I just lost my mind when I heard information technology. He left my office, and I swear, by the time he got home, I had left a bulletin asking him to introduce me to [Beck]".[10] Beck, in spite of his hesitance to exist on whatever major label, signed with Geffen subsidiary DGC. He explained, "I wasn't going to exercise annihilation for a long time, simply Bell Load didn't take the means to make equally many copies as people wanted. Geffen were involved and they wanted to make it to more of an organized place, ane with a bigger budget and better distribution."[27]

In Jan 1994, DGC reissued "Loser" on CD and cassette, and Geffen began heavily promoting the unmarried.[26] Bong Load, having retained the rights to release Brook'southward songs on vinyl due to the nature of Beck'south contract with DGC, re-pressed the 12-inch single in larger quantities than before.[26] "Loser" chop-chop ascended the charts in the US, reaching a peak of number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and topping the Modern Rock Tracks chart.[28] [29] It was certified gold by the RIAA and sold 600,000 copies domestically.[xxx] [31] The song too charted in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and throughout Europe. "Loser"'s worldwide success shot Beck into a position of attention, and the media dubbed him the center of the new and so-called "slacker" movement.[32] Brook refuted this characterization of himself, maxim, "Slacker my ass. I never had any slack. I was working a $4-an-hour job trying to stay live. That slacker stuff is for people who have the fourth dimension to be depressed nigh everything."[33]

The single ranked first identify in the 1994 Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[34] In 2004, this vocal was ranked number 203 in Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[35] In September 2010 Pitchfork Media included the song at number 9 on their Elevation 200 Tracks of the 90s.[36] In 2007 Vh1 ranked the song 22 on their listing of the "100 greatest songs of the xc's".

In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau gave the single CD a 1-star honorable mention ( (1-star Honorable Mention) ), picked out ii songs, "Fume" and "Booze", and stated that it'southward Brook'southward "greatest striking, an album demo, and two-for-iii prime number odds and ends".[37] Music & Media wrote, "Despite its title, the odd combination of sitar and dobro-driven(!) alternative pop with dance rhythms, makes a winner out of this song."[38]

Around the fourth dimension of the song'southward release, Beck had been approached about including "Loser" on the soundtrack of the one-act film Dumb and Dumber, but he refused. He recalled the process, "I remember getting a phone phone call i day. My manager said, 'There'southward a film. They want to use 'Loser' as the theme song.' There was a long interruption, and he said, 'The proper noun of the film is Dumb And Dumber.' And I just remember: That sums up what the world thinks of me at this bespeak. I tried to take fun with it, tried to non accept it also serious. But at the same time, information technology was a niggling disheartening sometimes."[39]

Music video [edit]

The video for "Loser" was directed past Beck'southward friend Steve Hanft. Hanft had worked for a week on storyboards for the video, so called a coming together with Beck's characterization, Bong Load Records, and requested a $300 shooting budget. The unprocessed 16 mm film footage was frozen for 6 months until Beck signed with Geffen Records. Geffen gave Hanft $14,000 to procedure, edit, and master the video, making the upkeep full $14,300. Filming for the video was done all across California, including in Rothrock'due south Humboldt County studio and lawn and at the Santa Monica graveyard.[12] The video is a mashup of diverse 16 mm film clips. Beck insisted they were "fucking around" when they fabricated the video; he told Option in 1994, "We weren't making annihilation slick – it was deliberately rough. Y'all know?"[forty]

Hanft, inspired by the Black Sabbath'southward 16 mm moving-picture show promo "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and besides surrealist filmmakers Luis Buñuel and Maya Deren, included stop-motion animation footage of a moving bury in the video. Two coffins were used, 1 which was a prop borrowed from a local drama school and the other which had been built by Beck and Hanft.[12] Clips and sounds sampled from Hanft'southward 1991 Cal Arts, MFA thesis film, "Kill the Moonlight", most a loser stock car racer, are also included in the video and song. The moment where Beck is wearing a storm trooper mask is often censored for copyright reasons. The work's only clip shot on video rather than film is the one depicting famous mount dancer Jesco White wearing a white satin shirt and dancing on a picnic tabular array. The clip was shot by director Julian Nitzberg and was added to the final cut on the last day of editing.

"Loser" ranked sixth in the music video category in the 1994 Hamlet Voice Pazz & Jop poll.[34]

The music video for Beck's 2014 song "Eye Is a Drum" features characters from the "Loser" video, including the grim reaper, and another version of Beck in which he wears the white outfit from the "Loser" video. Likewise, two spacemen enter near the end of the "Heart Is a Drum" video as they ride away on the back of a pick up truck just every bit they practise in the "Kill the Moonlight" film prune that was included in the "Loser" video.

Formats and rail list [edit]

All songs were written by Brook except where noted.

Charts and certifications [edit]

See likewise [edit]

  • Loser.com

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External links [edit]

  • "Loser" on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Fourth dimension
  • "Loser" official music video on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loser_(Beck_song)

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