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Soy Un Perdedor / I'm a Loser Baby So Why Don't You Kill Me?

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1993 single by Brook

1993 single by Beck

"Loser"
Beck Loser.jpg
Single by Brook
from the album Mellow Gold
Released
  • March viii, 1993
  • February 4, 1994 (re-release)
Recorded 1992
Genre
  • Culling rock[1]
  • hip hop[two]
Label
  • Bong Load Custom
  • DGC (re-release)
Songwriter(s)
  • Beck
  • Carl Stephenson
Producer(s)
  • Beck
  • Carl Stephenson
  • Tom Rothrock
Beck singles chronology
"MTV Makes Me Desire to Smoke 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 past 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 start released independently, "Loser" began receiving airplay on diverse mod rock stations, and the song'southward popularity eventually led to a major-label record deal with Geffen Records-subsidiary DGC Records. After the song's re-release under DGC, the song peaked at number x on the Us Billboard Hot 100 in April 1994, becoming Brook's offset single to hit a major chart. The song performed well internationally, reaching number one in Norway and the acme 10 in Commonwealth of australia, Austria, Canada, Republic of iceland, New Zealand, and Sweden. The song was subsequently released on the 1994 album Mellow Gold.

Formulation and recording [edit]

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Beck was a homeless musician in the New York City anti-folk scene. He returned to his hometown of Los Angeles in early on 1991, due to his financial struggles.[3] Described by biographer Julian Palacios as having "no opportunities whatever", Beck worked low-wage jobs to survive, just still plant fourth dimension to perform his songs at local coffeehouses and clubs.[4] In club to keep indifferent audiences engaged in his music, Beck would play in a spontaneous, joking style.[v] "I'd be banging abroad on a Son House melody and the whole audience would exist talking, so perhaps out of desperation or colorlessness, or the audition'south colorlessness, I'd make upward these ridiculous songs but to see if people were listening. 'Loser' was an extension of that."[6] Tom Rothrock, co-possessor of independent record label Bell Load, expressed interest in Beck's music and introduced him to Carl Stephenson, a tape producer for Rap-A-Lot Records.[7]

"Loser" was written and recorded past Beck while he was visiting Stephenson's domicile.[8] Although the song was created spontaneously, Beck has claimed to accept had the idea for the song since the late 1980s; he once said, "I don't think I would have been able to go in and exercise 'Loser' in a vi-hour shot without having been somewhat prepared. It was accidental, but 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 past Beck's rapping. Stephenson recorded a brief guitar part from ane of Beck's songs onto an eight-track, looped information technology, and added a drum track to it.[eight] Stephenson then added his ain sitar playing and other samples.[10] At that signal, Beck began writing and improvising lyrics for the recording.[viii] For the song'due south vocals, Beck attempted to emulate the rapping style of Public Enemy'south Chuck D.[10] According to Brook, the line that became the vocal'due south chorus originated because "When [Stephenson] played it back, I thought, 'Man, I'thousand the worst rapper in the globe, I'm just a loser.' So I started singing 'I'thousand a loser baby, so why don't yous kill me.'"[11] According to Rothrock, the song was largely finished in 6 and a half hours, with two minor overdubs several months afterward.[12]

Limerick and lyrics [edit]

Brook acknowledged the affect of folk on the song, saying "I'd realized that a lot of what folk music is virtually taking a tradition and reflecting your own time. I knew my folk music would take off, if I put hip-hop beats behind information technology."[13] He had also perceived similarities between Delta dejection and hip hop, which helped to inspire the song.[10] The A.5. Club'southward Annie Zaleski opines that the song imitates abstract hip hop,[14] while James Reed from The Boston Globe called it an alternative rock anthem,[ane] and Veronica Chambers for Vibe mag described the song every bit a "folk-based hip hop vocal."[ii] "Loser" revolves around several recurring musical elements: a slide guitar riff, Stephenson'south sitar, the bassline, and a tremolo guitar office.[fifteen] The song's drum track is sampled from a Johnny Jenkins comprehend of Dr. John's "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" from the 1970 album Ton-Ton Macoute!.[16] During the song'south suspension, there is a sample of a line of dialogue from the 1994 Steve Hanft-directed film Kill the Moonlight, which goes "I'm a driver/I'1000 a winner/Things are gonna change, I tin can experience it".[10] Hanft and Beck were friends, and Hanft would go on to direct several music videos for Beck, including the video for "Loser".

Referred to as a "stoner rap" by AllMusic'southward Stephen Thomas Erlewine,[17] the lyrics are mostly nonsensical.[18] The song's chorus, in which Brook sings the lines "Soy un perdedor/I'chiliad a loser baby, so why don't y'all kill me?", is often interpreted as a parody of Generation Ten's "slacker" culture.[nineteen] Brook has denied the validity of this meaning, instead saying that the chorus is but about his lack of skill equally 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'due south "offhand vocal tone and complimentary-associative lyrics" and comparing his vocals to "Bob Dylan talk-singing".[21] Later on its recording, Beck thought that the song was interesting only unimpressive. He later said, "The raps and vocals are all first takes. If I'd known the impact it was going to make, I would have put something a little more substantial in it."[10] The relationship between Beck and Stephenson soured after the release of "Loser" as a single. Stephenson regretted his interest in creating the vocal, in particular the "negative" lyrics, saying "I feel bad well-nigh it. It's non Brook the person, information technology'southward the words. I simply wish I could have been more of a positive influence."[22]

Release and reception [edit]

"Loser" was showtime released in March 1993 as a 12-inch vinyl unmarried on Bong Load, with only 500 copies pressed.[23] Beck felt that "Loser" was mediocre, and simply agreed to its release at Rothrock'due south insistence.[24] "Loser" unexpectedly received radio airplay, starting in Los Angeles, where higher radio station KXLU was the first to play it, followed by modern stone station KROQ-FM.[25] The song then spread to Seattle through KNDD, and KROQ-FM began playing the song on an almost hourly ground. Past the time stations in New York were requesting copies of "Loser", Bell Load had already run out.[23] Beck was soon beset with offers to sign with major labels.[26] Convinced that the song was a potential hit, Rothrock gave a vinyl pressing of the single 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 it. He left my office, and I swear, past the time he got home, I had left a message asking him to introduce me to [Brook]".[ten] Brook, in spite of his hesitance to be on whatever major label, signed with Geffen subsidiary DGC. He explained, "I wasn't going to exercise anything for a long fourth dimension, but Bell Load didn't have the ways to make every bit many copies equally people wanted. Geffen were involved and they wanted to make information technology to more of an organized place, i with a bigger upkeep and better distribution."[27]

In January 1994, DGC reissued "Loser" on CD and cassette, and Geffen began heavily promoting the single.[26] Bong Load, having retained the rights to release Brook'south songs on vinyl due to the nature of Beck'due south contract with DGC, re-pressed the 12-inch unmarried in larger quantities than before.[26] "Loser" quickly ascended the charts in the United states, reaching a peak of number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and topping the Modern Stone Tracks chart.[28] [29] It was certified gold past the RIAA and sold 600,000 copies domestically.[thirty] [31] The vocal likewise 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 centre of the new then-chosen "slacker" motion.[32] Beck refuted this label of himself, saying, "Slacker my ass. I never had any slack. I was working a $4-an-hour chore trying to stay alive. That slacker stuff is for people who take the time to be depressed about everything."[33]

The unmarried ranked start place in the 1994 Village Vocalism Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[34] In 2004, this song was ranked number 203 in Rolling Stone'due south The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[35] In September 2010 Pitchfork Media included the song at number 9 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 90s.[36] In 2007 Vh1 ranked the song 22 on their list of the "100 greatest songs of the 90's".

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

Around the time of the vocal's release, Beck had been approached about including "Loser" on the soundtrack of the comedy moving picture Dumb and Dumber, but he refused. He recalled the procedure, "I remember getting a telephone call 1 day. My manager said, 'There's a moving picture. They want to utilise 'Loser' as the theme vocal.' In that location was a long intermission, and he said, 'The proper name of the film is Impaired And Dumber.' And I just remember: That sums upwards what the world thinks of me at this point. I tried to accept fun with it, tried to not take it also serious. But at the aforementioned time, it was a little disheartening sometimes."[39]

Music video [edit]

The video for "Loser" was directed past Brook's friend Steve Hanft. Hanft had worked for a week on storyboards for the video, then called a coming together with Beck'due south label, Bong Load Records, and requested a $300 shooting upkeep. The unprocessed xvi mm motion picture footage was frozen for half-dozen months until Brook signed with Geffen Records. Geffen gave Hanft $xiv,000 to process, edit, and master the video, making the budget total $fourteen,300. Filming for the video was done all across California, including in Rothrock's Humboldt County studio and backyard and at the Santa Monica graveyard.[12] The video is a mashup of various 16 mm film clips. Beck insisted they were "fucking effectually" when they made the video; he told Choice in 1994, "We weren't making anything slick – information technology was deliberately rough. You know?"[forty]

Hanft, inspired past the Blackness Sabbath'southward xvi mm motion picture promo "Sabbath Encarmine Sabbath" and as well surrealist filmmakers Luis Buñuel and Maya Deren, included stop-movement blitheness footage of a moving coffin in the video. Ii coffins were used, one which was a prop borrowed from a local drama school and the other which had been congenital by Beck and Hanft.[12] Clips and sounds sampled from Hanft'due south 1991 Cal Arts, MFA thesis moving-picture show, "Impale the Moonlight", almost 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 piece of work'south only clip shot on video rather than motion-picture show is the i depicting famous mountain dancer Jesco White wearing a white satin shirt and dancing on a picnic table. The clip was shot by director Julian Nitzberg and was added to the concluding cut on the last twenty-four hours of editing.

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

The music video for Beck'due south 2014 song "Eye Is a Drum" features characters from the "Loser" video, including the grim reaper, and another version of Brook in which he wears the white outfit from the "Loser" video. Also, 2 spacemen enter about the end of the "Middle Is a Drum" video as they ride away on the back of a pick up truck just as they do in the "Kill the Moonlight" moving-picture show clip that was included in the "Loser" video.

Formats and track list [edit]

All songs were written past Beck except where noted.

Charts and certifications [edit]

See also [edit]

  • Loser.com

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External links [edit]

  • "Loser" on Rolling Rock'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_%28Beck_song%29

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