Ongoing History of New Music Daily: The origins of Beck’s “Loser”

There’s a cool story about how Beck came up with the chorus to the song “Loser.” 

He was goofing around with a tape machine at a friend’s house one afternoon. For whatever reason, they decided to work on a song that featured a rap.  However, the rap didn’t work.  Beck just could get it right and became rather upset with himself.

That’s when he started putting himself down while the tape was running.  He sang “I’m a loser, baby/So why don’t you kill me” as a way of getting out his frustration with his inability to rap properly.

But once he finished a long take, his friend said “That’s it!  We’ve got the song!”  The rest, as they say, is history.

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