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Girl (Beck song)

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The next fold is a homeless person begging on the corner when Beck is driving by. The man holds a sign in his hand which says "Loose Change OK All Helps Anyway". The man proceeds to fold the sign, which now reads "Look Away". Later in the video, a sign is folded together to form the words "Where It's
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King said that Beck liked the chorus of "Girl" and that they "stripped away everything but the keyboard, and a bass we eventually replaced. I pulled up a new beat, and something was happening that was infectious, and we felt we could listen to it all day. Beck began jamming acoustic guitar over it."
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The next fold is at what seems to be a garage sale. There is a painting of the Virgin Mary on the wall, which then folds. In the foreground, two toy cars have been folded together. Beck is seen later on in the video driving the car that looks like the car that this fold makes. The next fold takes
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of the Dust Brothers said that at first, "it was a masterpiece of sound, confusing and all over the place." The song's early renditions went through several different lyrics, and had names such as "Songy" and "Summer Girl."
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place on a sidewalk, where a little girl is doing a chalk drawing. After she sets down the chalk and walks away, the side walk folds and it takes the form of human outline, with police and the yellow tape around it.
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When Beck is looking at the TV, when the screen's image folds in it says "Al Jaffee", and at the very end where he sits on the bench, the fold-in reveals an
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melody, the song then proceeds to acoustic guitars and drums. The song was also featured in a 2018 television commercial for the
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In the video for "Girl", directed by Motion Theory and inspired by the
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Beck is driving in the video has the license plate "3CK 61RL".
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smile. The very use of fold-in scenes is itself a tribute to
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began working on the song years before its release on
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Index


Single
Beck
Guero
B-side
UK
Label
Interscope
Songwriter(s)
Beck Hansen
The Dust Brothers
Producer(s)
Beck
E-Pro
Hell Yes
"Girl"
YouTube
Beck
Guero
chiptune
Nissan Rogue
the Dust Brothers
John King
MAD fold-ins
Al Jaffee
over-the-counter drug
the Beck song of the same name
El Camino
Alfred E. Neuman
MAD

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