It’s interesting that Beck described the premise behind the song “No Distraction” as being based on his personal leeriness towards the common contemporary modus operandi of always being ‘distracted’ by telecommunication devices. That’s because by the...
“Dark Places” is centered on Beck’s separation from his ex-wife. The song rightly captures his feelings of loneliness as he reminisces on her departure. The writer explains in the first verse that following their...
In this track, Beck seems to be referring to death when he talks about this “everlasting nothing”. The first lines of the song allude to materialism as he mentions someone giving up control or...
Popular-music culture has a way of ascribing meaning to tracks which isn’t really there. For instance, an artist may drop a song that doesn’t particularly make any sense nor is necessarily meant to. Then said...
Beck can be classified as a musician in the truest sense of the word, as he is known to specialize in a number of different genres. His wide-ranging talents have a lot to do with...
In “Superstition”, Stevie Wonder is preaching against the idea of being superstitious. And the way he defines this mode of thinking is as ‘believing in things you don’t understand’. So Stevie was well aware...
In the song “Saw Lightning”, Beck recalls a phenomenon he experienced which led to the destruction of things around him. He uses various elements in the weather to tell his version of the story....
