This is such an interesting song. I think it would've been great on Odelay and I'd have loved this song on that album. The lyrics make me think of a lonely guy, full of ideas and enthusiasm, who's style is about 10 years behind the times. He's trying to create an 80s style hip-hop party, "tryin' to get together into some kind of scene" maybe he's a DJ and a fantastic breakdancer. The only problem is that it's 1996! I have to think this is semi-autobiographical of Beck himself in his early amateur days. He saw what was going on as a kid. Maybe he was too young to participate, and by the time he became a sort of Grand Master Flash figure in the 90's, those times were lost and gone. It's tragic. He can't get anyone on board with his style of scene he wanted to resurrect. But the charm of the song is that this doesn't seem to get him down because he's his own entertainment, his own best friend and his own biggest fan. It doesn't matter that other people won't get on board with his moves and his fresh beats, because he brings the party with him everywhere he goes. They can't danpen his spirits because he knows how cool he really is. We should all be like this. We should all go back home with our gold chains swingin'. Maybe you gotten beaten this time around, but there's always next weekend. And we know it eventually worked out for Beck because, if you grew up in the 90s, you immediately wanna dance when someone says "two turntables and a microphone!". That's was definitely 10 years behind the times, but it rocked the 90s. It didn't matter that that tune reeked of mothballs, we loved that about it anyway, I know I did.
This is such an interesting song. I think it would've been great on Odelay and I'd have loved this song on that album. The lyrics make me think of a lonely guy, full of ideas and enthusiasm, who's style is about 10 years behind the times. He's trying to create an 80s style hip-hop party, "tryin' to get together into some kind of scene" maybe he's a DJ and a fantastic breakdancer. The only problem is that it's 1996! I have to think this is semi-autobiographical of Beck himself in his early amateur days. He saw what was going on as a kid. Maybe he was too young to participate, and by the time he became a sort of Grand Master Flash figure in the 90's, those times were lost and gone. It's tragic. He can't get anyone on board with his style of scene he wanted to resurrect. But the charm of the song is that this doesn't seem to get him down because he's his own entertainment, his own best friend and his own biggest fan. It doesn't matter that other people won't get on board with his moves and his fresh beats, because he brings the party with him everywhere he goes. They can't danpen his spirits because he knows how cool he really is. We should all be like this. We should all go back home with our gold chains swingin'. Maybe you gotten beaten this time around, but there's always next weekend. And we know it eventually worked out for Beck because, if you grew up in the 90s, you immediately wanna dance when someone says "two turntables and a microphone!". That's was definitely 10 years behind the times, but it rocked the 90s. It didn't matter that that tune reeked of mothballs, we loved that about it anyway, I know I did.