Happy 50th birthday, Beck! Revisit our 1997 cover story on the musician
There’s some dark stuff on– I don’t think it’s all bubblegum. But I wanted it to feel good, too, in the way that any life-affirming music does.
He died in June 1995, before he was able to watch you take those Grammys. What do you think he would have said to you?] I wish he’d been alive to see what’s happened. He was around when “Loser” came out, and he was incredibly proud. He kept all the articles. He connected with the things I was doing with hip-hop because he came out of the hipster, Beat thing – using language as freestyle expression, coming up with the most outlandish combinations of slang and rhyming things.
Then in the early ’80s, all that was suddenly gone. The developers came in and tore it all down and turned it into giant condominiums and block apartments. I remember seeing L.A. just transformed within a couple years. All of a sudden there was minimalls everywhere. The ’80s came and conquered. And it erased a lot of the heritage of that city. It’s not the same city at all.
A lot has been made of the fact that at 18, you took a bus from Los Angeles to New York. What prompted that?
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