Music Video #25

Today's video marks the return of Beck. It's called Girl and it includes closed captions (or so they claim!). It's three and a half minutes that can be viewed here.


The theme of the video is that Beck is traveling around some place with a large hispanic population where he finds a lot of Mad Magazine style fold ins. Even entire walls fold in. Meanwhile, Beck sings about a "sun-eyed girl" who he doesn't seem to care for.

The music video starts with a tune that could have been taken from a NES game. At least that's what it sounds like to me. When the song breaks out, the guy that Beck sits next to bugs his eyes out like he heard the background music kick in. Beck sings about a girl with a black tongue who walks crookedly and spits on the beach. So, did he just break up in real life or something? Our first fold in is of a flyer for a limosine that becomes a car. I wonder how long it took to come up with all these.

Beck goes to a pharmacy looking at several shelves full of bottles of pills. This suddenly folds into itself to reveal that the bottles are arranged to look like a skull. Now he won't be able to cure the girl's sun-eyed-ness! Later Beck orders some food and sits next to a wall with the Virgin Mary on it, only it folds on her, and suddenly we notice a toy truck on the ground that's now half yellow and half blue. Jeez, what did Mary ever do to you, Beck? Suddenly Beck is now driving in a similar colored truck. He drives around wherever he is, but there's not much to see other then a few trees and one building.

Next fold in is a drawing on the sidewalk. It turns into an outline at the crime scene. I guess they were planning another CSI spinoff. Beck comes to the scene. Why? Because it's Beck! Beck goes to eat with a family, but there's no fold-in so I'll move on.

Several quick fold-ins include a bum's sign, at ad at an auto repair place followed by the place itself folding. Beck is too busy rocking out with some guys to care. Beck folds a map that tells him he's lost. Beck then watches a woman dancing. Is she the girl he's singing about? I hope not, since he next starts singing at the party. Let her go! She's not worth it! I heard she spits at beaches. The music video ends with a fold-in with a smile that looks a bit like Alfred E. Neuman.

The song is real upbeat, but the lyrics seem to be really dark. Beck comes off as a stalker almost. The music video is fun.