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When he played it back, I thought, ‘Man, I’m the worst rapper in the world – I’m just a loser.’ So I started singing, ‘I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me.’
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The song's chorus, in which Beck sings the lines "Soy un perdedor/I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?", is often interpreted as a parody of Generation X's "slacker" culture. Beck has denied the validity of this meaning, instead saying that the chorus is simply about his lack of skill as a rapper. [21]
In that context, the line "I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?" means "If I'm such a waste of life, such a person with no redeeming qualities as you think I am, then why don't you quit complaining about me, and just go ahead and end my pathetic life?"
When he heard the song played back at first, he thought of himself as a horrible rapper. Hence the chorus: I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me. In total, the song took six hours.
Landon from Winchester, Oh The inspiration for him calling himself a loser was his attempt at trying to fuse rock with rap, and discovering that he was really bad at it, and so he sings "I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?" And the rest of the song's content floated easily as he keeps moping about how he is an outcast to society.
“So I started singing ‘I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me.'” The nonsense verses now had a hook, complimented by the Spanish-speaking chorus, and the entire song was finished in one day.
