Girl (Beck song)

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"Girl"
"Girl" cover
Single by Beck
from the album Guero
B-side(s) "Girl" remixes
Released 4 July 2005 (UK)
Format CD, 7"
Recorded 2004
Length 3:32
Label Interscope
988 246-9 (UK, CD)
988 247-1 (UK, 7")
Writer(s) Beck Hansen and The Dust Brothers
Producer(s) Beck Hansen and The Dust Brothers
Chart positions
Beck singles chronology
"E-Pro"
(2005)		 "Girl"
(2005)		 "Hell Yes"
(2006)

"Girl" is a Beck song from the 2005 album Guero. It was released as the second single from the album in July 2005. The video for the song, created by Motion Theory, was inspired by the MAD fold-ins by Al Jaffee.

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[edit] MAD References in the video

When Beck is looking at the T.V., when the screen's image folds in is says "Al Jaffee", and at the very end where he sits on the bench, the fold-in reveals a Alfred E. Neuman smile.

[edit] Trivia

In the music video for Girl, Beck gets a limousene advertisement entitled "Lester's Big Ass Limousines...Moving Party For Hire" which folds to become "Less Is More". Later on, Beck is in a pharmacy, buying an over-the-counter drug. When he is looking at it, the walls and floor fold, making a skull with red eyes on the shelves and a sign above that saying "Side Effects: Death" The next fold is at what seems to be garage sale. There is a painting of the Virgin Mary on the wall, which then folds. What happens in the foreground, two toy cars have been folded together. Beck is seen later on in the video driving the car that looks like the car that this fold makes.

In mid to late 2005, "Girl" was the first song played in Apple's Retail Stores when the the background music was turned on or restarted.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD

  1. "Girl" – 3:32
  2. "Girl (Octet remix)" – 3:53
  3. "Girl (Paza remix)" – 2:47
  4. "Girl" video

[edit] 7"

  1. "Girl" – 3:32
  2. "Girl (Octet remix)" – 3:53

[edit] External links

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