He hit the music scene in the early 90s with “Loser,” a song that seemed to encapsulate a Gen X (ooh, let’s not start saying that again) worldview with its signature line, “I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me?” But Beck has gone on since to impress again and again, morphing through various musical styles including folk, R&B, and hip-hop, but always with a lyrical style that earns inevitable (and

deserved) comparisons to Bob Dylan. (And I invoke that name with the greatest of care and reverence.)

Beck’s new album Guero has been out about two months, and the single “Girl” is currently lodged so deep in my head that I can barely think.

The video for “Girl” is a visual marvel, basically taking the idea of Al Jaffee’s “Fold-Ins” from MAD magazine and applying it to East L.A.

I wish I had a link for any of this, but I don’t. Look for it yourself, lazybones.

Fine, fine. Here’s the link for Guero.