Get Real Paid
by Beck

Album: Midnite Vultures (1999)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is a track from alternative rock artist Beck's fourth studio album, Midnite Vultures.
  • Beck explained to Request that for this song, "I was trying to make it sound like the Teletubbies>, if they went electro." He added that lyrically it's a goof on the Puff Daddies of the world. Or as Beck put it: "The pervasive R&B entrepreneurial superstar star-maker man-male '90s machine." (This interview is available at Rock's Backpages.)

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