In a recent sneak peek of his upcoming Audible Original, Beck revealed that he regrets denying Weird Al permission to parody his 90s hit “Loser”.

“Weird Al Yankovic tried to do a parody of it. It was going to be called ‘Schmoozer,'” he explained. “I regret denying him permission to do it. I think it would have been an amazing video. I’m actually really sad it didn’t happen.”

He continued, “I had a lot of people who were veterans in the business telling me at 20, 21, 22, ‘You should go back to school. You don’t really have the talent to do this. The songs, as they are, aren’t going to work. They’re too rough. They’re too raw. They’re not real songs. These are kind of, like, sort of hodgepodge ideas. It wasn’t really taken seriously at all. And when it came out and it was popular, it still wasn’t taken that serious at all.”

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