Yep, I couldn't have put it any better. I think I'll write something similar about Pavement.
A classic "slacker". Yet ironically, Beck isn't even that. He actually works very hard as a good little major player in the record industry should. Beneath that lame duck surface persona there's a lot of furious paddling going on. He's as busy as a busker, writes a song a day, has another album out soon. His slowness, his innocence, his "laziness" are themselves affectations. Beck is the biggest fraud in modern American music today.
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