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Beck stages a five-minute seduction scene set in the mundane geography of Los Angeles retail and fast food, complete with a Hyundai and a late-night meal in Glendale. The song is a parody of smooth-talking funk, all breathy come-ons and falsetto pleading, built on the absurdist premise that he wants to date both a woman he met at a department store and her sister, whose name he thinks is Debra. It is funny because it is shameless, and shameless because it knows exactly how ridiculous it sounds. The track closes 'Midnite Vultures' with a grab at Prince's crown of funk, all horns and upright bass and the kind of swaggering confidence that only works when the lyricist is in on the joke. Beck had originally attempted to record the song years earlier, but shelved it as too tongue-in-cheek. Here, on his 1999 album, that very quality becomes the whole point. The falsetto stretches and cracks under the weight of its own sincerity, and the horns punctuate each absurd boast like a laugh track that never quite arrives.
"Debra" is a track by Beck, from the album Midnite Vultures, released 23rd November 1999. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about Beck.
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