Alyson Camus Writes About Losing

You know how some people are particularly unlucky, they got all sorts of problems all the time, can’t keep a job, and simply goes from bad luck to bad luck. They are losers, like in the Beck’s song, ‘In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey’, always behind, always losers, ‘Soy un perdedor/I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me?’

The rest of the song does not make much sense, it sounds like an avalanche of words put together more because of the way they sound than because of their meaning,… although it runs like a stoned rap trip through a uncontrollable universe of random things.

Random things, because what do you do with lines like these ones?
‘With the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables/Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose’, or ‘Trade the cash for the beef for the body for the hate/And my time is a piece of wax fallin’ on a termite/That’s chokin’ on the splinters’.

But are these sentences completely random or do they have a deep cryptic meaning?
And just like the Beck’s song, if you are a complete loser, are the things that keep pushing you behind, happening in a completely random manner, or are they put there intentionally, articulated into a hidden meaning?

No serious, I was just thinking about this when listening to ‘Loser’, I would certainly prefer to think that the universe is random and indifferent to me, than against me! Randomness curiously seems much more reassuring when you are a loser.

But whatever you think about the situation, the only thing that helps is humor, just like in the song, because it is a totally hilarious one!

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