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Beck, músico: “En los noventa hubo mucha testosterona. Cuando tocaba una balada, me tiraban botellas llenas de orina”

El cantante publica ‘Ride Lonesome’, su primer álbum con material nuevo en siete años, y repasa tres décadas de música y mutaciones, de los viejos modelos de masculinidad a la nostalgia por un mundo menos digital y homogéneo

Beck, músico: “En los noventa hubo mucha testosterona. Cuando tocaba una balada, me tiraban botellas llenas de orina”

Beck Hansen, the 56-year-old musician, embarked on his fifth promotional tour and seemed to exhibit some exhaustion. His cool detachment might be a natural part of his character. During a recent encounter in Paris, where his record label office is nestled next to a restaurant where a handsome chef from the hit series Emily in Paris works, the musician exchanged firm handshakes with reporters and passersby.

Outside, a crowd of tourists snapped photos and videos, seemingly more captivated by the striking red sign of the restaurant than by the enigmatic man himself, whose age remains uncertain despite his appearance of a young twenty-something, donned in a black cowboy cut shirt and dandy sandals reminiscent of his idol, Serge Gainsbourg.

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