Deadweight (song)

"Deadweight"
Single by Beck
from the album A Life Less Ordinary soundtrack and Odelay (Deluxe edition)
ReleasedOctober 6, 1997 (1997-10-06)
GenreAlternative rock[1]
Length
  • 6:12 (album version)
  • 4:42 (single version)
Label
Songwriter(s)Beck Hansen
Producer(s)Beck Hansen, The Dust Brothers
Beck singles chronology
"Jack-Ass"
(1997)
"Deadweight"
(1997)
"Tropicalia"
(1998)
Music video
"Deadweight" on YouTube

"Deadweight" is a single by American musician Beck,[2] released as a single from the soundtrack to the 1997 romantic black comedy film A Life Less Ordinary. The song was nominated for Best Song from a Movie at the 1998 MTV Movie Awards but lost to Will Smith's "Men in Black". The song can also be found on the deluxe version of Beck's fifth studio album, Odelay (1996).

  1. ^ Brian Galindo, Alex Naidus & Ryan Creed (November 5, 2023). "37 Alt Rock Songs You Haven't Thought About Since The Late '90s". BuzzFeed. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  2. ^ "Beck - Deadweight - Single - Musicvf". Musicvf.com. November 1997. Retrieved June 30, 2012.