"Sexx Laws" | ||||
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Single by Beck | ||||
from the album Midnite Vultures | ||||
B-side | "This Is My Crew" / "Salt in the Wound" | |||
Released | 25 October 1999 | |||
Format | CD, 7", 12" | |||
Recorded | 1999 | |||
Genre | Funk rock | |||
Length | 3:38 | |||
Label |
Geffen 497 181-2 (UK, CD1) 497 182-2 (UK, CD2) 497 182-7 (UK, 7") |
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Writer(s) | Beck Hansen | |||
Producer(s) | Beck Hansen, Mickey Petralia | |||
Beck singles chronology | ||||
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"Sexx Laws" is a song by American singer Beck, from his album Midnite Vultures (1999). It was released as the lead single from the album in October 1999.
In 2014, NME named it the 260th Greatest Song of All Time. It is used on the 2014 Renault Twingo advertisement and in episodes of Futurama and Daria.
The music video, directed by Beck himself, is partly a tribute to the film Mr. Freedom.Jack Black appears in the music video as a member of the Vision Warrior Men's Circle, along with Neil Strauss and Justin Meldal-Johnsen Surreal elements of the video include a refrigerator dry humping an oven, Kenny G (played by Meldal-Johnsen) in a room of football players, and a spinning mannequin of a zebra with a banjo.
There are several versions of the video. The original (once posted on Beck's website) was over 18 minutes long and extended the intro of the Men's Circle. The subsequent versions edited out the intro and ending, the latter truncating a pep rally speech by Jack Black's character.