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I don't own any rights for the song. A-ha-ha-ho!

"Debaser" is a song by Pixies from their classic, genre-defining 1989 album "Doolittle". Different versions of the song were also released on different singles.

"Debaser" is inspired by a famous surrealist movie by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí called "Un Chien Andalou" ("An Andalusian Dog"). The most iconic scene is a razor slicing up a woman's eye. Black Francis said on the matter: "I wish Buñuel were still alive. He made this film about nothing in particular. The title itself is a nonsense. With my stupid, pseudo-scholar, naive, enthusiast, avant-garde-ish, amateurish way to watch "Un chien andalou" (twice), I thought: 'Yeah, I will make a song about it.' [He sings:] "Un chien andalou"... It sounds too French, so I will sing "un chien andalusia", it sounds good, no?"

Yes, mister Francis, good sir, it surely does.

The title "Debaser" references the fact that "Un Chien Andalou" debases morality and standards of art, according to Black. In the earliest version of the song, the line "un chien andalusia" was originally "Shed, Apollonia!"— a reference to a scene in the Prince film "Purple Rain".

Black was more concerned with the sounds of the words rather than their meanings. "It has more to do with rhyming words and getting things to mathematically fit in a nice way in my songs," he said. "I don't think about the words too much, I just come up with them, things that just pop into my head."

This attitude and the whole song structure remind of Nirvana. This is because Pixies were one of Kurt's main influences. He said that when writing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" he was trying to imitate "Debaser" musically and lyrically.

Lyrics:

Got me a movie
I want you to know
Slicing up eyeballs
I want you to know
Girlie so groovy
I want you to know

Don't know about you

But I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
Wanna grow up to be
Be a debaser

Debaser

Got me a movie
Ha ha ha ho
Slicing up eyeballs
Ha ha ha ho
Girlie so groovie
Ha ha ha ho

Don't know about you

But I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
Debaser