Can't Stop Partying
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| Album track by Weezer | |||||
| Album | Raditude | ||||
| Released | November 3, 2009 | ||||
| Length | 4:22 | ||||
| Label | Geffen | ||||
| Writer | Rivers Cuomo & Jermaine Dupri | ||||
| Producer | Polow Da Don | ||||
| Status | officially released | ||||
| Live debut | July 24, 2009 | ||||
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| Demo by Rivers Cuomo | |||||
| Album | Alone II | ||||
| Released | November 25, 2008 | ||||
| Recorded | 2008 | ||||
| Length | 2:19 | ||||
| Label | Geffen | ||||
| Writer | Rivers Cuomo & Jermaine Dupri | ||||
| Producer | Rivers Cuomo | ||||
| Status | officially released | ||||
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"Can't Stop Partying" is the fourth track from Raditude. It was written by Rivers Cuomo and Jermaine Dupri and features guest vocals from Lil Wayne. The song was released in demo form on Alone II in 2008.
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[edit] Appearances
- Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (Demo)
- Not Alone: Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints (Live)
- Raditude
[edit] Overview
Jermaine Dupri wrote the lyrics, and gave them to Rivers Cuomo because he claimed, as the Alone II liner notes say, that "the rock world and the hip-hop world were really the same: they were both all about partying."
The song was first performed live at the Alone II Jam Session before the album was released. It was Rivers' personal pick for the set list.
Later, the song was performed live for Stereogum.com by Cuomo, Dupri, Ryan Key of Yellowcard, Jose Galvez of Ozma, Derek Grant of Alkaline Trio, Sean O'Donnell of Reeve Oliver, Greg Vail (a saxophonist), and Ricky Sans of Melee. A flutist also played.
While headlining a festival in Korea in the summer of 2009, Weezer performed a new arrangement of the song which featured a rock drum beat, distorted guitars, a new bridge and slightly altered lyrics.
[edit] Personnel
Raditude version
- Rivers Cuomo - vocals
- Lil Wayne - vocals
Alone II version
- Rivers Cuomo – acoustic guitar, vocals, percussion
[edit] Lyrics
(These lyrics are for the full album version featuring Lil Wayne. The version released on Alone II is the exact same without Lil Wayne's verse, and the line "I gotta have the beat" was originally "I gotta have the e", and "I got the real big posse with me, yeah I'm deep" was originally "I got the real big posse with me, yeah I'm ???" [as quoted from the Alone II liner notes])
[Chorus]
I can't stop partying, partying
I can't stop partying, partying
I gotta have Patrón, I gotta have the beat
I gotta have a lot of pretty girls around me
Oh, I can't stop partying, partying
I can't stop, partying, partying
I gotta have the cars, I gotta have the jewels
and if you was me, honey, you would do it too
[Verse 1 Rivers Cuomo]
Monday to Sunday I hit all the clubs
And now e'rybody know me when I pull up
I got the real big posse with me, yeah I'm deep
And if you lookin' for me I'm in VIP
Just follow the smoke; they're bringing bottles of the Goose
And all the girls in the corner getting loose
Screw rehab I love my addiction
No sleep, no sleep, I am always on a mission 'cause
[Chorus]
[Verse 2 Lil Wayne]
Party like tomorrow is my funeral
Gotta stop mixing alcohol with pharmaceuticals
And the unusual is the fucking usual
Man, my life is beautiful and my girls are mutual
Okay bitches, Weezer and it's Weezy
Upside down MTV
Please don't shoot me down because
I'm an endangered species
It's the days of our lives but my night just started
I pray the killer doesn't take the life of the party
[Chorus]
Oh
(Can't stop, can't stop the partying)
(Can't stop, can't stop the partying)
(Can't stop, can't stop the partying)
(Can't stop, can't stop the partying) (x4)
