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Rivers Cuomo has stated that "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori" is his favorite song from ''[[The White Album]]''. He also expanded on the song's development, both lyrically and sonically, on an episode of the [http://songexploder.net/weezer SongExploder podcast], released on [[April 18]], [[2016]]. In the podcast, Cuomo explained that he compiles a Spotify playlist of songs with "cool chord-progressions" and that he lifted the chord progression from the song "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Away_Ren%C3%A9e Walk Away Renée]" by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Banke The Left Banke]. Cuomo titled an early version of the demo "Awaken Early" (a partial anagram of "Walk Away Renée). The final song's title came from an overheard conversation at a party at Rivers' daughter's school. One mother said that their husband called her "School-Year Elaine" during the year and "Summer Elaine" after the school year had ended, and another mother commented that her husband had two names for her as well, one of them being "Drunk Dori". Both mothers were thanked in the liner notes for ''[[The White Album]]''. Cuomo went on to explain that he uses a spreadsheet to compile stream-of-consciousness lyrics by syllable. | Rivers Cuomo has stated that "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori" is his favorite song from ''[[The White Album]]''. He also expanded on the song's development, both lyrically and sonically, on an episode of the [http://songexploder.net/weezer SongExploder podcast], released on [[April 18]], [[2016]]. In the podcast, Cuomo explained that he compiles a Spotify playlist of songs with "cool chord-progressions" and that he lifted the chord progression from the song "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Away_Ren%C3%A9e Walk Away Renée]" by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Banke The Left Banke]. Cuomo titled an early version of the demo "Awaken Early" (a partial anagram of "Walk Away Renée). The final song's title came from an overheard conversation at a party at Rivers' daughter's school. One mother said that their husband called her "School-Year Elaine" during the year and "Summer Elaine" after the school year had ended, and another mother commented that her husband had two names for her as well, one of them being "Drunk Dori". Both mothers were thanked in the liner notes for ''[[The White Album]]''. Cuomo went on to explain that he uses a spreadsheet to compile stream-of-consciousness lyrics by syllable. | ||
The song's bridge melody was repurposed from an unreleased song titled "'''[[Rest | The song's bridge melody was repurposed from an unreleased song titled "'''[[http://weezerpedia.com/wiki/Rest_In_Peace|Rest In Peace]]'''", written around [[2011]]. Short snippets of Cuomo working on the song in the studio with producer [[Shawn Everett]] were released in a short YouTube clip originally uploaded by Cuomo in January of 2011: | ||
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