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"Back to the Shack" is the comeback single for the band after a few years of radio silence post-''[[Hurley]]''. The song's lyrics are self-referential, pertaining to returning to the core fanbase after alienation in the late 2000s. The song was released as a limited edition 7 inch record in the UK with no b-side. In December 2017, an early version of the song was leaked, along with the rest of the album. | "Back to the Shack" is the comeback single for the band after a few years of radio silence post-''[[Hurley]]''. The song's lyrics are self-referential, pertaining to returning to the core fanbase after alienation in the late 2000s. The song was released as a limited edition 7 inch record in the UK with no b-side. In December 2017, an early version of the song was leaked, along with the rest of the album. | ||
The liner notes for ''Everything Will Be Alright in the End'' groups songs by one of three themes. "Back to the Shack" is grouped under the category "[[The Panopticon Artist]]" (songs about Cuomo's relationships with his fans). The song contains numerous references to the band's past. The line "I forgot that disco sucks" seems to refer to Cuomo's past desire to chase pop trends, specifically on album's such as [[2009]]'s ''[[Raditude]]'', while simultaneously alluding to the "Disco Sucks" [[Wikipedia:Disco_Demolition_Night|slogan that came to prominence in the late 70s]].<!--Interesting tidbit; likely unrelated: Shock jock and anti-disco campaigner Steve Dahl was featured in a [https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Discosucks.jpeg photograph] in the late 70s wearing a "Disco Sucks" t-shirt that used the [https://www.linotype.com/1470/shatter-family.html Shatter typeface] also used for the album artwork for ''Raditude''.--> The lyric about Rivers and Pat playing lead guitar and drums, respectively, refers to Weezer's enlistment of drummer [[Josh Freese]] during tours beginning in [[2009]] to allow [[Pat]] to play guitar and Rivers to focus on vocals and more freely interact with the crowd. At the end of the song, [[Brian Bell]] can be heard saying, "tin roof rusted", a possible reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B-52s The-B-52s'] | The liner notes for ''Everything Will Be Alright in the End'' groups songs by one of three themes. "Back to the Shack" is grouped under the category "[[The Panopticon Artist]]" (songs about Cuomo's relationships with his fans). The song contains numerous references to the band's past. The line "I forgot that disco sucks" seems to refer to Cuomo's past desire to chase pop trends, specifically on album's such as [[2009]]'s ''[[Raditude]]'', while simultaneously alluding to the "Disco Sucks" [[Wikipedia:Disco_Demolition_Night|slogan that came to prominence in the late 70s]].<!--Interesting tidbit; likely unrelated: Shock jock and anti-disco campaigner Steve Dahl was featured in a [https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Discosucks.jpeg photograph] in the late 70s wearing a "Disco Sucks" t-shirt that used the [https://www.linotype.com/1470/shatter-family.html Shatter typeface] also used for the album artwork for ''Raditude''.--> The lyric about Rivers and Pat playing lead guitar and drums, respectively, refers to Weezer's enlistment of drummer [[Josh Freese]] during tours beginning in [[2009]] to allow [[Pat]] to play guitar and Rivers to focus on vocals and more freely interact with the crowd. At the end of the song, [[Brian Bell]] can be heard saying, "tin roof rusted", a possible reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_B-52s The-B-52s'] song [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Shack Love Shack]. Despite seemingly breaking away from the album's conceit surrounding the fictional band [[The Astronauts]], the music video for the song features Weezer playing on the moon, with Cuomo apparently dressed in character, wearing a jumpsuit with a nametag that reads [[Sebastian]]. The music video also features the band moving in slow-motion, a possible reference to Weezer's first music video, for "[[Undone - The Sweater Song]]". | ||
Songwriter and producer [[Jacob Kasher|Jacob "Jkash" Kasher]] is credited as a co-writer on the song. This caused some backlash from fans, who viewed the use of outside collaborators as incongruous with the song's premise. On the [[All Things Weezer]] forums, [[Karl Koch]] commented:<ref>karlophone "This isn't our website..." ''All Things Weezer''. 26 July 2014. http://www.allthingsweezer.com/index.php?threads/this-isnt-our-website.29187/page-12#post-844086</ref><ref>karlophone "This isn't our website..." ''All Things Weezer''. 26 July 2014. http://www.allthingsweezer.com/index.php?threads/this-isnt-our-website.29187/page-14#post-844123</ref> | Songwriter and producer [[Jacob Kasher|Jacob "Jkash" Kasher]] is credited as a co-writer on the song. This caused some backlash from fans, who viewed the use of outside collaborators as incongruous with the song's premise. On the [[All Things Weezer]] forums, [[Karl Koch]] commented:<ref>karlophone "This isn't our website..." ''All Things Weezer''. 26 July 2014. http://www.allthingsweezer.com/index.php?threads/this-isnt-our-website.29187/page-12#post-844086</ref><ref>karlophone "This isn't our website..." ''All Things Weezer''. 26 July 2014. http://www.allthingsweezer.com/index.php?threads/this-isnt-our-website.29187/page-14#post-844123</ref> | ||
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...because it looks great on that guys resume if he co-wrote with RC, so of course he'd insist on credit. You think Ric needs to prove himself as a songwriter in 2014? Plus if a producer started saying "oh, since i helped you come up with that solo, now you have to pay me for producing and i want half that song too", he'd get a bad reputation pretty fast.<br><br> | ...because it looks great on that guys resume if he co-wrote with RC, so of course he'd insist on credit. You think Ric needs to prove himself as a songwriter in 2014? Plus if a producer started saying "oh, since i helped you come up with that solo, now you have to pay me for producing and i want half that song too", he'd get a bad reputation pretty fast.<br><br> | ||
no i wasnt there, but im going off of RC's own brief description of how it went down. The takeaway: even if im missing some details, most of that song is RC.|[[All Things Weezer]] forum posts}} | no i wasnt there, but im going off of RC's own brief description of how it went down. The takeaway: even if im missing some details, most of that song is RC.|[[All Things Weezer]] forum posts}} | ||
==Music video== | ==Music video== | ||
===Official music video=== | ===Official music video=== | ||