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"'''Feels Like Summer'''" is | "'''Feels Like Summer'''" is the lead single from ''[[Pacific Daydream]]''. The single was released on [[March 16]], 2017. | ||
===Appearances=== | |||
*''[[Pacific Daydream]]'' (2017) | |||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
On [[March 13]], 2017, a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO5lpxLh7UY short clip] of the song was posted to the band's Youtube page along with a release date. The full song leaked on [[March 14]] on the Russian social network VKontakte. A video was released at midnight on March 16th to coincide with the single's release. Along with the release of the single was the announcement of a new album that was to be released in the summer. The song ended up on ''[[Pacific Daydream]]'', the band's next album. The track was intended to be released on the planned followup to ''[[The White Album]]'', [[Weezer (The Black Album)]], but when | On [[March 13]], 2017, a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO5lpxLh7UY short clip] of the song was posted to the band's Youtube page along with a release date. The full song leaked on [[March 14]] on the Russian social network VKontakte. A video was released at midnight on March 16th to coincide with the single's release. Along with the release of the single was the announcement of a new album that was to be released in the summer. The song ended up on ''[[Pacific Daydream]]'', the band's next album. The track was intended to be released on the planned followup to ''[[Weezer (The White Album)|the White Album]]'', ''[[Weezer (The Black Album)|the Black Album]]'', but when the latter was delayed, it was put on ''Pacific Daydream''.{{Citation needed}} | ||
On [[June 29]], 2017, an acoustic version of the single was released. On [[July 27]], 2017, an alternate video for the song was released, parodying the video for Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City." | On [[June 29]], 2017, an acoustic version of the single was released. On [[July 27]], 2017, an alternate video for the song was released, parodying the video for Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City." | ||
The line "let me see the smile" used in the outro is one that holds relevance to | The line "let me see the smile" used in the outro is one that holds relevance to Cuomo and his childhood. As he told [[Alternative Press interview with Weezer - January 1997|''Alternative Press'' in 1997]], "I know I was a very somber child. I would never smile. In the second grade my teacher asked my mother what was wrong with me because I never looked happy. So my mother advised her to say, ‘Let me see the smile,’ and then I would smile. So she did that –in front of the whole class. She got the whole class to turn around, look at me and say, ‘Let me see the smile.‘" | ||
==Music Videos== | ==Music Videos== | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[List of Weezer songs]] | *[[List of Weezer songs]] | ||
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]] | |||
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[[Category:Weezer songs]] | [[Category:Weezer songs]] | ||
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[[Category:2017 releases]] | [[Category:2017 releases]] | ||
[[Category:Co-writing credit]] | [[Category:Co-writing credit]] | ||
[[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]] | |||