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"Pig" was the first new song of the ''Red Album'' era to be heard by fans. The song was leaked as an acoustic home demo on various music blogs in April of [[2007]], featuring only lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]] performing on the track. The metadata from the song showed that it belonged on an eighteen-track demo album entitled ''[[Deliverance at Hand!]]'' as the twelfth track. Fans would later discover that ''Deliverance at Hand!'' was a collection of Cuomo's demos from the period between the release of ''[[Make Believe]]'' and ''The Red Album''. A full-band recording of "Pig" was later released as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of [[The Red Album|Weezer (The Red Album)]]. | "Pig" was the first new song of the ''Red Album'' era to be heard by fans. The song was leaked as an acoustic home demo on various music blogs in April of [[2007]], featuring only lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]] performing on the track. The metadata from the song showed that it belonged on an eighteen-track demo album entitled ''[[Deliverance at Hand!]]'' as the twelfth track. Fans would later discover that ''Deliverance at Hand!'' was a collection of Cuomo's demos from the period between the release of ''[[Make Believe]]'' and ''The Red Album''. A full-band recording of "Pig" was later released as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of [[The Red Album|Weezer (The Red Album)]]. | ||
"Pig" is one of the three post-''[[Pinkerton]]'' Weezer songs to feature a harmonica, the others being "[[Freak Me Out]]" and "[[Cleopatra]]." Cuomo sings his own backing vocals for this song. The production of the percussion in "Pig" is also notably unique. | "Pig" is one of the three post-''[[Pinkerton]]'' Weezer songs to feature a harmonica, the others being "[[Freak Me Out]]" and "[[Cleopatra]]." Cuomo sings his own backing vocals for this song. The production of the percussion in "Pig" is also notably unique. The song features a structure atypical for the band, building to an emotional peak without a distinct chorus or set of verses. The vocal melody remains constant for most of the song. The song features synthesizer strings. | ||
In the album version of the song, the band opted to add background noises into several sections of the song, to a mixed reception from fans. Likely sung by guitarist [[Brian Bell]] or bassist [[Scott Shriner]], a background noise of a whiplash sound was added after the lyric "''my friends all made the whip-lash sound''." Additionally, hand-claps were added after the lyric "''and everyone clapped when I asked her to marry me''." | |||
Other notable differences include the near-removal of the harmonica melody from the song and a loud hit of the snare drum at the song's close. Fans have speculated that this addition is supposed to represent the slaughtering of the pig. | |||
At least three of the babies named in the song (Gina, Shannon, Gabe) appear to be named after Cuomo's step-siblings ([[Gina Cuomo]], [[Shannon Cuomo]], and [[Gabe Cuomo]], respectively). | |||
===Possible inspiration=== | ===Possible inspiration=== | ||
In June of [[2006]], Cuomo was interviewed by Beliefnet, a spiritual website. In the interview, Cuomo discussed reading Daniel Defoe's ''Robinson Crusoe''. He mentions, "''One thing that really struck me is, what he writes about for some reason comes across as so cruel. Like there's so little feeling of compassion or regret that he has to kill the animals to survive. I'm not sure what to make of it yet. The way he describes it is so cold...It never occurred to him that the suffering of the animals is something to worry about or to feel sorry about. And maybe that was just a product of the times or maybe some Christian philosophy that justifies it; I'm not sure. Really the thing that strikes me most about it is: Maybe there's something in me that's reacting to this and that maybe other people wouldn't notice it''." | In June of [[2006]], Cuomo was interviewed by Beliefnet, a spiritual website. In the interview, Cuomo discussed reading Daniel Defoe's ''Robinson Crusoe''. He mentions, "''One thing that really struck me is, what he writes about for some reason comes across as so cruel. Like there's so little feeling of compassion or regret that he has to kill the animals to survive. I'm not sure what to make of it yet. The way he describes it is so cold...It never occurred to him that the suffering of the animals is something to worry about or to feel sorry about. And maybe that was just a product of the times or maybe some Christian philosophy that justifies it; I'm not sure. Really the thing that strikes me most about it is: Maybe there's something in me that's reacting to this and that maybe other people wouldn't notice it''." | ||