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-[[Rivers Cuomo]], around [[2010]], recorded demos with [[Shawn Everett]] for a potential '''"Sea Opera"''' concept album.
+The so-called "'''Sea Opera'''" refers to an album concept speculated to have been in development by [[Rivers Cuomo]] around [[2010]]. In fact, no such "sea opera" ever existed.
+==Overview==
-==Plot==
+Rivers Cuomo uploaded several videos in January of [[2011]] of himself working on songs in the studio with producer [[Shawn Everett]]. Among the videos were snippets of the following songs:
-Details are scarce, but the album would have featured a fictional band called "The Roaches" playing on a ship called the Resolution. It could be inferred that The Roaches would have been stand-ins for Weezer themselves. A similar idea would eventually be used for the fictional band [[The Astronauts]] from [[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]].
+*"[[Rock and Roll Cockroach]]" - A song about a fictional band called "The Roaches". The concept of the fictional band eventually morphed into [[The Astronauts]] from ''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]''. The song itself was later reworked into the ''[[Van Weezer]]'' track "[[Beginning of the End]]".
+*"[[Ballad of the Briny]]" - A song about a sailor named Mortimer Collins falling in love with a woman, only to find her having sex with the ship's captain. Collins then throws himself overboard, hallucinating as he drowns. The song was later reworked into the ''[[Van Weezer]]
-==Tracks==
+*"[[Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori|Rest in Peace]]" - A song later reworked into the ''[[The White Album|White Album]]'' track "[[Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori]]".
-*"[[Ballad of the Briny]]"
-*"[[Boat In The Sea]]"
-*"[[Rock And Roll Cockroach]]"
-*An unknown song that would be eventually become another song titled "[[Rest In Peace]]" before the melody was ultimately re-appropriated as the bridge in "[[Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori]]".
+For several years thereafter, fans speculated that Cuomo was planning a "sea opera" concept album, due to "Ballad of the Briny" bearing narrative resemblance to Cuomo's previous album concept, ''[[Songs from the Black Hole]]''. In [[2020]], however, Cuomo confirmed on a [[Riverpedia_archive_-_08/22/2020#Sea_Opera|Riverpedia entry]] that there was no "Sea Opera".
 ==See also==
 *[[List of unreleased albums and assets]]
 [[Category:Unfinished/unreleased Weezer projects]]
 [[Category: Weezer demos]]