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-{{Featured song MP3 headline|https://open.spotify.com/track/1MnXNW03vkijBz0GHAsHgW|Falling For You}}
+{{Featured song MP3 headline Youtube|https://youtu.be/yeabZ9C1U24|Softies}}
-{{Featured song artwork|Weezer Pinkerton.jpg|Falling For You}}"'''Falling for You'''" is the ninth song on ''[[Pinkerton]]''.
+{{Featured song artwork|Karlscorner-20080418.jpg|Softies}}"'''Softies'''" is a song written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in [[2007]] as a song in contention for {{Possessive name|Weezer}} planned sixth album, which would eventually become ''[[The Red Album]]'' in [[2008]]. It eventually saw release via the [[riverscuomo.com demos|Riverscuomo.com demo storefront]].
-The song was written in spring of [[1996]], toward the end of the recording cycle for ''Pinkerton''. The [[Catalog O' Riffs]] lists the song as having been written or demoed on [[March 20]] of that year, and working lyric sheets for the song appear in ''[[The Pinkerton Diaries]]'' dated [[April 14]] and [[May 23]]. The song was likely the penultimate song written for the album (before "[[Butterfly]]").
+The song was featured on [[The 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo]] spreadsheet and was designated for ''[[Alone II]]'' four months before its release.  It did not make the final track list of ''The Red Album'' or ''Alone II''.  It is speculated that "Softies" and all of the 2008 spreadsheet entries were conceived or retooled after [[Geffen]] wanted more commercial material on ''The Red Album''. "Softies" is listed on several of the hand-written song lists featured in the booklet for the deluxe edition of ''The Red Album'' along with "[[I Don't Want to Let You Go]]" and "[[This Is the Way]]".
-The previous track, "[[Pink Triangle]]", transitions seamlessly into "Falling for You" (the first such Weezer song to do so). At the beginning of the track, a woman's voice can be heard saying, in Korean, "어는 회사작품이지요" ("What company makes this product?"). During the recording sessions, Rivers' amplifier was receiving radio interference, of what sounded like a woman speaking an Asian language. Considering the themes of the album, Rivers felt it was divine intervention, and left the intrusion on the master tape as a happy accident, rather than re-record or edit the recording.
+In early [[2009]], a Wikipedia page for the song was created by a user named "Gefred7112", which included information suggesting "Softies" would be the lead single for "[[Raditude|Album Seven]]". An [[Albumsix]] user Facebook messaged [[Scott Shriner]] about the page, and the response was "uhhhhh....wait and see?". After heated debates among the fans whether the information on Wikipedia was real or not, Albumsix user PKMN Trainer Red revealed that he was "Gefred7112" and that the wiki page was a prank.
-In this song, Rivers ironically refers to himself as "little old 3 chord me", despite utilizing every root note on the fretboard. The numerous chord progressions and key changes in the song make it one of the most difficult to recreate live.
+{{Featured song links|Softies}}
-{{Featured song links|Falling For You}}
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