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| Live debut = [[July 24]], [[2021]]

"'''California Snow'''" is a song by [[Weezer]]. Originally released on [[September 19]], [[2018]] as a single to accompany the film ''[[SPELL]]''. The song appears over the film's credits and in its [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPePD6q_emo trailer]. The song appeared again in [[2019]] as the final track of ''[[Weezer (The Black Album)]]''.

[[Rivers Cuomo]] first alluded to the song's existence with a tweet on [[March 11]], [[2017]], in which he simply stated "California Snow verse was cool" <ref>@RiversCuomo "California Snow verse was cool" ''Twitter''. 11 March 2017. https://twitter.com/RiversCuomo/status/840610590523609089</ref>. On the [[March 24|24th]] of that month he tweeted again: "Got a producer for California Snow"<ref>@Rivers Cuomo. "Got a producer for California Snow" ''Twitter''. Archived by ''Wayback Machine'', 29 March 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170329065313if_/https://twitter.com/RiversCuomo/</ref>. Sometime around September of [[2018]], a cryptic billboard appeared on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles featuring Cuomo as the character Rivers Haskell from what would eventually be revealed to be the film ''[[SPELL]]'', which premiered later that month. The billboard (and accompanying fliers) list the character of Haskell as "qualified to prescribe CALIFORNIA SNOW":  

The song received [[#Audio/Video|a music video]] in [[2019]]. The song was debuted live (albeit only partially) during the [[Weezer concert: 07/24/2021|first concert]] of the [[Hella Mega Tour]] on [[July 24]], [[2021]], with one line of the first verse being changed to "Covid can suck my dick" in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuomo would continue to use this lyric change throughout the tour.

A music video for the song was released on [[November 11]], [[2019]], more than a year after the song's original release (to coincide with the video on-demand release of ''[[SPELL]]'' on [[November 19]]). The video, directed by ''SPELL'' director [[Brendan Walter]], features ''SPELL'' star [[Barak Hardley]] as well as actor [[Adam DeVine]].