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"'''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)]]''. | "'''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)]]''. | ||
== | ==Overview== | ||
[[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>. | [[Rivers Cuomo]] confirmed to members of the website [[Riverchat]] in [[2021]] that the lyric "Nobody cold as this" was lifted from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_(Kanye_West_song) the Kanye West song "Monster."]<ref>Riverchat. 13 August 2021. https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Riverchat-kanyemonster.png</ref> The song received [[#Audio/Video|a music video]] in [[2019]]. The initial verse and chorus of the song was performed during concerts on the [[Hella Mega Tour]] as a lead-in to "[[Say It Ain't So]]." Performances of the song included the line "COVID can suck my dick" in place of "Nobody cold as this." | ||
===Promotion=== | |||
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>. At some point around September of [[2018]], a 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": | |||
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image:Rivers SPELL billboard.jpg | image:Rivers SPELL billboard.jpg | ||
image:Rivers SPELL promo.jpg | image:Rivers SPELL promo.jpg | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==Reception== | ==Reception== | ||
The song received [[California Snow Stereogum track review|a middling review]] from the music review website Stereogum.<ref>Deville, Chris. "Weezer – “California Snow”" ''Stereogum''. 20 September 2018. https://www.stereogum.com/2015265/weezer-california-snow-spell/music/</ref> | The song received [[California Snow Stereogum track review|a middling review]] from the music review website Stereogum.<ref>Deville, Chris. "Weezer – “California Snow”" ''Stereogum''. 20 September 2018. https://www.stereogum.com/2015265/weezer-california-snow-spell/music/</ref> | ||