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 ==Overview==
+{{Quote box|[[Image:Mbcommentaryphoto.png]]|'''Rivers:''' I was at the opening of the new Hollywood Bowl and I flipped through the program and I saw a picture of Wilson Phillips. And for some reason I just thought how nice it would be to marry, like, an “established” celebrity and live in Beverly Hills and be part of that world. And it was a totally sincere desire. And then I wrote that song, Beverly Hills. For some reason, by the time it came out—and the video came out—it got twisted around into something that seemed sarcastic. But originally it wasn’t meant to be sarcastic at all.
+'''Pat:''' I think that’s - that happens a lot with Weezer songs. People think we’re being funny, and then somehow it changes into something [else]. And I’d also like to say that Rick said, ‘why don’t you have a boom-boom-chop song?’ And that’s how it turned into that.
+'''Scott:''' For me, two things I want to say about it. One is that I kept trying to think that it was supposed to be like a swing beat, with kind of a lot of upbeats, and a lot of jingly kind of thing, but as much as I kept trying to make that happen, it just never worked and it wound up being totally, totally straighter than straight, which I think wound up being the best thing for the song, all said and done. And then the next thing was, is that, when I heard all of the different mixes—cuz we had like four different people mix it—it just, it sounded good and I kind of dug one version of it, but when I heard the mix that Rich Costey did, somehow he put the kind of magic on that song that I was kind of expecting to get out of it.
+'''Brian:''' When I first heard the song, it was a Rivers demo of it, and I think I called him and said, ‘Congratulations, you wrote a hit song.’ It had a hit immediately, regardless of—even more from its original version than from something else. To me, it was like - whatever “hit song” means - that’s what it evoked [for] me. I thought it would be a great - there was a reality haircutting show called “blow out” or “blow up” or something like that, about this salon in Beverly Hills, and I was trying to sell Rivers on letting that be that show’s theme song. But luckily we never did that.|Band commentary|[[Recording History - Page 15|Weezer Recording History]]<ref>[[Recording History - Page 15|Weezer Recording History - Page 15]]. Original source archived by ''Wayback Machine'': https://web.archive.org/web/20091229113823/http://www.weezer.com/info/recording/WeezRecHist15.htm</ref>}}
 According to the [[Recording_History_-_Page_15#Rivers_A-List.2C_7.2F3.2F04|Weezer Recording History]], [[Rivers Cuomo]] wrote "Beverly Hills" around spring of [[2004]]. It was considered an "A-list" contender by Cuomo for inclusion on ''[[Make Believe]]'' during the album's pre-production. The original demo for the song, released in November of [[2020]] as part of the digital compilation ''[[Alone IX: The Make Believe Years]]'', featured a completely different chorus melody from the final version. The song was consistently included on the album's working tracklist, though it is known to have been considered for inclusion later on the album, as ''Make Believe's'' [https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Amazon_screenshot_(1).jpg Amazon.com page] listed as the fourth track in the months prior to release. Stephanie Eitel of the band [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Sparks Agent Sparks] provided the "Gimmme, gimme" backing vocals.
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 An unfinished mix of the song entered fan-circulation after it was mistakenly embedded in a Flash player on Weezer's [[weezer.com|official website]].
-===Band Commentary===
-'''Rivers:''' I was at the opening of the new Hollywood Bowl and I flipped through the program and I saw a picture of Wilson Phillips. And for some reason I just thought how nice it would be to marry, like, an “established” celebrity and live in Beverly Hills and be part of that world. And it was a totally sincere desire. And then I wrote that song, Beverly Hills. For some reason, by the time it came out—and the video came out—it got twisted around into something that seemed sarcastic. But originally it wasn’t meant to be sarcastic at all.
-'''Pat:''' I think that’s - that happens a lot with Weezer songs. People think we’re being funny, and then somehow it changes into something [else]. And I’d also like to say that Rick said, ‘why don’t you have a boom-boom-chop song?’ And that’s how it turned into that.
-'''Scott:''' For me, two things I want to say about it. One is that I kept trying to think that it was supposed to be like a swing beat, with kind of a lot of upbeats, and a lot of jingly kind of thing, but as much as I kept trying to make that happen, it just never worked and it wound up being totally, totally straighter than straight, which I think wound up being the best thing for the song, all said and done. And then the next thing was, is that, when I heard all of the different mixes—cuz we had like four different people mix it—it just, it sounded good and I kind of dug one version of it, but when I heard the mix that Rich Costey did, somehow he put the kind of magic on that song that I was kind of expecting to get out of it.
-'''Brian:''' When I first heard the song, it was a Rivers demo of it, and I think I called him and said, ‘Congratulations, you wrote a hit song.’ It had a hit immediately, regardless of—even more from its original version than from something else. To me, it was like - whatever “hit song” means - that’s what it evoked [for] me. I thought it would be a great - there was a reality haircutting show called “blow out” or “blow up” or something like that, about this salon in Beverly Hills, and I was trying to sell Rivers on letting that be that show’s theme song. But luckily we never did that.
 ==Video/Audio==
 The music video was directed by [[Marcos Siega]] and filmed at the Playboy Mansion (not actually located in Beverly Hills, but nearby Holmby Hills) with several Weezer fans, who were all informed of the event on Weezer's official website prior to the shooting.