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==Overview==
==Overview==
"O Girlfriend" was among the unmastered ''Green'' tracks that leaked in the spring of 2001, with no appreciable differences from the album version. Around January of 2007, [[Rivers Cuomo]] wrote a blog post on his Myspace.com profile, wherein he rebutted a claim on his Wikipedia article that he had "an affinity for Asian women." [https://web.archive.org/web/20211121165923/https://gloriousnoise.com/2007/weezer_riviers_cuomo_on_asian] Cuomo then proceeded to list a number of Weezer songs categorized by race of the girls that inspired them, with "O Girlfriend" listed under "Half-Caucasian/half-Asian". In 2015, Cuomo provided his own annotation for the [[2016]] track "[[Do You Wanna Get High?]]" on [https://genius.com/Weezer-do-you-wanna-get-high-lyrics the website Genius.com], wherein he revealed that the song's subject is the same as "O Girlfriend" (as well as "[[O Girl]]"). Note the references to pills in both "O Girlfriend" and "Do You Wanna Get High?."
"O Girlfriend" was among the unmastered ''Green'' tracks that leaked in the spring of 2001, with no appreciable differences from the album version. Around January of 2007, [[Rivers Cuomo]] wrote a blog post on his Myspace.com profile, wherein he rebutted a claim on his Wikipedia article that he had "an affinity for Asian women." [https://web.archive.org/web/20211121165923/https://gloriousnoise.com/2007/weezer_riviers_cuomo_on_asian] Cuomo then proceeded to list a number of Weezer songs categorized by race of the girls that inspired them, with "O Girlfriend" listed under "Half-Caucasian/half-Asian". In 2015, Cuomo provided his own annotation for the [[2016]] track "[[Do You Wanna Get High?]]" on [https://genius.com/Weezer-do-you-wanna-get-high-lyrics the website Genius.com], wherein he revealed that the song's subject is the same as "O Girlfriend" (as well as "[[O Girl]]"). Note the references to pills in both "O Girlfriend" and "Do You Wanna Get High?." The lyric "[...] Every night / When I dreamed to be alright" also appears in the Green B-Side "[[Starlight]]."


==Live performances==
==Live performances==
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