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{{Rivers Cuomo quote|''That was a thrill having you gun me around in your Chevelle | {{Rivers Cuomo quote|''That was a thrill having you gun me around in your Chevelle<br>After a few PBRs<br>Poor girl didn’t have a seat belt<br>The Amazonian Queens<br>Bodies like storks, blonde flamingos<br>Blasting the Scorpions<br>You said they’re playing the Forum soon<br>Do I want to go?<br>I said I saw them on my 14th birthday<br>You said, “You are so lucky<br>You got to see them when they were weird and cool.”|blog post, [[2015]]<ref name="tumblr">Rivers Cuomo. "Weird and Cool" ''Tumblr''. 7 March 2015. http://rcuomo.tumblr.com/post/112990225550/weird-and-cool:</ref>}} | ||
According to [[Rivers Cuomo]] in a post in the [[Weezer Fan Club]] Facebook group, the song was originally written in [[2012]] following the first [[The Weezer Cruise|Weezer Cruise]] (specifically inspired by the Cruise's "80's Prom Night" party<ref>Cuomo, Rivers. ''Riverpedia''. [[Riverpedia archive - 09/02/2020#Carnival_Destiny|Riverpedia archive - 09/02/2020]]. Page archived by ''Wayback Machine''. https://web.archive.org/web/20210731224113/https://books-r-fun.herokuapp.com/wiki/Carnival%20Destiny</ref>), the verse chords and melody were lifted from a [[2004]] demo called "[[You and Me Together]]", and the verse and bridge lyrics were written in [[2015]]. The song's lyrics appear to match a poem titled "Weird And Cool" from Cuomo's now-defunct Tumblr page.<ref name="tumblr" /> | According to [[Rivers Cuomo]] in a post in the [[Weezer Fan Club]] Facebook group, the song was originally written in [[2012]] following the first [[The Weezer Cruise|Weezer Cruise]] (specifically inspired by the Cruise's "80's Prom Night" party<ref>Cuomo, Rivers. ''Riverpedia''. [[Riverpedia archive - 09/02/2020#Carnival_Destiny|Riverpedia archive - 09/02/2020]]. Page archived by ''Wayback Machine''. https://web.archive.org/web/20210731224113/https://books-r-fun.herokuapp.com/wiki/Carnival%20Destiny</ref>), the verse chords and melody were lifted from a [[2004]] demo called "[[You and Me Together]]", and the verse and bridge lyrics were written in [[2015]]. The song's lyrics appear to match a poem titled "Weird And Cool" from Cuomo's now-defunct Tumblr page.<ref name="tumblr" /> | ||