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*''[[SZNZ: Winter]]'' (2022) | *''[[SZNZ: Winter]]'' (2022) | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
The song title "The Deep and Dreamless Sleep" was discovered by fans in the database for a Weezer set list survey hosted on Cuomo's website in June of 2022. | The song title "The Deep and Dreamless Sleep" was originally discovered by fans in the database for a Weezer set list survey hosted on Cuomo's website in June of 2022. | ||
Weezer (under the [[Goat Punishment]] moniker) performed ''SZNZ: Winter'' in its entirety (including "The Deep and Dreamless Sleep") [[Weezer concert: 09/19/2022|at a secret show in West Hollywood]] on [[September 19]], [[2022]], months ahead of the EP's release. | Weezer (under the [[Goat Punishment]] moniker) performed ''SZNZ: Winter'' in its entirety (including "The Deep and Dreamless Sleep") [[Weezer concert: 09/19/2022|at a secret show in West Hollywood]] on [[September 19]], [[2022]], months ahead of the EP's release. | ||
When asked in an interview with Consequence<ref>Ragusa, AP "Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo Discusses the Sad, Elliott Smith-ness of SZNZ: Winter" ''Consequence'', 21 December 2022 https://consequence.net/2022/12/weezer-interview-sznz-rivers-cuomo/</ref>, [[Rivers Cuomo]] said of the song: | |||
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''“That one was very challenging because initially, it was a very, very quiet, peaceful song about about growing old, the five senses fading, and just falling into this sleep that eventually is death and oblivion, but very peacefully. And so that’s what the original song is like. And if you come across the bootleg from our performance at The Troubadour a few months ago, you’ll hear something closer to that.'' | |||
''But then — and this is what usually happens to me when I’m working on a Weezer record — as we play songs over and over, they start to pick up in energy. And we just have this instinct to have a really glorious, uplifting sound. So, we were trying to combine that with what was kind of the opposite, the soporific sleepy song that it originally was. And in addition to that, I realized this is the last song in this four part epic masterpiece, this tetralogy. And who knows, maybe someday we’ll play it live front to back from Spring to Winter. And I know when we get to the end of that epic show, 28 songs, we’re going to want to go out on an up note and have it be really energetic.'' | |||
''So that was the challenge, combining those two contradictory impulses. So you’ll hear elements of acoustic fingerpicking, and this orchestra and this women’s choir, and the lyrics are quite beautiful and peaceful. But the song just keeps picking up and up. And it’s quite rousing by the end.”''</blockquote> | |||
==Personnel== | ==Personnel== | ||
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] — lead vocals, guitar | *[[Rivers Cuomo]] — lead vocals, guitar | ||