QB Blitz: Difference between revisions

"'''QB Blitz'''" is the sixth track from ''[[Pacific Daydream]]''

*''[[Pacific Daydream]]'' (2017)

{{Rivers Cuomo quote|"QB Blitz" is about another person in my creative life, a collaborator. That one’s ultimately about disappointment with decisions that had been made, and that feeling of, "Why did I trust other people when I should have just been going with my own creative instincts?" I just need to get back in touch with my instincts and go for it, rather than relying on the advice of the experts.|''Upset'' interview, November 2017<ref>Shutler, Ali. "Only in Dreams" ''Upset Magazine'', November 2017. pg. 24. https://issuu.com/upsetmag/docs/upset__november_2017</ref>}}

"QB Blitz" was inspired by the lack of commercial breakthrough with {{PN|Weezer}} previous album (the self-titled ''[[Weezer (The White Album)|White Album]]'') following the band's signing to [[Crush Music|Crush Management]]<ref>[[Riverpedia]]. https://books-r-fun.herokuapp.com/wiki/QB%20Blitz</ref> (ironically, ''Pacific Daydream'' would perform even more poorly than ''The White Album'', having the lowest peak position on the Billboard 200 of the band's career, at the time of release<ref>"Weezer Album & Song Chart History: Billboard 200". ''Billboard''. https://www.billboard.com/artist/weezer/chart-history/tlp/</ref>). Cuomo said of the song's title, "The phrase...just came to me while writing stream of consciousness. Maybe it means I have to resort to drastic measures after being frustrated with more conservative play." "QB Blitz" references the ice planet of Hoth from the [[Star Wars]] film ''[[Wikipedia:The Empire Strikes Back|The Empire Strikes Back]]''. According to Cuomo, the "algebra" lyric was inspired by his inability to get his wife to take a Khan Academy algebra course with him.<ref>Hilton, Robin. "How Weezer Traded Power Chords For Pop: A Conversation With Rivers Cuomo" ''NPR''. 27 October 2017. https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/10/27/560044425/how-weezer-traded-power-chords-for-pop</ref> Cuomo's interest in algebra later led to his interest in computer programming.

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I'll be missing you like oxygen</poem>}}{{Lyric box|

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<poem>All of my conversations die a painful death, you see

She's so freaking style-y

I'll be missing you like oxygen</poem>}}

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