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*''[[Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years]]'' (2020) | *''[[Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years]]'' (2020) | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
{{Alone liner notes|On June 19, the day after I got married, my wife and I flew to Germany to see one of the United States' soccer matches in the World Cup finals as part of our honeymoon. I had long been asking the U.S. Soccer Federation for tickets to the U.S. matches, hoping that they would hook me up, I being a celebrity and all. But they had responded to my request, after long delays, with a list of counter-requests, one of which was to write a theme song for the team. Normally, I would be excited and honored to take on such a challenge, but in the months leading up to the Cup Finals, I was so busy with my last semester of college and with preparing for the wedding that I had no chance to write at all. Thankfully, some friends gave us the tickets for a wedding gift and I was able to set the songwriting challenge aside. Later that year, my creative mind turned back to the challenge and I started writing, but now my mood was far different from before the | {{Alone liner notes|On June 19, the day after I got married, my wife and I flew to Germany to see one of the United States' soccer matches in the World Cup finals as part of our honeymoon. I had long been asking the U.S. Soccer Federation for tickets to the U.S. matches, hoping that they would hook me up, I being a celebrity and all. But they had responded to my request, after long delays, with a list of counter-requests, one of which was to write a theme song for the team. Normally, I would be excited and honored to take on such a challenge, but in the months leading up to the Cup Finals, I was so busy with my last semester of college and with preparing for the wedding that I had no chance to write at all. Thankfully, some friends gave us the tickets for a wedding gift and I was able to set the songwriting challenge aside. Later that year, my creative mind turned back to the challenge and I started writing, but now my mood was far different from before the Cup. Now I had just come out of the abysmal experience of the team getting eliminated in the first round, of scoring only one goal in the competition, of losing two games and tying one. So I wrote the anthem, called '''"My Day Is Coming" (Track 17)''', but it turned out to be more sad than rousing, more bitter than confident.|''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' [[Alone II liner notes|liner notes]]}} | ||
"My Day Is Coming" was written by [[Weezer]] lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]] in [[2006]]. The song was demoed, along with "[[Heart Songs]]", in a Japanese mega-mall recording studio while Cuomo was in Japan on his honeymoon.<ref name="montgomery" /> The song was written as an ode to the U.S. men's soccer team. The song was first released in [[2008]] as part of the compilation album ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. Cuomo would later write "[[Represent]]," a more upbeat ode to the U.S. men's national soccer team, in [[2010]]. An earlier demo of "My Day Is Coming" (under the title "Our Day Will Come"), as well as alternate edits of the ''Alone II'' demo, were released as part of the digital compilation ''[[Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years]]'' in [[2020]]. | "My Day Is Coming" was written by [[Weezer]] lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]] in [[2006]]. The song was demoed, along with "[[Heart Songs]]", in a Japanese mega-mall recording studio while Cuomo was in Japan on his honeymoon.<ref name="montgomery" /> The song was written as an ode to the U.S. men's soccer team. The song was first released in [[2008]] as part of the compilation album ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. Cuomo would later write "[[Represent]]," a more upbeat ode to the U.S. men's national soccer team, in [[2010]]. An earlier demo of "My Day Is Coming" (under the title "Our Day Will Come"), as well as alternate edits of the ''Alone II'' demo, were released as part of the digital compilation ''[[Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years]]'' in [[2020]]. | ||
==Known recordings== | ==Known recordings== | ||
{{Known recordings header}} | {{Known recordings header}} | ||