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| Album = Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo | | Album = Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo | ||
| Released = Unreleased | | Released = Unreleased | ||
| Recorded = January 1995 | | Recorded = [[January 12]], [[1995]] | ||
| Length = 2:53 | | Length = 2:53 | ||
| Label = Geffen | | Label = Geffen | ||
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*''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' (2008) | *''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' (2008) | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
{{Alone liner notes|In August '94, I felt like I hadn't written anything truly exciting in over a year, since before Weezer had gone to New York to make ''The Blue Album''. My thoughts turned negative even in the midst of Weezer's take-off for giant success and of all my dreams coming true. On August 5th, I wrote: | {{Alone liner notes|In August '94, I felt like I hadn't written anything truly exciting in over a year, since before Weezer had gone to New York to make ''The Blue Album''. My thoughts turned negative even in the midst of Weezer's take-off for giant success and of all my dreams coming true. On August 5th, I wrote: | ||
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<blockquote>{{#tag:span style="color:#aa0000"|I'm starting to feel the blackness closing in. I'm really alone. I'm really insane. I play piano constantly. I'm at least four hours a day of total, complete concentration and mindlessness... I'm definitely going nuts.}} | <blockquote>{{#tag:span style="color:#aa0000"|I'm starting to feel the blackness closing in. I'm really alone. I'm really insane. I play piano constantly. I'm at least four hours a day of total, complete concentration and mindlessness... I'm definitely going nuts.}} | ||
{{#tag:span style="color:#aa0000"|I miss Chiba | {{#tag:span style="color:#aa0000"|I miss Chiba terribly sometimes but I never call her. I'm totally alone.<br>For the longest while I was lifeless. Dead meat. Now at least I feel the pain and loneliness starting to creep in.}} | ||
{{#tag:span style="color:#aa0000"|It looks like I'm finally writing in this journal again. Plus I wrote a song today. And sadness. Hopefully more on the way. And then in one week it's back in the deep freeze.<br>I've got to settle my life down. I've been rootless for one-and-a-half years now.}}</blockquote> | {{#tag:span style="color:#aa0000"|It looks like I'm finally writing in this journal again. Plus I wrote a song today. And sadness. Hopefully more on the way. And then in one week it's back in the deep freeze.<br>I've got to settle my life down. I've been rootless for one-and-a-half years now.}}</blockquote> | ||
The song I had written that day was a song called '''"Walt Disney" (Track 15)'''. In this song I tried to describe the frozen, numb condition I had fallen into after seven months in the spotlight on the road. The song had a beautiful, mellow sound. I really appreciated it and was grateful to it. It did capture the state of my life at the time: the "phone singing" in the third verse standing in for Weezer's manager calling me to go over the details of our impending tour, which I clearly dreaded.}} | The song I had written that day was a song called '''"Walt Disney" (Track 15)'''. In this song I tried to describe the frozen, numb condition I had fallen into after seven months in the spotlight on the road. The song had a beautiful, mellow sound. I really appreciated it and was grateful to it. It did capture the state of my life at the time: the "phone singing" in the third verse standing in for Weezer's manager calling me to go over the details of our impending tour, which I clearly dreaded.}} | ||
[[Rivers Cuomo]] wrote "Walt Disney" on [[January 12]], [[1995]]. The song's lyrics reflect Cuomo's impassivity since becoming a rock star, and make reference to the urban legend that [[Wikipedia:Walt Disney|Walt Disney]] was placed in suspended animation upon his [http://www.snopes.com/disney/waltdisn/frozen.asp death]. | |||
Cuomo performed the song during a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBLQqrzBdL4&t=352s a live video stream] on [[October 16]], [[2020]]. | |||
==Audio== | ==Audio== | ||
<youtube>KWFNo_jItp8</youtube> | <youtube>KWFNo_jItp8</youtube> | ||