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{{Featured song code|songname=Wanda (You're My Only Love)|spotify=https://open.spotify.com/track/0vnR4jNq5ba7jpVETS7Ndz|image=Rivers Cuomo Alone.jpg}} | |||
"'''Wanda (You're My Only Love)'''" is the tenth track on ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. The song was written and demoed by Cuomo in [[1995]]. | |||
[[Rivers Cuomo]] was asked by his manager to compose a song for the film ''Angus''. Wanting badly to do a good job, Cuomo pored over the film's script. He found that he connected with the film's titular character. "I poured my heart into the song," said Cuomo in [[2007]], "I used details from the characters' lives in the movie, but really the emotions were mine, the incredible love I would feel for the woman, the person, the world that could accept me and love me as I was." | |||
The eponymous "Wanda" refers to a so-named inflatable sex doll, used by Angus in the film to practice slow dancing. | |||
The song was ultimately rejected for being "too literal" of an interpretation of the film. The film's producers wanted a more up-beat rock song in the vein of "[[Buddy Holly]]." Weezer ended up submitting "[[You Gave Your Love to Me Softly]]" instead. Cuomo performed the song live at shows under the "[[Homie]]" moniker in [[1997]], and shared an MP3 of his demo in the early 2000s. The song was formally released in [[2007]] as part of the compilation ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. | |||
{{Featured song links|Wanda (You're My Only Love)}} | |||