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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
===History=== | ===History=== | ||
"Hash Pipe" was the first single released from the band's long-awaited third album, ''Weezer'', and the only one of the so-named "[[Summer Songs of 2000]]" to appear on the album (although "[[Dope Nose]]" and "[[Slob]]" would later appear on the band's fourth album, ''[[Maladroit]]''). As a songwriting experiment, [[Rivers Cuomo]] consumed a mixture of tequila and ritalin to compose the song "[[Dope Nose]]," before repeating the same process a few nights later to write "Hash Pipe".<ref>"I Was a Scientist, This Was an Experiment" ''[[ITunes_Originals_band_commentary_-_2010#I_Was_a_Scientist.2C_This_Was_an_Experiment|iTunes Originals: Weezer]]''</ref><ref>Eliscu, Jenny. "Rivers Cuomo's Encyclopedia of Pop". ''Rolling Stone''. 20 June 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20070310202917/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5933454/rivers_cuomos_encyclopedia_of_pop Archived by ''Wayback Machine'' Retrieved 2 October 2007</ref><ref name="freshair" /> | {{Small quote box|"I ate it once, though, in Amsterdam. I got sick from it and went to sleep. I woke up half an hour later, and it was like I was on the moon." |Rivers Cuomo, revealing that he's never actually smoked hash.<ref>Morse, Steve. "Weezer wunderkind cherishes Crimson tie" ''The Boston Globe''. 8 February 2002. "([[Boston Globe interview with Rivers Cuomo - February 8, 2002|Transcript]])</ref>}}"Hash Pipe" was the first single released from the band's long-awaited third album, ''Weezer'', and the only one of the so-named "[[Summer Songs of 2000]]" to appear on the album (although "[[Dope Nose]]" and "[[Slob]]" would later appear on the band's fourth album, ''[[Maladroit]]''). As a songwriting experiment, [[Rivers Cuomo]] consumed a mixture of tequila and ritalin to compose the song "[[Dope Nose]]," before repeating the same process a few nights later to write "Hash Pipe".<ref>"I Was a Scientist, This Was an Experiment" ''[[ITunes_Originals_band_commentary_-_2010#I_Was_a_Scientist.2C_This_Was_an_Experiment|iTunes Originals: Weezer]]''</ref><ref>Eliscu, Jenny. "Rivers Cuomo's Encyclopedia of Pop". ''Rolling Stone''. 20 June 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20070310202917/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5933454/rivers_cuomos_encyclopedia_of_pop Archived by ''Wayback Machine'' Retrieved 2 October 2007</ref><ref name="freshair" /> | ||
{{Rivers Cuomo quote|"For a couple of years there, well - I've always been an analytical person, but for a couple of years, I just got really analytical in keeping track of every detail of the process of writing a song and intentionally varying individual elements to see what the result would be. But sometimes these experiments were indistinguishable from how any other rock person would write a song. For example, in mid-2000, I - somehow my experiments evolved to a point where step one was take a pill of Ritalin. Step two was take three shots of tequila. Step three was go out in the backyard, sit down on a chair. Step four was close your eyes and imagine the song. And thats how I wrote 'Hash Pipe'."|''Fresh Air with Terry Gross'' interview, 2009<ref name="freshair">"Home Recordings From Weezer Frontman" ''Fresh Air with Terry Gross'', NPR. 22 January 2009. https://freshairarchive.org/guests/rivers-cuomo</ref>}} | {{Rivers Cuomo quote|"For a couple of years there, well - I've always been an analytical person, but for a couple of years, I just got really analytical in keeping track of every detail of the process of writing a song and intentionally varying individual elements to see what the result would be. But sometimes these experiments were indistinguishable from how any other rock person would write a song. For example, in mid-2000, I - somehow my experiments evolved to a point where step one was take a pill of Ritalin. Step two was take three shots of tequila. Step three was go out in the backyard, sit down on a chair. Step four was close your eyes and imagine the song. And thats how I wrote 'Hash Pipe'."|''Fresh Air with Terry Gross'' interview, 2009<ref name="freshair">"Home Recordings From Weezer Frontman" ''Fresh Air with Terry Gross'', NPR. 22 January 2009. https://freshairarchive.org/guests/rivers-cuomo</ref>}} | ||
Cuomo told ''Entertainment Weekly'' in 2001 that the song was a "totally insane song about a homosexual transvestite prostitute,"<ref>Brunner, Rob. "Older & Weezer" ''Entertainment Weekly'' (issue #597). 25 May 2001. https://web.archive.org/web/20140225152833/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,256491_4,00.html [[Entertainment Weekly interview with Rivers Cuomo - May 25, 2001|Weezerpedia mirror]]</ref> adding that the label was very reluctant to release a song like "Hash Pipe" as the album's lead single. "They wanted something more straight-up," said Cuomo, "Man, it was a huge fight. I got up in a meeting with all the executives and I was screaming." The label wanted to release "[[Don't Let Go]]" instead, but Cuomo was adamant that "Hash Pipe" be the single. Cuomo would, ultimately, be vindicated when the song became one of the band's biggest hits. | Cuomo told ''Entertainment Weekly'' in 2001 that the song was a "totally insane song about a homosexual transvestite prostitute,"<ref>Brunner, Rob. "Older & Weezer" ''Entertainment Weekly'' (issue #597). 25 May 2001. https://web.archive.org/web/20140225152833/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,256491_4,00.html [[Entertainment Weekly interview with Rivers Cuomo - May 25, 2001|Weezerpedia mirror]]</ref> adding that the label was very reluctant to release a song like "Hash Pipe" as the album's lead single. "They wanted something more straight-up," said Cuomo, "Man, it was a huge fight. I got up in a meeting with all the executives and I was screaming." The label wanted to release "[[Don't Let Go]]" instead, but Cuomo was adamant that "Hash Pipe" be the single. Cuomo would, ultimately, be vindicated when the song became one of the band's biggest hits. | ||