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"The Good Life" was written about Cuomo's frustration with the prior year's lifestyle following his leg surgery. "I think I was becoming frustrated with that hermit's life I was leading, the ascetic life," said Cuomo, "and I think I was starting to become frustrated with my whole dream about purifying myself and trying to live like a monk or an intellectual and going to school and holding out for this ideal, perfect woman. So I wrote that song. And I started to turn around and come back the other way."<ref>Kleinedler, Clare. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20001009184822fw_/http://www.addict.com/issues/2.12/html/hifi/Cover_Story/Weezer-Story/page_02.html Weezer's Uncomfortable Success]" ''Addicted to Noise''. Archived by ''Wayback Machine''. December 1996</ref> The song "[[El Scorcho]]" references a crush on a half-Japanese woman. "I suppose that halfway through writing the album, I started to realize or become aware of a pattern in my life that I seem to be having a lot of disastrous encounters with half Japanese girls." said Cuomo in 1996.<ref name="addicted1" /> The lyrics referring to wrestlers Grunge and New Jack, as well as to {{PN|Madama Butterfly}} Cio-Cio-San were lifted directly from a classmate's essay that Cuomo was tasked with reviewing as part of an expository writing class.<ref name="crimsondc">Riesman, Abe J. "[https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/4/26/rivers-end-the-directors-cut-the/ Rivers' End: The Director's Cut]" ''The Harvard Crimson''. 26 April 2006.</ref> "[[Pink Triangle]]" was written about a girl Cuomo befriended who he (erroneously) believed to be a lesbian after seeing her wear a [[Wikipedia:pink triangle|pink triangle]] button on her backpack.<ref>Sandor, Steven. "[[Vue Weekly article - July 10, 1997|Weezer leader finds out she ''wasn’t'' a lesbian]]" ''Vue Weekly''. 10 July 1997</ref> | "The Good Life" was written about Cuomo's frustration with the prior year's lifestyle following his leg surgery. "I think I was becoming frustrated with that hermit's life I was leading, the ascetic life," said Cuomo, "and I think I was starting to become frustrated with my whole dream about purifying myself and trying to live like a monk or an intellectual and going to school and holding out for this ideal, perfect woman. So I wrote that song. And I started to turn around and come back the other way."<ref>Kleinedler, Clare. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20001009184822fw_/http://www.addict.com/issues/2.12/html/hifi/Cover_Story/Weezer-Story/page_02.html Weezer's Uncomfortable Success]" ''Addicted to Noise''. Archived by ''Wayback Machine''. December 1996</ref> The song "[[El Scorcho]]" references a crush on a half-Japanese woman. "I suppose that halfway through writing the album, I started to realize or become aware of a pattern in my life that I seem to be having a lot of disastrous encounters with half Japanese girls." said Cuomo in 1996.<ref name="addicted1" /> The lyrics referring to wrestlers Grunge and New Jack, as well as to {{PN|Madama Butterfly}} Cio-Cio-San were lifted directly from a classmate's essay that Cuomo was tasked with reviewing as part of an expository writing class.<ref name="crimsondc">Riesman, Abe J. "[https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/4/26/rivers-end-the-directors-cut-the/ Rivers' End: The Director's Cut]" ''The Harvard Crimson''. 26 April 2006.</ref> "[[Pink Triangle]]" was written about a girl Cuomo befriended who he (erroneously) believed to be a lesbian after seeing her wear a [[Wikipedia:pink triangle|pink triangle]] button on her backpack.<ref>Sandor, Steven. "[[Vue Weekly article - July 10, 1997|Weezer leader finds out she ''wasn’t'' a lesbian]]" ''Vue Weekly''. 10 July 1997</ref> | ||
{{Quote|He is the most despicable character in all of opera, and I really identified with him.|[[Rivers Cuomo]]|[[The Central New Jersey Home News article - June 20, 1997|The ''Central New Jersey Home News'' article - June 20, 1997]]<ref>[[The Central New Jersey Home News article - June 20, 1997]]</ref>}} | |||
''Pinkerton'' is named for the character B.F. Pinkerton from ''Madama Butterfly'', a U.S. naval officer (acknowledged by Cuomo to be similar to a touring rock star)<ref name="thepinkertondiaries" /> who marries a 15-year-old Japanese girl named Cio-Cio-San (the eponymous "Butterfly," from the Japanese word 蝶々, ''chōchō'') and then abandons her. Cuomo has referred to character as "the perfect symbol for the part of myself that I am trying to come to terms with on this album."<ref name="thepinkertondiaries" /> Other considered titles included "Playboy" and "Diving into the Wreck" (a reference to the poem of the same name by feminist poet Adrienne Rich).<ref name="thepinkertondiaries" /> | ''Pinkerton'' is named for the character B.F. Pinkerton from ''Madama Butterfly'', a U.S. naval officer (acknowledged by Cuomo to be similar to a touring rock star)<ref name="thepinkertondiaries" /> who marries a 15-year-old Japanese girl named Cio-Cio-San (the eponymous "Butterfly," from the Japanese word 蝶々, ''chōchō'') and then abandons her. Cuomo has referred to character as "the perfect symbol for the part of myself that I am trying to come to terms with on this album."<ref name="thepinkertondiaries" /> Other considered titles included "Playboy" and "Diving into the Wreck" (a reference to the poem of the same name by feminist poet Adrienne Rich).<ref name="thepinkertondiaries" /> | ||