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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
"Perfect Situation" has proved to be one of Weezer's biggest hits. In a 2005 BBC6 interview, Rivers claimed that he cried the first time he heard it being played back. | |||
===Band Commentary=== | ===Band Commentary=== | ||
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:'''Rivers:''' I sincerely hope that it’s the last song I write about being frustrated and angry with myself for being shy…because I’ve written way too many of those songs already. | :'''Rivers:''' I sincerely hope that it’s the last song I write about being frustrated and angry with myself for being shy…because I’ve written way too many of those songs already. | ||
==Remix== | |||
When ''Make Believe'' was first reelased, the version of "Perfect Situation" on the album featured one of two different melodies Cuomo originally wrote for the chorus. During the summer 2005 tour, when the band prompted the crowd to sing along, the fans, oddly enough, invariably sang the other original melody Cuomo had written. Cuomo stated in an interview during the band's 2005 performance at the [[AOL Sessions]], "Well, if these ten thousand people think it should go this way, maybe we should go back and re-record it." | |||
The remix includes re-recorded chorus vocals with the other melody, a synth track added the first chorus (the album version only has it on the second chorus), and added backup vocals of "perfect situation" over the outro. The radio edit of this remix, served to radio and featured in the video, is eight seconds shorter than the album version, due to a shortening of the intro guitar solo. | |||
The full-length (no edited guitar solo) remix summarily replaced the original version of the song on later pressings of ''Make Believe''. This full-length remix is also available on the ''[[Six Hits]]'' EP. | |||
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==Music video== | ==Music video== | ||
The video, directed by Marc Webb, premiered on [[November 11]], [[2005]] and features actress [[Elisha Cuthbert]] as the lead singer of [[Weeze]], a fictional predecessor to Weezer, who is eventually replaced by actual frontman [[Rivers Cuomo]]. The video also features a cameo by the band's webmaster/band photographer/archivist and close friend for many years [[Karl Koch]] and like the "Beverly Hills" video, the band asked actual Weezer fans to answer a casting call to be in the video's crowd scenes [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1511678/20051018/weezer.jhtml?headlines=true]. A new cover for ''Make Believe'' was created for the video of Perfect Situation showing the fictional name | The video, directed by Marc Webb, premiered on [[November 11]], [[2005]] and features actress [[Elisha Cuthbert]] as the lead singer of [[Weeze]], a fictional predecessor to Weezer, who is eventually replaced by actual frontman [[Rivers Cuomo]]. The video also features a cameo by the band's webmaster/band photographer/archivist and close friend for many years [[Karl Koch]] and like the "[[Beverly Hills]]" video, the band asked actual Weezer fans to answer a casting call to be in the video's crowd scenes [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1511678/20051018/weezer.jhtml?headlines=true]. A new cover for ''Make Believe'' was created for the video of "Perfect Situation" showing the fictional name Weeze. | ||
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Singing oh-whoa | Singing oh-whoa | ||
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(perfect situation) | |||
</lyrics> | </lyrics> | ||