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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
"Say It Ain't So" was also released on [[July 13]], [[1995]] as a radio single, making it the final single released from ''The Blue Album'' Originally, [[Weezer]] lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]] had written all of the music and had only the line "Say it ain't so". He made the connection between the line and an experience he had in high school where he came home to find a bottle of alcohol (belonging to his stepfather, [[Stephen Kitts]]) in the refrigerator. Cuomo recalled that around the time his biological father left, he started drinking. He began to fear that Stephen, his step father, would soon leave his mother much the way his father did. | "Say It Ain't So" was also released on [[July 13]], [[1995]] as a radio single, making it the final single released from ''The Blue Album''. Originally, [[Weezer]] lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]] had written all of the music and had only the line "Say it ain't so". He made the connection between the line and an experience he had in high school where he came home to find a bottle of alcohol (belonging to his stepfather, [[Stephen Kitts]]) in the refrigerator. Cuomo recalled that around the time his biological father left, he started drinking. He began to fear that Stephen, his step father, would soon leave his mother much the way his father did. | ||
In the song, Cuomo draws parallels between his own drinking and his family falling apart, which is evident in the climax of the bridge section in which Cuomo states, "Like father, step father, the son is drowning in the flood." | In the song, Cuomo draws parallels between his own drinking and his family falling apart, which is evident in the climax of the bridge section in which Cuomo states, "Like father, step father, the son is drowning in the flood." | ||
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==Single== | ==Single== | ||
The artwork for the "Say It Ain't So" single comes from a childhood drawing Rivers made of him and his father playing soccer--something they mutually loved. Prominently featured in the artwork is the image of Rivers scoring a goal (spelled "goll"), and his father encouraging him on with lines like, "Yay, my son." This information about the cover was not known until 2007, when Rivers revealed these facts in the beginning of the video for the ''Alone'' track "[[Lover in the Snow]]". | The artwork for the "Say It Ain't So" single comes from a childhood drawing Rivers made of him and his father playing soccer--something they mutually loved. Prominently featured in the artwork is the image of Rivers scoring a goal (spelled "goll"), and his father encouraging him on with lines like, "Yay, my son." This information about the cover was not known until 2007, when Rivers revealed these facts in the beginning of the video for the ''Alone'' track "[[Lover in the Snow]]". | ||
The release on 10" vinyl was a limited edition, with only 5000 numbered copies released. | |||
All versions of the "Say It Ain't So" single feature the remixed version of the song (see below), and various editions contain one or both songs "[[No One Else]]" and "[[Jamie]]", recorded acoustically on April 1, 1995 at at Cat's Paw studios for Atlanta radio station WNNX, aka 99X. Bootlegs of all five songs recorded that day (including "[[Buddy Holly]]", "[[In the Garage]]", and "[[Undone]]") can be found online. | All versions of the "Say It Ain't So" single feature the remixed version of the song (see below), and various editions contain one or both songs "[[No One Else]]" and "[[Jamie]]", recorded acoustically on April 1, 1995 at at Cat's Paw studios for Atlanta radio station WNNX, aka 99X. Bootlegs of all five songs recorded that day (including "[[Buddy Holly]]", "[[In the Garage]]", and "[[Undone]]") can be found online. | ||
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==Music video== | ==Music video== | ||
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The music video was directed by Sophie Miller. [[Scott Shriner]] expressed on the ''[[Video Capture Device]]'' commentary that the video caught his eye because it was different from what was around at the time. The video shows the band in the wake of their success playing in their old [[The Garage|garage]] at their [[Amherst House|old house]]. The video also features band friend, historian and unofficial fifth member [[Karl Koch]]. During the guitar solo, the band is shown playing hacky sack in their backyard. | The music video was directed by Sophie Miller. [[Scott Shriner]] expressed on the ''[[Video Capture Device]]'' commentary that the video caught his eye because it was different from what was around at the time. The video shows the band in the wake of their success playing in their old [[The Garage|garage]] at their [[Amherst House|old house]]. The video also features band friend, historian and unofficial fifth member [[Karl Koch]]. During the guitar solo, the band is shown playing hacky sack in their backyard. | ||