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After copies of ''Hurley'' leaked to the internet and surfaced on peer-to-peer sites, Weezer began streaming it in its entirety on [http://www.myspace.com/weezer their MySpace page]. | After copies of ''Hurley'' leaked to the internet and surfaced on peer-to-peer sites, Weezer began streaming it in its entirety on [http://www.myspace.com/weezer their MySpace page]. | ||
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'''International bonus tracks''' | '''International bonus tracks''' | ||
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== Artwork == | |||
Jorge Garcia met [[Rivers Cuomo]] backstage at ''The George Lopez Show'' on [[May 12]], 2010 while doing press for his television show, ''LOST''. They talked for awhile, and Cuomo asked Garcia if he could get a photo taken with him. Garcia was contacted by his manager informing him of Weezer's plan to use a picture of him on the cover of their new album, and was then shown what he thought was a rough draft mock-up of the cover using the photo he took with Cuomo, (albeit blown up and cropped to showcase just Garcia’s face). This ultimately became the final artwork for ''Hurley''. | |||
==Hurleygate== | |||
Cuomo told Spinner.com in an interview, "We struggled super hard trying to come up with an album title, trying to find some kind of phrase that summed up the whole aesthetic behind the album: 'Heavy Mental,' 'Smaller Than Life.' I was coming up with all kinds of stuff, but ultimately, we just went with some random word that doesn't really have anything to do with anything. I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia - it just had this amazing vibe. We didn't want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as 'the Hurley record' even if left it without that title, so we just called it Hurley. No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face." | |||
This account is in contrary to reports that Weezer had named the album after surf/clothing company, Hurley, which leant one of their studios for at least one session and was at one point rumored to be a financial backer of the album. The "Hurleygate" (as the meme is known by [[allthingsweezer]]) controversy was expanded when guitarist Brian Bell seemingly confirmed Hurley's financial stake in the album during an interview prior to the album's release - a statement he would later recant on the official .com message boards. | |||
[[Category:Weezer albums]] | [[Category:Weezer albums]] | ||