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Rivers posted annotations for the song on the website genius.com (http://genius.com/Weezer-thank-god-for-girls-lyrics). Rivers states that the song title "Seemed like a big, mainstream-ish title but I knew I would be able to pull all kinds of weirdness out of it," sums up the song in general with "alright kids, let’s play with some gender stereotypes," notes that the was being worked on in late summer of 2015 ("I got the idea for the “Tennessee” lyric after we shot the “[[Go Away]]” video on Tennessee Ave. in West LA."), mentions the first two lines of the second verse were originally written in [[1997]], and explains the origin and inspiration of several other lines in the song. | Rivers posted annotations for the song on the website genius.com (http://genius.com/Weezer-thank-god-for-girls-lyrics). Rivers states that the song title "Seemed like a big, mainstream-ish title but I knew I would be able to pull all kinds of weirdness out of it," sums up the song in general with "alright kids, let’s play with some gender stereotypes," notes that the was being worked on in late summer of 2015 ("I got the idea for the “Tennessee” lyric after we shot the “[[Go Away]]” video on Tennessee Ave. in West LA."), mentions the first two lines of the second verse were originally written in [[1997]], and explains the origin and inspiration of several other lines in the song. | ||
Following the album announcement in January 2016, producer Jake Sinclair posted on the AllThingsWeezer forums and clarified the song's writing credits. He said that Rivers based the song on an instrumental demo that was sent to him by Alex Goose, and that the organ part from this demo was kept in the final version. He also said that the lyrics and melody were written | Following the album announcement in January 2016, producer Jake Sinclair posted on the AllThingsWeezer forums and clarified the song's writing credits. He said that Rivers based the song on an instrumental demo that was sent to him by Alex Goose, and that the organ part from this demo was kept in the final version. He also said that the lyrics and melody were written solely by Rivers. | ||
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