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 ==Overview==
-"Fake Smiles and Nervous Laughter" was first listed as the name of a b-side of ''[[The White Album]]'' by [[Rivers Cuomo]] on the fan club facebook page.
+[[Image:Fakesmilestweet.png|thumb|left|200px|Rivers Cuomo tweeting the title in 2011[https://twitter.com/RiversCuomo/status/74924809259192320]]]"Fake Smiles and Nervous Laughter" was first listed as the name of a b-side of ''[[The White Album]]'' by [[Rivers Cuomo]] on the [[Weezer Fan Club|fan club]] Facebook page. The title of the song had previously been tweeted by Cuomo years earlier, on [[May 29]], [[2011]], though it is not known the degree to which the final song existed at this point.
-On September 9th of 2016, [[Karl Koch]] announced that a new song would be released as a 7" vinyl, separate from the yearly fan club single. The song was revealed soon after as "Fake Smiles and Nervous Laughter", with the b-side being a cover of "[[You Gave Your Love to Me Softly]]" by the band [[Wavves]]. 2,000 copies were produced, with half being black and half being translucent blue. The item went on presale on September 12, [[2016]] and was shipped out in December of that year. Due to poor packaging, some fans reported that they received an empty box in the mail.
+On [[September 9]]th of [[2016]], [[Karl Koch]] announced that a new song would be released as a 7" vinyl, separate from the yearly fan club single. The song was revealed soon after as "Fake Smiles and Nervous Laughter", with the b-side being a cover of "[[You Gave Your Love to Me Softly]]" by the band [[Wavves]]. 2,000 copies were produced, with half being black and half being translucent blue. The item went on presale on [[September 12]], [[2016]] and was shipped out in December of that year. Due to poor packaging, some fans reported that they received an empty box in the mail.
 [[Image:WavvesYGYLTOMS.jpg|260px|right|thumb|B-side art]]
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 The song was included as the final track on the digital ''[[White Album]]'' deluxe version, which released online on [[October 7]]th.
-The artwork, drawn by Nicholas Gazin, is a callback to the ''[[Pinkerton]]'' art. Just like ''[[The Green Album]]'', the wrong font for weezer is used, using stock [[Century Gothic]] without the alterations normally seen (namely, the cut off Es and R.)
+The artwork, drawn by Nicholas Gazin, is a callback to the ''[[Pinkerton]]'' art. The incorrect [[Weezer logo|font]] for "Weezer" is used, using [[Century Gothic]].
 ==Tracklist==