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"Everyone" was written by [[Rivers Cuomo]] in the summer of [[1998]] during Weezer's [[Hiatus Demos|1997-2000 hiatus]]. The song was recorded by Weezer with then-new bassist [[Mikey Welsh]] in August of [[1998]] at Mouse House Studios in Los Angeles, engineered by [[Rich Mouser]]. This same session produced the band's cover of "[[Velouria]]" by the [[Pixies]], later released on a [[Where Is My Mind? A Tribute To The Pixies|Pixies tribute album]] in [[1999]]. "Everyone" went unreleased until it was reworked for the compilation album ''[[Death to False Metal]]'', released in [[2010]].

<blockquote>{{Interviewer|Square Cotton Candy[http://squarecottoncandy.blogspot.com/2011/07/interview-outsider-artistex-weezer.html]|In the past few years a lot of archival Weezer recordings have started to surface of official releases, particularly revised arrangements of “Trampoline” and “Everyone” on Death to False Metal.}}

The 1998 recording received additional overdubs, with a new guitar solo section as well as additional vocals. The bass track was redone by current [[Weezer]] bassist [[Scott Shriner]] to reflect the revised song structure (the original recording featured [[Mikey Welsh]] on bass).

In [http://www.avclub.com/articles/rivers-cuomo,45071/ an interview with AV Club] in 2010, Cuomo described the song as, "... just too hardcore, heavy-metal to be on a Weezer record at the time. That’s why we set it aside. So I worked on that some more recently in the studio, and put some crazy vocal moments on it." Scott Shriner expressed a fondness of the track via Facebook comments upon the album's release. In a July [[2011]] interview with Mikey Welsh, upon being told the song had made an album, Mikey laughed in response. [[Karl Koch]] noted in a [[Indecision and Abandoning the Past|2011 interview]] that Welsh was “partly responsible for the ultra heavy “Everyone”" and other '[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Manchu_(band) Fu Manchu]-like' songs of this period.”