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-{{Featured song MP3 headline|https://youtu.be/Y1V08fzKMVU|California}}
+{{Featured song MP3 headline|https://open.spotify.com/track/5BmIf8J2668S9WfiVCnRID|Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad}}
-{{Featured song artwork|Poop-Alley-Tapes-cover.jpg}}"'''[[California (Rentals song)|California]]'''" is a demo by [[the Rentals]], released on the compilations ''[[Excellent Stocking Stuffer]]'' and ''[[The Poop Alley Tapes]]''. It was later reworked into the song "[[Barcelona]]," which was released on [[1999|1999's]] ''[[Seven More Minutes]]''.
+{{Featured song artwork|Elonmuskismakingmesad.jpg}}"'''Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad'''" is a single by [[the Rentals]] and the sixteenth and final track on the band's [[2020]] album, ''[[Q36]]''. It was initially released as a single long before the record came out, on [[October 5]], [[2017]]. The song draws comparisons between the lives of songwriter [[Matt Sharp]] and entrepreneur Elon Musk.
-[[Matt Sharp]] wrote "California" and demoed it to 4-track as part of a collection of songs informally dubbed ''[[That's Incredible!]]'' during the fall of [[1993]], before the Rentals took shape as a band. The song was later properly demoed at [[Poop Alley Studios]] in the spring of [[1995]]. This demo did not appear on the Rentals [[Return of the Rentals|debut album]], but appeared on the compilation ''[[The Poop Alley Tapes]]'', released later that year. The song also appeared on the [[2001]] Rentals fan club-exclusive compilation ''[[Excellent Stocking Stuffer]]''. The song was later reworked, with entirely new lyrics, into "[[Barcelona]]" for the Rentals' sophomore album ''[[Seven More Minutes]]'' in [[1999]].
+The song was officially unveiled on Wired Magazine [https://www.wired.com/2017/10/elon-musk-rentals-song/] on [[October 4]], [[2017]]. Upon its release, Sharp commented: "Right from its inception, in the earliest sketches of the lyrics and melodies, there was always an urgency to share this particular song with everyone, at the very first possible chance that was available to us." The eventual album version of the song differs only slightly from the single track. The song's release was accompanied by a was a merch offer of unisex t-shirt designed by Ivan Minsloff. The song's lyric video, which received decent buzz, was directed by Daniel Christiansen and Michael D. Belmonte using footage from a Commodore Vic 20 computer.
+{{Featured song links|Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad}}
-[[Ozma]] covered the song for the [[2010]] Japanese tribute album ''[[Lost Out in the Machinery - Songs of the Rentals]]''.
-{{Featured song links|California (Rentals song)}}
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