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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
According to [[Rivers Cuomo]], "Trainwrecks" was the first song he wrote after his tour bus crashed during [[Weezer]]'s ''[[Raditude Tour]]'' in December [[2009]] [https://www.spin.com/2010/08/qa-rivers-cuomo-weezer/], an incident in which Cuomo sustained five cracked ribs and internal bleeding [https://www.spin.com/2010/01/weezers-rivers-cuomo-recovers-bus-crash/]. Cuomo co-wrote the song with songwriter [[Desmond Child]], who also performed piano on the song. | According to [[Rivers Cuomo]], "Trainwrecks" was the first song he wrote after his tour bus crashed during [[Weezer]]'s ''[[Raditude Tour]]'' in December [[2009]] [https://www.spin.com/2010/08/qa-rivers-cuomo-weezer/], an incident in which Cuomo sustained five cracked ribs and internal bleeding [https://www.spin.com/2010/01/weezers-rivers-cuomo-recovers-bus-crash/]. Cuomo co-wrote the song with songwriter [[Desmond Child]], who also performed piano on the song. According to Cuomo via [[Riverchat]], Child said that if Cuomo were a Shakespeare character, he would be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream) Puck], and that "Trainwrecks" was written with Cuomo in mind as Puck. [https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Riverchat_20200727-153156.png] [https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Riverchat_20200727-153126.jpg] | ||
==Personnel== | ==Personnel== | ||