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"'''Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori'''" is the seventh track from ''[[Weezer (The White Album)|The White Album]]''. | "'''Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori'''" is the seventh track from ''[[Weezer (The White Album)|The White Album]]''. | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Rivers has stated that "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori" is his favorite song from ''[[The White Album]]''. He expanded on the song's development, both lyrically and sonically, on the [http://songexploder.net/weezer SongExploder podcast]. In the podcast, | Rivers Cuomo has stated that "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori" is his favorite song from ''[[The White Album]]''. He also expanded on the song's development, both lyrically and sonically, on an episode of the [http://songexploder.net/weezer SongExploder podcast], released on [[April 18]], [[2016]]. In the podcast, Cuomo explained that he compiles a Spotify playlist of songs with "cool chord-progressions" and that he lifted the chord progression from the song "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_Away_Ren%C3%A9e Walk Away Renée]" by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Left_Banke The Left Banke]. Cuomo titled an early version of the demo "Awaken Early" (a partial anagram of "Walk Away Renée). The final song's title came from an overheard conversation at a party at Rivers' daughter's school. One mother said that their husband called her "School-Year Elaine" during the year and "Summer Elaine" after the school year had ended, and another mother commented that her husband had two names for her as well, one of them being "Drunk Dori". Both mothers were thanked in the liner notes for ''[[The White Album]]''. Cuomo went on to explain that he uses a spreadsheet to compile stream-of-consciousness lyrics by syllable. | ||
The bridge melody was | The song's bridge melody was repurposed from an unreleased song titled "'''Rest in Peace'''", written around [[2011]]. Short snippets of Cuomo working on the song in the studio with producer [[Shawn Everett]] were released in a short YouTube clip originally uploaded by Cuomo in January of 2011: | ||
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I suck at getting off the phone | I suck at getting off the phone | ||
Boy in the bubble | Boy in the bubble | ||
Saying "I love ya" | Saying "I love ya'" | ||
I should have written her a note | I should have written her a note | ||
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She was out too deep | She was out too deep | ||
When lightning struck the bay | When lightning struck the bay | ||
Good witch | Good witch or bad witch | ||
God is a woman | God is a woman | ||
I wish I hadn't played the prude | I wish I hadn't played the prude | ||
She touched my ankle | She touched my ankle | ||
Paranoid Android | [[Paranoid Android]] | ||
I felt it in my molecules | I felt it in my molecules | ||
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*[[List of Weezer songs]] | *[[List of Weezer songs]] | ||
[[Category: Weezer songs]] | [[Category: Weezer songs]] | ||
[[Category: Rivers Cuomo songs]] | |||
[[Category:Songs on Weezer (The White Album)]] | [[Category:Songs on Weezer (The White Album)]] | ||
[[Category:Weezer songs produced by Jake Sinclair]] | [[Category:Weezer songs produced by Jake Sinclair]] | ||