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 {{Box rating 3|Superfriend|Soymilkrev|[[Teenage Victory Songs]]|[[October 7]], [[2010]]|{{TGP}}}}
-I hesitate to call any one lost [[Weezer]] song “the one that got away,” because there are so many: ''[[Green]]'' era demos like “[[No Way]]” and “[[Burning Sun]],” the ''[[Make Believe version]]'' of “[[Love is the Answer]]” (later desecrated by ''[[Raditude]]'' trendchasing and [[Sugar Ray|Sugary Ray’s]] Sugar Rayness) and other tantalizing outtakes of [[2005|’05]] like “[[Last Chance]]” and “[[You’re the One]],” pretty much the entirety of [[Rivers Cuomo’s]] [[Homie]] project and various [[1997|’97]]/[[1998|'98]] compositions, and on. All of these have been heard in some fragmentary form or another, and yet the promising full picture to which they allude remains unreleased, uncirculated, just out of reach. One of the biggest reasons so many die-hard Weezer fans remain is because the band’s vault of lost gems looms so large.
+I hesitate to call any one lost [[Weezer]] song “the one that got away,” because there are so many: ''[[Green]]'' era demos like “[[No Way]]” and “[[Burning Sun]],” the ''[[Make Believe]]'' version of “[[Love is the Answer]]” (later desecrated by ''[[Raditude]]'' trendchasing and [[Sugar Ray|Sugary Ray’s]] Sugar Rayness) and other tantalizing outtakes of [[2005|’05]] like “[[Last Chance]]” and “[[You’re the One]],” pretty much the entirety of [[Rivers Cuomo’s]] [[Homie]] project and various [[1997|’97]]/[[1998|'98]] compositions, and on. All of these have been heard in some fragmentary form or another, and yet the promising full picture to which they allude remains unreleased, uncirculated, just out of reach. One of the biggest reasons so many die-hard Weezer fans remain is because the band’s vault of lost gems looms so large.
 “Superfriend” has long been such an artifact, and in some ways it’s one that’s simply unrecoverable. It was first mentioned to fans as a part of the incompleted rock opera ''[[Songs from the Black Hole]]'', Cuomo’s original vision for Weezer’s second album and something of a very rough first draft for what became ''[[Pinkerton]]''. Though the details of the song lean heavily on contextual detail from that [[Songs from the Black Hole, draft 1|scrapped project’s storyline]], it was essentially written as a duet between two of the main characters, [[Jonas]] (Cuomo) and [[Laurel]] (to be voiced by [[Rachel Haden]] of the band called “[[that dog.]]”). Jonas is in something of a sexual relationship with Laurel, but he denies her love as she is little more to him than a “superfriend” — or”friend with benefits,” in high school parlance.