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{{Main|Main article: [[Album 5 Demos]]}} | {{Main|Main article: [[Album 5 Demos]]}} | ||
Songwriting for the band's fifth album began before ''[[Maladroit]]'' had even been released, with demos being recorded as early as March of [[2002]]. In an [[AIM chat with Rivers Cuomo - January 8, 2002|AIM chat]] with [[Rivers Cuomo]] on [[January 8]], [[2002]], Cuomo described the sound of Weezer's fifth album as "a combination of ''[[The Green Album]]'' and ''[[Pinkerton]]'', if that's possible! And some ''[[Maladroit]]''. But really it's a new different style." | Songwriting for the band's fifth album began before ''[[Maladroit]]'' had even been released, with demos being recorded as early as March of [[2002]]. In an [[AIM chat with Rivers Cuomo - January 8, 2002|AIM chat]] with [[Rivers Cuomo]] on [[January 8]], [[2002]], Cuomo described the sound of Weezer's fifth album as "a combination of ''[[The Green Album]]'' and ''[[Pinkerton]]'', if that's possible! And some ''[[Maladroit]]''. But really it's a new different style." A number of these songs, including "[[The Organ Player]]" and "[[Running Man]]", featured a shift to third-person storytelling. These sessions also featured, for the first time, songs primarily written and sung by band members other than Cuomo. Ultimately, though none of the songs from these sessions would appear on the final album, some song elements were re-appropriated into new songs that would appear on ''Make Believe''. | ||
{{Main|Main article: [[S.I.R. Demos]]}} | {{Main|Main article: [[S.I.R. Demos]]}} | ||
Following the summer of 2002, producer [[Rick Rubin]] agreed to work with the band on their next album. From September of 2002 through May of 2003, the band recorded new songs at S.I.R. Studios. Some songs that eventually appeared on ''Make Believe'', including "[[Perfect Situation]]" and "[[Hold Me]]", were demoed as a band for the first time. According to [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rivers-cuomo-weezers-invisible-man-76590/ an article with ''Rolling Stone''], however, Cuomo wasn't pleased with the music he was making. Said drummer [[Pat Wilson]], "“He didn’t believe in the music, because he didn’t believe in himself [...] Didn’t matter how many times we said, ‘That’s rad, Dude.’ There were times he was physically ill coming out of the studio." Rubin, wanting to help Cuomo, gave him a copy of ''The Gift'', a book of poems by the fourteenth-century Sufi poet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez Hafez]. Hafez, who wrote hundreds of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazal ghazals] about different forms of love, led Cuomo to an epiphany, which he described in [[What I've Been Up To Since I Left School|a Harvard readmission essay]]: | Following the summer of 2002, producer [[Rick Rubin]] agreed to work with the band on their next album. From September of 2002 through May of 2003, the band recorded new songs at S.I.R. Studios. Some songs that eventually appeared on ''Make Believe'', including "[[Perfect Situation]]" and "[[Hold Me]]", were demoed as a band for the first time. According to [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rivers-cuomo-weezers-invisible-man-76590/ an article with ''Rolling Stone''], however, Cuomo wasn't pleased with the music he was making. Said drummer [[Pat Wilson]], "“He didn’t believe in the music, because he didn’t believe in himself [...] Didn’t matter how many times we said, ‘That’s rad, Dude.’ There were times he was physically ill coming out of the studio." Rubin, wanting to help Cuomo, gave him a copy of ''The Gift'', a book of poems by the fourteenth-century Sufi poet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafez Hafez]. Hafez, who wrote hundreds of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazal ghazals] about different forms of love, led Cuomo to an epiphany, which he described in [[What I've Been Up To Since I Left School|a Harvard readmission essay]]: | ||