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-{{Featured article headline|[[Weezer (The Blue Album) Pitchfork Media record review]]}}
+{{Featured article headline|[[Getting Dangerous]]}}
-[[Image:Pitchfork.jpg|150px|right|link=Weezer (The Blue Album) Pitchfork Media record review]]
+[[Image:Adam Orth.jpg|150px|right|link=Getting Dangerous]]
-The following is an except from {{Possessive name|Pitchfork Media}} ten-star, retrospective review of ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)]]'', written in 2017 by Jillian Mapes.
+'''"Getting Dangerous"''' is an article written by [[Adam Orth]] in 2008. It provides some real-life backstory for the ''[[Red|Red Album]]'' song "[[Everybody Get Dangerous]]." The text below is an excerpt of the full article.
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-The desire to write a perfect song can drive some songwriters mad, as their belief in music as a vehicle for emotional expression reconciles itself with the belief that pop is a puzzle that can be solved. On ''Blue,'' [[Rivers|Cuomo]] found the ideal balance, as he rarely has since. He understood the rules so well that he also knew when to break them, from [[Matt Sharp|Sharp’s]] super silly new-wave keyboard in “[[Buddy Holly]]” to the mumbled dialogue that runs through “[[Undone]]” (the band and [[Karl Koch|their]] [[Mykel and Carli Allan|friends]] chatting were a backup plan after [[DGC]] refused to clear dialog from an old sci-fi film, “Peanuts”) and more.
+[[Rivers]] used to have this Toyota Tercel and he would drive me and [[Justin Fisher|Justin]] (and sometimes Matt Hayes) home after school. Since we lived in the country (as opposed to the city) there were all sorts of crazy winding roads and hills in our town. This one particularly steep hill on Gurleyville road that led down to Justin’s house was epic. Steep as hell with an unreal 90 degree dead man’s curve at the bottom. Growing up, I saw many cars wreck on that corner. People died there.
-The fact that “[[Only in Dreams]]” is eight glorious minutes long is ''Blue’s'' greatest example of self-indulgence gone right. It confronts the two most perilous teen-boy anxieties—talking to a girl you really like and dancing in public. It’s fiery, gorgeous, well-played, and devastatingly sad. Sharp’s trudging bassline guides the way forward for the narrator, whose fear of stepping on his crush’s toenails is temporarily silenced by the band’s total calamity. Rock’n’roll teaches us that extreme volume can quiet the voices of doubt inside our heads and numb the pain of living inside our awkward bodies. In this sense, the climaxes on “Only in Dreams,” starting around the song’s midpoint, are rock’n’roll lessons of a lifetime. But it’s the big build at the 6:45 mark that plays like a beta male transfiguration. Having re-recorded [[Jason Cropper|Cropper’s]] guitar parts in one take after essentially firing him following ''Blue’s'' [[1993]] recording at [[Electric Lady Studios|Electric Lady]], Cuomo ends up axe-battling himself until he’s soloing like the metal gods he grew up worshipping. [[Pat|Wilson’s]] drumming—an underrated and idiosyncratic force throughout [[Weezer’s]] discography—drives home the catharsis. His cymbals crash from every angle and his tricky rolls play like percussive triple axels. By the end of the song, you’re back to reality, exhausted but ready for a fight—even if it’s just against your own doubting voices.
+Upping the stakes of getting dangerous resulted in a fun little game i used to call “HOLY SHIT WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE”. This is how we played the game.
-{{Featured article links|Weezer (The Blue Album) Pitchfork Media record review}}
+Rivers would be driving and without warning (it was never guaranteed this game would commence at the top of the hill. Always random.), Rivers would throw the car in neutral and rip the keys out of the ignition and toss them in the back seat as the steering wheel locked-up and the car careened down this deadliest of hills.
+The object of the game was for the screaming and terrified (and laughing) passengers to try and find the keys and get them back to Rivers in time so he could start the careening death trap up again and unlock the steering wheel to regain control of the car before we got to the bottom and died in a heap of twisted metal.
+{{Featured article links|Getting Dangerous}}
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