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On [[November 29]], [[Karl Koch]] confirmed that OK Human would be releasing before Van Weezer via a comment on the Weezer Fan Club Facebook page. However, he added it would not be releasing as soon as originally promised. [https://www.facebook.com/groups/weezerfanclub/permalink/1946926242123219?comment_id=1947052258777284][https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Karl-fb_okhumanfirst.png] | On [[November 29]], [[Karl Koch]] confirmed that OK Human would be releasing before Van Weezer via a comment on the Weezer Fan Club Facebook page. However, he added it would not be releasing as soon as originally promised. [https://www.facebook.com/groups/weezerfanclub/permalink/1946926242123219?comment_id=1947052258777284][https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Karl-fb_okhumanfirst.png] | ||
On [[December 13]], Karl stated during a Zoom call with the [[Weezer Fan Club]] that something "awesome" related to the album would be releasing in "the latter half of January" but did not clarify whether he was referring to the first single or the album itself. He also said that OK Human has "the coolest album art [he's] ever seen". [https://www.reddit.com/r/weezer/comments/kcmg80/ok_human_coming_january_confirmed_by_karl/] | On [[December 13]], Karl stated during a Zoom call with the [[Weezer Fan Club]] that something "awesome" related to the album would be releasing in "the latter half of January" but did not clarify whether he was referring to the first single or the album itself. He also said that ''OK Human'' has "the coolest album art [he's] ever seen". [https://www.reddit.com/r/weezer/comments/kcmg80/ok_human_coming_january_confirmed_by_karl/] | ||
On [[January 5]], Rivers gave more info on the album to the users of Riverchat, [https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Riverchat-okhuman_01-05-21.png][https://www.reddit.com/r/weezer/comments/kr66e6/some_info_on_ok_human_much_more_of_an_orchestral/] describing how the album's instrumentation shifted over time to include a full orchestra (as opposed to only strings, as initially conceived). He also confirmed that the album | [[Image:Okhuman-mockup-facebook.png|right|200px|thumb|Facebook post by Barry Summers]]On [[January 5]], Rivers gave more info on the album to the users of Riverchat, [https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Riverchat-okhuman_01-05-21.png][https://www.reddit.com/r/weezer/comments/kr66e6/some_info_on_ok_human_much_more_of_an_orchestral/] describing how the album's instrumentation shifted over time to include a full orchestra (as opposed to only strings, as initially conceived). He also confirmed that the album had more than 10 tracks. The same day, Barry Summers of the video production company Fantracks confirmed on Facebook that an upcoming "AR Sci Fi Movie Musical Adventure" based on ''OK Human'' would begin casting the following week, providing rough concept art for the video. | ||
On [[January 10]], | On [[January 10]], a preorder page for the vinyl pressing of the album was discovered on the website for the UK record store chain HMV, with a given release date of [[January 29]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20210110160200/https://store.hmv.com/store/music/vinyl/ok-human]. The page was removed hours after it was discovered. On the same day, a post reviewing the album was found on a Hungarian blog [http://elmenyem.hu/zene/januar-vegen-erkezik-a-meglepetes-weezer-album/] which reinforced the January 29 release date and implied that the album would have 12 tracks. | ||
On [[January 12]], members of the Weezer Fan Club | [[Image:Masterpiece-floppy.jpg|thumb|100px|left|The 3½-inch floppy disk mailed to a Fan Club member]]On [[January 12]], several members of the [[Weezer Fan Club]] reported receiving 3½-inch floppy disks, mailed to them from a Los Angeles shipping center. The disks were labeled "Masterpiece" with the additional text: "Hi Human, open ReadMe.txt". The disks contained a photo of Rivers Cuomo's face superimposed over that of Bill Gates, as well as ASCII art by Joan G. Stark[https://www.asciiart.eu/computers/smileys] and a website URL: http://everythingthatfeelssogoodisbadbadbad.com/ The URL led to a Spotify playlist including a track titled "ReadMe.txt" and attributed to "=m=asterpiece" consisting of a female synthesized voice reading a message (likely an allusion to the track "Fitter Happier" from Radiohead's ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Computer OK Computer]''): | ||
<blockquote><poem>''All my favorite songs are slow and sad'' | |||
''All my favorite people make me mad'' | |||
''Everything that feels so good is bad bad bad'' | |||
''All my favorite songs are slow and sad.'' | |||
''I don't know what's wrong with me''</poem></blockquote> | |||
The first letter of each subsequent track on the playlist spelled out "OKHUMAN". | |||
===Floppy disk contents=== | |||
<gallery>Image:Okhuman-floppy-1.jpg| | |||
Okhuman-floppy-2.jpg| | |||
Okhuman-floppy-3.jpg</gallery> | |||
==Known Track Titles== | ==Known Track Titles== | ||
*"[[Bird with a Broken Wing]]" | *"[[Bird with a Broken Wing]]" | ||