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*''[[OK Human]]'' (2021)
*''[[OK Human]]'' (2021)
==Overview==
==Overview==
The existence of the song "Numbers" was first confirmed by [[Rivers Cuomo]] on [[October 12]], [[2020]]. In explaining his Spotify playlist "Rivers Radio" in [[Riverpedia_archive_-_10/12/2020|a Riverpedia entry]], Cuomo said:
The existence of the song "Numbers" was first confirmed by [[Rivers Cuomo]] on [[October 12]], [[2020]]. In explaining his Spotify playlist "Rivers Radio" in [[Riverpedia_archive_-_10/12/2020|a Riverpedia entry]]<ref>"Rivers Radio." ''Riverpedia'', riverscuomo.com, 12 October 2020, https://www.riverscuomo.com/wiki/Rivers%20Radio</ref>, Cuomo said:
<blockquote>''[...]it's important to me that this playlist represents my current interests with no consideration for anything or anyone else. Therefore, I'm resisting the urge to tailor the playlist to pique others' interest, to gain followers. (There's actually a song on OK Human about the negative effects of stats like followers. It's called "Numbers". )''</blockquote>
<blockquote>''[...]it's important to me that this playlist represents my current interests with no consideration for anything or anyone else. Therefore, I'm resisting the urge to tailor the playlist to pique others' interest, to gain followers. (There's actually a song on OK Human about the negative effects of stats like followers. It's called "Numbers". )''</blockquote>


The sequence of numbers spoken at 2 minutes and 32 seconds (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13) is the beginning of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number Fibonacci sequence], a sequence in mathematics in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, starting from 0 and 1.
The sequence of numbers spoken at 2 minutes and 32 seconds (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13) is the beginning of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number Fibonacci sequence], a sequence in mathematics in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, starting from 0 and 1. [[Brian Bell]] stated [[WFPK interview with Brian Bell - February 8, 2021|in an interview with Kyle Meredith of 91.9 WFPK]] that he came up with the idea of using the sequence.<ref>"Kyle Meredith with... Weezer." ''YouTube'', uploaded by Kyle Meredith, 12 February 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ-JfPVbxXk%7C</ref>


In an [https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/weezer-the-ok-human-interview/pl.2b67d12686224245ac1bbbbfa7fb4aa8 interview with Zane Lowe on ''Apple Music''], Rivers said:
In an [https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/weezer-the-ok-human-interview/pl.2b67d12686224245ac1bbbbfa7fb4aa8 interview with Zane Lowe on ''Apple Music'']<ref>Lowe, Zane "Weezer: The OK Human Interview." ''Apple Music'', 27 January 2021 https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/weezer-the-ok-human-interview/pl.2b67d12686224245ac1bbbbfa7fb4aa8</ref>, Cuomo said of the song:
<blockquote>''“That one was very personal. I think I was in a really good mood and I was feeling like "Wow, Weezer's pretty great. I'm pretty great." I think I must have looked at an email or like a Billboard chart somewhere and got some bad data. There was a number next to my name or Weezer's name that told me, "You know what? You kinda suck, man. You're really not that great." I don't know - we were falling down a chart or something. Immediately, my mood was crushed.''


<blockquote>''“That one was very personal. I think I was in a really good mood and I was feeling like "Wow, Weezer's pretty great. I'm pretty great." I think I must have looked at an email or like a Billboard chart somewhere and got some bad data. There was a number next to my name or Weezer's name that told me, "You know what? You kinda suck, man. You're really not that great." I don't know - we were falling down a chart or something. Immediately, my mood was crushed.''</blockquote>
''I was thinking, if you look, you're always going to find a number that makes you feel bad about yourself. So that's the opening line of the song. You know, obviously, for a musician like myself, that's true. But I think everyone has different scales they may look at to end up feeling bad about themselves. There's always data out there.''


<blockquote>''I was thinking, if you look, you're always going to find a number that makes you feel bad about yourself. So that's the opening line of the song. You know, obviously, for a musician like myself, that's true. But I think everyone has different scales they may look at to end up feeling bad about themselves. There's always data out there.''</blockquote>
''That song just fell out of me there in a really emotional moment. Ever since then, I've been much more careful about - you know? I'm not even going to look. I don't care where we are on the chart. If you start looking, you're going to just look until you find something bad. At least that's how I am. As soon as I start to look, I'm like "oh yeah, the song says 'forget about it.'"”''</blockquote>
 
<blockquote>''That song just fell out of me there in a really emotional moment. Ever since then, I've been much more careful about - you know? I'm not even going to look. I don't care where we are on the chart. If you start looking, you're going to just look until you find something bad. At least that's how I am. As soon as I start to look, I'm like "oh yeah, the song says 'forget about it.'"”''</blockquote>
 
In an [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ-JfPVbxXk%7C interview with WFPK], [[Brian Bell]] also commented about the Fibonacci sequence: 
<blockquote>''There’s a moment in Numbers where Im singing backgrounds and there’s a little breakdown— da, da, da— it was this quarter note pulse. And I’m like, well obviously I’m going to say some numbers. But I realized that the only way that numbers that I came up with are going to make the record, make the cut so to speak, is if they meant something. So I did something— the Fibonacci sequence, where you add the— so I was saying 0 1’s and stuff, like binary numbers. So I started 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5… like it went all the way I think to 13. I don’t know what kind of math nerd is gonna notice that, but I had to present it that way. Like, “You understand? I’m saying the Fibonacci code here, so it’s like a little Easter egg!”''</blockquote>
 
The bridge melody of the song appears to be from the [[2012]] demo "[[If You Want Me Tell Me So]]," released in ''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''.


The song's bridge melody is re-appropriated from a demo recorded by Cuomo in January of [[2012]], titled "[[If You Want Me Tell Me So]]" and released in November of [[2020]] as part of the digital compilation ''[[Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years]]''.
==Audio==
==Audio==
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*[[List of Weezer songs]]
*[[List of Weezer songs]]
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]]
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]]
==References==
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[[Category:Weezer songs]][[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]][[Category:Songs on OK Human]][[Category:Weezer songs produced by Jake Sinclair]]
[[Category:Weezer songs]][[Category:Rivers Cuomo songs]][[Category:Songs on OK Human]][[Category:Weezer songs produced by Jake Sinclair]]
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