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"'''Bird with a Broken Wing'''" is the eighth track from ''[[OK Human]]''. | "'''Bird with a Broken Wing'''" is the eighth track from ''[[OK Human]]''. | ||
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"Bird with a Broken Wing" was mentioned by [[Rivers Cuomo]] to members of [[Riverchat]] in September of [[2020]]. | "Bird with a Broken Wing" was mentioned by [[Rivers Cuomo]] to members of [[Riverchat]] in September of [[2020]]. | ||
When asked about the song's origins in an | When asked about the song's origins in an interview with Zane Lowe on ''Apple Music''<ref>Lowe, Zane "Weezer: The OK Human Interview." ''YouTube'', 28 January 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVsTtPSv-yw</ref><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, "I think I was just feeling pretty irrelevant and passed over, and past my prime, I guess. I was feeling pretty sorry about myself." In an interview with [[Rick Rubin]] for the ''Broken Record Podcast''<ref>Rubin, Rick "Rivers Cuomo on Weezer's New Album and a Nirvana Conspiracy" ''Broken Record Podcast'' 2 February 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5TW0FHEC94</ref>, Cuomo mentioned that it was likely one of the first songs written for the album. | ||
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The bridge of the song was reappropriated from a demo written by Cuomo (likely in [[1998]] or [[1999]]) titled "[[Nothing Matters in the World and Everyone Is Free]]," released in November of [[2020]] as part of the digital compilation ''[[Alone VI: The Black Room]]''. | |||
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Don't feel sad for me | Don't feel sad for me | ||
I'm right where I want to be</poem> | I'm right where I want to be</poem> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*''[[OK Human]]'' | *''[[OK Human]]'' | ||
*[[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]] | ||