Paperface Teenage Victory Songs track review: Difference between revisions

Looking at the original lyric sheet for the pre-''[[Blue Album]]'' song “[[Paperface]]” is a pretty rare (and funny) treat. There is an aborted attempt at a verse that begins, “I played the game / I was all right / For a while / I didn’t fight,” which [[Rivers Cuomo]] scribbled over with an emphatic “CRAP” (made slightly ironic in hindsight, since those kind of lyrics aren’t too uncommon in his latter day songwriting). And there is what wound up becoming the song’s second verse, an autobiographical story of learning that it pays to be a fake in the competitive push-and-pull of Los Angeles — to “wear a paper face,” so to speak, which presents Cuomo with some struggles of authenticity (“How am I supposed to sing with this thing in my way?”). There are also two interesting marginal notes, a list labeled “[[Weezer]]” that was either meant to be a setlist or some early contenders for album material (notably including the unheard and fantastically titled “[[Spiderbitch]]”), as well as a note that says, “It sounds like something I heard before in a Spike Lee movie.”