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| Album = The White Album (Deluxe) | | Album = The White Album (Deluxe) | ||
| Released = [[June 29]], [[2016]] | | Released = [[June 29]], [[2016]] | ||
| Format = | | Format = digital, CD (japan) | ||
| Recorded = Spring 2016<br>The Lair, Los Angeles, CA | | Recorded = Spring 2016<br>The Lair, Los Angeles, CA | ||
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"'''I Love the USA'''" is a digital single released by [[Weezer]] on [[June 29]], [[2016]]. It was later released on the deluxe edition of ''[[The White Album]]''. | |||
'''I Love the USA''' is a digital single released by [[Weezer]] | |||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
[https://www.instagram.com/p/BHQ0rPWhXRw/ | According to Weezer's Instagram account<ref>Weezer [@weezer] "We were on tour abroad, and it got me thinking a lot about America, which lead to me write “I Love The USA." When @AppleMusic & @NASA asked us to be involved with Juno’s historic landing on July 4th, this song seemed like the perfect fit. - @Rivers_Cuomo #🚀#🇺🇸 — download “I Love The USA" now exclusively on iTunes or stream it on Apple Music." ''Instagram''. 30 June 2016. https://www.instagram.com/p/BHQ0rPWhXRw/</ref>, [[Rivers Cuomo]] was inspired to write "I Love the USA" in April of [[2016]] while the band was promoting [[Weezer (The White Album)|''The White Album'']] in Europe. "We were on tour abroad, and it got me thinking a lot about America, which lead to me write 'I Love the USA.'" Cuomo also said in a July 2016 interview that he began writing the song "about a year" earlier {{Citation needed}}. The band was later approached by Apple Music and NASA to take part in a celebration of NASA's Juno spacecraft's arrival at Jupiter on [[July 4]]. Cuomo said that the song "seemed like the perfect fit" to commemorate the occasion. | ||
The song is notable for being the first officially-released Weezer track in which Rivers sings the word "fuck." Both a clean and an explicit version were released. The clean version replaces all instances of "fuck" with "eff." A 1:20 alternate clean edit was used in an August 2016 Team USA Olympics promo and replaced "fuck yeah" with "oh yeah." | |||
==Release== | ==Release== | ||
The song was released exclusively through Apple Music on [[June 29]]. It was released as a single and put on Spotify on September 2 with new artwork. | The song was released exclusively through Apple Music on [[June 29]]. It was released as a single and put on Spotify on September 2 with new artwork. | ||
The song was later included as a bonus track on the deluxe version of [[The White Album]]. | The song was later included as a bonus track on the deluxe version of ''[[The White Album]]''. | ||
==Music video== | ==Music video== | ||
The music video was directed by SCANTRON and No. 2 Pencil. It premiered on [[October 9]], [[2016]]. | The music video was directed by SCANTRON and No. 2 Pencil and features comedian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patton_Oswalt Patton Oswalt]. It premiered on [[October 9]], [[2016]]. | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[List of Weezer songs]] | *[[List of Weezer songs]] | ||
==References== | |||
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[[Category: Weezer singles]] | [[Category: Weezer singles]] | ||
[[Category: Weezer songs]] | [[Category: Weezer songs]] | ||