The Prince Who Wanted Everything: Difference between revisions

The bridge for "The Prince Who Wanted Everything" originates from a [[2015]] song sketch by [[Rivers Cuomo]] titled "'''Living on the Edge of Boston'''."<ref>''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''</ref> Cuomo has confirmed that the eponymous "Prince" is, in fact the [[Wikipedia:Prince_(musician)|musician of the same name]]. From an interview with Entertainment Weekly<ref>Franich, Darren. "Rivers Cuomo on Weezer's Black Album and struggling with the success of covering 'Africa'" ''Entertainment Weekly''. 27 February 2019. https://ew.com/music/2019/02/27/rivers-cuomo-weezer-black-album-interview/</ref>:

<blockquote>{{Interviewer|EW|On the track “The Prince Who Wanted Everything,” you have phrases like “funk-rock riffs” and “paisley bones.” Is that song about Prince?}}{{Rivers|It didn’t start out to be about Prince. But as I was working on the song and listening to it every day, I just couldn’t help but be reminded of him and his story. I was such a big Prince fan from probably about age 20, even before Weezer started. I just started tweaking the lyrics to make some Prince references.}}</blockquote>

In an interview with Spanish magazine ''Rockzone'', Brian Bell described the song as originally having a more direct, lively sound. He expressed dissatisfaction with [[Dave Sitek]]'s "swing" approach to the song, and wondered if he should have asked for the song to be removed from the album's track list.<ref>''Rockzone'', Issue 158. 2 May 2019. https://issuu.com/rockzonemag/docs/rz_158</ref>

| bgcolor="aaffaa"|''[[Alone XII: The White Year]]''

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