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"Can't Stop Partying" was first performed live at the [[Rivers Cuomo concert: 11/25/2008 - Long Beach, CA|Alone II hootenanny]] before the album was released. It was Cuomo's personal pick for the set list, naming it as his favorite song from ''Alone II''. | "Can't Stop Partying" was first performed live at the [[Rivers Cuomo concert: 11/25/2008 - Long Beach, CA|Alone II hootenanny]] before the album was released. It was Cuomo's personal pick for the set list, naming it as his favorite song from ''Alone II''. | ||
A few months after the release of ''Alone II'', a similar arrangement of the song was performed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqwsTyLgk9I live for Stereogum.com] by Cuomo, Dupri, Ryan Key of Yellowcard, Jose Galvez of Ozma, Derek Grant of Alkaline Trio, Sean O'Donnell of Reeve Oliver, Greg Vail (a saxophonist), and Ricky Sans of Melee. A flutist is also featured. | A few months after the release of ''Alone II'', a similar arrangement of the song was performed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqwsTyLgk9I live for Stereogum.com] by Cuomo, Dupri, Ryan Key of Yellowcard, [[Jose Galvez]] of [[Ozma]], Derek Grant of Alkaline Trio, Sean O'Donnell of Reeve Oliver, Greg Vail (a saxophonist), and Ricky Sans of Melee. A flutist is also featured. | ||
===''Alone II'' liner notes=== | ===''Alone II'' liner notes=== | ||
{{Alone liner notes|On September 10, 2007, Jermaine Dupri sent me a demo of a song he had started writing, '''"Can't Stop Partying" (Track 13)'''. He also sent me his number to discuss where we could take the song. I gave him a call. He told me that he had noticed that the rock world and the hip-hop world were really the same: they were both all about partying. He wanted to write a song–and to find an artist to cover that song–to show the unity between these two apparently disparate worlds. He thought Weezer was the perfect artist. | {{Alone liner notes|On September 10, 2007, Jermaine Dupri sent me a demo of a song he had started writing, '''"Can't Stop Partying" (Track 13)'''. He also sent me his number to discuss where we could take the song. I gave him a call. He told me that he had noticed that the rock world and the hip-hop world were really the same: they were both all about partying. He wanted to write a song–and to find an artist to cover that song–to show the unity between these two apparently disparate worlds. He thought Weezer was the perfect artist. | ||
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While headlining a [[2009-07-24 - Jisan, Korea|festival in Korea]] in the summer of 2009, Weezer performed a new and very different arrangement of the song, featuring a rock drum beat, distorted guitars, a new bridge. The chorus lyric was also slightly altered, replacing, "I gotta have Patron, I gotta have the E" with "I gotta have the boom, I gotta have the beat," seemingly stemming from Cuomo's previously stated objection to the original's glorification of drugs. A studio version with a very similar arrangement, with the addition of a children's choir, was released (with the notation "Coconut Teaser mix" in the title) as part of the ''Weezer Raditude Club: iTunes pass'' bundle. This version was named as the favorite version of Weezer bassist [[Scott Shriner]]. | While headlining a [[2009-07-24 - Jisan, Korea|festival in Korea]] in the summer of 2009, Weezer performed a new and very different arrangement of the song, featuring a rock drum beat, distorted guitars, a new bridge. The chorus lyric was also slightly altered, replacing, "I gotta have Patron, I gotta have the E" with "I gotta have the boom, I gotta have the beat," seemingly stemming from Cuomo's previously stated objection to the original's glorification of drugs. A studio version with a very similar arrangement, with the addition of a children's choir, was released (with the notation "Coconut Teaser mix" in the title) as part of the ''Weezer Raditude Club: iTunes pass'' bundle. This version was named as the favorite version of Weezer bassist [[Scott Shriner]]. | ||
==''Raditude'' version== | ==''Raditude'' version== | ||
The "rock" version underwent a heavily altered remix by [[Polow da Don]], featuring only the vocals and very minimal guitar over a more hip-hop oriented sound, as well as an entirely new bridge featuring a rap verse by [[Lil Wayne]]. Brian Bell stated in a [[2010]] | The "rock" version underwent a heavily altered remix by [[Polow da Don]], featuring only the vocals and very minimal guitar over a more hip-hop oriented sound, as well as an entirely new bridge featuring a rap verse by [[Lil Wayne]]. Brian Bell stated in a [[2010]] [[TheWaster.com interview with Brian Bell - August 8, 2010|interview with TheWaster.com]] that the Lil Wayne verse was suggested by Jermaine Dupri, and was added as they needed "something different for the third verse"<ref>[https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/TheWaster.com_interview_with_Brian_Bell_-_August_8,_2010]</ref>. The lyrics in the chorus were again subtly alterered, restoring the "Patron" lyric but keeping the "beat" lyric. The demo's stripped-down, acoustic qualities were scrapped entirely. | ||
===Band Commentary=== | ===Band Commentary=== | ||
'''Rivers:''' "Can't Stop Partying" I wrote with Jermain Dupri who's like a Hip-Hop/R&B guy. So it was really fun for me. He came in with this total "Woohoo, we're partying" type of vibe. And it wasn't 100% right for me so I wrote some different chords and changed some melodies and gave it a little bit of dark undertone to it. So it had some complexity. [http://video.teen.com/music/weezer-liner-notes/] | '''Rivers:''' "Can't Stop Partying" I wrote with Jermain Dupri who's like a Hip-Hop/R&B guy. So it was really fun for me. He came in with this total "Woohoo, we're partying" type of vibe. And it wasn't 100% right for me so I wrote some different chords and changed some melodies and gave it a little bit of dark undertone to it. So it had some complexity. [http://video.teen.com/music/weezer-liner-notes/] | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[List of Weezer songs]] | *[[List of Weezer songs]] | ||
==References== | |||
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[[Category:Weezer songs]] | [[Category:Weezer songs]] | ||
[[Category:Songs that appeared on the 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo list]] | [[Category:Songs that appeared on the 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo list]] | ||