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*''[[OK Human]]'' (2021) | *''[[OK Human]]'' (2021) | ||
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The existence of the song was first teased on [[January 12]], [[2021]] when the chorus lyrics were included as part of a Spotify track consisting only of synthesized speech, titled "ReadMe.txt" [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1THAmDIAPYkW2YurvltIDz Spotify playlist],<ref>Screenshot of OK Human Spotify playlist: [[:File:Okhuman_spotify.jpg]]</ref> released to tease the album. The song was confirmed as the first single alongside the official announcement of the album on [[January 18]]. | The existence of the song was first teased on [[January 12]], [[2021]] when the chorus lyrics were included as part of a Spotify track consisting only of synthesized speech, titled "ReadMe.txt" [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1THAmDIAPYkW2YurvltIDz Spotify playlist],<ref>Screenshot of OK Human Spotify playlist: [[:File:Okhuman_spotify.jpg]]</ref> released to tease the album. The song was confirmed as the first single alongside the official announcement of the album on [[January 18]]. | ||
When discussing the song in an interview<ref>Broken Records Podcast. "Rivers Cuomo on Weezer's New Album and a Nirvana Conspiracy | Broken Record (Hosted by Rick Rubin)" ''YouTube''. 2 February 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5TW0FHEC94</ref> with Rick Rubin's podcast, ''Broken Record'', [[Rivers Cuomo]] said: | When discussing the song in an interview<ref name="Broken Records">Broken Records Podcast. "Rivers Cuomo on Weezer's New Album and a Nirvana Conspiracy | Broken Record (Hosted by Rick Rubin)" ''YouTube''. 2 February 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5TW0FHEC94</ref> with Rick Rubin's podcast, ''Broken Record'', [[Rivers Cuomo]] said: | ||
<blockquote>''“That one is kind of "last second, here is a song that just came up." It wasn't written specifically for this album, but it sounds like it could be a big song and have a much broader audience. And it sounds like it could go on the album with a few tweaks. I guess we have yet to see whether it's going to be the song that everyone actually knows from the album or not. But that's the intention - it's the first single and there's no rules when it comes to the first single.''</blockquote> | <blockquote>''“That one is kind of "last second, here is a song that just came up." It wasn't written specifically for this album, but it sounds like it could be a big song and have a much broader audience. And it sounds like it could go on the album with a few tweaks. I guess we have yet to see whether it's going to be the song that everyone actually knows from the album or not. But that's the intention - it's the first single and there's no rules when it comes to the first single.''</blockquote> | ||
{{ | {{Rivers Cuomo quote|I think that one come up really recently, like maybe four or five months ago. We were actually working on another record. We were finishing up our heavy metal record called ''[[Van Weezer]]'' and my manager sent me an early version of the song with the chorus. It was written by one of his favorite writers. Her name is Ilsey and it was actually like a country song. In fact, he sent me a small batch of country songs - like song starters. I just started playing around with all these country songs, not really knowing what they're for. | ||
That one, for some reason, when I sang it, it just sounded like "wow, this sounds like a big universal song." It still sounds like Rivers and [[Weezer]], and we could kind of massage it onto a couple different albums. It could be on a metal album and it could be on ''[[OK Human]]''. We could make a country album and let's just start fooling around with it. So we tried to put it on - I think we tried on ''[[Van Weezer]]'' first. In any case, as we shifted gears into making ''[[OK Human]]'', we realized that as much as we loved the album, it would really benefit from having that big flag-waving single that brings in a wider audience to what is probably a pretty difficult album. So we started tweaking it to fit it on there and it worked out really well.”}} | That one, for some reason, when I sang it, it just sounded like "wow, this sounds like a big universal song." It still sounds like Rivers and [[Weezer]], and we could kind of massage it onto a couple different albums. It could be on a metal album and it could be on ''[[OK Human]]''. We could make a country album and let's just start fooling around with it. So we tried to put it on - I think we tried on ''[[Van Weezer]]'' first. In any case, as we shifted gears into making ''[[OK Human]]'', we realized that as much as we loved the album, it would really benefit from having that big flag-waving single that brings in a wider audience to what is probably a pretty difficult album. So we started tweaking it to fit it on there and it worked out really well.”|<ref name="Broken Records" />}} | ||
In the interview, [[Rick Rubin]] said he "loved" the song and that it could have been "the template for the whole album." | In the interview, [[Rick Rubin]] said he "loved" the song and that it could have been "the template for the whole album." | ||