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The song was originally revealed to be a track for ''[[Van Weezer]]'' in a leaked review of the album from an issue of the publication ''Guitar Player'' released in June of [[2020]]. In early August, [[Rivers Cuomo]] made a post to the chatroom [[Riverchat]] "Video tomorrow" along with the lyric "Nostradamus predicted a bomb would drop and all the guitars would be hung in an old pawn shop" <ref>Screenshot: [[:File:Riverchat_bote2.jpg]]</ref>, suggesting that the band was in the process of recording a new music video. When asked about it, Cuomo implied that the video would be for "Beginning of the End." <ref>Screenshot: File:Riverchat_bote1.jpg</ref> On [[August 12]], Weezer's official Twitter account tweeted "Time to be Excellent, dudes" with an accompanying video of Cuomo performing a heavy metal guitar riff in his home.<ref>@weezer "Time to be Excellent, dudes - Friday August 14th" ''Twitter''. 12 August 2020. https://twitter.com/Weezer/status/1293638716628643840</ref> The song was released alongside its music video on [[August 14]] in the form of "'''Beginning of the End (Wyld Stallyns Edit)'''" as part of [[Bill & Ted Face the Music Original Motion Picture Soundtrack|the soundtrack to the film ''Bill & Ted Face the Music'']].

Musician [[Wikipedia:Billy_Joel|Billy Joel]] is a credited writer on "Beginning of the End". When asked about it on [[Riverchat]], Cuomo clarified: "Just a clearance thing. Very common in recent years. I don't think Billy Joel's written a song since the 90's."<ref>Screenshot: [[:File:Riverchat_billjoel.jpg]]</ref> The film credits for ''Bill & Ted Face the Music'' note that the song "Contains an interpolation of '[[Wikipedia:The Longest Time|The Longest Time]]' (B. Joel)"

*''[[Van Weezer]]''