Perfect Situation: Difference between revisions

According to the [[Catalog O' Riffs]], "Perfect Situation" was initially written around July of [[2002]]. The song is first known to have been demoed as a band at S.I.R. Rehearsal Studios in Los Angeles on [[September 15]], [[2002]], with [[Josh Freese]] sitting in on drums. The song continued to be demoed at S.I.R. throughout the year, and was also demoed at Swing House Rehearsal & Recording in late [[2003]]. The song was included in [[Rivers Cuomo]]'s "B-List" during pre-production on ''Make Believe'', and did not appear on album's Amazon.com store page in the months prior to the album's release [https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Amazon_screenshot_(1).jpg].

<blockquote>'''Pat:''' It sounds like it could have been on the Green Album. I think of it as, like, classic Weezer.<br>

'''Scott:''' To me it’s just an epic drama, and I felt really strong about it being on the album. The lyrics of the first verse always just really killed me, so I really pushed hard for that song to make the record.<br>'''Brian:''' Yeah, I like it lyrically a lot: “Here’s the pitch, slow and straight”, bla bla bla bla bla bla bla, and yeah, like Pat said, it’s classic Weezer Green Album style, a lot of downstrokes, the big intro, it could have gone on that album. But I think it’s more than that now—it’s uh, you know, Green Plus!<br>'''Rivers:''' I sincerely hope that it’s the last song I write about being frustrated and angry with myself for being shy…because I’ve written way too many of those songs already.</blockquote>

Initial pressings of ''Make Believe'' featured a different chorus melody than later releases. In [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1_0Pby8jeI an interview with ''AOL Music''] in [[2005]], [[Rivers Cuomo]] explained why the band re-recorded a new version of the song:<blockquote>''When I was writing the song "Perfect Situation", I had two different versions of the chorus melody; one went down and one went up, and I didn't know which one was better. I ended up settling with my first instinct, which was the one that went down. We made the record and then we went out and started playing the song live. Before the audience was really familiar with the recording, they would just hear the song, and they'd be singing along, we'd ask them to sing along with that last chorus and they just started singing the other melody that we hadn't actually recorded! They started going up at the end of the chorus. I think it was at that point we realized, "Well, if these 10,000 people think it should go this way maybe we should go back and re-record it, and so that's what we did. We got right into the studio, we re-recorded the chorus, and put out a different version of the album.''</blockquote>

The music video for "Perfect Situation" was directed by Marc Webb and premiered on [[November 11]], [[2005]]. It features actress [[Elisha Cuthbert]] as the lead singer of [[Weeze]], a fictional predecessor to Weezer. Cuthbert is eventually replaced by [[Rivers Cuomo's]] character, a put-upon roadie serving the demanding Cuthbert. The video also features a cameo by [[Karl Koch]] as a merch staffer for the fictional Weeze, as well as actual Weezer fans playing fans at Weeze's concert. Weezer also had actual fans participate in the "[[Beverly Hills]]" music video<ref>[http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1511678/20051018/weezer.jhtml?headlines=true]</ref>. A new cover for ''Make Believe'' was created for the video of "Perfect Situation" showing the fictional name Weeze.