In an August 2020 Riverpedia entry, Cuomo confirmed that he had no plans to continue the Alone series, instead preferring to keep recordings to himself in order to appropriate them for future Weezer songs. Cuomo apparently reversed this decision shortly thereafter, however, launching a demo storefront on riverscuomo.com in October of that year, selling hundreds of demos to individual users on November 11, and selling a compilation titled Alone IV: The EWBAITE Years on November 20. Later, many more bundles were available in the store.
As of November 2025, there exist 13 Alone bundles, ranging from before Weezer's formation, to the writing of The Black Album.
"Do You Wanna Get High?" is a single released by Weezer on November 3, 2015. It is the fifth track from The White Album, although the album was still unannounced upon the song's release.
It was initially thought by some fans that the song may have originated in 2001. A song or idea is listed in the Catalog of Riffs from October 4 of 2001 as "D'ya Wanna Get High?" with a COR# of 351. Additionally, on Rivers Cuomo'sgenius.com annotation of the song, he noted that the song was "about me and my darling girlfriend in 2000/2001". Cuomo made the following comment on the song's origins in the Weezer Fan Club Facebook group: "DYWGH verse/chorus is from 2014. Bridge is from 2015. (chords taken from a j-rock song called shangri-la i heard while on a japan tour with Scott & Rivers)." The song is question is "Shangri-La" by Japanese rock band Chatmonchy.
"Do You Wanna Get High?" was released digitally a week after the previous single, "Thank God for Girls." In contrast to the latter song, which was seen as a departure from the style the band is known for, "Do You Wanna Get High?" was noted by fans as having something closer to the "classic Weezer sound." It debuted on November 2, 2015 on Beats 1 Radio during a band interview with Zane Lowe.
He was just God, because all of his solos were so memorable and singable. They had form to them; they'd start out low and go up high...They were just great, compact little emotional things.
- Rivers Cuomo, Guitar World interview with Rivers Cuomo - March 1995
