Weezerpedia:Featured song September 2026
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The following page holds the content that will be "transcluded" (i.e. sent over to) the Main Page as a featured song for September 2026. For assistance with editing, please consult Help:Featured song.
Featured song: "Superfriend"
"Superfriend" is a song by Rivers Cuomo, originally intended as a track for the unrealized album concept Songs from the Black Hole (the concept that later morphed into Pinkerton).
Cuomo is known to have recorded two full demos of "Superfriend," either around Christmas of 1994 or, more likely, February of 1995. The more well-known demo, released in 2007 as part of the compilation album Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, is intended as a duet between the characters of Jonas and Laurel. A second demo, recorded in 1995 and released in 2020 as part of the digital demo compilation Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years, features an alternate chorus, less articulate vocals, and is seemingly intended to be sung only from Jonas' perspective.
"Superfriend" was desired by fans for several years before its release. In the early 2000s, Karl Koch named the song as one of his favorite unreleased Weezer songs and had planned to include it in a rarities compilation that would never be released. Footage of "Superfriend" being performed in the studio, as well as acoustically in a hotel room, appeared on the 2004 Weezer DVD Video Capture Device. "Superfriend" was attempted as a full band at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, but the recording was later erased. Ultimately, the Songs from the Black Hole concept—and "Superfriend" with it— would be scrapped in favor of what would eventually become Pinkerton.