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Weezerpedia:Today's featured song/October 23, 2008
From Weezerpedia
Hot Tub is a Rivers Cuomo demo which later surfaced (with revised lyrics) as a Homie live recording. While the 1997 live Homie recording was part of a widely-circulated bootleg, the original 1993 demo was not made public until 2002, when Rivers released it to fans on the RCB. Rivers originally wrote the song for Tom Jones. According to Karl Koch:
I think the bands then-manager somehow had a contact who knew Tom and tom was looking for songs for his new album at the time. Obviously he did not end up using “Hot Tub”. It's also possible Rivers wrote it first and then found out about the Tom thing. We may never know unless someone asks Rivers someday.
During the song's live Homie performance, Rivers called the song "as goofy as it gets."
