I Love the USA

"I Love the USA" is a single released by Weezer on June 29, 2016. It was later included as the 11th track of the deluxe edition of The White Album, released October 7 the same year.
===Appearances===
*"I Love the USA" (digital single)
*Weezer (The White Album) (Deluxe) (2016)
==Overview==
:::—Songfacts interview with Sam Hollander, 2020Wiser, Carl. Interview with Sam Hollander. Songfacts. 11 January 2020. https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/sam-hollander. Archived version: 
Rivers Cuomo was inspired to write "I Love the USA" in April of 2016 while the band was promoting The White Album in Europe.Weezer [@weezer] "We were on tour abroad, and it got me thinking a lot about America, which lead to me write “I Love The USA." When @AppleMusic & @NASA asked us to be involved with Juno’s historic landing on July 4th, this song seemed like the perfect fit. - @Rivers_Cuomo #🚀#🇺🇸 — download “I Love The USA" now exclusively on iTunes or stream it on Apple Music." Instagram. 30 June 2016. https://www.instagram.com/p/BHQ0rPWhXRw/ "We were on tour abroad, and it got me thinking a lot about America, which lead to me write 'I Love the USA.'" Cuomo also said in a July 2016 interview that he began writing the song "about a year" earlier . The band was later approached by Apple Music and NASA to take part in a celebration of NASA's Juno spacecraft's arrival at Jupiter on July 4. Cuomo said that the song "seemed like the perfect fit" to commemorate the occasion.
The song is notable for being the first officially-released Weezer track in which Rivers sings the word "fuck." Both a clean and an explicit version were released. The clean version replaces all instances of "fuck" with "eff." A 1:20 alternate clean edit was used in an August 2016 Team USA Olympics promo and replaced "fuck yeah" with "oh yeah."
The song was released exclusively through Apple Music on June 29. It was released as a single and put on Spotify on September 2 with new artwork. The song was later included as a bonus track on the deluxe version of The White Album.
==Music video==
The music video was directed by SCANTRON and No. 2 Pencil and features comedian Patton Oswalt. It premiered on October 9, 2016.
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==Lyrics==
Ain't that bad a place
I was born that way
I bite my fingernails
Still got bills to pay 
You should know what to say
I'll put you in your place
Land of the free
I'm on my way
I love the USA
I love the USA
Fuck yeah this place is great
I love the USA
Stop at Coffee Bean
This is like a dream 
Let's run across the beach
Mama, what's the deal?
Nothing's wrong with me
Still waters running deep
Home of the brave
Dog on a leash
I love the USA
I love the USA
Fuck yeah this place is great
I love the USA
God save the king 
God save the king
God save the king
Won't feel a thing
God save the king 
God save the king
God save the king
I love the USA
I love the USA
Fuck yeah this place is great
I love the USA
Fuck yeah this place is great
I love the USA
Planes up in the sky
There's a missing man
A boy who didn't make it
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Weezer songs
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
==References==
Category:Weezer singles
Category:Weezer songsCategory:Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Bonus tracks
Category:Songs on Weezer (The White Album)
Category:Weezer songs produced by Jake Sinclair
Category:2016 releases
Category:Co-writing credit