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==Cuomo Cuotes==
“I’m here.”
"Sometimes I get fascinated by things I don't like. And then start using them. And then I almost kind of like them. It happens with music all the time period"
"The first days of chatting here are pretty frustrating. Or so I've heard. It's a rite of passage."
"I haven't cut my hair since this all started. I'm giving Brian a run for his money."
"I think I meant that the lyrics just came off the top of my head or the bottom of my head, I don't know. I didn't set off to say anything in particular. It's crazy that sometimes songs can end up having a specific meaning that way." [In reference 'My Brain is Working Overtime']
"The stereotype of a record label is about as accurate as the stereotype of a rock star, which is to say not at all."
"Rivers delivers. That's what Michael Enzinger said."
"marriage is good."
"I am a 'white belt' at sleeping."
"One trick I like for writing melodies is to try and write a bad melody. I guess that could be applied to any creative pursuit"
"I am a perfect fig mint"
"Pigs were my favorite animal when I was a kid."
"I thought you guys were just being all internetty"
"Thank you guys. You're all very excellent people."
"We were doing a meet and greet when the album came out. a couple came up to us and said their son had been a huge weezer fan. he committed s**cide. when they heard the new album was called 'everything will be alright in the end', it was a great consolation to them. i knew then that we had made the right move in changing the title. it was a real lesson for me. choose positivity when you can. and you always can."
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==OK Human==
===Song Titles===
#Bird with a Broken Wing
#Dead Roses
#La Brea Tar Pits
#Here Comes The Rain
#Grapes of Wrath
#Numbers
#Aloo Gobi
===Details posted by me in Riverchat===
Album Cover: the album cover was created by an illustrator whose work I discovered in a comic shop/book store. He was commissioned to do an original piece for the cover.Cutting Room Floor: Spell It Out, Instrumental #1, Pacific Sunset?Completion date: On Nov 16, 2020, I said that OK Human is done, but noted we are still tinkering with the radio mix of the first single though.Potential lyrics:Moby Dick trip on a whale. He’s kinda just like me. We’re thirsty for the deep (Posted August 20, 2020)I’ll be there to show support for Winston Smith in 1984. Because battling Big Brother feels more meaningful than binging zombie hordes.* (I referred to that one as the “audio book song” and may have given the title as “Crankin Mrs. Dalloway.”
===Interviews===
====Weezer Almost Finished with New Album, Called 'Ok, Human', KINK====
Highlights
- If he could play any album of Weezer's live he would pick OK Human. He didn't think he was supposed to talk about it but he was so excited about it.- Played acoustic guitar, Hammond organ, and backing vocals.- He was listening to it for a month at the time and it's all he wanted to listen to.- His dream is to perform it with an orchestra and would like to play at places like the Hollywood Bowl.- Management didn't hear it at the time and Brian said they were pushing for Van Weezer but he said they didn't know how powerful the album is.- He didn't hear rough mixes at the time and had Pat's drums, Rivers vocals, and strings to work with.- Jake didn't want the album rushed out.- In their inner circle, they still called it "Masterpiece", and although Brian thought it was pretentious at first, he said that it was a "f***ing ... masterpiece".
====The Life of Brian - All Things Loud Meets Weezer, All Things Loud, July 17, 2019====
HighlightsInterviewer: You guys have got three albums in the pipeline whose releases are imminent, right?Brian: There’s two. There is a third thing, but I can’t talk about it. One is more finished than the other. They’re both very interesting and I’m very excited for one of them.Interviewer: Are these more high-concept albums?Brian: Yeah, one of them is called OK Human which seems to be about technology and how it’s running our life.Interviewer: Not just lyrically, but on the last few albums it feels as though you’re exploring specific musical themes, almost like an exploration into new genres.Brian: Yeah. OK Human is unlike anything I’ve ever heard, unlike any other type of music and unlike any Weezer music. In the bass, if you really broke it down to its common denominator, it still goes one, four, five in a major key for the most part. That’s very Weezer, that’s very Sweater Song, but it does it in more sophisticated ways.
====Beats 1 (@Beats1) January 24, 2019====
Highlights"Our next album is not on a grid," I explained. "We just recorded the basic tracks, and there's no click, no grid."
When asked about a title, I said, "We don't have a real title, but the key word we have to inspire us at the moment is 'masterpiece.'"
====Being Rivers Cuomo: Why Weezer's Frontman Put His Life Into a Spreadsheet, L.A. Times, Feb 22, 2019====
Highlights"Cuomo said the group is almost finished with another album, one he described as “piano-based, very eccentric, with strings already recorded at Abbey Road.” (Its working title is “OK Human,” after Radiohead’s “OK Computer,” though the singer identified his musical inspirations as George Gershwin and “Nilsson Sings Newman.”)"
====Beats1 February 6, 2019====
At the time I was listening to a lot of Nilsson Sings Newman and I said it was the biggest inspiration on our next album.
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The song I chose to showcase this with was I'll Be Home:
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