Weezer (White Album)

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2. "Do You Wanna Get High?"Released: November 3, 2015
3. "King of the World"Released: January 15, 2016

Weezer, also known as the White Album, is the tenth studio album by the American rock band Weezer, released on April 1, 2016. The album marks their first produced by Jake Sinclair. It is the first release through Crush Music and was distributed by Atlantic Records.

For the album, band frontman Rivers Cuomo explored new songwriting techniques, such as using a cut-up technique, and adding potential lyrics to a spreadsheet and including them on songs, such as "Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori" and "L.A. Girlz", based on their syllable count and word stress. The album explores themes of gender dynamics, modern dating experiences and references to religious iconography. Musically, the album serves as a throwback to the band's first two albums, The Blue Album (1994) and Pinkerton (1996), while also serving as a tribute to the Beach Boys.

Weezer continued the critical success of the band's previous release, Everything Will Be Alright in the End, while commercially improving on the previous release, reaching number four on the US Billboard 200 with 49,000 copies sold in its first week. The album produced three singles: "Thank God for Girls", "Do You Wanna Get High?" and "King of the World". Weezer received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Album at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.

## Background

Following the release of Everything Will Be Alright in the End and the proceeding, small-scale promotional tour, Weezer separated from their management and instead signed with Crush Management. Immediately, the band's new manager, Jonathan Daniel, suggested the band produce a "beach album", a suggestion that band frontman Rivers Cuomo deemed "so obvious that we never even realized it". Also through Crush, Cuomo was able to meet producer Jake Sinclair, former engineer for the band's 2009 single, "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To", who at one point fronted a Weezer cover band named Wannabeezer. Sinclair invited Cuomo to his home studio and the two recorded an acoustic demo for "California Kids". Using the demo as a "centerpoint of the next album", the band hired Sinclair as producer, first recording the single, "Do You Wanna Get High?".

Cuomo described his relationship with Sinclair as "constantly pulling each other in these different directions", the former wishing to "evolve and try crazy experiments", while the latter served as "the voice of the fans, very conservative"; Cuomo concluded that Sinclair had largely "won". Sinclair would often even interrupt Cuomo in the midst of a vocal take if Cuomo lost his Long Island accent, featured heavily on the Blue Album. Rhythm guitarist Brian Bell stated that "[Sinclair] knew how we should sound more than we knew how we should sound". Following the composition of each song, Sinclair would take the individual band member and work privately with them on their individual's instrument arrangement. Cuomo stated that this would allow for more "fresh and layered" ideas.

## Track Listing

* 1. California Kids
* 2. Wind in Our Sail
* 3. Thank God for Girls
* 4. (Girl We Got a) Good Thing
* 5. Do You Wanna Get High?
* 6. King of the World
* 7. Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori
* 8. L.A. Girlz
* 9. Jacked Up
* 10. Endless Bummer

### Bonus Tracks

* 11. I Love the USA
* 12. Jacked Up (Remix feat. Fitz of Fitz and the Tantrums & Nadya of Pussy Riot)
* 13. Friend of a Friend
* 14. Fake Smiles and Nervous Laughter
* 15. Prom Night (Japanese Edition)