O Girl
| "O Girl" | |||||
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| Demo by Weezer | |||||
| Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo | ||||
| RC# | 477 | ||||
| COR# | 170 | ||||
| Status | Circulating | ||||
| Live debut | June 16, 2000 | ||||
| Rivers Cuomo song chronology | |||||
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"O Girl" (also rendered as "O-Girl") is a Weezer song demoed and performed live during the summer of 2000.
Appearances
- Released online
Overview
"O Girl" was written by Rivers Cuomo in 2000. In 2015, Cuomo provided his own annotation for the song "Do You Wanna Get High?" on the website Genius.com, wherein he revealed that the real life girl alluded to in the song's lyrics was the same girlfriend from the songs "O Girlfriend" and "O Girl".
The song is not known to have been recorded as a solo demo by Cuomo, as no such recording is listed in the Recording History and the song was absent from the digital compilation Alone VII: The Green Years, released in 2020. "O Girl" is first known to have been demoed as a band at Cole Rehearsal Studios on May 3, 2000. The band performed the song several times over the summer, and some bootlegs and soundboard recordings have circulated online since. In November of 2001, Rivers Cuomo released a semi-official "album" consisting of soundboard recordings from the band's summer 2000 tour, edited down to be what Cuomo felt, at the time, better song structures. The "official" edit of "O Girl" omits the third verse ("O girl, you're trembling...") and a chorus section.
In 2011, during a fan interview on Ustream, Brian Bell named "O Girl" as one of his favorite unreleased Weezer tracks.[citation needed]In 2011, on the fan forum All Things Weezer, Pat Wilson joked that the song was scrapped "because [he] liked it!" [1]
Live performances
- Weezer concert: 06/16/2000
- Weezer concert: 06/17/2000
- Weezer concert: 06/20/2000
- Weezer concert: 06/21/2000
- Weezer concert: 07/18/2000
- Weezer concert: 07/19/2000
- Weezer concert: 08/27/2000
- Weezer concert: 08/29/2000
Personnel
- Rivers Cuomo – lead guitar, lead vocals
- Patrick Wilson – percussion
- Brian Bell – rhythm guitar
- Mikey Welsh – bass guitar, backing vocals
Lyrics
O girl, you look sad
Burnt out and half gone mad
Filth crowding up the place
Tears on your face
O girl, you're scared to move
You don't wanna have to prove
That you're among the sane
Hiding away
O girl, I thought you a flirt
And too shallow to get hurt
But now I see in your eyes
The pain that can't be just lies
You're like me
O girl, you're trembling
Blank stare dissembling
That things are a-okay
Please go away
O girl, I thought you a flirt
And too shallow to get hurt
But now I see in your eyes
The pain that can't be just lies
You're like me
O girl
Known recordings
| Performer(s) | Title | Filename | Date of recording | Recording location | Length | Appeared on | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weezer | O Girl | May 3, 2000[2] | Cole Rehearsal Studios, Los Angeles, CA | 2:44 | Leaked online | Band rehearsal. | |
| Weezer | O Girl | July 2000[3] | ? | "Tour demo" soundboard from show or soundcheck. Show unknown. | |||
| Weezer | O Girl | September 2000[3] | ? | "Tour demo" soundboard from show or soundcheck. Show unknown. | |||
| Weezer | O Girl | WEEZER-2000-summer-02_O_Girl_170.mp3 | August 27, 2000 | Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI | 1:57 | Summer Songs 2000 ("album") | Shortened version of live recording. |
See Also
References
- ↑ Wilson, Patrick (thefranklinmint) "How did "O Girl" ever slip through?" All Things Weezer. 12 September 2011. https://allthingsweezer.com/index.php?threads/how-did-quot-o-girl-quot-ever-slip-through.25509/page-2#post-703478 Screenshot archived on Weezerpedia https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Atw-thefranklinmint-ogirl.png
- ↑ Koch, Karl. Weezer Recording History - Page 12
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Koch, Karl. Weezer Recording History - Page 12
