Wanda (You're My Only Love)
"Wanda (You're My Only Love)" | |||||
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Demo by Rivers Cuomo | |||||
Album | Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo | ||||
Released | December 18, 2007 | ||||
Recorded | January 1995 | ||||
Length | 3:38 | ||||
Label | Geffen | ||||
Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo | ||||
RC# | 196 | ||||
COR# | N/A | ||||
Producer(s) | Rivers Cuomo | ||||
Status | Released | ||||
Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo track listing | |||||
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Rivers Cuomo song chronology | |||||
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"Wanda (You're My Only Love)" is the 10th track on Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.
Contents
Appearances
Overview
"Wanda" is primarily acoustic home demo written by Weezer lead singer Rivers Cuomo. It was leaked several years prior to its eventual release on Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo. In 1995, Cuomo was approached by the producers of the film "Angus" to write a song for the their soundtrack. He read the script and wrote the song "Wanda (You're My Only Love)" (the verses of which summarize the movie's plot). This acoustic ballad was rejected by the producers for not sounding enough like Weezer. Rivers was hurt by this rejection but eventually submitted "You Gave Your Love to Me Softly", a more up-tempo number.
In The Pinkerton Diaries, in a 1994 entry, there is a handwritten couplet of lyrics "What's wrong with me? / I'm making money" on a photocopy of a fax letter, one can assume that this was a very early draft of Wanda before Rivers completely changed the lyrics when approached by the producers of the film "Angus". Also featured in the book is the sheet music for a musical exercise titled "March of the Pipettepedes", which features a section greatly resembling the melody from Wanda. The song's titular line was inspired by the ballet The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky.[1][2]
The song was later rehashed for Rivers' Homie project a few years later in 1997, where it was played at Homie concerts. Whether the song was recorded in a full-band setting during the Homie recording sessions at Fort Apache is unknown.
An acoustic version of Wanda can be heard for several seconds on Video Capture Device, right before a brief acoustic version of Superfriend.
Liner notes
Reception
Pitchfork Media gave a positive review of "Wanda" in their review of Alone, comparing it favorably to Pinkerton.[3]
Personnel
- Rivers Cuomo – lead guitar, lead vocals, percussion, rhythm guitar, bass guitar
Audio
Lyrics
What's wrong with me?
I'm kinda funny
I'm not a dummy
But I'm all alone
Nobody sees me
No one talks to me
Unless they're laughing
Laughing at me
Except for her
She was my true friend
Dancing with me
She was my girlfriend
Somebody, please, tell her for me
Wanda, you're my only love
You're so lucky
Your family's normal
Mom drives a big rig
And my daddy's gay
No matter to her
She was my true friend
Dancing with me
She was my girlfriend
Somebody, please, tell her for me
Wanda you're my only love
Until the day I threw you away
Now I'm alone, and I wish you were home
See also
References
- ↑ "Rivers Cuomo." Discord. 2 December 2021 File:Mrn-tchaikovsky.png
- ↑ Royal Opera House "The Nutcracker – Sugar Plum pas de deux: Adagio (Nuñez, Muntagirov, The Royal Ballet)" YouTube. 26 December 2018. https://youtu.be/qy6dlGpC3Ns?t=20s
- ↑ [1]