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−	{{Featured song MP3 headline|http://s4.last.fm/preview/121486900/191/0444078924/66/3031912.mp3|El Scorcho}}	+	{{Featured song MP3 headline|http://s4.last.fm/preview/121486900/191/0444078924/66/3031912.mp3|Walt Disney}}
−	{{Featured song artwork|Weezer_el_scorcho.jpg}}"'''El Scorcho'''" is the seventh track on ''[[Pinkerton]].'' It's one of the first narrative songs Rivers wrote at Harvard. In a 2006 interview with the Harvard college newspaper, The Crimson, that the lines mentioning "Cio-Cio San" and "watching Grunge leg-drop New Jack" were actually taken from an essay from a classmate of his at Harvard in an Expository Writing class. The printed lyrics to the song identify these two lines as quoted with the enclosure of quotation marks. "...one example is, in 'Pinkerton,' in 'El Scorcho,' two lines in the song are actually taken from someone else’s essay in my Expos class. Because at one point, we had to do a little workshop thing, and we each got assigned to review someone else’s essay. So, I reviewed this one person’s essay, and I liked some of the lines in it, so I took them and used them in the song." The actual meaning of "watching Grunge leg-drop New Jack" is a reference to ECW's star Johnny Grunge leg dropping New Jack, through a table, possibly referencing a photograph of Grunge fighting wrestler New Jack that was published in Pro Wrestling Illustrated.	+	{{Featured song artwork|Alone-II.jpg}}"'''Walt Disney'''" is the fifteenth track on ''[[Alone II]]'' and was written in January 1995. The lyrics of the song make reference to the urban legend that Walt Disney was placed in suspended animation upon his death. The lyrics themselves deal with Cuomo's frustrations with touring:
−	The song is jokingly referenced as a song by Weezer's fictional alter-ego ''The Astronauts'' in the storyline of the teasers promoting ''[[Everything Will Be Alright in the End]]'', where one of the label executives remarks that he is a fan of their deeper cuts like ''El Scorpio.''	+	''"I tried to describe the frozen, numb condition I had fallen into after seven months in the spotlight on the road. The song had a beautiful, mellow sound. I really appreciated it and was greatful to it. It did capture the state of my life at the time."''
		+	Rivers has said that the "phone singing" line in the third verse was a stand in for Weezer's manager calling him to go over the details of the impending tour which he dreaded.
−	{{Featured song links|El Scorcho}}	+
		+	{{Featured song links|Walt Disney}}
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Revision as of 05:44, 28 November 2014

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Featured song: "Walt Disney"

"Walt Disney" is the fifteenth track on Alone II and was written in January 1995. The lyrics of the song make reference to the urban legend that Walt Disney was placed in suspended animation upon his death. The lyrics themselves deal with Cuomo's frustrations with touring:

"I tried to describe the frozen, numb condition I had fallen into after seven months in the spotlight on the road. The song had a beautiful, mellow sound. I really appreciated it and was greatful to it. It did capture the state of my life at the time."

Rivers has said that the "phone singing" line in the third verse was a stand in for Weezer's manager calling him to go over the details of the impending tour which he dreaded.

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