California Kids
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| Album track by Weezer | |||||
| Album | Weezer (The White Album) | ||||
| Released | March 9, 2016 | ||||
| Recorded | 2015 | ||||
| Length | 3:25 | ||||
| Label | Crush Music/Atlantic Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo, Daniel Dodd Wilson | ||||
| Producer(s) | Jake Sinclair | ||||
| Status | officially released | ||||
| Stream |  Spotify |
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| Single by Scott & Rivers | |||||
| Released | December 2014 | ||||
| Format | digital | ||||
| Length | 3:02 | ||||
| Label | Universal Music Japan | ||||
| Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo, Scott Murphy, Daniel Dodd Wilson | ||||
| Producer(s) | Dan Wilson, Daniel Brummel, Jake Sinclair | ||||
| Status | officially released | ||||
| Stream | Spotify |
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| Album | ニマイメ | ||||
| Released | April 12, 2017 | ||||
| Length | 3:13 | ||||
| Label | SMJ | ||||
| Writer(s) | Rivers Cuomo, Scott Murphy, Daniel Dodd Wilson | ||||
| Status | officially released | ||||
| Stream | Spotify |
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"California Kids" is the first track on The White Album. The song was initially released as "カリフォルニア" (California), a standalone single by Scott & Rivers on iTunes in December of 2014. It was later reworked, in English, as "California Kids", for inclusion on White. A new recording of the original Japanese song later appeared as "カリフォルニア サンシャイン" (California Sunshine) on the second Scott & Rivers album, ニマイメ, in 2017.
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Overview
In early 2015, Rivers told fans that an English version of "California" was being considered for inclusion in the Detour pilot.
"California Kids" was the only song kept from a group of 235 demos that Cuomo and producer Jake Sinclair listened to in early 2015 when beginning work on what would become The White Album[1], and it was the inspiration for the album's "beach/nautical theme." The lyrics feature a "pack of heroic slackers," according the the album's iTunes description. The song was accidentally made available for streaming on Apple Music in the US on February 25, 2016 and shared among the fan community before it was taken down again by Apple.
The song, played live and acoustically, was released on the band's Spotify Sessions EP.
Reception
The song received a middling review from Teenage Victory Songs, representing the moderately positive reception that band's more diehard fan base has shown the song.
Video/Audio
The music video was directed by SCANTRON and Jade Ehlers and premiered on March 9, 2016.
Weezer (Spotify Sessions)
Scott & Rivers
Personnel
Weezer
- Rivers Cuomo – guitar, lead vocals
- Patrick Wilson – percussion
- Brian Bell – guitar, backing vocals
- Scott Shriner - bass guitar, backing vocals
Scott & Rivers
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Lyrics
California Kids
When you wake up
Cobwebs on your eyelids
Stuck in rigor mortis
Just get going
'Til you hit the ocean
And you turn Californian
You don't have to have the answers
Don't you worry, don't you worry
It's gonna be alright
If you're on a sinking ship
The California kids
Will throw you a lifeline
And if you're up all night
Thinking 'bout something you did
The California kids
Will show you the sunshine
In your bare feet, in mid-January
Swimming in the mystery
Second guessing almost everything
Don't you worry, don't you worry
It's gonna be alright
If you're on a sinking ship
The California kids
Will throw you a lifeline
And if you're up all night
Thinking 'bout something you did
The California kids
Will show you the starlight
All your old friends
Chilling back in Boston
You never forgot them
It's gonna be alright
If you're on a sinking ship
The California kids
Will throw you a lifeline
And if you're up all night
Thinking 'bout something you did
The California kids
Will show you the sunshine
The California kids
Will show you the starlight
カリフォルニア
Japanese
ため息 凍る窓に 白い世界
遠くに 海を仰ぎ カリフォルニアに
見えない ゆく未来 不安を ぬぐうと
It's gonna be alright 沈みかけても
カリフォルニアの 陽を浴びたら
くじけそうで 眠れない日も
カリフォルニアの そこにサンシャイン
真冬に 素足でビーチ まわるフリスビー
水際 波たてば 潮風 ふきつけて
It's gonna be alright 沈みかけても
カリフォルニアの 陽を浴びたら
くじけそうで 眠れない日も
カリフォルニアの そこにサンシャイン
誰にも わからなくても 僕だけの場所
It's gonna be alright 沈みかけても
カリフォルニアの 陽を浴びたら
くじけそうで 眠れない日も
カリフォルニアの そこにサンシャイン
カリフォルニアの そこにサンシャイン
ショー ミー ザ サンシャイン
English translation
Translation courtesy of AllThingsWeezer user Swede
Intro:
My breath freezes on the window, the world is white (i.e. snowing outside)
Verse:
Looking across the ocean, far away, to California
An unseen future to clear away anxiety
Chorus:
It's gonna be alright, even if you're about to sink,
if you bathe in the California sun
Even on days when I can't sleep
there is sunshine in California
Verse:
A frisbee's spinning while we're barefoot on the beach in the middle of winter
The waves roll in at the water's edge, the sea breeze blows
Bridge:
A place just for me that no one else knows
Outro: Show me the sunshine
See also
References
- ↑ see Wannabeezer
