Perfect Situation

Infobox Single
Name = Perfect Situation


Artist = Weezer
from Album = Make Believe
Released = December 2005
Format = CD
Recorded = 2004
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 4:14
Label = Geffen
Producer = Rick Rubin
Last single = "We Are All on Drugs"
(2005)
This single = "Perfect Situation"
(2005)
Next single = "This Is Such a Pity"
(2006)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Make Believe
Type = studio
Tracks =
# "Beverly Hills"
# "Perfect Situation"
# "This Is Such a Pity"
# "Hold Me"
# "Peace"
# "We Are All on Drugs"
# "The Damage In Your Heart"
# "Pardon Me"
# "My Best Friend"
# "The Other Way"
# "Freak Me Out"
# "Haunt You Every Day"

"Perfect Situation" is the third single from American alternative rock band Weezer's fifth album, "Make Believe", following "Beverly Hills" and "We Are All on Drugs."

The song is also one of their most successful songs to date as well, topping the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks for four weeks, outlasting the first single off the "Make Believe" album, "Beverly Hills".

Radio edit

The radio edit of this song features a shortened intro, a synth track on the first and second chorus (the album version only has it on the second chorus), a reworked "oh oh" chorus and the added backup vocals of "perfect situation" over the outro. The radio edit is eight seconds shorter than the album version. The reworked chorus that appears in the radio edit was one of two ways Cuomo originally wrote the song. When touring in summer 2005, when the band prompted the crowd to sing along, they oddly enough sung it in the other way Cuomo had written it (different from the record version). Cuomo stated in an interview during the band's 2005 performance at the AOL Sessions as saying "Well, if these ten thousand people think it should go this way, maybe we should go back and re-record it."

The alternate version was put on later pressings of the album with the full intro, reworked chorus and outro.

Music video

The video, directed by Marc Webb, premiered on November 11, 2005 and features actress Elisha Cuthbert as the lead singer of Weeze, a fictional predecessor to Weezer, who is eventually replaced by actual frontman Rivers Cuomo. The video also features a cameo by the band's webmaster/band photographer/archivist and close friend for many years Karl Koch and like the "Beverly Hills" video, the band asked actual Weezer fans to answer a casting call to be in the video's crowd scenes [http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1511678/20051018/weezer.jhtml?headlines=true] . A new cover for "Make Believe" was created for the video of Perfect Situation showing the fictional name "Weeze."

Personnel

*Rivers Cuomo – lead guitar, lead vocals
*Patrick Wilson – percussion
*Brian Bell – rhythm guitar
*Scott Shriner – bass guitar
*Rick Rubin – Production

External links

* [http://www.weezernet.com/index.php?page=lyrics&lid=234 Lyrics for "Perfect Situation"]