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There was some controversy regarding the second single, "We Are All on Drugs". Despite a fantastic reaction to the song at live shows, fans were quick to dismiss the song as a single. Furthermore, MTV demanded that the song be censored before they aired the video.

The song was re-dubbed with the new chorus "We Are All in Love". Later, when "Perfect Situation" was announced as the album's third single, it was decided to remix the track with a new chorus. According to Cuomo, he had written two different versions of the chorus melody.

When fans at live shows inadvertently sang it the way he originally wrote it, he realized he should change it. The new version also features backing vocals of "perfect situation" during the outros because Geffen felt the song's title wasn't repeated enough for it to be a single. Make Believe marked a drastic shift in the critical narrative surrounding Weezer's career. While the band had never received unanimously positive reviews, Weezer had enjoyed a resurgence of approval following the critical reappraisal of Pinkerton in the late 90's.

The band's first two albums began to be appreciated as modern classics, with a number of more junior bands citing them as important influences.

The reviews of both 's Weezer and 's Maladroit proved less enthusiastic than this general consensus, but did not notably stray from it.

Make Believe brought an abrupt end to this, as indicated by the album's Metacritic score of 52 out of , the lowest of their discography. While some compared the album's emotionalism to that of Pinkerton , many criticized it as cliche.

Pitchfork Media - which dominated music criticism in - gave the album a 0. The review described the writing as "lazy", and said that not only was the album terrible, but it makes the listener rethink their opinions on past Weezer work.

Many songs were written and recorded during the Make Believe demos and sessions, but few have surfaced. They include a few leaked home demos, a song on Alone , and two acoustic office demos that were not released until as iTunes bonus tracks for The Red Album. The "fallen soldiers" refers to finished recordings done during the Make Believe sessions that were ultimately left off of the album in favor of the twelve tracks that went on Make Believe.

The first pressing of Make Believe was in a digipak and featured different mixes of several songs than later editions. There was an error on "We Are All on Drugs" the wrong bridge was used , "Perfect Situation" was remixed when it became a single, and "This Is Such A Pity" which originally featured a drum fill near the end was replaced with a second incorrect mix no drum fill, no high note on the word "that" in the third verse , then again with the 'correct' mix no drum fill, high "that".

Due to all the confusion, it is unclear how many copies of each pressing were made, and exactly which versions of the three songs were used on each one. The booklet also features a monologue from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. The monologue is taken from Act 5, Scene 1 of the play in which Prospero gives up his magic.

This had prompted many fans to speculate that Make Believe would be the band's final album. The monologue is as follows:. The words "del cammin" and "vita" can also be seen hidden in the liner note illustrations, a possible reference to the opening line of Dante's Inferno, "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita" meaning "When I had journeyed half of our life's way.

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May 10 , Rick Rubin. Allmusic 4. Maladroit Make Believe Weezer The Red Album The Green Album and its quickly released follow-up, Maladroit , were both sharply written, tightly constructed, quite excellent, and popular rock records, but that didn't stop some fans from grumbling that neither album was as affecting as Pinkerton.

Those same fans will likely not be happy with Cuomo 's return to musical, emotional bloodletting with 's Make Believe. It may be a spiritual cousin to Pinkerton , yet it's far removed from the raw, nervy immediacy of that album.

Nearly ten years separate the two records, a long time by any measure, so it shouldn't be a surprise that Cuomo has a far different emotional outlook here.

On Make Believe he purposely avoids the pain and torture of Pinkerton , where the guitars exploded and scraped, complementing the torment in his lyrics. Here, Cuomo is trying to sort things out, sometimes beating himself up over past mistakes, sometimes looking at his surroundings sardonically, but something separates Make Believe from previous Weezer albums: a palpable sense of optimism, a feeling of hope, a new positivity.

That's not really what the legions of Pinkerton fans are looking for. They're likely going to find some of his lyrics perilously close to a self-help manual, particularly when Cuomo writes a sappy ode to his best friend -- and it's pretty much a given that they won't respond to Rick Rubin 's sleek, layered, propulsive production, which makes Weezer sound far more new wave than Ric Ocasek ever did.

Rubin also keeps the band far away from the pseudo-new wave of the Killers and the Bravery , which is why he's a highly paid pro. But let those fans pine for the past, because the very things that they'll find irritating about Make Believe are what make it yet another first-rate Weezer record. Part of the band's appeal is that Cuomo not only skirts the edge of embarrassment, he frequently passes far beyond it, and while that very trait is irritating in the hands of lesser-talented emo bands, in Rivers , it's quite ingratiating and endearing because he has the musical skills to back up his self-analysis.

He never overwrites, either in his words or melodies, his songs are carefully, precisely crafted pop, and his love of metal and rock gives his music muscle and balls. These gifts are as evident on Make Believe as they had been on every other Weezer record -- the only difference is this has a lighter, brighter feel than any of its predecessors, not just in the music but in its outlook.

It might not be what Weezer fans want, but as that aforementioned Rolling Stone article made clear, Cuomo never cared much about that in the first place. If they're not immediately taken with Make Believe , give it time. After all, Pinkerton didn't win fans immediately. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.

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