Scott: To me it’s just an epic drama, and I felt really strong about it being on the album. īand Commentary Pat: It sounds like it could have been on the Green Album. The song was included in Rivers Cuomo's "B-List" during pre-production on Make Believe, and did not appear on album's store page in the months prior to the album's release. throughout the year, and was also demoed at Swing House Rehearsal & Recording in late 2003. The song continued to be demoed at S.I.R.
Rehearsal Studios in Los Angeles on September 15, 2002, with Josh Freese sitting in on drums. The song is first known to have been demoed as a band at S.I.R.
Several Official Bootlegs (Live Version)Īccording to the Catalog O' Riffs, "Perfect Situation" was initially written around July of 2002. Six Hits EP (remix - full length) (2008). AOL Sessions Best Buy Exclusive DVD (live session) (2005). "Perfect Situation" promo CD (remix - edit) (2005). Make Believe (original version replaced by remix on later pressings) (2005). A new cover for Make Believe was created for the video of Perfect Situation, replacing Cuomo with Cuthbert, as well as showing the fictional name "Weeze". 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. 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 alternate version was put on later pressings of the album with the full intro, reworked chorus and outro. 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." When touring in summer 2005, when the band prompted the crowd to sing along, they oddly enough sang it in the other way Cuomo had written it (different from the record version). The reworked chorus that appears in the radio edit was one of two ways Cuomo originally wrote the song. 
The radio edit is eight seconds shorter than the album version. 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.
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