Perfect Situation
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| Template:Infobox song/link by Weezer | ||||
| from the album Make Believe | ||||
| Released | October 11, 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 2004 | |||
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| Label | Geffen | |||
| [[Songwriter|SongwriterTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | Rivers Cuomo | |||
| [[Record producer|ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | Rick Rubin | |||
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"Perfect Situation" is a song by American alternative rock band Weezer. It was released to radio on October 11, 2005, as the third single from the band's fifth album Make Believe, following "Beverly Hills" and "We Are All on Drugs".[1]
The song is also one of the band's most successful songs to date, topping the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks for four weeks, outlasting the one-week run atop the chart of "Beverly Hills", although it didn't gain the former's massive pop success, reaching No. 51 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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 sang 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 longtime close friend Karl Koch and like the "Beverly Hills" video, the band invited actual Weezer fans via casting call to be in the video's crowd scenes.[2] 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".
Charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[7] | Gold | 500,000 |
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Personnel
Personnel are taken from the Make Believe CD booklet.[8]
Weezer
Technical personnel
- Rick Rubin – production
- Chad Bramford – additional production
- Weezer – additional production
- Neal Avron – mixing
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FMQB Airplay Archive: Modern Rock". Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report, Incorporated. Archived from the original on March 22, 2013. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Montgomery, James (October 18, 2005). "Elisha Cuthbert Takes Over Weezer — But Rivers Won't Have Any of It". MTV. Viacom. Retrieved August 17, 2007.[dead link]
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."R&R Canada Rock Top 30" (PDF). Radio & Records. March 10, 2005. p. 72. Retrieved April 1, 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Most-Played Modern Rock Songs of 2005" (PDF). Airplay Monitor. Vol. 13, no. 50. December 16, 2005. p. 52. Retrieved April 1, 2026.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Top Canada Rock Songs" (PDF). Radio & Records. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Alternative Songs – Year-End 2006". Billboard. Archived from the original on May 18, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2026.
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External links
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- "Perfect Situation" Official music video on YouTube
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