Rivers Cuomo Talks Calculated Drug Use That Inspired New Weezer Song 'Do You Wanna Get High?'

According to Cuomo, as taken from a post of his on lyric annotation site Genius, the meaning of "Do You Wanna Get High?" is pretty straightforward. "This is about me and my darling girlfriend in 2000/2001 - the same girl that inspired 'O Girlfriend' from the Green Album ("taking pills and mellowing out")... Those were some incredible nights... I remember hanging out with [Limp Bizkit singer] Fred Durst around that time too," he wrote.

Cuomo then gets into some more specifics of the new song and the pill use that inspired it. "We can listen to Bacharach / And stop at any point" read the lyrics at one point, the artist reminiscing "I'll stop at 2 pills, max. I have a milligram scale to measure any kind of addictive substance I might be taking, for example, caffeine. I keep track of it all in google docs and taper my withdrawals to minimize discomfort."

He then makes sure to explain that this was an old frame of mind and he no longer carries himself in the same way.

"Do You Wanna Get High?" is the band's second new song released since 2014's Everything Will Be Alright in the End, the more cheerful "Thank God for Girls" being the first.

As far as speculation goes regarding a new album, Cuomo recently spoke to Zane Lowe of Beats 1 about Weezer's plan, or lack thereof. "We don't have a record deal anymore so we're kind of on the loose and experimenting and nobody's in charge anymore," he said. "We're just doing what we want to do."

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