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Pink Triangle (song)

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The song describes a man who falls in love with a woman with whom he imagines he could settle down and be married. However, he soon discovers that the object of his affection is a
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and never charted and thus was deemed not to warrant a video. This would be the band's last single with bassist
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A promo single was sent to radio stations that also contained an acoustic version of the song recorded at
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considered the song to be "less successful—musically and emotionally" compared to other songs on
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Major, however, has an unstable tempo, as the album was recorded without the use of a metronome.
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who possibly thinks that the man himself is gay. The song is based on a real person that Weezer
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ranked "Pink Triangle" as Weezer's fifth best song. Josh Modell of
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The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)
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that features footage shot by Jennifer Wilson, wife of Weezer
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Live acoustic track is the same as on "The Good Life" OZ EP
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Promotional single
Weezer
Pinkerton
Genre
Emo
power pop
alternative rock
Label
DGC
Songwriter(s)
Rivers Cuomo
Producer(s)
Weezer
The Good Life
Hash Pipe
rock
Weezer
Pinkerton
DGC Records
Rivers Cuomo
lesbian
frontman
Rivers Cuomo
Harvard
pink triangle
Shorecrest High School
Seattle, Washington
airplay
Matt Sharp

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