"This Is Such a Pity" is a song by the American alternative rock band Weezer. It is the fourth single from the band's fifth album, '' Make Believe''. It was released to the radio on March 6, 2006. This marks the first time that Weezer has ever released a fourth single from one of their albums. The liner notes of ''Make Believe'' credit Rivers Cuomo as the sole writer of the song, yet Brian Bell came up with the dueling guitar solo. All the keyboards on the song were done using a $75 Casio keyboard. The band tried demoing the song with more expensive Moog keyboards, but ended up being most satisfied with the Casio sound. Cuomo claims "This is Such a Pity" to be his favorite song from '' Make Believe''.

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of The Strokes has also said it is his favorite Weezer song.

Track listing

Radio Only Promo Single # "This is Such a Pity" (Radio Version) - 3:27

Mash-up video and controversy

The song only enjoyed modest success on modern rock radio, partly because the song doesn't have an official accompanying music video. However, a mash up music video featuring footage from the 1984 breakdancing-themed movie '' Breakin''' was uploaded to YouTube shortly after the song was announced as the fourth single off '' Make Believe''. The clip was created by Rafael Sans, a theology student at

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and become an Internet phenomenon both among the band's hardcore fan base and throughout the online blogging community. The clip was even featured on the weezer.com homepage. Yet, soon after its success, the video was banned from YouTube because, as

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, the site's senior director of marketing explained, "it was likely that the user did not have the proper authorization to upload the video, and the rights-holder contacted YouTube." Despite this, Sans later uploaded the video on Vimeo in 2009.

Personnel

* Rivers Cuomo – lead guitar,

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* Brian Bell –

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* Scott Shriner – bass guitar *

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, percussion * Rick Rubin – production

References

External links

'Such A Pity': YouTube Pulls Homemade Weezer Video
on MTV.com Weezer songs 2006 singles Songs written by Rivers Cuomo Song recordings produced by Rick Rubin 2004 songs {{2000s-rock-song-stub