Lonely Girl (Weezer song)
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| name = Lonely Girl
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| artist = Weezer
| album = Everything Will Be Alright in the End
| released = October 7, 2014
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| recorded = 2014
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| genre = Alternative rock, power pop
| length = 2:49
| label = Republic
| writer = Rivers Cuomo, Joshua Berman Alexander
| producer = Ric Ocasek
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"Lonely Girl" is a song by the American rock band Weezer from their ninth studio album Everything Will Be Alright in the End. While the song has not been released as a single, it was the fourth song from the album to be publicly available on stream prior to release, after "Back to the Shack", "Cleopatra" and "The British Are Coming".{{cite web|url=http://www.stereogum.com/1707697/weezer-lonely/mp3s/|title=Weezer – "Lonely Girl" - Stereogum|work=Stereogum|date=26 September 2014 |accessdate=October 16, 2014}}
Composition
A mid-tempo love song, Carolyn Menyes from Music Times described "Lonely Girl" as having "a "Buddy Holly"-like swing to the beat and the blend of heavy guitars mixed with a soft-singing Rivers Cuomo recalls distinctively The Green Album era".{{cite web|url=http://www.musictimes.com/articles/10269/20140916/review-weezer-lonely-girl-green-album-listen.htm|title=REVIEW: Weezer's "Lonely Girl" Recalls the 'Green Album' Era with a Plea to Dance [LISTEN]|work=Music Times|accessdate=October 16, 2014}} Ian Cohen at Pitchfork Media notes that the song "isolates the second verse of "Only in Dreams" and reworks Cuomo's Japanese curio "Homely Girl" into a legitimate buzzy throwback."{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19830-weezer-everything-will-be-alright-in-the-end/|title=Weezer|work=Pitchfork|accessdate=October 16, 2014}} Dan Reilly from Spin characterizes the song as more straightforward than "The British Are Coming", and more similar to "Back to the Shack".{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2014/09/weezer-lonely-song-stream-everything-will-be-alright-in-the-end/|title=Weezer Are Here to Cure a 'Lonely' Girl's Woes|date=September 26, 2014|work=SPIN|accessdate=October 16, 2014}} The song also contains "rowdy hooks and fast-paced gallop".{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11340451|title=Album review: Weezer, Everything Will Be Alright in the End|work=The New Zealand Herald|accessdate=October 16, 2014}}
Reception
Carolyn Menyes at Music Times states "'Lonely Girl' seems to blend together some of the best moments from Weezer's most beloved albums." Tom Breihan from Stereogum described it as "a fine example of the sort of supercharged power-pop that this band does so well when Rivers Cuomo is feeling motivated". Slant Magazine writer Blue Sullivan notes that the song "finds the band finally casting off its slacker straitjacket".{{cite web|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/weezer-everything-will-be-alright-in-the-end|title=Weezer: Everything Will Be Alright in the End - Album Review - Slant Magazine|date=October 4, 2014|work=Slant Magazine|accessdate=October 16, 2014}} Mattison Keesey of AltWire noted that the song is "without a doubt classic Weezer" and compared it to the albums Weezer (1994) and Pinkerton.{{cite web|url=http://www.altwire.net/2014/09/26/weezer-share-new-song-lonely-girl/|title=Weezer Share New Song 'Lonely Girl' - AltWire|work=AltWire|accessdate=October 16, 2014}} Allan Raible from ABC News was more critical of the song, noting the "painfully easy rhyming sections".{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/record-release-rundown-latest-weezer-macy-gray-johnny/story?id=26112024#1|title=Record Release Rundown: The Latest From Weezer, Macy Gray, Johnny Marr and More|work=ABC News|accessdate=October 16, 2014}}
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Category:Song recordings produced by Ric Ocasek