quoted from the booklet in the new Blue Album Deluxe Edition by Weezer : "suzane was a talented A&R assistnat at Geffen. in the long months of limbo between completeing the blue album in october '93 and its eventual release in may '94 she became a big weezer supporter, doing her best to keep the guys optimistic about their future with geffen. as the lyrics impy, suzanne did in fact help rivers out with her spare winter coat when he needed one, and made plates of brownies to c heer him up. her dovotion and aid were perfectly summed up in thei song. before she knew of the songs' existence the guys perfeormed it a cappella for her in her GEffen office. heedless to say it surprised the hell out of her!
originally the line 'even izzy slash and axl rose, when i call you put 'em all on hold' read 'even kurt cobain and axl rose..." in april '94 the shocking news came of kurt's untimely death. though the two had never met rivers had found great inspriation in kurts songwriting on nirvana's "bleach". so when it came time to record 'susanne' rivers decided to change the lyric, not wanting to disrespect the memory of one who had been such an inspiration."
quoted from the booklet in the new Blue Album Deluxe Edition by Weezer : "suzane was a talented A&R assistnat at Geffen. in the long months of limbo between completeing the blue album in october '93 and its eventual release in may '94 she became a big weezer supporter, doing her best to keep the guys optimistic about their future with geffen. as the lyrics impy, suzanne did in fact help rivers out with her spare winter coat when he needed one, and made plates of brownies to c heer him up. her dovotion and aid were perfectly summed up in thei song. before she knew of the songs' existence the guys perfeormed it a cappella for her in her GEffen office. heedless to say it surprised the hell out of her!
originally the line 'even izzy slash and axl rose, when i call you put 'em all on hold' read 'even kurt cobain and axl rose..." in april '94 the shocking news came of kurt's untimely death. though the two had never met rivers had found great inspriation in kurts songwriting on nirvana's "bleach". so when it came time to record 'susanne' rivers decided to change the lyric, not wanting to disrespect the memory of one who had been such an inspiration."