My favorite song

So this is a free post in which you will write about your favorite song. I'm quite sure you have dozens of favorite songs but you can only talk about one.

My favorite song is Across the Sea performed by the North American band Weezer. This song is featured on their second album named Pinkerton. When Pinkerton was released in 1996, The Rolling Stone magazine said that it was the worst album of the decade and that Weezer would regret releasing it. Lots of magazines gave the same review. In the early 2000s, The Rolling Stone magazine said that they made a huge mistake and that Pinkerton was among the best albums of all times, furthermore, it gave Pinkerton a score of 5 out of 5 and added it to The Rolling Stone Hall of Fame. Pinkerton is full of songs about unrequited love: a lesbian whom Cuomo (lead singer) wants to marry, a girl who doesn't want to go to a Green Day concert, and a Japanese fangirl that infatuates Cuomo with a letter. That last description  is the theme for Across the Sea.

Across the Sea is based on a real life event that ocurred to Cuomo. He enrolled in Harvard to study English language and literature (like me) and was having a rough time, feeling quite empty and sad. Until one day he received a letter from an 18-year old Japanese girl written in a funny English. In this letter, she asks him several everyday questions. Cuomo has stated that she fell in love with this girl immediately although he never met her. And the song is about that. The opening lines are about the questions the girl made, and then, the song is all about Cuomo's reaction and desires being the most important his depressing feeling of being away from her. The song is filled with powerful guitar chords and a feeling of despair that hits right in the soft spot.

When I listened this song for the first time around 2008, I fell completely in love with it. I was feeling quite empty at that time, and I felt even emptier after listening to this song because I had no one. Nonetheless, I felt  reassured that if that nerd Cuomo was able to survive, I could as well.

So, you have to write about your favorite song stating:
- Who performed it
- In which album it was released
- The topic of the song
- Any funny stories related to it
- Why you like it
- And a link to the song.

The minimun number of words is 170 and don't forget to comment on 3 of your classmates' blogs.