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{{quote| Much like ''[[Hamlet]]'' is a young man’s play, I feel that ''Pinkerton'' is something of a young man’s album.|'''Teenage Victory Songs''', [http://tvs.soymilkrevolution.com/?p{{=}}133 "Why Bother?"] }}
 
''Pinkerton'' is [[Alternative Rock]] band [[Weezer]]'s second album, released on 24 September 1996. The album was initially planned as a [[Rock Opera]] named ''Songs from the Black Hole'', but the concept was eventually abandoned, and the final album combined songs that were discarded from ''Black Hole'' and new, [[Creator Breakdown|Creator Breakdowny]] material.
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* [[Continuity Nod]]: "Falling for you" gets mentioned in "El Scorcho", only for a song named "Falling for You" to appear shortly afterwards. "Falling for You" itself mentions "turning in my rockstar card", which is a nod to the lyrics of "The Good Life", and the aforementioned girl's cello from "El Scorcho" makes another appearance.
* [[Creator Backlash]]: Rivers admits in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FySvK2nEh7Q&feature=player_embedded#! this interview] that he was severely embarrassed by how ''Pinkerton'' sunk on the charts and received a critical pasting, feeling that it was his fault that he had exposed [[Too Much Information]] about himself. As a result, he suffered from crippling self-doubt for a long time and steered Weezer back into a [[Lighter and Softer]] direction, hoping to avoid the backlash that ''Pinkerton'' had suffered.
{{quote| '''Rivers''' (2001): It's a hideous record... It was such a hugely painful mistake that happened in front of hundreds of thousands of people and continues to happen on a grander and grander scale and just won't go away. It's like getting really drunk at a party and spilling your guts in front of everyone and feeling incredibly great and cathartic about it, and then waking up the next morning and realizing what a complete fool you made of yourself.}}
* [[Creator Breakdown]]: [[Word of God|Rivers]] admitted some of the material was inspired by the isolation he felt at Harvard, when he could only write "while the dinner was in the microwave" because he was otherwise either doing homework or lying in bed on painkillers. "The Good Life" is most heavily inspired by this, nodding to his slovenly appearance and the "old man cane" he needed to walk with during leg surgery.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Big time compared to ''The Blue Album''.
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