"Lonely Girl" | |
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Song by Weezer | |
from the album Everything Will Be Alright in the End | |
Released | October 7, 2014 |
Recorded | 2014 |
Genre | Alternative rock, power pop |
Length | 2:49 |
Label | Republic |
Songwriter(s) | Rivers Cuomo, Joshua Berman Alexander |
Producer(s) | Ric Ocasek |
"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". [1]
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". [2] 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." [3] Dan Reilly from Spin characterizes the song as more straightforward than "The British Are Coming", and more similar to "Back to the Shack". [4] The song also contains "rowdy hooks and fast-paced gallop". [5]
Carolyn Menyes at Music Times states "'Lonely Girl' seems to blend together some of the best moments from Weezer's most beloved albums." [2] 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". [1] Slant Magazine writer Blue Sullivan notes that the song "finds the band finally casting off its slacker straitjacket". [6] Mattison Keesey of AltWire noted that the song is "without a doubt classic Weezer" and compared it to the albums Weezer (1994) and Pinkerton . [7] Allan Raible from ABC News was more critical of the song, noting the "painfully easy rhyming sections". [8]
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