I love this particular version of Hold Me so much that i think i might actually prefer this version to the original. The cross-dressed, depressed looking Rivers, the sad and somber isolated sounding vocals and the empty acoustic guitar, the unproduced sound of it just screams loneliness and the desperate desire for romantic love or perhaps an emotional connection with another significant human being.
I think this song is about a parent-child relationship. First verse is the point of view of an infant child needed their parent's love. The later verse is the point of view of an elderly lonely parent that needs their kid's love.
Became my favorite Make Believe track instantly and remains it. My friend and I found a handful of the tracks that weren't Beverly Hills that happened to leak early, and this was one of them. It gave me a Pinkerton vibe-- even if it was the studio version i was listening to and playing on repeat- and it gave me so much hope for Make Believe to have pockets of really good material, and it just never felt right to me. Demos for it are very nice and I'm glad these all exist and are making the rounds.... But the final product for Make Believe contained too many poor choices of poppy/droned out radio hits, for singles and overproduction on the whole album... and just poor production at times. It could have been so much better. The demos had so much potential, looking at them and listening to them all now, having never even heard some of these before tonight..... Glad to be discovering so many different versions of this song. Still one of my favorite Weezer tunes, but I forget about it a lot, because the final product just didn't turn out like I wish it did. If only Weezer would do a re-release of their albums in demo / low-fi form.... the production is way too over-the-top on so many of their new albums that I can only enjoy the demos now.
Songs great but damn the picture makes me even more gay for rivers.Drag rivers is something I didnt know I needed. Rivers from 1994-2002 is fucking sexy. Rivers always is actually. But damn surinv that time its something else. Hold me is best in this form.
