“Pink Triangle” by Weezer

Rivers Cuomo wrote "Pink Triangle" about a crush that turns into a punchline and a heartbreak at the same time. The narrator falls hard for a woman and is already picturing marriage when he learns she's a lesbian, one who may even have him pegged as gay. It came straight out of Cuomo's own days at Harvard, where he spun a whole imagined life around a woman he'd crossed paths with, right up until he spotted the pink triangle on her sleeve. A year and a half after Pinkerton came out, he found out she'd only been signaling solidarity with gay people.

The third single from Weezer's second album, after "El Scorcho" and "The Good Life", it went to radio on DGC in 1997, and the label's request for a radio remix sent the band back into Fort Apache Studios.

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