this made me laugh more then i should have. was not expecting that bit about lactose intolerance at all but as someone who has it that just about explains the entire song
I read an interview with NPR in 2009 about how Rivers wrote this song and it's so funny. He mentioned " in mid-2000, somehow my experiments evolved to a point where step one was take a pill of Ritalin. Step two was take three shots of tequila.Step three was go out in the backyard, sit down on a chair. Step four was close your eyes and imagine the song. And thats how I wrote Hash Pipe"
“These lyrics make the most sense!”- he said about a song written by a man on tons of Ritalin and three shots of tequila in an hour. Honestly it could be “ice wine” for all I know.
both mean the same, somehow. if those players come with their problems for that behind they like, no matter your trick, both eyes wide and asswipes will be needed. really hope there's no kids involved.
"Ass wide" makes the most sense based on the other lyrics of the song. I thought I remember reading an interview with Rivers way back in the day where he said he passed the lyrics off as "eye swipe" to get it past the record company but "ass wide" were the real lyrics.
Ok, so there's one VERY important piece of info to be brought up as the the confusion over ass wide vs ass wipe. The video version is an edit of the album version. In the video version, you never hear the two bars of the downstroked G chord (also maybe a little clever music nerd joke) at the very end of the chorus. It just cuts that part out completely. You will find that the video version clocks in just under 3 minutes, but the album version is just over 3 minutes. So what happens in the video version (possibly the radio edit) is that the line "I got my ass wide" gets cut in the first half of the word "wide" sounding like "why". That cut gets stiched over the word "Hash Pipe" in the album version chorus, with just the plosive sound of the "p" making it into the edit. Stitch that together and it sounds like "wipe". Based on the fact the record label wasnt a huge fan of releasing a song called hash pipe as a single (it was 2001), it makes sense why they cut out the title from the song as much as they did, and to be honest I kind of like it more with out that really aggro hammer down on the "Hash Pipe" repeat in the chorus on the album version. Anyway, this is one of my fav Weezer tracks and I've definitely needed out too much with a silly pop song.
Considering Rivers’ history of intentionally messing with fans and the fact that there’s another song on the album that has some lyrics that sound very sexual (chorus of Smile) but are apparently different words, I think that this is intentional. In Smile, it seems like they deliberately made the lyrics that way, since the actual words don’t make any sense. So either both songs are about gay sex and they’ve been disguising them, or Rivers is intentionally making the lyrics not clearly distinguishable and seeing what people come up with. If it’s the latter, they probably didn’t release the lyrics for Hash Pipe because there isn’t really specific words that he’s saying.
Theory: He said nothing. He made the sounds "ahs why" and hard stopped the last vowel without making an actual consonant sound, leaving it entirely up to everyone else to try to decide what he was saying.
@@arandomsupra This. Most musicians like the listener to form their own interpretations of a song. The benefits of such to the artist are obvious: when listeners are interpreting it themselves, they have a more personal connection to the music which is an obvious benefit to the band. What better way encourage that than to be intentionally unclear?
There's almost no doubt to me that the real lyric to Smile isn't "fine face sucking dick" - I've listened closely to it so many times and I just can't hear "i can't take." To me it sounds like an intentional blending of the two lyrics.
@@zachperkins688 I think that the lyric is supposed to be sucking dick but they said it's i cant take to avoid backlash and explicit tag issues. to me, I can kind of hear I cant take, and I think he intentionally said it kind of weird just like he says the hash pipe lyric weird.
As a non-native English speaker, the lyrics always puzzled me as a kid, and now I have two of my favorite songs talking about buttsex without ever knowing it, thx, the internet (The other one is Stinkfist by Tool if you're wondering)
This whole conversation about "eyes wide/ass wide" exists because Rivers actually says the both. But this change is on the chorus, so the lyrics sites are confused about it. Some lyrics sites are very bad about changes like this. Because of this, I only trust Genius and sometimes Musixmatch for lyrics.
that's because MTV wouldn't air the video and forced the band to redo the lyrics for the video/change the name to Half Pipe (Much Music however kept the uncensored video/lyrics)
I think the line might be "big cheese" in reference to a Nirvana song called Big Cheese. We know Weezer (or at least Rivers) like Nirvana, considering they played a whole Nirvana cover show as Goat Punishment
Been a Weezer fan since the mid-90s, and have been rediscovering them recently. I had no idea they would have recorded a Sci-Fi rock opera instead of Pinkerton. I like "Pinkerton" but LOVE "Songs from the Black Hole", its weirdness, warts, lore, and all. It has some cringe issues today, and maybe that was part of why it didn't release. Anyway, I feel like "You Won't Get With Me Tonight" would have made a great first single to lead off the album because it slaps. It's better than "el Scorcho" and I loved that song back in the 90s but doesn't 'slap'. So I'm hoping you do an episode on "Songs from the Black Hole" soon. It's their great lost masterpiece. Oh, and I always just assumed it was 'Ass Wipe', and they slipped it in and got away with it. It makes more sense to be either 'Eyes Wide' or 'Ass Wide' actually.
This may not hold much weight, but I used to karaoke this song in the mid 2000s and the teleprompter showed ass wipe, big cheese, and kick me. I did not make any lyrics up as I had to follow along with what was on the screen.
fun fact actually, on amazon music it's confirmed as ass wide in the lyrics of it. of course that's like not the most viable piece of evidence, but interesting nonetheless
In the context of the song, both ass wide and eyes wide work. Ass wide seems to appear in the green album version and live shows from that time while eyes wide seems to be a newer thing
I had no idea this was even a thing, I'd always heard it as "ass wipe" and "kick me" (and "big jeans" but that's neither here nor there). Very interesting analysis! Nice job!
And additionally, I had already been scripting videos for musical analysis before but this is certainly a new inspiration. Very cleanly edited and well paced. Nice job, again!
This came up in my feed and I had to click because I had no idea what this could be. Incredible content, I've already started sending it to other people. For the record I think it's definitely ass wide.
Has anyone looked at a Japanese copy of the CD? I believe there was a requirement for official lyrics to be included with albums at the time. English language albums often included then as a second booklet in addition to the main one.
My favorite artist back 5ish years ago was Bleachers and I know for a fact he's changed his lyrics over time. Even on his latest album there's few things he says differently depending on recording. So yeah I'd imagine most bands just keep it vague and over time it grows confusing
If I was rivers cuomo I would just sing “eyyyaaasss wiiiiiiiddpeeee” (Also I’m super excited for the white album video. The white album is my favorite weezer album!)
@@boingledink4332 the joke is that they hoth made white albums, and when you day your favorite album is the white album people assume Beatles. The fact that joke flew over your head is shocking.
oh thank god this isnt one of those obnoxious ironically +40 minute "comedic" conspiracy videos good video mate, will check out the Green Album Deluxe and your other works
I believe it's "big cheese" because as everyone knows, Rivers Cuomo is actually Kurt Cobain and the second to last track of Nirvana's debut album "Bleach" is Big Cheese, therefore nullifying any claims that the lyric was indeed "Big G's"
I know you're joking, but I came here to post about this same relationship. Rivers reported around this time he was obsessed with Nirvana and made spreadsheets about their songs. I think it's perfectly plausible that "big cheese" is in here partly to pay homage to Kurt Cobain and to tip off listeners that the lyrics are intentionally ambivalently pronounced.
He’s definitely saying big g’s because remember we had to retroactively change which weezer member is Kurt cobain, the leading theory is it’s now Brian bell
Green Album came out when I was in grade 12, was the sound of the summer, we played it over a military parade square PA system a lot at Sea Cadet Summer Camp, people doing survival in the woods on the other side of the base could hear it LOL, Base Commander liked it so we got a pass :)
Wtf I was looking at a guitar tab for Hash Pipe, I go on TH-cam and bam this is the first thing on my recommended. Spooky Ass wide makes the most sense, but I think if you asked Rivers he probably wouldn't even respond just to mess with you (and also he wrote the song when he was on Ritalin and Tequila so the memory of what went through his mind is probably hazy)
I've actually got a Japanese CD copy of Green, and it has lyrics for Green in the liner notes. So according to the lyrics they sing this during the chorus, "Oh! Come on and get me Oh! Come on and kick me (woah) Come on and kiss me (woah) You got your problems (woah) I got my ass wipe You got your big cheese I got my hash pipe" btw sick videos man, excited for what's next!
Replacing an "I" sound like the one in "eyes" with an "A" sound is actually very common. It's most obvious in people from New York (see: any song by Vampire Weekend), but it's a very widespread way to have nicer sounding vowels.
The way he sings the opening line to this song always reminded me of the way Lita Ford sang the opening to Kiss Me Deadly. I remember watching an episode of Cow and Chicken years and years ago and there was this tribe of people they met who called themselves the "Azz-weep-ays." Ass-wi-pes.
Interesting use of the Chris Vrenna remixes to hear clearer vocals. I thought you were gonna go the simple "isolated vocal track ripped from Rock Band 3" route that every other misheard lyric video uses. This is like the closest we'll get to official Hash Pipe lyric confirmation, so speaking on behalf of every trashy garage rock cover band out there: thank you for your service.
On a message board in 2001 someone suggested it was "ice white" and for some reason my brain ran with that even though it makes less sense than any of the proposed ones in the video.
Hey man, I really appreciate you making videos on Weezer. They're one of the first band I listened to when I started to listen to music more seriously so they're really important to me. So yeah, thank you.
This is a great video! Good Work! Before this, I was pretty certain it was "eyes wide", but the "ass wide" theory is honestly really convincing. This doesn't really change anything, but I do wanna mention that in the music video for hash pipe, in the first chorus, there is a cut that removes the "big G's" line, splicing from "eyes/ass wide" to "hash pipe" creating..... "Ass wi - pe" with the p sound coming from "hash pipe". Pretty weird why they would do that.
I love this. Always sounded like ass wipe to me. Hearing the slowed down version, the first sounds like ass wipe and the second sounds a bit more like ass wide. An important consideration is that ass wipe rhymes with hash pipe way more than eyes wide does
As Weezer's my favorite band, it's awesome to see a TH-camr make such interesting, well edited and presented content about them! I only found your channel about a week or two ago but you're already one of my favorites. This was another really fun video and I can't wait to hear your White Album analysis and whatever other content you've got planned! Great work!
I'm not even as invested in Weezer as I used to be when I was younger, but for whatever reason I find videos on them to be captivating. Keep pumping these out fam, I'll keep watching em.
this is the greatest video i've ever seen to date, thank you very much you've changed my life and i think Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1992. Since 2001, the band has consisted of Rivers Cuomo (lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Patrick Wilson (drums), Scott Shriner (bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), and Brian Bell (rhythm guitar, keyb
Honestly idk I think a lot of singers when the sing they make their voices sound different or sorta funny to make the song sound more catchy or rhyme they make words sound slightly more exaggerated/different for the sound of the song or to simply rhyme I guess an example of this can be song by nysc the song "It's gonna be me" but it is sang with the "me" sound like "may" so it actually sounds like the singer is saying "It's gonna be may" I feel like this could be the case here and in many other songs. Even in the song "My own summer" by deftones it sounds like singer is saying " It's the sex" when he's saying " Hits the six" apparently, but it's the way he says it that makes it sound different that what he is saying he exaggerates the words for the tone of the song. But then again I have listened to a few weezer songs and there are some pretty weird lyrics so wouldn't be surprised if he was actually saying "ass wipe"
Little late but in the 2017 i heart radio concert they sing hash pipe live and he very clearly says "eyes wide". it does feel like one of those times where they could have changed it later though
Remembering finding this song on Justin tv, downloading it on limewire, burning it onto a mix CD using windows media player and listening to it while playing ocarina of time.
Big cheese probably means the subject has a lot of money, or, "You've got your big cheese," could mean you have a boss. I don't know, I'm just spitballing
Regarding “Big Cheese”, Rivers is a huge Nirvana fan. That lyric is a reference to the song off Bleach called Big Cheese. It’s like saying, “you got your [authority figure]”.
I always thought it was "big cheese" in the sense that he was using slang for money like "cheddar" since that term was being used in rap around that time.
I honestly think the "big cheese" lyric was "dick cheese" on the earlier demos, and then changed for the album version. Same on "Dope Nose" when we says "Flag of the year, that could beat up your man". On the demos, he says "Fag of the Year, that could beat up your man." which obviously makes way more sense, but is less PC.
Worth mentioning but it wasn't "flag of the year" until later. The lyric sheet for my original copy of Maladroit has the original word intact and Rivers is definitely dropping the british term for a ciggy on the song.
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If it's "ass wipe" because the song is about shitting, it's "big cheese" because rivers is lactose intolerant.
Omg that makes so much sense
The grass is always greener where the dogs are shitting.
this made me laugh more then i should have. was not expecting that bit about lactose intolerance at all but as someone who has it that just about explains the entire song
Asswipe was used on the radio edit. Hashpipe is used on the unedited album. Sorry to ruin everyone’s imaginations
@@moustachio334 I’m confused as to whether you’re trolling or just don’t understand what part people are arguing over.
I read an interview with NPR in 2009 about how Rivers wrote this song and it's so funny. He mentioned " in mid-2000, somehow my experiments evolved to a point where step one was take a pill of Ritalin. Step two was take three shots of tequila.Step three was go out in the backyard, sit down on a chair. Step four was close your eyes and imagine the song. And thats how I wrote Hash Pipe"
Sounds like 5-year olds version of getting wasted.
He wrote Dope Nose the same night too
@@ludrixte1938 Thats rivers, alright.
@@ludrixte1938sounds like a fun way of feeling good without getting too blasted
I used to take opiates instead of ritalin for my writing process.
"so imagine you're rivers writing a song about gay sex"
that's quite easy to imagine
I thought she likes men
All with the vsauce music in the background
mfw colin
@@BigSmoke-bu6ib she??
"pump it up into me please daddy" - rivers cuomo
“These lyrics make the most sense!”- he said about a song written by a man on tons of Ritalin and three shots of tequila in an hour. Honestly it could be “ice wine” for all I know.
I got my hast white
both mean the same, somehow. if those players come with their problems for that behind they like, no matter your trick, both eyes wide and asswipes will be needed. really hope there's no kids involved.
real fans know its ass wipe, this shit still hilarious tho
"The eyes widen to come to a conclusion"
dude my dad's band covers this song and he's the singer, he's been telling me this song is about gay sex for fucking years, this 100% validates him.
It's the briefcase from pulp fiction. It's what you want it to be
Na! The briefcase had Marcelus Wallaces' soul in it. That's a fact! I think. Someone told me that anyway.
@@PhilP8980 someone once said it was either a solid 12 inch luminescent golden dildo or a covid-69 vaccine.(High Boi, watch his recap of Pulp Fiction)
"Ass wide" makes the most sense based on the other lyrics of the song. I thought I remember reading an interview with Rivers way back in the day where he said he passed the lyrics off as "eye swipe" to get it past the record company but "ass wide" were the real lyrics.
Ok, so there's one VERY important piece of info to be brought up as the the confusion over ass wide vs ass wipe. The video version is an edit of the album version. In the video version, you never hear the two bars of the downstroked G chord (also maybe a little clever music nerd joke) at the very end of the chorus. It just cuts that part out completely. You will find that the video version clocks in just under 3 minutes, but the album version is just over 3 minutes.
So what happens in the video version (possibly the radio edit) is that the line "I got my ass wide" gets cut in the first half of the word "wide" sounding like "why".
That cut gets stiched over the word "Hash Pipe" in the album version chorus, with just the plosive sound of the "p" making it into the edit.
Stitch that together and it sounds like "wipe".
Based on the fact the record label wasnt a huge fan of releasing a song called hash pipe as a single (it was 2001), it makes sense why they cut out the title from the song as much as they did, and to be honest I kind of like it more with out that really aggro hammer down on the "Hash Pipe" repeat in the chorus on the album version.
Anyway, this is one of my fav Weezer tracks and I've definitely needed out too much with a silly pop song.
I fucking love that he compared Weezer lyrics to Chernobyl.
Ukrainian Weezer fans be wilding
Weezer is far from the first band to intentionally obscure their lyrics. It doesn't take away nor add to the band's resiliency.
Cool story bro.
Oh no... I guess he should remove this video now /s
@@joshuapatterson3447 stuck in 2007
Considering Rivers’ history of intentionally messing with fans and the fact that there’s another song on the album that has some lyrics that sound very sexual (chorus of Smile) but are apparently different words, I think that this is intentional. In Smile, it seems like they deliberately made the lyrics that way, since the actual words don’t make any sense. So either both songs are about gay sex and they’ve been disguising them, or Rivers is intentionally making the lyrics not clearly distinguishable and seeing what people come up with. If it’s the latter, they probably didn’t release the lyrics for Hash Pipe because there isn’t really specific words that he’s saying.
well after "Where's my sex" you clearly are warned Rivers like to play with misheard lyrics
Theory: He said nothing. He made the sounds "ahs why" and hard stopped the last vowel without making an actual consonant sound, leaving it entirely up to everyone else to try to decide what he was saying.
@@arandomsupra This. Most musicians like the listener to form their own interpretations of a song. The benefits of such to the artist are obvious: when listeners are interpreting it themselves, they have a more personal connection to the music which is an obvious benefit to the band. What better way encourage that than to be intentionally unclear?
There's almost no doubt to me that the real lyric to Smile isn't "fine face sucking dick" - I've listened closely to it so many times and I just can't hear "i can't take." To me it sounds like an intentional blending of the two lyrics.
@@zachperkins688 I think that the lyric is supposed to be sucking dick but they said it's i cant take to avoid backlash and explicit tag issues. to me, I can kind of hear I cant take, and I think he intentionally said it kind of weird just like he says the hash pipe lyric weird.
As a non-native English speaker, the lyrics always puzzled me as a kid, and now I have two of my favorite songs talking about buttsex without ever knowing it, thx, the internet (The other one is Stinkfist by Tool if you're wondering)
Thought it was more about fisting, which is usually not in someones ass, but I guess lol
"If theres a hole, theres a goal"
Anymore butt songs?
@@l0sts0ul894 degrees by tool.
This should be a subreddit
@@Kodabot That'd be awesome.
I never looked so deep into this song to learn that it could possibly be about gay sex
This whole conversation about "eyes wide/ass wide" exists because Rivers actually says the both. But this change is on the chorus, so the lyrics sites are confused about it. Some lyrics sites are very bad about changes like this. Because of this, I only trust Genius and sometimes Musixmatch for lyrics.
can’t believe there was no mention of the fringe “i’ve got my hash pipe” theory, popular with fans of occam’s razor and virginity.
Welp, I'm a fan of *one* of those things
Not sure how I found this channel, but ive watched all the small back catalogue and now I cant wait for more
If I remember correctly, the Hal Leonard guitar tablature book for the green album lists the lyric as "eye swipe."
Hardly controversial, but a fun fact: The first line was lifted from The Beatles' "You Can't Do That".
Interestingly, when this song was performed on UK Top of the Pops the title, and lyrics, were changed to "Half Pipe"
that's because MTV wouldn't air the video and forced the band to redo the lyrics for the video/change the name to Half Pipe (Much Music however kept the uncensored video/lyrics)
D'ya know what, you just randomly unlocked a good ol' English TV memory. You're totally right!
I remember thinking about this before. I settled on "ass wide", being the funniest interpretation because I couldn't hear half of the lyrics anyway
I think the line might be "big cheese" in reference to a Nirvana song called Big Cheese. We know Weezer (or at least Rivers) like Nirvana, considering they played a whole Nirvana cover show as Goat Punishment
Rivers IS Kurt Cobain. They did this to him to "punish" him for humiliating the corporate music industry in the early 90's.
Been a Weezer fan since the mid-90s, and have been rediscovering them recently. I had no idea they would have recorded a Sci-Fi rock opera instead of Pinkerton. I like "Pinkerton" but LOVE "Songs from the Black Hole", its weirdness, warts, lore, and all. It has some cringe issues today, and maybe that was part of why it didn't release. Anyway, I feel like "You Won't Get With Me Tonight" would have made a great first single to lead off the album because it slaps. It's better than "el Scorcho" and I loved that song back in the 90s but doesn't 'slap'.
So I'm hoping you do an episode on "Songs from the Black Hole" soon. It's their great lost masterpiece.
Oh, and I always just assumed it was 'Ass Wipe', and they slipped it in and got away with it. It makes more sense to be either 'Eyes Wide' or 'Ass Wide' actually.
I recently heard the fan recreation of " Songs From the Black Hole" and was severely disappointed.
@@cultreader9751 I listened to one of them don't remember which one. While it wasn't original it wasn't too bad.
I find the Google results for lyrics to be frequently wrong, even for uncontested cases.
I put this in my “actual quality videos” playlist
When you watch live performances of the song, they make it clear that they’re saying EYES WIDE.
100 % " eyes wide"
you can deny it all youd like but you cannot change the fact that this song is about gay sex
i choose to believe it’s “ass wipe” because on certain setups you can really clearly hear the plosive
This may not hold much weight, but I used to karaoke this song in the mid 2000s and the teleprompter showed ass wipe, big cheese, and kick me. I did not make any lyrics up as I had to follow along with what was on the screen.
fun fact actually, on amazon music it's confirmed as ass wide in the lyrics of it. of course that's like not the most viable piece of evidence, but interesting nonetheless
On spotify it’s eyes wide though
After watched this vid, I changed my perspective about the lyric.
In the context of the song, both ass wide and eyes wide work. Ass wide seems to appear in the green album version and live shows from that time while eyes wide seems to be a newer thing
I had no idea this was even a thing, I'd always heard it as "ass wipe" and "kick me" (and "big jeans" but that's neither here nor there). Very interesting analysis! Nice job!
And additionally, I had already been scripting videos for musical analysis before but this is certainly a new inspiration. Very cleanly edited and well paced. Nice job, again!
The song's about Kevin Smith
woa big jeans for those legs that men like… that makes sense!
I always heard big jeans-
This came up in my feed and I had to click because I had no idea what this could be. Incredible content, I've already started sending it to other people.
For the record I think it's definitely ass wide.
I remember the radio edited version said, "I've got my half pipe."
Has anyone looked at a Japanese copy of the CD? I believe there was a requirement for official lyrics to be included with albums at the time. English language albums often included then as a second booklet in addition to the main one.
My favorite artist back 5ish years ago was Bleachers and I know for a fact he's changed his lyrics over time. Even on his latest album there's few things he says differently depending on recording. So yeah I'd imagine most bands just keep it vague and over time it grows confusing
I love this video, everything from the editing to you sense of humor. In my opinion is " eyes wide"
If I was rivers cuomo I would just sing “eyyyaaasss wiiiiiiiddpeeee” (Also I’m super excited for the white album video. The white album is my favorite weezer album!)
try explaning to me your favorite album is weezer's white album and not the beatles' white album
@@SoloSlater they said their favourite weezer album, and last time i checked, weezer did not make the beatles white album
@@boingledink4332 it was a joke dum dum
@@me1un317 i dont believe it was?
@@boingledink4332 the joke is that they hoth made white albums, and when you day your favorite album is the white album people assume Beatles. The fact that joke flew over your head is shocking.
Congrats Marc, 14k views under a week, damn, you're going to reach the third digit in your next videos no time.
As Subscriber #1000, I must first say congratulations, and also this video KICKS ASS. Keep it up, dude!
I changed my mind after listening the song very carefully. Definitely, it's " eyes wide"
oh thank god this isnt one of those obnoxious ironically +40 minute "comedic" conspiracy videos
good video mate, will check out the Green Album Deluxe and your other works
discovered this channel an hour ago and i already love it
I believe it's "big cheese" because as everyone knows, Rivers Cuomo is actually Kurt Cobain and the second to last track of Nirvana's debut album "Bleach" is Big Cheese, therefore nullifying any claims that the lyric was indeed "Big G's"
I know you're joking, but I came here to post about this same relationship. Rivers reported around this time he was obsessed with Nirvana and made spreadsheets about their songs. I think it's perfectly plausible that "big cheese" is in here partly to pay homage to Kurt Cobain and to tip off listeners that the lyrics are intentionally ambivalently pronounced.
He’s definitely saying big g’s because remember we had to retroactively change which weezer member is Kurt cobain, the leading theory is it’s now Brian bell
@@absentmindedaerospace3967my guy it’s big g’s
Green Album came out when I was in grade 12, was the sound of the summer, we played it over a military parade square PA system a lot at Sea Cadet Summer Camp, people doing survival in the woods on the other side of the base could hear it LOL, Base Commander liked it so we got a pass :)
wait how does this channel only have 400 subs???- the editing and transitions are actually so clear cut
A lot more now
I'm interested in you as a general content creator, not just Weezer. Looking forward to more
Wtf I was looking at a guitar tab for Hash Pipe, I go on TH-cam and bam this is the first thing on my recommended. Spooky
Ass wide makes the most sense, but I think if you asked Rivers he probably wouldn't even respond just to mess with you (and also he wrote the song when he was on Ritalin and Tequila so the memory of what went through his mind is probably hazy)
It's "big cheese" because Rivers Cuomo is Kurt Cobain
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I've actually got a Japanese CD copy of Green, and it has lyrics for Green in the liner notes. So according to the lyrics they sing this during the chorus,
"Oh!
Come on and get me
Oh!
Come on and kick me (woah)
Come on and kiss me (woah)
You got your problems (woah)
I got my ass wipe
You got your big cheese
I got my hash pipe"
btw sick videos man, excited for what's next!
Can confirm. Also, the spelling is "git me" for some reason? Don't know what that's about.
@@darztheaxolotl2163 yeah it is git me my phone auto corrected it to get me
This comment needs to be pinned. Mystery solved.
Yep, never had issue hearing those words.
Replacing an "I" sound like the one in "eyes" with an "A" sound is actually very common. It's most obvious in people from New York (see: any song by Vampire Weekend), but it's a very widespread way to have nicer sounding vowels.
Considering that I sometimes mutilate "about a..." to "a ba-da-...", as a New Yorker... makes sense to me 😜
The way he sings the opening line to this song always reminded me of the way Lita Ford sang the opening to Kiss Me Deadly.
I remember watching an episode of Cow and Chicken years and years ago and there was this tribe of people they met who called themselves the "Azz-weep-ays." Ass-wi-pes.
dude you are making all the videos about Weezer that I always wanted to watch!! keep it up!!!
this vid has a great script and editing, you deserve more subs!!
He clearly says "eyes wide" the first time & "ass wipe" the second time.
He clears his throat after the verse where he changes it.
This is an insanely good video, please make more videos.
Edit: Spelled videos wrong
i fucking love this video, the editing, the humour, everything. super excited to binge your videos
I’ve always loved hash pipe,but I never knew that there was a lyric debate.Great video!
Great vid. As a former weezer head, your research and findings are extremely up my ally
Weezer is and always will be an amazing band and hash pipe is a very cool and fun song.
I’m not even all that into Weezer, but I still binged all your videos in your channel! Hood shit 👍
Interesting use of the Chris Vrenna remixes to hear clearer vocals. I thought you were gonna go the simple "isolated vocal track ripped from Rock Band 3" route that every other misheard lyric video uses. This is like the closest we'll get to official Hash Pipe lyric confirmation, so speaking on behalf of every trashy garage rock cover band out there: thank you for your service.
Going for the vocals stem from Rock Band is even more official than using a remix.
I still love this song. Despite the subject matter, the song grabs you and holds your attention.
The subject matter makes it better.
Homophobic?
I love how much it grabs me and holds my attention
Dude, awesome content! I have a feeling this channel will blow up soon. (To future people, he has 861 subscribers at the time of writing this.)
He’s got 1000 subs now !!
@@shannencamp3487 Omg I just looked again and he's at 5k subs. I hope his channel will grow to 1 million someday
This is a phenomenal video, love the editing and humor! I'm subscribing immediately!
I just looked at your other videos...this is exactly what I could ask for when it comes to weezer lore, perfection
dude these videos are sick, really well made.
On a message board in 2001 someone suggested it was "ice white" and for some reason my brain ran with that even though it makes less sense than any of the proposed ones in the video.
I always heard it "ass wide", and yes, my teenager self has totally always felt insecure about that.
This video is fucking phenomenal dude thank you for this…
Nice to see someone with a sense of humor
Always enjoy your videos! They still stay really entertaining even if I’ve already read into the topic a lot. Can’t wait for the White Album analysis
Holy fuck, how do you have only 560 subs my man?? This was such a fantastic and well made video, I’d love to see more like it from you
Hey man, I really appreciate you making videos on Weezer. They're one of the first band I listened to when I started to listen to music more seriously so they're really important to me. So yeah, thank you.
This is a great video! Good Work!
Before this, I was pretty certain it was "eyes wide", but the "ass wide" theory is honestly really convincing.
This doesn't really change anything, but I do wanna mention that in the music video for hash pipe, in the first chorus, there is a cut that removes the "big G's" line, splicing from "eyes/ass wide" to "hash pipe" creating..... "Ass wi - pe" with the p sound coming from "hash pipe". Pretty weird why they would do that.
This actually changes everything
"Asswipe" is the only true explanation. It's a dismissal of the problems the other person has as being inconsequential enough to wipe one's ass with.
I love this. Always sounded like ass wipe to me. Hearing the slowed down version, the first sounds like ass wipe and the second sounds a bit more like ass wide.
An important consideration is that ass wipe rhymes with hash pipe way more than eyes wide does
That's funny cause I'm hearing "ass wide" the first time and "ass wipe" the second time. Ha!
I remember clearly watching mtv with closed captions on back in the day, and they definitely said “ass wipe”
As Weezer's my favorite band, it's awesome to see a TH-camr make such interesting, well edited and presented content about them! I only found your channel about a week or two ago but you're already one of my favorites. This was another really fun video and I can't wait to hear your White Album analysis and whatever other content you've got planned! Great work!
I'm not even as invested in Weezer as I used to be when I was younger, but for whatever reason I find videos on them to be captivating. Keep pumping these out fam, I'll keep watching em.
this is one of my top five weezer youtube channels.
This channel is so underrated you deserve at least 100k subs
This is an incredible video.
this is the greatest video i've ever seen to date, thank you very much you've changed my life and i think Weezer is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1992. Since 2001, the band has consisted of Rivers Cuomo (lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Patrick Wilson (drums), Scott Shriner (bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), and Brian Bell (rhythm guitar, keyb
I listened to the Acapella version and I'm definitely team asswipe
Honestly idk I think a lot of singers when the sing they make their voices sound different or sorta funny to make the song sound more catchy or rhyme they make words sound slightly more exaggerated/different for the sound of the song or to simply rhyme I guess an example of this can be song by nysc the song "It's gonna be me" but it is sang with the "me" sound like "may" so it actually sounds like the singer is saying "It's gonna be may" I feel like this could be the case here and in many other songs. Even in the song "My own summer" by deftones it sounds like singer is saying " It's the sex" when he's saying " Hits the six" apparently, but it's the way he says it that makes it sound different that what he is saying he exaggerates the words for the tone of the song.
But then again I have listened to a few weezer songs and there are some pretty weird lyrics so wouldn't be surprised if he was actually saying "ass wipe"
Little late but in the 2017 i heart radio concert they sing hash pipe live and he very clearly says "eyes wide". it does feel like one of those times where they could have changed it later though
My other favorite lyric from this album is “grab at the bootie, taint gonna do no good…”
Love the edited style dude! Super engaging and fun to watch
Remembering finding this song on Justin tv, downloading it on limewire, burning it onto a mix CD using windows media player and listening to it while playing ocarina of time.
Really great content man. Loving these videos. Looking forward to The White Album one.
I just watched the vid. I laughed a lot. You are a creative youtuber with sense of humor and currently we really appreciate that. Great job!
Meanwhile I was fully convinced he was just saying hashpipe again.
Big cheese probably means the subject has a lot of money, or, "You've got your big cheese," could mean you have a boss. I don't know, I'm just spitballing
loving your vids and you're doing a great job! I agree that you should have WAY more subs!
Finally, a high quality Weezer shitpost
Regarding “Big Cheese”, Rivers is a huge Nirvana fan. That lyric is a reference to the song off Bleach called Big Cheese. It’s like saying, “you got your [authority figure]”.
see i was thinking biggie cheese from Back at the Barnyard but with the same concept of “you got your [authority figure]”
I always thought it was "big cheese" in the sense that he was using slang for money like "cheddar" since that term was being used in rap around that time.
Thought it said 3 million subs but it was only 3k. Keep up the content man it’s stellar remember me when you hit 1mil
I honestly think the "big cheese" lyric was "dick cheese" on the earlier demos, and then changed for the album version. Same on "Dope Nose" when we says "Flag of the year, that could beat up your man". On the demos, he says "Fag of the Year, that could beat up your man." which obviously makes way more sense, but is less PC.
Worth mentioning but it wasn't "flag of the year" until later. The lyric sheet for my original copy of Maladroit has the original word intact and Rivers is definitely dropping the british term for a ciggy on the song.
I'm gonna go with ass wide because that's fucking hilarious
I need more content like this, great video
Genius lyrics says eyes wide, but we can't trust them anymore.