(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To

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"(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" is the first single and track from Raditude. "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" saw official digital release on August 25, 2009. Nine days prior, on August 16, Wal-Mart accidentally put the entire song up for sale when they were only supposed to post a 30 second clip, as other online retailers such as Amazon.com did. Within an hour the song was leaked all over the internet via YouTube and Albumsix (which had a direct link to Wal-Mart's online Weezer store). Wal-Mart was quick to remove the song after a day or so, but fans were still leaking it through other source. Due to the leak, the song began receiving radio station airplay as of August 18, sooner than originally planned. The song was slow to catch on, but a full six months after release, it was the most-played song at Los Angeles radio station KROQ. An AOL Session version was recorded as a duet between Rivers Cuomo and singer/songwriter Sara Bareille, and a similar acoustic duet version was released on the Raditude ...Happy Record Store Day! EP in April of 2010. During a conversation with Brian Bell about the lyric, Cuomo revealed that the inspiration for the line "we watched Titanic and it didn't make us sad" came from the movie The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, in which the main characters are seen leaving a movie theater, laughing and smiling, after having watched Platoon. This conversation can be seen in this video at about 40:22. .

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