Can't Stop Partying - Polow Version

This R&B rocker was co-written by R&B songwriter Jermaine Dupri. Cuomo explained to MTV News: "Weezer is always trying something new. Last year, we put out The Red Album. We loved that album, but this is 2009. It's time to do something totally different. So I reached out to some friends of mine in different genres: Jermaine Dupri, for example, king of R&B, I wrote a song with him called 'Can't Stop Partying.' It was a real challenge for me, taking his ideas, which are very slick, R&B party [ideas], and giving it some kind of edge, some darkness, making it work with rock, making it work with Weezer."

Cuomo recruited the rapper Lil Wayne to contribute a verse. The Weezer frontman explained to MTV News: "We got Lil Wayne to come in and do a rap on it. Any other rapper would've just done, 'Yay, we're partying! Let's drink and have fun,' but he gave it the edge I was looking for. You can hear in his voice, it sounds so dark, like he was gonna get shot or something when he walks out of the studio. So I was real happy that everyone involved got what we were going for."

Cuomo told Pitchfork Media that Wayne recorded his verse separately, and that Weezy and Weezer have yet to cross paths. "He sounds like he's totally insane, and not just for the sake of sounding crazy. He's not trying to sound ghetto or gangsta or intellectual. he's just very natural and weird," Cuomo said. "He really tapped into the spirit of the song, which I really struggled with at first… He's rapping about how you can't stop mixing drugs and alcohol, but there are a few words he chooses which are surprising and suggest a terrible end to the party. The last line is: 'I hope the killer doesn't take the life of the party.'"