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# Weezer Clears Up The Confusion, Denies Everything
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/weezer-clears-up-the-confusion-denies-everything/
- Published: 2010-08-25T11:54:09.000Z
- Updated: 2010-08-25T11:54:09.000Z
- Description: Hypebot intern Mike Pineau gets a cookie for digging this up. Yesterday, I wrote about a rather confusing situation where Weezer's Brian Bell confessed, on camera, to having a good. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/08/weezer-clears-up-the-confusion-denies-everything.html]
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Hypebot intern **[Mike Pineau](http://twitter.com/mikejpineau?ref=hypebot.com)** gets a cookie for digging this up. Yesterday, I wrote about a rather **confusing situation** where Weezer's **Brian Bell** [confessed](https://www.hypebot.com/weezer-sells-out-to-hurley-international-wtf/), on camera, to having a good portion of their new album funded by the Surf Company **[Hurley](http://hurley.com/splash.cfm?ref=hypebot.com)** and that **he was near clueless** about the *Lost* character by the same name, because, to him, it had nothing to do with the real reason why the album was called "Hurley." Since then, Bell released this **new statement** on a [fan site](http://www.weezer.com/forum/default.aspx?cid=626&tid=438000&ref=hypebot.com):

[![image from cdn.buzznet.com](https://a3.typepad.com/6a0111683c7a25970c0133f3507d1b970b-150wi "image from cdn.buzznet.com")](http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/5/7/7/8/4/4/1/orig-5778441.jpg?ref=hypebot.com)

"Recently I did **an interview in Denver** where I was asked why we called the album Hurley. I mistakenly said that **Hurley funded the album**. I later found out that it wasn’t true at all. Weezer paid for every penny of this recording. **The reason the record is called** “Hurley” is because Hurley (Jorge Garcia) is on the cover. We thought about **leaving the record untitled** for the fourth time, but that causes a lot of problems and he knew people would end up calling the record “Hurley” anyway. **We got no money for calling the record 'Hurley**.'"