It's Really Become a Great Story (Interview)

Rivers: "Represent" is maybe the first, uh, soccer anthem for the U.S. National Team released by a higher profile American artist. I was talking to some of the people at the US Soccer Federation sometimes to get me tickets to games or whatever, I'd been able to stand down there at the sideline as the team's warming up. Uhm, and one time they asked me if I'd write a song for them, and of course, it was already on my mind. But then when the World Cup started to loom in the near future, we started to look around, to look for sponsors, somebody to help us with the expenses and everything of recording and promoting the song. And we couldn't find anyone that was really excited to help us. So I kind of gave up on the idea. And then we kept getting closer and closer to the cup. About a week from the first US game. I just couldn't take it anymore. I was getting so excited. I was like, let's just get in the studio. Let's do a song now, and let's figure out how to get it out there to the soccer fans as quickly as possible. And at that point, it started to pick up some momentum, as all the soccer fans and Weezer fans started downloading it and the press picked up on it, and it's really become a nice story.