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Alright, we all know Weezer’s self-titled new album (”Red”) is about to drop, and I think we’re all equally apprehensive about its contents.
Well, now the single, “Pork & Beans” (which yeah, isn’t that bad), has its own music video, featuring all those “YouTube Stars” you’ve seen floating around your internets. I think I need a little time for this one to set in…
Watch the video after the jump.
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Oh. God.
I can think of no single element of my childhood that has become more corrupted than my obsession with Weezer. When I found out the Tooth Fairy wasn’t real, I didn’t come out of my room for a week. So you can imagine how I felt when Weezer dropped Make Believe in my lap. I cried myself to sleep every time a new single was released.
And now we’ve got the new Weezer album, 8 tracks of which leaked just a few days ago (I won’t link you here, but if you know how to operate the Google, I think you can find it). Let’s with the new single, “Port & Beans.” First reactions: need we add insult to injury? I mean, after you leave a big giant turd on your entire back catalog with “Beverly Hills.” And quite frankly, I’m tired of songs masquerading as “Weezer songs.”
But then I actually listened to the song. To my surprise, I like it, quite a bit actually. The element of Weezer-quirkiness that was completely missing in the last album (and most of Maladroit) is back, at least to an extent. The song starts with an El Scorchio style acoustic guitar part, and continues with Rivers singing some moderate-to-poor lyrics: “They say I need some Rogaine to put in my hair… etc.” The chorus kicks in with classic Weezer over-the-top heavy metal guitars (hello KISS!), and more mediocre lyrics: “I don’t give a hoot about what you think!” That being said, the lyrics are, for the most part, a deviation from previous numbers like, say, “Beverly Hills.” It appears Rivers has moved from singing about not being cool (Blue and Pinkerton), to singing about not caring that you think he’s not cool… or something.
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Even if the new self-titled Weezer album is a gay soft-core, as the cover might suggest, I think I’d still prefer it to Make Believe.
You can find the album in stores June 24th, and the first single Pork & Beans (streaming from their website) is available for purchase today.
More info (like a tracklist) after the jump.
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Like everyone else we know, we listened to Weezer growing up. A lot of Weezer. Unfortunately, the band has never been able to live up to the nerd-rock anthems of our childhood, instead electing to get worse and worse…and then worse.
But alas, there is hope! The new album, at least in name, shows the band gettin’ back to basics. It’s called Weezer, and it’s Red. That’s right, like the Green Album and Blue before it, Weezer are back with their third self-titled release.
Are we naive to get our hopes up? Can any band recover from such a monstrous failure as Make Believe. If any band can, it’s Weezer. So yes, we’ve got our hopes up, but still acknowledge an approximate 99.9% chance of disappointment. At least there’s nowhere to go but up.
There’s some goodies after the jump.
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