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...just haven’t been feeling settled since I found out that Beck was a Scientologist. And the new Weezer single, “Beverly Hills,” doesn’t help things much...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Youth Culture Deflowered Me | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

This song will make a number of similarly committed Weezer fans writhe in agony. But I’m starting to have a musical version of that begrudging epiphany you have when you realize that Marty Feldstein is right. Ladies and gentlemen, writing Beck and Rivers off as Judases is all too easy...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Youth Culture Deflowered Me | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

...mainstream” enough to be visible to our young and impressionable eyes, but ballsy enough to put out music that reformatted our synapses and led us to a treasure trove of lesser-known acts. For me, that drug was the living embodiment of the 1990s, Beck Hansen...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Youth Culture Deflowered Me | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

...it’s embarrassing to talk about, but I used to fantasize about marrying him. Not in a sexual way (although, at the time that I discovered Beck in seventh grade, I was known for wearing flared jeans, starring in school musicals, and dating a girl who ended up becoming a lesbian). But more in a “this person has moved me in a way that no one else ever has, and has altered the course of my life—therefore, I can never leave him” sort of way. Which, now that I think...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Youth Culture Deflowered Me | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

...what if Beck becomes a Scientologist? Yeah, hearing him sing about the hypocrisy of corporate America was cool in a junior high sort of way, and now he’s a part of the Cruise/Travolta club, but who am I to deprive him of his happiness? He did what he did because he wanted to find peace and joy, and if he’s making money, isn’t it a bit moronic to whine about how much cooler it (or I) was when I was the only one on the block who knew about...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Youth Culture Deflowered Me | 4/15/2005 | See Source »

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