Word: weezer
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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...
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...
...fears aren’t just about the song, in and of itself. They get personal. In a panic, I wonder, “Has Weezer frontman Rivers G. Cuomo (kind of) ’98 totally lost the juice he had on the ‘Blue Album’ and ‘Pinkerton’? Should I give up hope? Has he—gasp—sold out?” Behold the eternal problem for us music listeners. Do we have a right to feel betrayed if our favorite musicians start making big money...
Sometime-Harvard student Rivers Cuomo has got nothing on Doris Hiatt. A 34-year-old multimillionaire, the Weezer frontman stood out even in guts like History 10a. But at least his hair is still brown...
...they have expanded their thievery to include licks from Loverboy, Kiss and other high priests of shallow catchiness. The music is nothing you haven't heard before. Songs like Fall Behind Me and Revolver fly by on the same mix of punk reverence and hair-band irony that fuels Weezer, the Hives and dozens of other bands. But the Donnas are better musicians than most of those other bands. Guitarist Allison Robertson in particular plays her three chords with tremendous clarity and without the pretension of genius. She knows this is popular art and delivers her hooks with the same...