Weezer Just Won the Internet…
It’s 2018. 24 years and 11 albums in, there’s no reason we should be talking about the somewhat obscure indie darling, Weezer, who peaked with their first album in 1994. Yet, somehow they’ve done it again. They’ve made themselves relevant and they’ve won the internet. And this isn’t the first time they’ve done it. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from being a fan since the beginning, it’s that I should never underestimate frontman Rivers Cuomo. While his creativity goes from sheer brilliance to cringe-worthy (look at 1996’s Pinkerton, which single-handedly kicked off emo’s second wave and compare it to 2008’s Death to False Metal, which was so bad that it was downgraded from being the bands 8th studio album to a b-sides and rarities album in their discography), when he’s on, Rivers is one of the most brilliant viral marketers on the planet. Decades from now, college courses on social movements will still be dissecting how his happy powerpop with a side of 80s metal pulled the mid-90s alternative world out of the gloom and doom of West Coast grunge. It defies logic…So how did Rivers break the internet this time? By covering Toto. Yes, you read that right. By covering Toto. Not once, but twice.As far as I can tell, it all started in mid-February when Rivers made a passing comment in an interview with an Australian...
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