I think Weezer has always been secretly awful, and that they've managed to hoodwink an enormous amount of critics and fans by way of Rivers's 'eccentric genius' personality and the interesting story of their career after
Pinkerton flopped.The Blue album is full of great songwriting, that's undeniable, but good power pop is actually something that's not all that hard to do. There's acres of awesome power pop out there, stuff that makes the best material Rivers has coughed up pale in comparison. Weezer, when they first came around, were doing a less bratty version of what Green Day were doing, and if it weren't for the way that
Pinkerton's release played out, they'd be seen, quite rightfully, as contemporaries of Hootie and the Blowfish and Sister Hazel.
Pinkerton is a wretched record. It's a cheap, tawdry imitation of the Pixies, Superchunk, and Pavement in sound, and a huge step backwards in songwriting from Blue. If you identify with the lyrics of
Pinkerton, if you put that album on and you hear yourself singing back to you, you need to
see a shrink. I'm not joking. Everything since then has been abysmal, the absolute worst kind of rock music, cynical songs and gunky production that denies any sort of intimacy or engagement. Seriously, fuck Weezer.
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