Weezer - Van Weezer (May 7, 2021) Album • Page 34

I think If You're Wondering is better than High As a Kite

 

Hurley used to be my favorite Post Pink when it came out.. now I think it's their most unlistenable

 

I have had a pretty similar trajectory

 

I can't listen to Hurley anymore. Even the best song, Ruling Me, annoys me now.

 

we first met

in the lunch room

MY OCULAR NERVE WENT POP ZOOM

 

Sweet lady Don't play me
If I am a KNOB dont fade me

 

Watching all the freaky Dutch kids vomit, then have sex

 

Maybe I should change my vote to Hurley

 

Ratitude at least feels authentic. Hurley to me feels like a kneejerk reaction to the response to Ratitude

 

Yep. This is the big reason it doesn't sit well with me. Just a very weird, plastic version of what they thought people wanted at the time.

 

That's such a weird criticism! Don't make me get on my Hurley soapbox to defend an okay at best album that I haven't listened to in 5 years!

 

Hahhaha I just admitted I used to like it and jam the hell out of it, what more do you want from me?!

Lol my high school rock band covered Where's My Sex for some reason.

 

"Memories" being played in Jackass 3D legitimately made me tear up before, unironically.

 

The end credits in that movie are phenomenal

 

Raditude feels like the most inauthentic thing they've done so far ever tbh. Not saying Hurley feels authentic but idk how anyone could think something like "In the Mall" or "I'm Your Daddy" or "The Girl Got Hot" is authentic.

 

In the sense that Rivers loves pop music and would have loved for Weezer to turn into a top 40 kind of pop band, I think it's more authentic than a lot of their later career rock records

 

I mean, musically maybe but lyrically? It's way inauthentic.

Also just to use the same comparison from before, Hurley has a ton of that pop sensibility as well. And a lot of it works way better than it does in any song on Raditude (i.e. "Ruling Me").

But you could also make the same argument re: Rivers loving 80s hair metal lol hence why we're getting Van Weezer

 

The fact that I’m Your Daddy was originally about his daughter.

 

yeah, I just mean in the sense of Rivers doing what he wants with the band. I love EWBAITE and White, but it's always felt pretty obvious that those albums, along with Hurley, were designed to deliver on a very specific nostalgia for the first three records that fans are always comparing their new work too.

lyrically, I don't think Rivers has really been authentic since Pinkerton and at this point, I don't expect him to be. Select parts of Make Believe and EWBAITE are the closest he's gotten since then to writing about things he actually cares about.

Van Weezer should be interesting because it might actually be the first time his vision lines up with what fans want from the band since the Blue Album lol

 

I don’t really get “inauthentic” from Ratitude, Hurley etc, whether they’re good or not. It seems like he’s pretty sincerely writing what he wants

I love the In The Mall. It’s like a Weird Al parody of a song that doesnt exist. Which seems like Pat’s personality generally

 

You can def tell The Girl Got Hot came straight from Rivers’s heart

 

I legit like Trippin Down the Freeway

 

Raditude is very bad but also kinda fun to revisit every once in awhile

 

Do people like the red album? That’s the one I connect with the least probably.

 

Red album is weird, all of my favorite tracks from it (minus Angel and the One) are "bonus" tracks