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.
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
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