There’s a play at an arena rock sound here, with some production nuance to create a sense of three-dimensionality. The song kicks off with glamrock-style chords, references to superheroes, and a lyrical approach that has all the cognitive complexity of Imagine Dragons lyrics. Our journey begins with “Hero.” I’ve eaten two grilled cheeses and had a bottle of ginger beer to prepare. Maybe it’s because some of their work just feels like a gimmick.īut what if I strapped myself into a chair, used an apparatus to keep my eyes open, and listened to the entirety of Van Weezer against my moral compass? What if the most time I spent considering the substance of Weezer’s songwriting involved the album that borrows from “Crazy Train”? Read on and find out. Maybe it’s because they built the very instrument of their demise by founding a genre of Weezerlikes that have saturated the market a bit. But when my favorite bands are writing concept albums with full brass arrangements about metaphysical constructs (note: some hyperbole), Weezer by comparison feels a bit stale. And Rivers Cuomo’s pace for writing songs is rarely rivaled in the mainstream. Do I think Weezer has more substance than Top 40s? Definitely.
Of course, I’ve stumbled onto other tracks like “El Scorcho” and “King of the World.”īut honestly nothing has ever compelled me to listen to a full Weezer album. “Beverly Hills” came after “The Sweater Song” was illegally downloaded on my iPod by my half-sister “My Name is Jonas” was on Guitar Hero.
I first discovered Weezer via proxy of the radio-it was “Perfect Situation,” a song that my brain still uninitiated to the depth and width of creative expression, found pretty cool. Let’s do an experiment where I listen to a full Weezer album and share my candid thoughts.
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