This strategy achieved the worst possible combination of success and failure - by the end of the ’00s, Weezer had alienated its base and largely whiffed on drawing new fans with the likes of “I’m Your Daddy” and “The Girl Got Hot.” The band appeared to be finished.Īll this subtext is pushed to the forefront of Weezer’s latest LP, Everything Will Be Alright in the End. Instead, he courted a new, younger audience born around the time Weezer formed in the early ’90s with albums that seemed deliberately (for lack of a better term) stupid. For years, Cuomo seemed determined to drive away those who invested the most in his songs - especially the people who loved Pinkerton, the confessional masterwork that Cuomo disowned and was later reluctant to revisit on Weezer’s early comeback tours, a passive-aggressive punishment for the album’s initial critical and commercial drubbing. “I’m so afraid of you,” Rivers Cuomo sings in “Freak Me Out,” from 2005’s much-maligned Make Believe, supposedly referring to a spider jumping out at him on the street, though the song can easily be interpreted as a diatribe directed at his own fans. This relationship between band and fan base can only be described as dysfunctional: Hating Weezer is often the biggest part of loving Weezer, and that feeling has at times appeared to be mutual.
The more you care about Weezer, the harder it is to know exactly how you feel about Weezer. She seems to have a bit of a superiority complex with the band.Rating Weezer, like all things concerning Weezer, can be highly frustrating. It’s a fun video that gives a good look at a pre-Weezer version of the band, and shows that having an ego always comes back to bite you in the butt. This ends up catching up to her as Rivers ends up replacing her as the frontman of the band, and changes the name to Weezer. She tosses clothes and food around, yells, and literally rubs her butt in Rivers’ face, all proving that she thinks she’s better than the rest of her band. After the show is over, the band then spend time in the venue’s green room, where she acts like a diva by trashing the place and annoying her bandmates.
The band plays on stage in front of a sold out crowd, but it’s clear that Elisha’s character thinks the show is about her. She is dressed in low cut black chucks throughout the video, solidifying her alt-rock look. This fictionalized history of the band features a female lead singer (played by Elisha Cuthbert) instead of Rivers Cuomo, who now acts as the bands roadie. The music video starts out with the band before they were Weezer, when they were simply known as Weeze.
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