Weezer with Kenny G
“I’m Your Daddy”
AOL Session 2009
Rivers Cuomo has Lil Wayne guest on his record, jams live in session with Kenny G, and is selling his new album as a bonus gift with a Weezer-branded Snuggie. He exists in a continuum of irony and non-irony so hilarious and confusing that if he’s not the new Andy Warhol, he’s at least rock’s answer to Jeff Koons.
The new Klosterman—shh—has an essay that in part touches on Rivers Cuomo being “authentic” in his artistic output. Essentially, he can make both Pinkerton and… well, everything else that followed and they are both true to his own personality—but not the fanbase, which for the most part wants him to remain in the Pinkerton era in what he does. Klosterman mentions as an aside how there is a big chunk of Weezer fans who take the latter albums as a personal affront—these people feel the albums aren’t just bad, they’re actually mocking the fans.
It’s impossible to separate Weezer, aka one of the first bands I ever cared about (I had the blue album on tape, thank you very much) with their output. From where I sit, I don’t consider anything after the green album as an affront. It’s more like seeing a friend from adolescence at a wedding every year or so, and at each one, he’s managed to get drunk enough to piss his pants within the first hour of the reception.
