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Nowadays, Weezer is one of the biggest-selling and best-known acts of its generation, selling out arenas across the world. “Pinkerton?? has, over the years, become one of the most influential rock records of the decade...
...Yeah, I had a very close relationship with my Expos teacher, Naomi Stephen. At that time, I was working on the “Pinkerton?? songs a lot, so I feel like she was, in a way, a collaborator and an influence...
...think I’ve been skeptical of violent passion for a long time. I think “Pinkerton?? is about that, a lot—seeing how, every time I’ve felt really passionate for someone, as soon as I “acquire” them, or feel like I’ve acquired them, the passion goes away. That’s how that album concludes, and I just don’t feel secure in that, for a life. I want to build my life on something more stable...
...about the song, in and of itself. They get personal. In a panic, I wonder, “Has Weezer frontman Rivers G. Cuomo (kind of) ’98 totally lost the juice he had on the ‘Blue Album’ and ‘Pinkerton??? Should I give up hope? Has he—gasp—sold out?” Behold the eternal problem for us music listeners. Do we have a right to feel betrayed if our favorite musicians start making big money on easy-to-digest musical nuggets...
...eager to make anymore “gimmicky” videos because he thought that Spike Jonze’s “Buddy Holly’” video was responsible for Weezer’s rise to fame. Only one video was made for Pinkerton??a straightforward three-minute ordeal panning over the geek boys playing “El Scorcho.” But now Cuomo seems to have re-evaluated the art of video—unless he sees the sumo wrestlers in the “Hash Pipe” video...