First off, the obvious needs to be stated: Weezer is now a pop band. They\u2019ve turned their backs on what made them great in the first place and have traded it in for pop hacks and a sound unlike what we\u2019ve always liked. Apparently, being a rock star isn\u2019t good enough for Rivers; he now wants to be a pop star \u00e0 la Taylor Swift. But unfortunately, it doesn\u2019t work out well for him or the band. While we may have to accept that Weezer has turned into Fall Out Boy or Panic At The Disco, it\u2019s not something I will take lightly.<\/p>\n
The first single released, \u201cFeels Like Summer,\u201d is the worst song I\u2019ve heard since \u201cBody Like A Back Road!\u201d It\u2019s just utter trash; the lyrics don\u2019t make sense at all. Of course, it\u2019s become their biggest hit in almost a decade, but that doesn\u2019t justify its worthless existence. A band like this should be ashamed of unleashing something so utterly terrible.<\/p>\n
\u201cMexican Fender\u201d is an okay song with a few old school Weezer elements combined with a 21st<\/sup> century sensibility. It\u2019s alright, but they are capable of so much more. \u201cBeach Boys\u201d is good until it gets to the chorus where Rivers comes across like a white boy rappin\u2019 again. Bad elements bringing down at least a halfway decent song, just like their last few records.<\/p>\n \u201cWeekend Woman\u201d is a decent enough song that\u2019s a bit of a throwback to \u201cIsland In The Sun,\u201d sunny and musically vibrant. \u201cHappy Hour,\u201d the album\u2019s current single, isn\u2019t even memorable. The reference to Monty Python makes no sense and the song just falls flat on its face. The track just doesn\u2019t work, not even as a memorable pop song.<\/p>\n By the time you get to the middle of the disc, everything has fallen apart amidst pap and material that just don\u2019t work. This release is just utterly miserable and at this point in time, even though the band is Weezer in name only, something has to be done in order to restore and preserve this once great group.<\/p>\n After listening to this crap, I went and put Pinkerton<\/i> on and was instantly reminded of why I loved this band so much twenty years ago. They were a much better band, especially lyrically, and I just wish they would put a song or something that sounds like the Weezer we all grew up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[5738],"rating":[11205],"class_list":["post-45128","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-weezer","rating-rating-d-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45128"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45128"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}