The video for Weezer’s “Pork And Beans” is now online, and it’s basically a goof on the E-list stars of the Internet video age: Tay Zonday, Chris Crocker, K-Fed, Miss South Carolina, the Numa Numa Guy, and Dramatic Chipmunk all make appearances with the band, in what I guess is supposed to continue Weezer’s “we are totally messing with all of you” shtick and double as some sort of metacommentary on “fame” in the current era. (You know, like the MTV Video Music Awards! Except with fewer headache-inducing jump cuts.) Personally I think the funniest thing about the clip is how the version streaming from Weezer’s YouTube page is unembeddable on outside sites, but I suspect that particular quirk is actually the result of Universal Music Group’s walled-garden policies regarding YouTube and not something that was painstakingly overthought out by Rivers et al. Embedding enabled! There goes the humor value. Clip after the jump.
Weezer - Pork & Beans [YouTube]
this is terrible and shameless and ridiculous and what is with that child molester mustache?
@avoncobra: I like the way you think.
This new song is Shitcity. Very dissappointing.
Didn’t Fall Out Boy just make this same video six months ago? That’s just…sad.
Rivers says “I don’t give a hoot.” He’s like a rock ‘n’ roll Woodsy Owl!
Oh, wait. . . Didn’t the owl actually give a hoot? I’m all confused anymore!
@avoncobra: +1
I keep holding out hope for the Mighty Weez only to have it repeatedly dashed…the GREEN album was wonderful, the first 3 tracks on MALADROIT were good and then with MAKE BELIEVE the wheels just came completely off the wagon…
Having said that it is clear that I have learned nothing from these collected experiences as I pre-ordered the new record on iTunes last night…of course I am the same guy that kept buying +LIVE+ records up to V thinking that eventually they would be as good as THROWING COPPER and SECRET SAMAHDI again…
I watched the video without sound at work just now: it was still cute. I think what sold me was when the leave britney alone guy got a sympathy hug from cuomo. too cute for me.
Yeah, the video appears to be two years too late on the cutting-edge scale but I still like it. The piece sits between the Muppets video and the videos where bored hipsters in coke-bottle glasses and ringer-tees invade the Playboy Mansion.
Is this the modernized remake of Masked and Anonymous?
K-Fed is unconvincing playing a man who wishes to improve Weezer’s sound.
That said, for Nü-Weezer, the track is pretty good.
This band is toast.
Listen kids, expecting River to craft another Pinkerton is like believing Liz will ever get back to Guyville … it ain’t gonna happen. So enjoy the hooks and leave it at that.
Same chord progression as every other god Weezer song. I know this because I just tried to figure it out on guitar. Which is what good Weezer used to get out of me. But this isn’t very good. If you only watched the last minute you’ll see how much better the concept would be if they didn’t make every joke more than three times. Once the joke’s told, it’s old. They tried for the big finish, but… meh. Why does he sound like “Every Morning” era McGrath? Stink lines.
You know,
This parody gag was old when South Park did it 3 months ago.
Lame idea, but points for execution. I’m impressed they bothered to round up all these people, even if this Weezer video is probably the most exciting thing on Crocker’s and Zonday’s calendar for all of ‘08.
Still: they’re at least a year behind Barenaked Ladies, no?
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i wanted to hate this but its just so light-hearted.
This is like a compilation of everything that annoyed me in the past 12 months set to the music of a band that has annoyed me for the past 12 years.
Oh yeah, and this will be HUGE. When a music video parody of viral videos becomes a viral video sensation, does the world implode upon itself? All I’m saying is that I always knew Weezer would somehow be involved in the end of days.
I had high hopes for their new album, but the first single is just so…blah. I don’t even know if I’ll but his album, which is kind of sad because I was really excited for it.
@pantycrickets: *this album
@pantycrickets: *buy this album
Christ!! I give up.
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I have to admit, when they showed all the virals and Weezer in the same room, right as the chorus hit, I choked up a little.
Cuomo compassionately hugging Crockett (sp?) sorta make my week.
@NickEddy:
I know you meant Crocker but the idea of Rivers Cuomo compassionately hugging Crockett while Tubbs seethes with jealousy behind a pillar makes my weekend.
Found out from their publicist it’ll be embeddable tomorrow … but it still seems lame to not embed it immediately.
Aside from that I liked it.
Critic-proof. It’s the sound of a band enjoying itself without a fuck given to its detractors, which makes sense since that’s what the song is about. I hated this song the first time I heard it, but now I’ve gotten used to ignoring the lyrics and learned to love the unbridled joy.
I haven’t heard “Troublemaker” but “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)” is like some massive mind-fuck explosion that sounds like “Bohemian Rhapsody” if it were on Blue.
I sorta stopped listening to Weezer with the Green album… and I heard they went to shit… but this honestly isn’t that bad. Infinitely better than “Beverly Hills.”