Pasteurized, homogenized, and ready for mass consumption, and utterly lacking in any substance. They just don’t get that he conned you 15 years ago and they’d rather continue to be conned then accept the fact that they bought into something carefully packaged and mass marketed. Even now, when it’s cool to like Van Halen again, and Cuomo comes out of the closet, so to speak, as a VH fan, Weezer fans still think he must be doing so with some sort of irony. And he had so much marketing push behind him that his fans actually believed the swill they got sold. Rivers Cuomo was a huge Van Halen fan, yet deliberately contrived to keep his influences under wraps, because they weren’t the trend of the moment. They were following a trend, not setting a trend. By dressing like nerds, Weezer simply took what was genuine, and bastardized it into something contrived.
By the time Weezer came along, that look had been co-opted into an anti-80s statement. They did it because it was wet and rainy in Seattle. When Pearl Jam wore flannel and Doc Martins, it was genuine.
The Beatles were non-threatening? Were you even alive then? The Beatles certainly seem tame by todays standards, but at the time, they were called satanic by parents who didn't understand what they were hearing.Īnd Weezer weren't rebelling against Pearl Jam and Nine Inch Nails.
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