Dear Weezer... - Comments

What you're saying here is soo true. This new album really feels like a big mistake. I hope they'll come to their senses, but it's like any good band has to become sell-out eventually. How sad...

Weezer has changed a lot, and I'm not liking it. It saddens me, since they had the potential to continue to write really good songs.

bands don't "sell out" they just grow like other people do.
if you do the same thing too long no one cares even "true" fans.
but if you mix it up the artist and fans will be happy.
just because they are getting a paycheck with a couple more zeros then normal doesn't classify that they sold out.

I personally completely agree.

Diversity is the key to success. It's nice to be making music and being paid for it, so long as it's music that stays true to the musician. Weezer doesn't owe anyone any apology for being successful.

i agree with a lot of others here. there's not such thing as 'selling out.' i have been a weezer fan practically since i was 4 and i accept everything that they've done. bands cant sound the same everytime they try to write a song. i do, however understand where you're going when you say that it is way different from something that you would imagine from them, but what i get out of it is that they're having fun with what theyve created. have you ever seen them live in the last few years? theyre not just always standing there anymore. they're actually having fun and changing some things up. and maybe they are a little uncomfortable with their age in this industry. they may feel like they need to catch up with the times and create the popular rock that is out there, so they can keep doing what they love. but we shouldnt criticize. we just get over it and accept. how do we know they dont [i]want[/i] to be mainstream?

Dude, this is the funniest thing I've read in a long time, and I read Trek fanfiction. You obviously don't understand what it is Weezer does. They take what's popular in music at the time, the good and the bad, and they flip it and put their own spin on it. Songs like "Can't Stop Partying" are meant to be taken sarcastically, not seriously. What, did you think they were just trying to cash in on the infomercial rush when they decided to do the Weezer Snuggie, too? It's a [i]joke[/i], princess, it's all just a joke.

There is no such thing as sell outs. Band who people think sell out are actually doing their job. They can decline if they thought it wasn't right. Contract or not.

I honestly don't see how any band can be labeled as a "sell out". People change, how we speak and act change. Just becuase they're famous doesn't mean they aren't the same. As people grow older, change, become more mature, think things through differently, they ARE going to chnage, how they speak, act and write WILL change with them. You can't expect a band never to change just because you want them to sound exactly the way they did when you first heard them. Come on people grow up and think, think back a few years ago, think how much you've changed. For celebrities its more noticable as they are in the public eye, as long as they stay true to themselves I don't see the big deal

I am so sick of people bitching about their indie band becoming mainstream. If you don't like their new material, that's perfectly fine. Just don't get butthurt over the fact that more than ten people know who they are now. I love Weezer, and you want to know what the first song I ever heard from them was? Beverly Hills. I was in middle school. And I'm glad I heard it, because it got me interested in them, so I also listened to a bunch of their old stuff and I fell even more in love.

I'm sort of echoing with what just_call_me_dookie said. At least after all these years they're still making music. Many bands don't have that chance. I think they're still their adorably dorky selves. Whether they're mainstream or not doesn't matter. Mainstream is not the devil. It's just music. If people enjoy it and it makes them happy, then who cares if it's all over MTV? Who cares if football players and cheerleaders love them? Who cares if the twelve year old Hannah Montana fan from down the street love them? They're nice guys and they deserve it. And you clearly don't know the real definition of the term "sell-out." And I also saw them live in September with blink-182 and they played a ton of their old stuff, and they're incredibly fun live, so it's not like they never ever play Buddy Holly or Say it Ain't So or something.

Although I will agree with you that Can't Stop Partyin' is just a weird song. The first time I heard it I was like, "this is [i]Weezer?[/i]" But you know what? I still like it.

And Buddy Holly is now stuck in my head.

Geez. Chill out, por favor. I didn't really mean anything against Weezer, I was just ranting about how different their new album sounds. I do realize that bands can change their sound and are allowed to evolve and all, it just seemed like a larger step in their evolution than before. I in no way shape or form hate Weezer, and I've been listening to the Raditude album since it came out, it just wasn't what i had originally expected it to be, but that's not really bad or good, it just is. And I know it doesn't necessarily come across well in text, but in real life I'm a hugely sarcastic bitch and that bleed into my writing a lot, but if you don't know me [which none of you do] it comes across as being honestly hypercritical. In reality, i'm mostly joking. I'm just a mega bitch, and I don't take what I say nearly as seriously as you all seem to be. I know I'm not a music critic or anything of the sort, I'm just a kid who loves music, sarcasm, and being a heartless bitch. So please, take with a grain of salt; it is what it is and it's just my overly bitchy opinion.

and the DCFC reference was a complete joke. Ben Gibbard is pretty much my biggest hero of all time, and he can do no wrong in my book, unless he decided to quit making music. I just always found it ironic that I think twilight has such amazing music on their soundtracks, yet I don't care for the movies.

also, there's no point hating and calling it "selling out". why call something a sell out because it's well-known? ac/dc have "made the same album about fifteen times" but people still love them, they haven't been accused of "selling out". metallica took a different style from thrash metal with load & reload. now THEY were called sellouts. because they were experimenting musically to see what they could do. van halen changed their style with sammy hagar and they weren't "sellouts"? you know, it's very critical, this article. you shouldn't be hating on a band because their latest album sounds a little bit different. i actually like weezer, and thought raditude did themselves justice. who cares whether it's different? why limit yourself to please your fans? that's bullshit.

haha, my ipod is on shuffle
and "In the Garage" just came on
:D

By the way, I just felt the need to add this...
[i]That said, they owe every original fan a nice, big, sincere apology in the form of an old-school indie album that would make any cheerleader of football captain grimace in response to.[/i]
For that, I think it is you who owes Weezer an apology.

Even if this was a journal entry, I have a feeling you'd still get your butt kicked.
Look at it this way.
After your entire life, are you telling me you haven't changed [i]once?[/i] Hmm? You've stayed the same since birth? Uh, no. If you didn't why should Weezer have to?
Grow up a little more, please.

I feel like hitting my head against a wall after reading this article. It's not professional or in any way mature, both of which you should be when writing public statements such as this. The only one who needs to apologize is you, for making such irrational comments on a pretty great band. Sometimes people become interested in different types of music; I'm sure you don't listen to the same things now as you did fifteen years ago. Don't like Raditude? They've made plenty of music for you to enjoy already. Listen to what you like, and skip the stuff you don't. Jeezus.

Death Cab isn't a sell out.
Yes, they did the Twilight soundtrack but, who cares?
I love DCFC and I won't stop listening to them because they did a soundtrack.

I would have to agree with many of the previous comments. I'll give you that this album is more pop sounding in some places [I'm not huge on this version of "Can't Stop Partying" myself either] ,but overall they are definitely not bad pop songs. The music is still enjoyable, even you acknowledged that. I personally don't even see "Trippin' Down the Freeway" as being so "mainstream" and un-Weezer as you have described. [It's one of my favorites off the album.]
Have you ever heard the original of "Can't Stop Partying" on Rivers second "Alone" album? It's probably more your speed [and certainly more mine.] Rivers sings it slower with only an acoustic type accompanyment, like a sad song because he didn't feel right glorifying drug and alcohol use. [which is why, although I still like this new version, I am perplexed by it, and honestly don't care for it quite as much.]

Dude, hating on stuff just because it's well-known is stupid. If it's well-known surely that means it's good?! It's just pretentious to look down on bands who want to be more successful, after all, they've got bills to pay!

Mainstream. I'm not even sure what that's supposed to mean anymore. It's up there with 'Selling Out'. As far as I'm concerned, they're both pretty stupid terms to use on a band. It shouldn't matter what others are listening to, whether it's a tweenie Hannah Montana fan or yourself, if you're listening to the same Weezer song and you both like it, who gives a fuck?
Really.
It's their music, you either like it or you don't. If you don't like the new songs, don't listen to them and deal with the fact that they exist.