{"id":266040,"date":"2019-01-24T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1007971"},"modified":"2019-01-24T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T15:57:00","slug":"weezer-covers-tlcs-no-scrubs-and-the-internet-is-freaking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/weezer-covers-tlcs-no-scrubs-and-the-internet-is-freaking-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Weezer Covers TLC’s “No Scrubs”–and the Internet Is Freaking Out"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s the uber hipster version of “No Scrubs” you never knew you needed.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday night,\u00a0Weezer<\/strong> quietly dropped a surprise album of covers, including one of R&B girl group\u00a0TLC<\/a><\/strong>‘s 1999 mega hit.<\/p>\n

The alternative rock and pop band’s record, titled\u00a0the Teal Album<\/a><\/em>, also includes\u00a0the band’s cover of\u00a0Toto<\/strong>‘s “Africa,” which they released last year following a fan campaign, as well as covers of ’60s, ’70s and ’80s hits such as\u00a0Michael Jackson<\/a><\/strong>‘s “Billie Jean,” The Turtle<\/strong>‘s “Happy Together,”\u00a0Black Sabbath<\/strong>‘s “Paranoid,”\u00a0Ben E. King<\/strong>‘s “Stand By Me” and a-ha<\/strong>‘s “Take on Me.”<\/p>\n

But it is their cover of “No Scrubs” that is generating the most attention; In fact, the Internet freaked out about it.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“Whatever (white) person said that the #WEEZER cover of No Scrubs was good needs to sit in the corner and think about their choices,” tweeted user @KosokoJackson<\/a>. “This sounds like what unseasoned chicken and wonder bread tastes like and I now I’m angry on this beautiful day. #TealAlbum”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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that weezer cover of no scrubs is a monstrosity omg pic.twitter.com\/4JMDkE2wXZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ? ? ? ? (@golddtatt) January 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Others liked the new version of the song.<\/p>\n

“Weezer dropping a surprise cover album gave me a cover of ‘No Scrubs’ I didn’t know I needed,” tweeted user @EddieGPinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“WEEZER DID A COVER ALBUM AND NO SCRUBS IS ON THERE AND I DIDN’T KNOW THAT I NEEDED THIS BUT I F–KING NEEDED IT!!” tweeted user @hifromjena<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“I just thought it’s one of those songs that’s freakishly popular,”\u00a0Weezer’s lead singer\u00a0Rivers Cuomo<\/strong> told Apple Music<\/a>. “I was trying to decide which gender perspective to sing it from then I saw this tweet that said, ‘If you’re a guy covering a song by a girl, you gotta keep the pronouns. For those three minutes you’re gay.’ So I was like, ‘Cool, let’s try this.'”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s the uber hipster version of “No Scrubs” you never knew you needed. On Wednesday night,\u00a0Weezer quietly dropped a surprise album of covers, including one of R&B girl group\u00a0TLC‘s 1999 mega hit. The alternative rock and pop band’s record, titled\u00a0the Teal Album, also includes\u00a0the band’s cover of\u00a0Toto‘s “Africa,” which they released last year following a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 17:38:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}