{"id":480017,"date":"2018-12-18T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=768140"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T18:20:15","slug":"rivers-cuomo-loves-that-snl-weezer-sketch-even-though-he-hasnt-seen-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/rivers-cuomo-loves-that-snl-weezer-sketch-even-though-he-hasnt-seen-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Cuomo Loves That \u2018SNL\u2019 Weezer Sketch, Even Though He Hasn\u2019t Seen It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Saturday, December 15th, Weezer<\/a> frontman Rivers Cuomo<\/a> got a text with some exciting news: The band\u2019s manager, who happened to be in the audience at Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> that day \u2014 \u201ctotal coincidence,\u201d Cuomo says \u2014 had learned that the show was preparing to air an entire sketch about Weezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the extremely funny skit, Leslie Jones and Matt Damon get into a passionate dinner-party debate about the ins and outs of the alt-rock band\u2019s 25-year-long catalog. Jones plays a dedicated devotee of Weezer\u2019s first two albums only; Damon\u2019s character, a self-styled \u201cride or die\u201d fan, counters that Weezer\u2019s later material is in fact their finest. \u201cThey really nailed it, right?\u201d Cuomo says. \u201cI still can\u2019t believe it. It can\u2019t be that<\/em> big of an audience that would appreciate such a specific little niche as the Weezer fandom.\u201d<\/p>\n

The skit marks one more pop-cultural triumph for Weezer this year, following their surprise hit with a cover of Toto\u2019s \u201cAfrica,\u201d their well-received tour with the Pixies and their recent Grammy nomination for 2017\u2019s Pacific Daydream.<\/em> The SNL<\/em> tribute, which sparked endless online conversation over the weekend, might be the most surreal of all those moments.<\/p>\n

One person who hasn\u2019t seen it yet, though, is Cuomo. \u201cEveryone\u2019s been texting me and emailing me,\u201d he says. \u201cMy mom saw it. But if there\u2019s a specific moment you want me to comment on, you\u2019d probably better describe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

At one point, Matt Damon says, \u201c\u2018Pork & Beans\u2019 is better than \u2018Buddy Holly.’\u201d What do you make of that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Um\u2026.Everyone\u2019s entitled to their opinion.<\/p>\n

So you wouldn\u2019t agree with that take?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I mean, I don\u2019t rate and rank songs that much. I know I did when I was young. It was like, \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite color? Who\u2019s your favorite superhero?\u201d And I would always have an answer. Now it\u2019s all just music. Sometimes I wanna hear one thing, sometimes I wanna hear another.<\/p>\n

Fair enough. I\u2019ll just read you another exchange. Leslie Jones says, \u201cWeezer died when [original bassist] Matt Sharp left.\u201d And then Matt Damon retorts, \u201cWeezer didn\u2019t start<\/em> until [current bassist] Scott Shriner got there.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Long laughter.]<\/em> It\u2019s so deep, man! Who even knows what they\u2019re talking about? I\u2019m totally honored, but I hope people weren\u2019t changing the channel.<\/p>\n

It does seem like the sketch captured something about the way some fans feel about Weezer \u2014 this intense loyalty to specific parts of the catalog. Why do you think that is?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, let me ask you, as an outsider, do other artists have this kind of intensely opinionated and passionate and conflicted following?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think so. I don\u2019t hear people having the same kind of debates about, say, Pearl Jam or Radiohead that they do about your band.
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I wish I knew why. It\u2019s almost worthy of an academic study to figure out what\u2019s going on in the psyche of these few hundred thousand people. I feel like it must come back to something in the four of us, or something in me. There\u2019s some character flaw or some quirk of my personality that is permitting a vacuum, where a normal band leader would be projecting some kind of stronger leadership. Or maybe he\u2019d just be a more consistent artist stylistically.<\/p>\n

Another possibility is that Weezer appeals to nerds, and nerds like to argue about their favorite things. I can think of similar debates about which Star Trek<\/em> series is the best.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In our case, we\u2019re real people. We\u2019re not some fictional characters. So there\u2019s nothing to argue about. But I like that. I would add that nerds also like to catalog and collect things, and put things in categories, and notice the tiny differences from one product to the next. It makes sense, because I\u2019m a nerd. I was one of those people. I was obsessive about the bands and the movies I was into as a kid. I didn\u2019t have as much information back then, but I did my best.<\/p>\n

Just for the record, a lot of other outlets have reported on this with headlines along the lines of, \u201cRivers Cuomo saw the \u2018SNL\u2019 Weezer sketch and loved it,\u201d because of the tweet you posted. B<\/strong>ut that\u2019s not exactly true, right?
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No. You know my Twitter, right? There\u2019s little on there that\u2019s literally true. A lot of it is Trump-true. Like, I agree with the spirit of what I\u2019m tweeting, but a lot of times it\u2019s not factually correct.<\/p>\n

Of course. The tweet says \u201c<\/strong>THEY HAD A WHOLE ASS SKIT ABOUT WEEZER AND ME ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AND IM ACTUALLY CRYING AAAGGGGHHHHHHH.\u201d That\u2019s not how you type, is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wish I did!<\/p>\n

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THEY HAD A WHOLE ASS SKIT ABOUT WEEZER AND ME ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE AND IM ACTUALLY CRYING AAAGGGGHHHHHHH<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rivers Cuomo (@RiversCuomo) December 16, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, December 15th, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo got a text with some exciting news: The band\u2019s manager, who happened to be in the audience at Saturday Night Live that day \u2014 \u201ctotal coincidence,\u201d Cuomo says \u2014 had learned that the show was preparing to air an entire sketch about Weezer. In the extremely funny […]<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-480017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 14:30:59","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}