{"id":481888,"date":"2019-02-06T10:32:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=790188"},"modified":"2019-02-06T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:32:33","slug":"rivers-cuomos-grammy-daydream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/rivers-cuomos-grammy-daydream\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Cuomo\u2019s Grammy Daydream"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This weekend, Weezer<\/a> will attend the 61st annual Grammy Awards in their hometown of L.A. They\u2019re up for Best Rock Album for 2017\u2019s Pacific Daydream<\/a><\/em>, and whether or not they win, their presence at the awards show underscores the strange but true fact that these alt-rock veterans are at a pop-cultural peak right now. \u201cHaving done this for so long, you see there\u2019s just randomly good luck and bad luck,\u201d says frontman Rivers Cuomo<\/a>. \u201cFor whatever reason, the last few months have brought a lot of really good luck, between the success of \u2018Africa\u2019 \u2014 totally unintended \u2014 and getting nominated again for the Grammys \u2014 never expected that \u2014 and then the SNL<\/em> skit<\/a>. It\u2019s like, \u2018Wow, what\u2019s going on?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Weezer are busier than ever right now, releasing a Teal Album<\/a> of covers even as they polish off their upcoming all-original Black Album, but Cuomo found a few minutes to chat with RS<\/em> before the big night. Read on for his thoughts on the band\u2019s history with the Grammys, their plans for this Sunday and why he likes at least one Greta Van Fleet song.<\/p>\n

If you win Best Rock Album this year, it will be only Weezer\u2019s second Grammy, after \u201cPork & Beans\u201d took home Best Music Video in 2009. Did it bother you that you got no love from the Recording Academy back in the Nineties?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I even knew what the Grammys were. Grammys, Oscars, Tonys \u2014 I had no idea what was what, and we were so critically reviled that it never occurred to us that we would win anything. Part of me now is like, \u201cHow come the Blue Album didn\u2019t win?\u201d But you have to go back to 1994. We were really a kids\u2019 band at the time. Our concerts were filled with 10-year-olds. So I get why it wasn\u2019t an album that could be critically appreciated at that moment.<\/p>\n

Who in the band is the most excited about going to the Grammys?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our wives. Apart from that, I don\u2019t know. We\u2019re all so excited. I remember when the White Album got nominated [in 2017], I was still in this self-protective mode: \u201cFuck the Grammys. I don\u2019t care about any of that. I\u2019m not going.\u201d But [bassist Scott Shriner] was like, \u201cNo, guys, this is really important. We all have to go. We probably won\u2019t win, but this is a big moment for Weezer.\u201d He\u2019s a stand-up kind of guy. Ever since then, I get it. I\u2019m on the Grammy train.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s your strategy for the night of the ceremony this time?
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I guess, having gone once, I feel a little more comfortable. I know how it goes. You get there early and you sit with your band in this big hall for the rock award. You lose, and then you feel strangely disappointed, even though you knew you were going to lose. Then you go out and you find other bands and you say hi to them. That\u2019s fun. You congratulate the winner. You go back in, you watch some of the performances, and you go out for dinner. It\u2019s a super-fun night.<\/p>\n

What do you think of the other Best Rock Album nominees? You\u2019re up against Greta Van Fleet, Fall Out Boy, Alice in Chains, and Ghost.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Greta Van Fleet has a song that\u2019s incredible \u2014 so incredible that I thought it was a cover song. So I looked it up on Wikipedia and was surprised to learn that it\u2019s actually theirs. They\u2019re such a bulls-eye for the category, too. They stand for rock & roll, and Weezer from day one has always been kind of anti-rock rock. We\u2019ve always been an awkward fit for the rock category, as much as we love it.<\/p>\n

That band has run into some critical backlash of their own. Do you identify with them?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m guessing they get criticized for being extremely derivative, and we didn\u2019t get that one. Although someone did call us Stone Temple Pixies. I remember that from a local paper on our first tour. That really hurt.<\/p>\n

The Blue Album turns 25 in May, which means Weezer will be eligible for nomination to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this year. Would you be into that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heck yeah! Scott had the chance to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony for the Cars [in 2018]. He was in the Cars for a minute. That would be the next amazing piece of good fortune if it came to us. I know there\u2019s a couple bigger artists from the class of \u201994 that would probably get in ahead of us. But you never know.<\/p>\n

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