{"id":807154,"date":"2020-05-06T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=994681"},"modified":"2020-05-06T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T16:00:38","slug":"weezer-honor-essential-workers-with-new-outcast-anthem-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/weezer-honor-essential-workers-with-new-outcast-anthem-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Weezer Honor Essential Workers With New Outcast Anthem \u2018Hero\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Weezer<\/a> send a hopeful note around the world in the video for their new song, \u201cHero,\u201d off their upcoming album, Van Weezer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The track is a classic Weezer anthem packed with plenty of big, meaty guitar riffs and lyrics from Rivers Cuomo that grapple with personal dreams of greatness and feeling like an outcast. \u201cEverybody needs a hero but I\u2019m not everybody else,\u201d he sings, \u201cI walk alone, yeah, I walk alone\/You know I tried to be a hero but I was lying to myself\/I walk alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the solemn tinge to the song, in the description on YouTube, Weezer offered up \u201cHero\u201d as a tribute to \u201cthe stay at home dreamers, the Zoom graduators, the sourdough bakers and the essential workers.\u201d The clip opens with Cuomo penning a letter that\u2019s passed along between Weezer fans who submitted short videos to create one giant chain. At the end, the letter is finally opened to reveal a heartfelt thank you to essential workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis. \u201cYour bravery and selflessness are awe-inspiring,\u201d Cuomo writes. \u201cYou are the reason we shall rock another day.\u201d<\/p>\n

To mark the release of \u201cHero,\u201d Weezer has also teamed with Postmates and the volunteer group, Feed Hero Nurses, to deliver meals to the nurses at Los Angeles\u2019 Good Samaritan Hospital tonight, May 6th.<\/p>\n

Weezer was set to release Van Weezer<\/em> this month, but in sharing \u201cHero,\u201d they announced that they would be pushing back the LP because of the coronavirus. \u201cAnd because we don\u2019t want to give another release date until we\u2019re absolutely sure of it, we\u2019ll just say \u2018stay tuned for more info,’\u201d the band added. \u201cIn the meantime, we\u2019re working hard on getting you all the new Weezer you can handle including music and more surprises getting announced later this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Weezer send a hopeful note around the world in the video for their new song, \u201cHero,\u201d off their upcoming album, Van Weezer. The track is a classic Weezer anthem packed with plenty of big, meaty guitar riffs and lyrics from Rivers Cuomo that grapple with personal dreams of greatness and feeling like an outcast. \u201cEverybody […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 22:44:41","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}