imtoooldforthisshit:

Weezer is beyond too old for this shit.

buzzfeed:

From Rivers Cuomo via Spinner.com:

“I was coming up with all kinds of stuff, but ultimately, we just went with some random word that doesn’t really have anything to do with anything. I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia — it just had this amazing vibe. We didn’t want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as ‘the Hurley record’ even if left it without that title, so we just called it ‘Hurley.’ No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face.”

[The Cover For Weezer’s Next Album]

I say this with 100% complete sincerity as a person who knows all the words to “El Scorcho” and has envisioned slowdancing to “Only in Dreams” on his wedding day:

Fuck. You. Weezer.

Their music has gotten exponentially shittier with each record since Pinkerton.  They clearly are just going through the motions of being a famous band, relying on the ghost of whatever shred of artistic integrity they had when Matt Sharp wrote the music.

I don’t know why this made me so mad, but it did.  To make their album cover a candid picture of Hurley from LOST (who I love sincerely) just sounds like a dumb weird inside joke inspired by smoking too much weed and not really caring about what they put out.  It’s just more evidence that this band I once loved has totally checked out and are just dialing it in.  I’m sure this record will be full of vapid forgettable shitty pop rock tunes like everything else they’ve done in the past decade.

If I was Jorge Garcia, I’d demand that they make a record with at least ONE song worthy of Pinkerton or the Blue album before I’d let them put my face on it.

Yikes.  I just raged.  /endrant