A friend sent a quick chat message stating “Fans offer Weezer $10 million to break up.” I reacted with, “Ha ha! Oh The Onion, they can be so witty.” Nope, it was a real story wasting electrons on the Internet. I read a version via The Guardian.
Call me a philistine but I despise Weezer’s second album Pinkerton. I tried to listen to it shortly after it came out and found it to be unbearable; figured this was the sophomore jinx which would prove Weezer was a one-album wonder (see Nirvana, MGMT, Alanis Morrissette). However, this is the record most fans rally around while they turn their noses up at everything else. Puzzles the hell out of me, especially when some critics claim Pinkerton is the founding (or blaming) title for Emo, a genre these same fans dislike.
The break-up founder’s intent and goal are inane. Firstly, dozens of bands disappoint their fans, including myself. This Summer, I bought my first Sarah McLachlan album in 13 years due to her post-Fumbling material being dreadful. It wasn’t the mass appeal she gained by 1997 with Surfacing which bothered me, otherwise I would’ve dropped Duran Duran or the Foo Fighters; the music was really bad. Therefore, I did the smarter thing, I stopped buying and listening to the later stuff. I doubt it affected Sarah’s bank account or career but I moved on, found other singers/writers to fill the void.
Maybe this guy should do the same yet he says he isn’t a fan. Now I really am going to enjoy Weezer’s latest Hurley twice as much and be tempted to buy the extra tracks on iTunes along with the Rock Band packs including “Buddy Holly.” Give the band a little more money to raise the ante since the drummer said they’d take $20 million to make a deluxe break-up package.