The Weezer frontman tweeted the following on Monday:
I miss the days when it was okay to like Weezer.
— Rivers Cuomo (@RiversCuomo) December 28, 2015Which prompted several obvious, but nonetheless very true, jokes:
I miss the days when Weezer released good albums. https://t.co/P8BL6IDEmC
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 28, 2015I thought this too while listening to a Weezer song from a decade ago. https://t.co/yeiXP5Bk6J
— Brandon? (@brandonspears) December 28, 2015This is the most Weezer-ly tweet ever there could be. https://t.co/qvsVfu52at
— Joe Berkowitz (@JoeBerkowitz) December 28, 2015This is hardly the first time that Cuomo has evinced concern about his band’s likability. At a show in St. Louis earlier this month, he asked the crowd, “How could anyone not like Weezer, man?”
A critic for the Riverfront Times observed:
His bizarre, hilarious commentary on his band and his work shows that Cuomo is aware both of the criticism regarding Weezer’s new albums and his continued ability to construct a perfect pop melody with formulaic precision.
But what if the opposite were true? What if Cuomo’s stage banter and tweet evince doubt about his ability to construct the perfect pop melody? What if he misses the days when it was OK for him to like Weezer?