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I’ll admit, Weezer’s new video for Troublemaker is amazing & so creative. It’s even better than Pork & Beans, which defied most bands’ video-making efforts by featuring Youtube stars with actual acting scenes.

Watch Troublemaker
Watch Pork & Beans

During the shooting of Troublemaker, Weezer and their fans broke several Guinness World Records. They even had a Guinness official onset to make sure. Here are a few of the records:

*Largest game of dodge ball
*Most people in custard pie fight
*Biggest group playing air guitar
*Longest Guitar Hero marathon
*Drumming on the world’s smallest drum kit

Obviously, Weezer has a great sense of humour in their videos. But in interviews, not so much. Around Muchmusic, Weezer (especially Rivers Cuomo) are known for being incredible shy & kings of the “one-word answer”. For a recent episode of The NewMusic, I cut together a bunch of awkward & weird Weezer moments from their interviews over the years.

(Recent NewMusic episode)
(Awkward & weird moments)

After doing this, I’m not sure exactly what makes them so awkward. A few theories…

1) I have a hunch Rivers is intimidated by female interviewers. He crumbled during every interview with a female VJ in our archives, particularly Sook-Yin Lee, who he seemed to have a crush on from reading about her in Chester Brown comics. With men, he was better. He opened up a bit more to George Stroumboulopoulos and particularly in a recent interview with Matt Wells.

(Matt wells interview)

2) Weezer is actually media savvy and realized we would one day use their interviews for alternate purposes.

3) And the obvious theory, they’re just incredibly shy, and better at reading comic books than talking about themselves.

You can watch our show with Weezer coverage online here!

Posted on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 12:09 pm by Casey and is filed under The NewMusic.

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