00:00We're Weezer, and this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
00:14Okay, what does Weezer mean?
00:18Weezer was what my dad called me when I was like two, three years old.
00:22That's my nickname.
00:23I reminded him at that age of the character Weezer on The Little Rascals,
00:29and I said, why?
00:30And he said, because he was the cool one.
00:32Why are Weezer albums named after colors?
00:35They're not named colors at all.
00:37They're all named Weezer, and it happens to be the color.
00:40Also, yeah, from our first album, people called it the Blue Album,
00:43but they didn't call it that until the second album came out.
00:47Then they started referring back to the first album as the Blue Album.
00:50Why did Weezer cover Africa?
00:53I saw a screenshot of somebody whose neighbor was playing Africa,
00:58and he was like, turn that shit up.
01:00And I think I reposted it, and somehow this girl in Ohio,
01:05she was like, okay, this has to happen.
01:07So she went on a journey to get us to cover that song for months.
01:13The chord changes are so sophisticated but smooth,
01:16and it's modulating all over the place, but it's such a great song.
01:21Very well written.
01:21I learned a lot making that record, actually.
01:25Weezer x Olivia Rodrigo.
01:27Me, Scott, and Rivers all went to Chicago after like a...
01:31Was it again?
01:32We were flying from another part of the world,
01:36and the next day flew from L.A. to Chicago to do this show.
01:40She was so nice.
01:41So nice.
01:42We rehearsed with her band, who were all really nice.
01:45Then we went and played pickleball,
01:46and we all got hot dogs.
01:48It was great.
01:48Why Weezer is the best band ever?
01:52That's not really a question.
01:53I think the way we persevered throughout the years
01:58is why we're in that discussion.
02:01And the music, that's the clear answer.
02:06Why is the sky blue?
02:07Yeah.
02:08Why is water wet?
02:10All right, now...
02:11Careful.
02:11That's on the wrist, but don't tell anybody.
02:15What is the Weezer gathering?
02:18We're about to find out in September in...
02:21I like that answer.
02:23...cities near you in the United States of America and Canada.
02:27It's going to be fantastic.
02:29We have an amazing concept that we're not going to share here,
02:32but come see us.
02:34You better get your tickets because they're going to sell out.
02:36What do Weezer fans call themselves?
02:40I don't think they have.
02:41I don't think they've come up with a name.
02:42They don't have a name.
02:44Weezies.
02:46Weezoids?
02:47Weezoids.
02:48What Weezer song has the best riff?
02:52I think it's Hashpipe.
02:53I got to agree.
02:54It's got to be Hashpipe.
02:55I also like...
02:56What's the song off of Malajoy?
02:57Do-do-chuk-chuk-chuk.
03:00We come together.
03:03What does that say?
03:03Come together.
03:04Come together.
03:05Yeah, I love that riff.
03:06What Weezer song has the iconic riff?
03:09I think the most iconic riff is the Sweater song or Island in the Sun.
03:15That's a riff or that's a riff, right?
03:17Island in the Sun's a riff.
03:18Yeah, yeah.
03:19Play Island in the Sun.
03:25What is the Weezer logo?
03:29It's a W with wings.
03:30It's this kind of thing with our hands.
03:32And I thought, we're going to surely grow out of that at some point, right?
03:35Like, it's kind of, this has got to be, like, and it just keeps following us everywhere we go.
03:42There might be a bigger W, but it's the same one.
03:44It's very important for bands of our era to have some kind of, like, strong cymbal.
03:54What is Weezer's best song?
03:57I guess I'd vote for...
03:58Say It Ain't So?
03:59I was going to say Buddy Holly.
04:01Teenage Dirtbag?
04:02That's a classic.
04:03It's a classic.
04:03I'll say Say It Ain't So.
04:05I'll say Crab.
04:07What is Weezer's biggest hit?
04:09Internationally, it's Island in the Sun.
04:11But culturally, we don't know.
04:13What is Weezer...
04:14I'm going to say this is going to be apostrophe S.
04:16Oh, no.
04:17What is Weezer blue hex code?
04:210033H9.
04:22What is Weezer go away about?
04:25It's about a boy-girl relationship, and the boy has misbehaved.
04:30The girl has left him for that reason or is telling him to go away, and he's basically
04:36imploring her to let him back into her life and expressing his intense passion and remorse.
04:45And I guess the story isn't resolved by the end of the song.
04:48Is it based on personal experience?
04:50No.
04:51No.
04:52There you go.
04:53Does Weezer...
04:54Does Weezer actually look like Buddy Holly?
04:58I came up with that lyric years ago because people used to come up to me all the time and
05:03say,
05:03hey, you look like Buddy Holly, but nobody says that anymore.
05:07I think I know why.
05:08I think at that time, having kind of big black frames that I had gotten that were military
05:14issue, people weren't wearing those.
05:16It wasn't popular at all.
05:18But I think since then, they've become more widely accepted.
05:22Did people say it to you, too?
05:24Yeah.
05:25And I don't look anything like Buddy Holly.
05:26Yeah.
05:27Obviously.
05:27This was in the before times.
05:29Yeah, the before times.
05:30Does Weezer play Magic the Gathering?
05:34This member of Weezer doesn't even know what that is.
05:36Well, they may be searching because of the name of our tour as well.
05:39That's right.
05:39The Gathering.
05:40That's interesting.
05:40So maybe we need to add an element of the Magic the Gathering to our tour.
05:45Does Weezer like...
05:46Wait, wait.
05:46Can I say one more thing?
05:47Does Weezer play Magic the song at the Gathering, the concert?
05:52Okay, sorry.
05:53Does Weezer like Green Day?
05:54I like Green Day.
05:55Yeah.
05:55Yeah.
05:56Yeah, we like them.
05:56We've toured with them.
05:59We hang out a little bit with them.
06:01And I like all the guys personally.
06:04So my answer is yes.
06:06Does Weezer like Nirvana?
06:08Yes, of course.
06:09That can be an enough set.
06:11Well, I mean, I could have given you a good story of meeting Kurt Cobain, but if it's enough
06:15set, I won't do it.
06:17Yeah.
06:17No, no.
06:17I won't do it.
06:18It's all over now.
06:19Hold that back.
06:19Yeah.
06:20Sorry.
06:21No.
06:22Just Weezer.
06:23Who created Weezer?
06:26Well, you did.
06:27Wasn't it God?
06:29Rivers is the God of Weezer.
06:31He created us.
06:32Whoa, a double peel?
06:33Where did the name Weezer come from?
06:36I think we answered that already.
06:38Weezer Pickleball.
06:39Olivia Rodrigo did give me a pickleball set.
06:42That is where my pickleball participation ends and starts.
06:46There's been a couple companies that have given us gifts and their pickleball, so we must
06:50be a little bit known for it somehow.
06:52Yeah, but did they host SNL and were they the musical guests as well?
06:56I don't think so.
06:57What's that fight?
06:58I was fighting, I don't know what the fight is.
07:00What's with these homies?
07:01That's a great lyric from the song Buddy Holly.
07:04Some guys were making fun of a friend of mine who had a strong accent when she spoke, so I
07:12kind of wrote this song to come to her defense.
07:14I think I had listened to lots of NWA and Ice Cube and Public Enemy, and so that is just
07:22in my head, that word.
07:24From the first line of the song, I'm kind of like squaring off with these guys.
07:28Okay.
07:29What is Weezer's new album?
07:31The new album is called Weezer.
07:32Again.
07:33Again.
07:34The color this time is the color gold.
07:36It's not about currency, it's about staying gold, more like the outsiders.
07:42Who is Weezer going on tour with?
07:45We're going to go on tour in September with The Shins.
07:50And Silver Sun pickups.
07:51You get to peel.
07:53How to Weezer someone?
07:57It's kind of like a Rick Wall, right?
07:58Is it with the color or with the riff?
08:00It's the riff.
08:00From Buddy Holly.
08:01It's the riff.
08:01You get somebody to look at something, and then you get them all interested, and then
08:05the blue album just kind of, like that blue color takes over the screen, and you have
08:10the riff behind it.
08:11You've been Weezered.
08:13Why Weezer became...
08:15Become a meme?
08:16Have we become a meme?
08:18Well, the go away thing, like a bunch of kids took that idea with a sentiment from the
08:22song, and then put it towards another situation with two people, and you make a clip, and
08:28then the girl takes off.
08:30Weezer...
08:31Oh, no.
08:33Is Weezer family-friendly?
08:34I'm going to say extremely.
08:36We only have just a couple of brief moments where you may want to take the kids in the
08:42other room, but other than that, it is really straight up a real fun family act.
08:47Is Weezer demonic?
08:50Ooh.
08:51Ooh.
08:52Somebody's actually doing that?
08:53I wonder why they got that.
08:55I don't think we're very demonic.
08:56I don't think so.
08:57But it must be a concern if it's been Googled.
08:59How is that a concern?
09:01Run that through Bing.
09:02What is this?
09:03I don't know what's going on at Google.
09:05Tuck, tuck, go that.
09:07We're angelic as well as demonic.
09:08I think we're a little bit of all these things.
09:11You mean like casting spells?
09:13People say that there are spells being cast.
09:16Well, music is very powerful.
09:18And our music is very powerful.
09:20So, you know, maybe we have cast spells.
09:23Not intentionally, but our music is powerful.
09:25Maybe we're just milly-milly throwing spells.
09:26You can cast spells and not be a demon or demonic.
09:29Like, your alignment is like neutral good.
09:32Yeah.
09:33Okay.
09:33Is Weezer a valid Scrabble word?
09:36No.
09:37No, because it's a proper noun.
09:38You can't use proper nouns in Scrabble.
09:40But Weezer is with an H.
09:44Yeah.
09:45It would be a great Scrabble word because you usually have all these vowels, you know,
09:49and you're like, how do we get rid of three E's?
09:54Nothing on the internet surprises me anymore.
09:56I guess the most surprising one was the demonic question, but actually I kind of like.
10:01Thanks for those questions.
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