How do we know 30th is the date?

It’s a pleasant pop rock song, never got the hate for it

the riff matched with the organ is so beatles to me

this came up earlier but got quickly taken down:
web.archive.org/web/20210110191156/https://store.hmv.com/store/music/vinyl/ok-human

they’re doing a secret show for i heart radio a day before or so so it seems to line up for promo for a drop, they did this too for black album rollout

also some hungarian posted some short review of ok human confirming the 29th release and to be 12 tracks apparently so idk what i heart radio are on about maybe some special physical release thing attached to it? mmm

The only thing that rubs me the wrong way about it is it sometimes gives me Shrek soundtrack vibes lmao. Other than that it’s that same sort of bubbly warm pop quality I feel with songs like Build Me Up Buttercup or Daydream Believer. It’s perfectly fine for what it is.

the demo acapella harmonies intro is so good

They reviewed it already? How did they feel about it?

it’s prolly just some early review stuff, very short, has some brian words too

elmenyem.hu/zene/januar-vegen-erkezik-a-meglepetes-weezer-album

translation:

This gets me more hyped but I’m gonna try and reel in my expectations

nahhhh it’s AOTY

@LuJo moby d***

Weezer feeling songs...best album to date...Hmmm

bro you already a symphonic album is gonna be le gen dary

alright 13 hours later im home from work

extraordinary yet bloody

Aussie lyrics confirmed c***

these songs are vegemite level tier good

weezer was everything for me in the beginning. every day i would come home to try to find songs i didn't have. i would come across like secret sites where you could download like 4 or 5 songs. this was s*** before s*** like weerez or this site that had mostly everything in one place. i was so pissed when i found the site years later lmao.

anyway, this daily search is what lead me to forums. i already was on some at the time but its here i began to join a good amount. i remember i would read weezer nation a lot, but i think when the albumfive boards came about, i was pretty active on that one.

and i remember the only reason i got on myspace was because i came across rivers' myspace. i was too young to f***ing understand what the f*** myspace was, but the two major things that screamed at me when i was on rivers myspace was the status notification that he was "online now" and the "message" button. the s*** blew my mind! my hero was online at the same moment i was and i could talk to him??? i had to f***ing join. i remember he had like 3000 friends and i thought that was such an insane number LMAO.

anyway, but yes, the obsession was real. like, i remember i saw these puma's rivers was wearing in a picture from years earlier, and i spent 5 days just searching online for them. (got 'em lmao). i remember i spent a summer saving up to recreate his blue strat with the turtle pickguard. (didn't happen in the end), or when i made an excel spreadsheet of all weezer songs (from the four albums that existed at the time), and i checked them off as i learned them on guitar.

the music of course spoke for itself, but there's the obvious connection i made with the ...i guess what we would call today as "brand" of their music and them, specifically rivers.

i thought he was a god. i loved that he was so unassuming. maybe that's how i viewed myself? or wanted to view myself? someone unassuming, but possessed amazing talent. and from the songs, of course, the underdog that the narrator is in so many of them. (this aspect i kinda.....dont look back so fondly on tbh)

anyway, this love kinda showed me how to become a f***ing stan tbh. through them i learned how to use the internet to suck up everything an artist or band had to offer. i think they may have been my first concert i went to that i wanted to go to too. they really provided so many experiences.

cant exactly remember when i stopped f***ing with them. like right now, i honestly can't name the album that came out after make believe. maybe the red album (is that an actual album)? and then ratitude? and then hurley? i guess it was obviously after make believe. i guess with make believe i had grown up enough to see the business aspect of selling music and images. i guess i viewed it like they were "selling out" but more so for relevancy rather than actual money, and thats also around the time i was only f***ing with indie bands cause i guess i thought those bands were more 'geniune' LMAOOOOOOOOOO

at this point, i always see their name in passing, and of course, it catches my eye, but im usually so distracted that i never really stop and think about how much the band means to me, so i never feel motivated to see what theyre up to. usually i think i view them as like puppy dog love, you know? like you loved them because you were young and they were your first.

last album i listened to them was 'white album' and i liked it overall. and because i was listening to the album on youtube, i listened to 'friend of a friend' for the first time today, and i was floored. the man is truly a genius.

im sorry, this s*** was a lot of blabbering.

nah man this is why i made the thread

love reading this it’s so beautiful and such an honor to get to interact with ppl who goes way back into weezers lore

love you bro this is the fam thank you for coming itt and sharing this

it’s so amazing and i relate to that, obviously here i am running this s*** and what gets me going despite stanning other bands or artists back and forth over time, weezer has never left me because they always been the 90s underdog, don’t get me wrong, they got their cult going on and i can easily put new ppl into it but for so many ppl who thinks highly of themselves or art they put down weezer at any given shot, they will forever be under the shadows of other 90s act and im tired of it bc they got more than two classics by now and not many 90s acts can claim that, in fact they’re the only 90s act still going that remains exciting and not just nostalgia factor despite what you may think of some direction

rarely a band has opened so much and connected with their fans tbh, the demo rivers sent to the fans individually during maladroit era on the message board, hell a fan there named the album maladroit! onto the make believe tour where they got a fan on stage each night to do sweater song with them then the red album with the hootenanny tour where at each stop any local musicians could be on stage with them, it would led to like 50 people with each different instruments - a mess sure but who else did that?

then when rivers literally wrote a song with the fans, like holy s***:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB6DB0F1773920F9B

onto the later era where he invited fans to shakespears play and bought all their tickets to it, and so forth etc

i think this makes the weezer community much more special and like you said the way we stan

he truly is an amazing modern genuis - and i admire that he doesn’t show it off, he just wants to write cool songs! he never claimed to be an alt rock 90s hero, he was into that back then because it was hot, he’s just a man who loves music period, so him making more pop beats or collaborating or working with rappers was never off character, if anything it’s more him than ever and i feel that, it’s all about creativity making new and keeping it fun

im glad reading pass the fact you drifted away post make believe you gave white album a shot and especially its deluxe songs, i wish every og fan was sent this to their home to prove then that rivers never lost it when they gave him such a hard time for years - he did this effortlessly following the producers advice (who’s a big stan used to have his weezer cover band) even he felt like redoing the blue album at some point, but it goes to show how easy it is to him and what a magnificent result, especially on friend of a friend this song is just ridiculous

you should try “everything will be alright in the end” it was the comeback album after the pause they took after hurley, very guitar oriented

HEY since you’re an og and you know of all the leaked songs and such - this might ring a bell 😉😉😉

also here’s some exciting news for you i bet you would have never thought would ever happen years ago - sheila can do it is gonna be on van weezer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

woah woah woah.....

the way my mind is f***ing opening filing cabinets right now i haven't opened in f***ing forever....

edited the post a bit sorry my iphone autocorrect acted up here and there

also regarding the interaction with fans i brought up in my reply to your post i forgot to bring this up: some week ago rivers has started selling home demos - the continuing of the alone album series but digitally - on his website he’s coding himself, there’s over 2,000 songs covering eras from the 80s to the white album, it’s only solo recordings tho he’s not sure if he can include collaborations or band stuff, and he says most of the songs he’s dumped in there are stuff he won’t be mining to finish later unless it’s already done for ok human and van weezer

idk if this song was as talked about way back but it’s being mentioned here and there for a long time and it has finally seen the light, predates blue album and its godly... it was my holy grail imo

we have found out some interesting stuff from these as the verses of summer elaine from the white album goes way back to the maladroit era!

in other news they’re surprise dropping an album the 29th titled ok human it will be fully orchestra symphonic no guitars it should be great! you should check it out with us my brother

no worries

there's more im going to reply to later cause im going to sleep

but i pressed play on weekend woman

i heard the first couple seconds and im like immediately deflated cause im like "nah, i dont know this s***"

but then he starts singing, and that melody i would never forget....

"I'D DIE FOR YOU

WHY CANT YOU BE THE ONE

TO SET MY MIND AT EASE???"

this is a song that i only have known as like a 50 second clip

and just right now im seeing there's actually a full version of it now

and now of course, that it's been remade

damn.

and thats like another thing ...there are so many songs that i have such quality s*** versions of because thats all that existed, and now i see that a lot of them have been unearth and recorded

like i spent YEARS adoring the version of superfriend that was cut from the video recording

and like a life dream was always ''god i wish i could hear it for real'' because i truly never thought it was going to happen. especially after the direction they started going. like why would he ever return to these old ass songs?

and then he did.

and now i somewhat know of a lot of stuff theyve re-recorded. but today i saw in a comment that he put out like hundreds of old songs? it's honestly overwhelming.

AND let's write a song!!

i lived for that s***

i actually will reference it like this:

of course no one knows wtf im referencing because its in a f***ing kpop server LMAO

but this s*** is so engrained in my dna it just comes out tbh LMAO

i need to find the video its from

LMAO it's the first thing he f***ing says in this video