For the Japanese version of Red, Rivers puts his heart into a cover of Korean-born j- and k-pop star BoA's "????," or "Meri Kuri." It's not very good. It helps if you've heard the original, too. But it's still not very good.
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Elsewhere, "Pork And Beans" video star Tay Zonday is moonlighting: Not only has he literally covered Weezer (with Weezer), he's now covered them as a journalist, too. Can you guess which song is based on the sonata form? Me neither. Also, Rivers discusses the band's interactive, fan-friendly "Hootenanny Tour."
Via MTV:
Tay Zonday: What is your favorite moment of the "Pork and Beans" video?
Scott Shriner, bass: Probably today, when we were in the middle of the room, and there were all the YouTube people doing their thing at the same time. It was unbelievable. I couldn't really look at anything because it was really super-distracting and extraordinary.
Brian Bell, guitar: And the part with the Diet Coke explosions. Evidently when you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it explodes, and so basically it was fireworks of Diet Coke everywhere.
Zonday: What was your approach to making this new album?
Rivers Cuomo, guitars/vocals: Our approach was to get into the studio and try to blow our minds with whatever we wanted to do. To just have fun, so that when we pressed play and listened back to what we did, our minds were just blown. That was the goal.
Zonday: And what song are you most proud of on the album?
Bell: There's a song called "Dreamin' " that's pretty fantastic. And it's actually based on the sonata form. I have a section called "The Dream Sequence," which I sing.
Cuomo: Yeah. It's got chunky guitars and beautiful sing-along melodies. And there's some amazing timpani-like drumrolls that Pat [Wilson] plays.
Zonday: And when can Weezer fans expect you out on the road in support of the album?
Shriner: We're going to be doing some promo soon, some ...
Cuomo: Promo? We're going to go on a tour. It's called the Hootenanny Tour, and it's coming to your town in June. We're gonna bring ourselves and invite a bunch of Weezer fans down to bring their instruments and, uh, jam with us. I don't know, 100, 200 people, whatever. Everyone come down and bring an instrument -- whatever you can play -- and we'll jam out on our songs. [Editor's note: A spokesperson for Weezer's label, DGC, confirmed this to MTV News.] Then, in September, we're touring Japan, and in October we'll be touring the U.S., probably in the big rock arenas.
Start learning how to play, or at least play along to, Red, Weezer fans. Something else interesting in that Q&A: When Zonday asks about the approach for the new album, Cuomo responds, "Our approach was to get into the studio and try to blow our minds with whatever we wanted to do. To just have fun..." See that: "Our" minds, not "our fans's minds."
