The meticulous replications of The Teal Album aren't a million miles away from that notebook, but by having Weezer pop into familiar settings, Cuomo has created a hyper-saturated, uncanny valley, where nothing seems quite real. Chalk it up to the curious obsessions of Rivers Cuomo, a songwriter who used to carry around a notebook so he could dissect why one pop song worked and another didn't. Weezer replicates the arrangements of beloved songs, adds a bit more fuzz on the guitar solos, and flattens the vocal affectations, which amounts to one weird trick: Weezer doesn't attempt to make the songs their own, yet these versions unmistakably sound like Weezer. Taken on a strictly musical terms, The Teal Album is pretty anodyne stuff. The exception to this rule is conspicuous: a version of TLC's 1999 smash "No Scrubs." By covering a beloved modern R&B hit, Weezer is opening themselves up to scorn and ridicule - the deliberately gangly band is certainly not smooth enough to replicate TLC's groove - but that's kind of the point of The Teal Album: it's designed to generate online chatter for its existence, not for what it is.
King's "Stand by Me" - two '60s chestnuts that were omnipresent during the Reagan era. Inspired by the success of "Africa," Weezer cut an entire album of oldies, generally sticking to the '80s, but finding space for the Turtles' "Happy Together" and Ben E. Just when the "Africa" cycle seemed to finally end, Weezer sprung The Teal Album upon the world. As the single stayed on the charts, Toto returned the favor by covering Weezer's "Hash Pipe," then Weezer parodied themselves for the long-delayed video for their "Africa," bringing Weird Al Yankovic along for good measure. Weezer sort of rebounded from the Make Believe mess with 2008s Weezer (The Red Album).Lead single 'Pork and Beans' had the sound and music video that best captured Weezers nerdy charm since Matt Sharp left the band.'Dreamin' sounded like it could have been a Pinkerton b-side. Somehow, that wasn't the end of the shenanigans.
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