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Pork & Beans is designed to annoy
Rivers Cuomo: 'New Weezer single is designed to annoy our label'
Frontman reveals the inspiration behind 'Pork And Beans'

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Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has revealed that his band's new single, 'Pork And Beans', was inspired by a bust-up with his US record label, DCG, rejecting songs he had originally delivered to them for the band's forthcoming new album.

Cuomo told Rolling Stone that he was ordered to write catchier songs, so wrote 'Pork And Beans' – a song with a deliberately inane theme.

"I came out of it pretty angry," Cuomo said of the meeting with the label. "But ironically, it inspired me to write another song."

Lyrics from 'Pork And Beans' include, “Everyone likes to dance to a happy song/With a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along/Timbaland knows the way to reach the top of the chart/ Maybe if I work with him I can perfect the art."

source: http://www.nme.com/news/weezer/36334



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[info]sabrina_bobina
2008-05-01 08:06 pm UTC (link)
I love The Buddy Holly video. Happy Days love.

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[info]bent_ley
2008-05-01 08:28 pm UTC (link)
whats with these homies dissing my girlllllllllllllll

buddy holly will always be one of my fave songs ever

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(no subject) - [info]lolliriots, 2008-05-01 08:51 pm UTC (Expand)
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[info]milkosaurus
2008-05-01 08:06 pm UTC (link)
wowww such a rebel

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[info]venomspit
2008-05-01 09:31 pm UTC (link)
ikr. dude you're like 40. get over yourself.

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[info]kissedmyfears
2008-05-01 08:07 pm UTC (link)
Go back to your house, everyone is out to get you. Shoo shoo away now.

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[info]hangthemj
2008-05-01 08:08 pm UTC (link)
i hope this album is good

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[info]sweetenedup
2008-05-01 08:09 pm UTC (link)
whatever, it's still a good song

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[info]dunkimdonut
2008-05-01 08:10 pm UTC (link)
I want rivers so bad
and i love that they are doing this red album style!

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[info]dontbecoymalfoy
2008-05-01 08:10 pm UTC (link)
He needs to stop making music. Like, 4 years ago.

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[info]nutopian
2008-05-01 08:14 pm UTC (link)
like nine years ago.

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(no subject) - [info]bizarrre, 2008-05-01 08:14 pm UTC (Expand)
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[info]cheezy_poof
2008-05-01 08:10 pm UTC (link)
Rivers is just so loveably awkward.

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[info]k5memo
2008-05-01 08:10 pm UTC (link)
the good life is my jam.

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[info]ultravlntmoloko
2008-05-01 08:39 pm UTC (link)
Right on.

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(no subject) - [info]applejane, 2008-05-01 10:53 pm UTC (Expand)

[info]purplejammies
2008-05-01 08:10 pm UTC (link)
I used to really love them, but now I can't because I found out that Rivers has this weird Asian fetish and their (newer) lyrics are so horrible.
It breaks my heart!

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[info]noreallywtf
2008-05-01 09:39 pm UTC (link)
rofl im asian and im scared to go near him tbh

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[info]teen_rex
2008-05-01 08:11 pm UTC (link)
“Everyone likes to dance to a happy song/With a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along/Timbaland knows the way to reach the top of the chart/ Maybe if I work with him I can perfect the art."

i have a funny feeling "pork and beans" will end up being my favorite =w= song.

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[info]sergeant_duckie
2008-05-01 08:12 pm UTC (link)
I don't care! i don't care!!! I dont' care, I dont' care, I don't care, I don't careeee!!!

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[info]leftword
2008-05-01 08:12 pm UTC (link)
there was an article/interview about/with him in blender or spin or RS years ago that discussed how he lived in an unlit, disgusting 1 bdrm apt by the 10 freeway in LA for a little while after he found fame

anyone remember this? i thought that was so odd

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[info]icutandpaste
2008-05-01 08:15 pm UTC (link)
Yes. It basically came to the conclusion that he's weird and obsessive but that's why Weezer works.

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[info]diorporfavor
2008-05-01 08:12 pm UTC (link)
I've never been able to stand him or Weezer at large. I'm just missing the Weezer gene.

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[info]heislegend
2008-05-01 08:13 pm UTC (link)
I love him and I'm glad Weezer is back :D

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[info]icutandpaste
2008-05-01 08:14 pm UTC (link)
Ironically it's the fucking catchiest song I've heard in months.

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[info]nutopian
2008-05-01 08:14 pm UTC (link)
please, rivers. i implore you. DIAF.

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[info]rumpunch13
2008-05-01 08:15 pm UTC (link)
weezer is the music of my high school years. but rivers bugs me so fucking much

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[info]backseatkissed
2008-05-01 08:15 pm UTC (link)
fuuuckk, what happened to you, varz?

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[info]bagelofdeath
2008-05-01 08:15 pm UTC (link)
I like(d) him, but now I kind of want to smack him and tell him to grow up.

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[info]oh_sophie
2008-05-01 08:15 pm UTC (link)
I love it when nerds rebel.

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[info]capnallegra
2008-05-01 08:16 pm UTC (link)
Weezer and my favourite band were signed by Geffen at the same time. Weezer is still popular; Sloan...? Not so much. Which is a shame, because Sloan is a better band.

I've always kinda held that against Weezer.

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[info]backseatkissed
2008-05-01 08:29 pm UTC (link)
chris murphy forever!

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(no subject) - [info]capnallegra, 2008-05-01 08:33 pm UTC (Expand)
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[info]bizarrre
2008-05-01 08:17 pm UTC (link)
He's like the Michael Cera of music, "OMGZ look at how awkward and adorable I am." ugh.

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[info]kirasayshi
2008-05-01 08:20 pm UTC (link)
Ironically, Weezer is Michael Cera's favorite band, or one of them.

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[info]x_sweetsurprise
2008-05-01 08:17 pm UTC (link)
why can't he just leave the record label then if they don't see eye to eye?

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[info]where_i_begin
2008-05-01 08:23 pm UTC (link)
It's nowhere near as easy as that.

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[info]oh_folk
2008-05-01 08:20 pm UTC (link)
i stopped liking weezer after the green album TBH.

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