History Trivia / Weezer

* ArtistDisillusionment: Rivers Cuomo has shown it in several interviews, and it's essentially the theme behind "Across the Sea" on ''Pinkerton'' (in the guise of a reply to a fan letter from Japan). When applying to a course in Harvard he wrote this about his experiences on tour:

** Conversely, Rivers wrote and sang the hook to rapper [[Music/BoB B.o.B.]]'s hit "Magic", but he had originally conceived of it as a Weezer song before deciding to give it away. This may be why the hook to "Magic" ("I got the magic in me") is actually a [[RecycledLyrics recycled lyric]] from Weezer's "Angel And The One".

* TheWikiRule: [[https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/Main_Page Weezerpedia]], a rare non-Wikia example.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: The iTunes Store’s description for ''The Teal Album'' states that the band covered Music/TheMonkees’ “I’m a Believer” for ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''. Of course, this is Music/SmashMouth, not Weezer. It's not too out-there a mistake to make: Smash Mouth's cover is more heavily associated with ''Shrek'' as a franchise, but Weezer also covered the song for ''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter''. It's even possible that they were using "Shrek" to refer to the franchise as a whole, except the same sentence also mentions ''Cars 2'' instead of just ''Cars'', so if so, they weren't being very consistent.

* OldShame: If "Back to the Shack" is anything to go by, the band regards ''Raditude'' as this. In addition, they don't play any songs off of the album live anymore other than "I Want You To".

** Conversely, Rivers wrote and sang the hook to rapper [[Music/BoB B.o.B.]]'s hit "Magic", but he had originally conceived of it as a Weezer song before deciding to give it away.

* MemeAcknowledgement: In late 2017, a 15-year-old fan started the Website/{{Twitter}} account @weezerafrica and launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign to get the band to cover "Africa" by Music/{{Toto}}, persistently responding to tweets from band members with requests to do the song. A positive response to one of her entreaties by Pat Wilson marked the first acknowledgment of it by the band. After a few months, they made an unannounced drop of a cover of a Toto hit, but picked "Rosanna" instead. A couple of weeks later, they did in fact release a cover of "Africa". The cover art included one of her tweets to Rivers telling him "it's about time you bless the rains down in Africa." Their version proceeded to become a huge radio hit. Then Toto responded by releasing a cover of "Hash Pipe". [[UpToEleven And then came]] [[CoverAlbum The Teal Album]].

* QuoteSource: Weezer lyrics provide the quotes for DorkInASweater ("Undone (The Sweater Song)"), DudeShesALesbian ("Pink Triangle"), and ItCameFromBeverlyHills ("Beverly Hills").

** It became funny in hindsight, however, since 1) ''Raditude'' happened a year later; and 2) ''Pacific Daydream'' and ''The Black Album'' would follow suit many years later.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The "Pork and Beans" video brings together just about every person who was famous on the internet as of 2007, many of whom for silly novelty videos and who's FifteenMinutesOfFame have long since past.

* FanNickname: Their ''six'' [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled albums]] are generally known by the dominant color of each one's cover art (Blue, Red, Green, White, [[CoverAlbum Teal]], and Black). "The Blue Album" and "The Green Album" came purely from the fans - after that, to some degree it became the band leaning into the fans' tendency for these nicknames. The Black Album was even mentioned by name in interviews as far back as 2016, three years before it actually came out, and long before any cover art was revealed.[[note]]Other than wanting to use black as a predominant cover for the artwork, Rivers had said he wanted to make it a conceptual antithesis of The White Album[[/note]]
** This naming scheme eventually became an AscendedFanon of sorts on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} in 2019 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Weezer_(Teal_Album) thanks to "Teal" and "Black"'s releases within that same year.]] Normally, Wikipedia would use "''[Artist Name]'' ([year] album)" for article titles for [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled albums]] released by music artists who released multiples of such. But because of the uniqueness of Weezer's self-titled albums and the aforementioned two-self-titled-albums-in-the-same-year dilemma, they made an exception for the group, now using "''Weezer'' ([Color] Album)" (as capitalized) for their self-titled albums.[[note]]Had they firmly decided not to do so, then "Teal" and "Black"'s article titles would be respectively disambiguated as "''Weezer'' (January 2019 album)" and "''Weezer'' (March 2019 album)".[[/note]]

* ArchivePanic: The band has started releasing new albums very frequently, releasing six albums between 2001 and 2010 and then five between 2014 and 2019 (with two being released in 2019 alone). Yet ''another'' album was set to be released in 2020, barely a year after the ''Black Album'' until it was delayed to 2021. It's safe to say it's getting harder and harder to keep up with the band's recording output.
** And that's not getting into the two-disc deluxe editions of ''The Blue Album'' and ''Pinkerton'', Rivers Cuomo's ''Alone'' home demo collections [[note]] they're usually considered part of the Weezer canon by fans because much of the material was intended for Weezer - and the third volume was only available as a CD included with his book ''The Pinkerton Diaries'' [[/note]] , an extensive amount of demos posted to the band's official website leading up to ''Maladroit'' and ''Make Believe'', etc.
** Rivers has now taken this to the extreme in November 2020 by putting bundles of demos up on a website for purchase. The count currently stands at over 3,000 with the largest bundle being over 1000 demos for ''Everything Will Be Alright in the End''.

** Director Marcos Siega had long wanted to do a video where an artist performs on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', and had originally pitched the idea to Weezer for "Hash Pipe", before it finally got used for "Keep Fishin' ". Siega had also unsuccessfully pitched the concept to Music/Blink182 and Music/OzzyOsbourne.

*** Rivers' social media accounts tend towards playful trolling - his Twitter account frequently copy-pastes unattributed, out of context messages his fans sent ''to'' him rather than it being him speaking for himself. Leading to things like him tweeting ecstatically about a Series/SaturdayNightLive skit about the band soon after it aired, then claiming in a later interview he didn't see the episode in question, or seeming to tease an album's release date when he was instead quoting a fan who was ''asking'' about the release date.