History Trivia / Weezer

* 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.
** Some fans see "Make Believe" as this, saying with that album the band was trying way too hard to fit in with other popular Emo bands like FallOutBoy (the album cover practically screams mid-2000s) which cause the album to sound somewhat outdated now that the Emo trend is pretty much dead.

** Some fans see "Make Believe" as this, saying with that album the band was trying way too hard to fit in with other popular emo bands like ''FalloutBoy''(the album cover practically screams mid-2000s)which cause the album to sound somewhat outdated now that the Emo trend is pretty much dead.

** Rivers is also a big soccer fan and wrote "Represent" as an unofficial anthem for the U.S. national team for the 2010 WorldCup. He also wrote "My Day Is Coming" (released on ''Alone II'') for the 2006 WorldCup, initially intending it to be a triumphant song but some bad results caused the song to become downbeat instead.

** Some fans see "Make Believe" as this, saying with that album the band was trying way too hard to fit in with other popular emo bands like ''FalloutBoy''(the album cover practically screams mid-2000s)

** Rapper Asher Roth wanted to sample "Say It Ain't So" for his hit song "I Love College," but couldn't secure the rights. Several remixed which combine the songs properly exist on Website/YouTube.

*** One potentially interesting demo from that period was "Mo' Beats", a RapRock-esque song that at one point was going to have a guest appearance from [[GunsNRoses Axl Rose]]. Like many other songs written between ''Maladroit'' and ''Make Believe'', the band put up a demo as a free download on the official site, so an Axl-free version is [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes still circulating online]].

* FanNickname: Their three [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled albums]] are generally known by the dominant color of each one's cover art (Blue, Red, and Green).

* HeyItsThatGuy: The pizza delivery girl in the video for "The Good Life" eventually became a good-hearted but cantankerous computer analyst for a [[Series/TwentyFour government counter-terrorism agency]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: I think I just heard [[Creator/MichaelCera Scott Pilgrim]] singing on "Hang On" (from ''Hurley'').
** Rachel Haden of that dog. sings on "The Good Life"'s B-side "I Just Threw Out The Love of My Dreams", one of the few ''Black Hole'' tracks to be completed before the album was abandoned. To this day, Haden is the only non-Weezer member to do proper lead vocals on a Weezer song [[note]]Though Music/LilWayne [[AWildRapperAppears drops a rap verse]] on "Can't Stop Partying", and Rivers Cuomo duets with [[Music/BestCoast Bethany Cosentino]] on "Go Away"[[/note]]

* CreatorBacklash: Due to the initial poor reception, the band all but threw ''Pinkerton'' into CanonDiscontinuity for years, until it seemed that Rivers Cuomo was the only person left who disliked the album. He mellowed out lately, even playing ''Pinkerton'' in its entirety and admitting he felt validated and happy at [[http://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/9590-rivers-cuomo/ seeing how the album has become so beloved.]]

** Rachel Haden of that dog. sings on "The Good Life"'s B-side "I Just Threw Out The Love of My Dreams", one of the few ''Black Hole'' tracks to be completed before the album was abandoned. To this day, Haden is the only non-Weezer member to do lead vocals on a Weezer song (unless you count Music/LilWayne's AWildRapperAppears verse on "Can't Stop Partying".

** Rachel Haden of that dog. sings on "The Good Life"'s B-side "I Just Threw Out The Love of My Dreams", one of the few ''Black Hole'' tracks to be completed before the album was abandoned. To this day, Haden is the only non-Weezer member to do lead vocals on a Weezer song (unless you count Music/LilWayne's AWildRapperAppears verse on "Can't Stop Partying").
* MemeticMutation: "GAY! GAY! DISNEY GAY!" (Used by Rivers in 2002 to refer to Only In Dreams. Fans have used this to describe some of their late 2000's material.)

* CreatorBacklash: Due to the initial poor reception, the band all but threw ''Pinkerton'' into CanonDiscontinuity for years, until it seemed that Rivers Cuomo was the only person left who disliked the album. He mellowed out lately, even playing ''Pinkerton'' in its entirety and admitting he felt validate and happy at [[http://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/9590-rivers-cuomo/ seeing how the album has become so beloved.]]

* CreatorBacklash: Due to the initial poor reception, the band all but threw ''Pinkerton'' into CanonDiscontinuity for years, until it seemed that Rivers Cuomo was the only person left who disliked the album. He mellowed out lately, even playing ''Pinkerton'' in its entirety.

* HeyItsThatVoice: I think I just heard [[MichaelCera Scott Pilgrim]] singing on "Hang On" (from ''Hurley'').

* 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).

* ThrowItIn: The brief bit of SpokenWordInMusic at the very beginning of "Falling For You" - an amplifier had started picking up interference from a radio station while recording, so the song ended up including the voice of a woman asking [[BilingualBonus "Which company makes this product?" in Korean]].
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Most well-known among fans is ''Songs From The Black Hole'', their abandoned RockOpera. Rivers Cuomo went as far as recording a home demo version of the whole album, but it was scrapped in favor of what would become ''Pinkerton''. Rivers claims the idea was abandoned due to a combination of his increasing doubts about the concept as well as Matt Sharp putting out ''The Return of the Rentals'' (an album heavily indebted to the ''Black Hole'' demos), which made him anxious to not be perceived as "stealing" from his bandmate. Most of the songs were either slightly adapted for ''Pinkerton'', made B-sides or released in the ''Alone'' demo compilations.
** Rivers had also planned to have the character Maria be voiced by Joan Wasser of The Dambuilders, but he neglected to ever mention this to Wasser.
** Rivers had prepared an entire new batch of demos for the follow-up to ''Maladroit'' before abandoning them entirely. An [[http://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=What_I%27ve_Been_Up_To_Since_I_Left_School essay he wrote later]] admitted that he was undergoing another CreatorBreakdown over the fan backlash towards ''Green'' and ''Maladroit'' and his own behaviour towards them, and credited Music/RickRubin with helping him by introducing him to meditation.
** The band almost made ''Hurley'' '''another''' SelfTitledAlbum, but gave up on the plan when they realised fans would just call it "the Hurley album" anyway.

** Rachel Haden of that dog. sings on "The Good Life"'s B-side "I Just Threw Out The Love of My Dreams", one of the few ''Black Hole'' tracks to be completed before the album was abandoned. To this day, Haden is the only non-Weezer member to do lead vocals on a Weezer song (unless you count Music/LilWayne's AWildRapperAppears verse on "Can't Stop Partying").

** Rachel Haden of that dog. sings on "The Good Life"'s B-side "I Just Threw Out The Love of My Dreams", one of the few ''Black Hole'' tracks to be completed before the album was abandoned. To this day, Haden is the only non-Weezer member to do lead vocals on a Weezer song (unless you count LilWayne's AWildRapperAppears verse on "Can't Stop Partying").

** Rachel Haden of that dog. sings on "The Good Life"'s B-side "I Just Threw Out The Love of My Dreams", one of the few ''Black Hole'' tracks to be completed before the album was abandoned. To this day, Haden is the only non-Weezer member to do lead vocals on a Weezer song.

** Rivers had prepared an entire new batch of demos for the follow-up to ''Maladroit'' before abandoning them entirely. An [[http://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=What_I%27ve_Been_Up_To_Since_I_Left_School essay he wrote later]] admitted that he was undergoing another CreatorBreakdown over the fan backlash towards ''Green'' and ''Maladroit'' and his own behaviour towards them, and credited RickRubin with helping him by introducing him to meditation.

** The cover of ''Hurley'' is a close up of actor Jorge Garcia because Rivers said he just felt happy when he looked at it.

* HeyItsThatGuy: The pizza delivery girl in the video for "The Good Life" eventually became a good-hearted but cantankerous computer analyst for a [[TwentyFour government counter-terrorism agency]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: I think I just heard [[MichaelCera Scott Pilgrim]] singing in "Hang On" on ''Hurley''.

** Rachel Haden of that dog. sings on "The Good Life"'s B-side "I Just Threw Out The Love of My Dreams", one of the few ''Black Hole'' tracks to be completed before the album was abandoned. To this day, Haden is the only person not named "Rivers Cuomo" to do lead vocals on a Weezer song.