History Trivia / Weezer

** A group of fans missed their shot at briefly being {{ascended fanboy}}a during the ''Green Album'' sessions; the band were adding overdubs to eventual BSide "Teenage Victory Song" when Rivers decided that it needed some "gang backing vocals" - earlier in the day some fans had found the studio and gathered outside hoping to catch a glimpse of the band, so Rivers went to where they were last seen to recruit them as a choir; by this time they had apparently left.

** Even after the ''Songs From The Black Hole'' concept album was abandoned, "Longtime Sundjine", one of the songs intended for that album, was still in consideration for the last song on ''Pinkerton'' - Rivers wrote "Butterfly" later in the sessions and that became the closing track instead.

** And that's not getting into the two-disc deluxe editions of ''The Blue Album'' and ''Pinkerton'', Rivers Cuomo's three ''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' social media accounts tend towards playful trolling - his Twitter account largely reposts 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 akit about the band soon after it aired, then claiming in a later interview he didn't see the episode in question.

** A group of fans missed their shot at briefly being {{ascended fsnboy}}a during the ''Green Album'' sessions; the band were adding overdubs to eventual BSide "Teenage Victory Song" when Rivers decided that it needed some "gang backing vocals" - earlier in the day some fans had found the studio and gathered outside hoping to catch a glimpse of the band, so Rivers went to where they were last seen to recruit them as a choir; by this time they had apparently left.

** Cuomo's very dry sense of humor and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies have led to debate over how much of his online interaction with fans is an example of this. The [[https://web.archive.org/web/20020815073421/http://www.members.shaw.ca/ridd2/threads/rcb/03-04-youneedtoreadthis1.html infamous Rivers Correspondence Board thread]] where Rivers (aka "ace") dismissed "Only in Dreams" as "GAY!GAY!GAY! DISNEYGAY!" can be read as trolling. In it, he also claims that his brother threatened to disown him after hearing "Only in Dreams" for the first time, and proposes dropping all Blue Album songs from their concert setlist (despite his screen name being a nod to the [[Music/{{KISS}} Ace Frehley]] ShoutOut in "In the Garage"). A few years later, when a Harvard student reporter mentioned the incident in an interview, Rivers seemed amused by it.

** Cuomo's very dry sense of humor and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies have led to debate over how much of his online interaction with fans is an example of this. The [[https://web.archive.org/web/20020815073421/http://www.members.shaw.ca/ridd2/threads/rcb/03-04-youneedtoreadthis1.html infamous Rivers Correspondence Board thread]] where Rivers (aka "ace") dismissed "Only in Dreams" as "GAY!GAY!GAY! DISNEYGAY!" can be read as trolling. In it, he also claims that his brother threatened to disown him after hearing "Only in Dreams" for the first time, and proposes dropping all Blue Album songs from their concert setlist (despite his screen name being a nod to the [[Music/{{KISS}} Ace Frehley]] ShoutOut in "In the Garage"). A few years later, when a Harvard student reporter mentioned the incident in an interview, Rivers seemed amused about it.

** Cuomo's very dry sense of humor and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies have led to debate over how much of his online interaction with fans is an example of this. The [[https://web.archive.org/web/20020815073421/http://www.members.shaw.ca/ridd2/threads/rcb/03-04-youneedtoreadthis1.html infamous Rivers Correspondence Board thread]] where Rivers (aka "ace") dismissed "Only in Dreams" as "GAY!GAY!GAY! DISNEYGAY!" can be read as trolling. In it, he also claims that his brother threatened to disown him after hearing "Only in Dreams" for the first time, and proposes dropping all Blue Album songs from their concert setlist (despite his screen name being a nod to the [[Music/{{KISS}} Ace Frehley]] ShoutOut in "In the Garage"). A few years later, when a Harvard student reporter mentioned the incident in an interview, Rivers found it amusing.

** Cuomo's very dry sense of humor and {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies have led to debate over how much of his online interaction with fans is an example of this. The [[https://web.archive.org/web/20020815073421/http://www.members.shaw.ca/ridd2/threads/rcb/03-04-youneedtoreadthis1.html infamous Rivers Correspondence Board thread]] where Rivers (aka "ace") dismissed "Only in Dreams" as "GAY!GAY!GAY! DISNEYGAY!" can be read as trolling. In it, he also claims that his brother threatened to disown him after hearing "Only in Dreams" for the first time, and proposes dropping all Blue Album songs from their concert setlist (despite his screen name being a nod to the [[Music/{{KISS}} Ace Frehley]] ShoutOut in "In the Garage"). But, by his own admission, this was also an era when he suffered from SmallNameBigEgo.

*** There was also supposed to be a video for the song, which would've reunited the band with Creator/SpikeJonze. Given the length and style shifts of the song, the possibilities for that video are very tantalizing. But [[ExecutiveMeddling Geffen decided the album had reached its sales peak and didn't really need any more promotion]], so they said no.

* TrollingCreator: After fans wanted them to [[CoveredUp cover]] "Africa" by Music/{{Toto}}, they complied by releasing a version of Toto's..."Rosanna"[[spoiler: but they covered "Africa" not long afterward]].

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* ThePeteBest: Jason Cropper, who was asked to leave the band during the ''Blue Album'' sessions. Accounts differ as to why. Cropper suspects some YokoOhNo issues, since his girlfriend had become pregnant and he was giving more attention to his relationship. Matt Sharp says it was because Cropper had committed a bunch of "tiny infractions" that were negatively affecting band unity. Cropper, as the token punk guy in a band of self-professed nerds, was always an uncomfortable fit. Rivers re-recorded his guitar parts. He only earned one writing credit, for creating the acoustic intro of "My Name Is Jonas".
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* ThePeteBest: Jason Cropper, who was asked to leave the band during the ''Blue Album'' sessions. Accounts differ as to why. Cropper suspects some YokoOhNo issues, since his girlfriend had become pregnant and he was giving more attention to his relationship. Matt Sharp says it was because Cropper had committed a bunch "tiny infractions" that were negatively affecting band unity. Cropper, as the token punk guy in a band of self-professed nerds, was always an uncomfortable fit. Rivers re-recorded his guitar parts. He only earned one writing credit, for creating the acoustic intro of "My Name Is Jonas".

* ThePeteBest: Jason Cropper, who left/was kicked out of the band (depends on who you ask) during the ''Blue Album'' sessions because his girlfriend became pregnant, forcing Rivers to record all the guitars. He only earned one writing credit, for creating the acoustic intro of "My Name Is Jonas".

* 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."

* 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."

* MemeAcknowledgement: In late 2017, a 15-year-old fan started a tongue-in-cheek Twitter 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 @weezerafrica's tweets to Rivers telling him "it's about time you bless the rains down in Africa".

* MemeAcknowledgement: in 2017, one fan set off a Twitter campaign to get the band to cover "Africa" by Toto - they eventually covered Toto a year later, but picked "Rosanne" instead. Though they did eventually cover "Africa" not long after.

* TrollingCreator: After fans wanted them to [[CoveredUp cover]] "Africa" by ''Music/{{Toto}}'', they complied by releasing a version of Toto's..."Rosanna"[[spoiler: but they covered "Africa" not long afterward]].

* TrollingCreator: After fans wanted them to [[CoveredUp cover]] "Africa" by ''Music/{{Toto}}'', they covered Rosanna instead... [[spoiler: but they covered "Africa" not long afterward]].

** Director Marcos Siega had long wanted to do a video where an artist performs on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', and had originally pitched it 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.

** Director Marcos Siega had been carrying the idea of a music video where an artist performs on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' around for a long time, and had originally pitched it 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.