Headscratchers / Weezer

• The chorus to "Buddy Holly" bugs me. I mean, by the time Mary Tyler Moore was doing anything of note, Buddy Holly was dead. There is literally no overlap between the two of them, nor do they fill any sort of similar cultural niche that would make the first line of the first line of the chorus make sense. So what're they going for here?
  • This Troper has the same problem. I once saw a band do a cover where they changed Mary Tyler Moore to Marilyn Monroe. Same number of syllables, and the two icons covered the same time period.
    • The only connection I've been able to find is that a former Cricket wrote the theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The most likely answer is that someone didn't like the original lyrics ("You look just like Ginger Rogers/ Oh-oh/ I move just like Fred Astaire," an actually sensible duo) and Rivers swapped them for something with the same number of syllables.
  • I had always thought Buddy Holly and Mary Tyler Moore were just picked for being pop cultural figures who were considered old fashioned/un-hip by the 90's. The anachronism could even be deliberate, signifying that the characters are young and fifties and sixties pop culture tends to all blend together for them.
  • If you think of two characters simply emulating (or even cosplaying) their respective favorite pop icons, not giving a damn about anachronisms or people dissing them for doing so, it works.
• So why is their Cover album "Teal Album" instead "Yellow Album" or (preferably) "Gray Album", using teal as the predominant color invites confusion with the blue album for casual fans, and sort of throws off the pattern.
• Why was their fourth record called "Maladroit", what does that have to do with any of the songs on the album. "Pinkerton" is called that cause of the literary allusions. "Make Believe" make sense for the lyrical themes of "Beverly Hills" and "On Drugs", "Raditude", "Van Weezer" and "Hurley" are obvious, "EWBAITA" Makes sense cause it's a "return to our roots" album and "Pacific Daydream" refers to that record's J-pop influences, but what does being clumsy and unskilled have to do with the songs on "Maladroit" in particular.
  • Songs like "Slob" and "Slave" indicate a messy life for the singer- It was also a particularly turbulent time in the band's lifespan, with then newbie Scott Shriner expected to be a temp for Mikey Welsh, and struggling with Geffen over releasing demos online. The album also has a slightly more raw, unpolished feel than The Green Album.
• In Back To The Shack there's the line, "Let's turn up the radio/Turn off those stupid singing shows" what "Stupid singing shows" is rivers referring to, exactly? Last I checked none of them were in a Disney Channel Original Movie, and I don't think their covers for Cars and Shrek 4 count as "singing shows" cause they aren't musicals.
  • It could just be a gratuitous Take That!, to either Disney Channel movies or music-based "talent search" shows like American Idol. But if there is a direct line to the song's theme of getting back to their roots, it's that they let the popularity of these shows get to them and start feeling their original Alternative Rock sound was irrelevant and needed changing. They're going to "turn off" "singing shows" as in stop trying to emulate them, and "turn up the radio" because rock can still be heard on that medium.