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3 | ''Weezer'' (also known as ''The Teal Album'' to separate it from the band's other self-titled releases) is the twelfth studio album and fifth SelfTitledAlbum by Music/{{Weezer}}, released in 2019. It is notable for being a CoverAlbum of songs predominantly from TheEighties. |
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5 | The album is believed to have been set in motion by an online campaign to get the band to cover Music/{{Toto}}'s "Africa," spearheaded in late 2017 by a Website/{{Twitter}} account with the handle @weezerafrica run by a 14-year-old fan. After several months, the band responded...[[{{Troll}} with a cover of a different Toto song]] ("Rosanna"). Eventually, [[AscendedMeme they did release a cover of "Africa" in May 2018]], which reached #51 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 (becoming the band's first hit on that chart since 2009's [[Music/{{Raditude}} "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To"]]), as well as peaking at #1 on the ''Billboard'' Alternative Songs chart (becoming the band's first #1 single since 2008's [[Music/WeezerTheRedAlbum "Pork and Beans"]]). The cover also received a music video that notably [[SelfParody spoofs]] the Creator/SpikeJonze-directed video for [[Music/WeezerTheBlueAlbum "Undone (The Sweater Song)"]], with none other than Music/WeirdAlYankovic performing as frontman Rivers Cuomo. |
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7 | On January 24, 2019, the album was announced and released on the same day as a surprise ahead of the band's thirteenth album, also self-titled and referred to as ''The Black Album'', which came out under two months later. |
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9 | The album received a mixed reception; while its light-hearted, seemingly self-aware style was enjoyed by some -- with analyses even being made interpreting it as a {{satire}} of cover albums -- it was taken by others as unimaginative and ultimately unnecessary ahead of ''The Black Album''. |
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11 | !! Tracklist: |
12 | # "Africa" (originally recorded by Music/{{Toto}}) |
13 | # "[[Music/SongsFromTheBigChair Everybody Wants To Rule The World]]" (originally recorded by Music/TearsForFears) |
14 | # "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" (originally recorded by Music/{{Eurythmics}}) |
15 | # "Take On Me" (originally recorded by Music/{{AHa}}) |
16 | # "Happy Together" (originally recorded by Music/TheTurtles) |
17 | # "Music/{{Paranoid|Album}}" (originally recorded by Music/BlackSabbath) |
18 | # [[Music/OutOfTheBlue "Mr. Blue Sky"]] (originally recorded by Music/ElectricLightOrchestra) |
19 | # "No Scrubs" (originally recorded by Music/{{TLC}}) |
20 | # [[Music/{{Thriller}} "Billie Jean"]] (originally recorded by Music/MichaelJackson) |
21 | # "Stand By Me" (originally recorded by The Drifters) |
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23 | !! Personnel: |
24 | * Rivers Cuomo - guitar, lead vocals, piano, backing vocals |
25 | * Patrick Wilson - drums, percussion, backing vocals, production |
26 | * Brian Bell - guitars, keyboard, backing vocals |
27 | * Scott Shriner - bass, backing vocals |
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30 | !! "I bless the tropes down in Africa": |
31 | * AscendedMeme: This album happened because the band responded to a fan request to cover "Africa" by Toto at the height of the song's memetic popularity. |
32 | * CoverAlbum |
33 | * TheCoverChangesTheGender: Averted with their version of "No Scrubs," as Rivers sings the lyrics about loser guys completely straight, leaving out only Left-Eye's rap segment. |
34 | * FaceOnTheCover: The band in 80's style fashion. |
35 | * GenreMashup: Not ''quite'' that extreme, but, their dives into R&B and metal are quite different for them. |
36 | * MinisculeRocking: The longest song, "Billie Jean," runs 4:54, and the shortest, "Happy Together," runs a mere 2:25. The full album runs 36:18. |
37 | * MinimalisticCoverArt: As with all of Weezer's "color" covers. |
38 | * MythologyGag: The video for "Take On Me" features a [[ArtisticLicenseHistory fictionalized]] version of Rivers' high school band Avant Garde. |
39 | * SelfParody: The video for "Africa" is a parody of the video for Weezer's first single, "Undone (The Sweater Song)", featuring none other than Music/WeirdAlYankovic as Rivers Cuomo. |
40 | * StepUpToTheMicrophone: Brian Bell sings lead vocals on "Paranoid." |
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