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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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