Homes for Butterflies

I love Weezer’s new single.  It can be found here.  I’ve been listening to it multiple times a day since discovering it and I think about it quite often.  The best thing about it is how Weezer’s image has slightly changed- they’ve clearly started turning into indie pop rock as opposed to powerpop/alternative.  The percussion is unlike any other Weezer song to date and the lyrics are very tongue-in-cheek humor almost like a Relient K song.  It’s basically what the Red album should have been.  The Red album saw Weezer taking themselves a little less seriously and just making music because clearly it’s supremely fun to everyone in the band… but the truth is the Red album wasn’t that great.  The songs felt uninspired and jammy, hardly any creativity felt present.  However, with their latest single, I’m confident in saying that the pure rock and fun-ness of the Green album meets the complexity of Make Believe and we’re presented with a sure winner.  Basically, if the next tune I hear from the new Weezer album is anything like this, I will be getting extremely excited.  And actually, after hearing a live version of, “Girl Got Hot” (?), I’m already starting to believe that we have an amazing new album to look forward to this October.