Al Gentile
Connector Editor

After reading a story from 2010 per The Guardian reporting on an offer made to Weezer to break up for $10 million, I initially reached for my wallet to donate before realizing the story was almost four years old.

You can imagine my dismay.
vably one of the worst albums ever released by a band that came to define a whole generation of angsty teenagers with their pivotal Blue Album and Pinkerton. Sometimes I find myself defending The Green Album, Maladroit and Make Believe as well, but to try and defend literally the entire remainder
of Weezer’s career is about as easy as trying to emotionally accept parking fees.

For diehard Weezer fans, Rivers Cuomo turned his back on us by continuing to make music. For the vast majority of us, Weezer fans listlessly live in the year 2000 when hating our favorite band was an anachronism. Unfortunately now that is a reality.

What people don’t realize is that if Weezer broke up now, the pain of a re- union tour ten or twenty years down the road would be somewhat neutral- ized given that at least less new material would taint the wish list sets we all dream of, comprised of all the early songs we used to define our teenage, non-existent love lives. More fuzzy guitars, less Lil’ Wayne, less fat guy from Lost.

I urge people to think about this prospect: we elect James Burns (the man responsible for the $10m offer) president of the United States and the words “executive order” become a lot less frightening.

Kids: “Daddy where are you going?”

Me: “I’m off to pay $10 for Bud Light and cry myself to sleep at this concert. Don’t wait up.”

Then you shut the door, get into your 2030 model mommy van and put on the Red Album to somehow feel any kind of emotion, even if it is dis- gust because that’s the kind of vehicle that album deserves and you, the listener, are a fair and just person.

Don’t let our kids get into a Weezer that is worse than it already is now. Do it for them, for you and for Rivers Cuomo.