Are you kidding me? When did it become cool to “give respect” to the blue album and Pinkerton? When did these albums become something beyond pop? Where did all of you frauds come from, claiming to be Weezer fans “from back in the day” while you trash all but their first two albums?

I don’t know where idiots like you learned this code but it’s all wrong. The first two albums are pop albums. Every song Rivers has ever written, and there must be almost 200 available web demos by now, has been a pop song. Say it ain’t so is about beer and its about as “catchy” as a song could be. How is that any more “geek rock” than “everybody get dangerous”? Seriously?

Almost all of his songs, as almost all all songs, are about heartbreak, girls, and the like. There is no reason to make the same album twice. The albums are separate and unique attempts to capture a current mood of musical expression within pop culture. Pinkerton was a collection of ten pop songs, just like all the other albums, but somehow it’s an underground success because of the grundge inspired distorted chords, making it sound like a garage band album, which is also a big feature of Maladroit.

Your argument makes no sense. It’s catchy, but its not as good as the first two albums, which were catchy, but in a “special Weezer way!” What are you all talking about? Weezer is a pop band. They always have been. They celebrate pop music and culture and make fun of it and themselves at the same time, with every single record. If you don’t like them, that’s fine, but stop spouting nonsense about them in your reviews from a fan perspective! You’re not smart enough to get it!