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The Indiana Daily Student

Weezer officially sucks

The “Red Album” was bad, “Make Believe” was worse and now “Raditude” has set the bar even lower. Weezer officially sucks.

Weezer’s newest album does nothing to change many fans’ recent opinion of them. The band that transcended alternative music with its dork anthems and awkward love songs is simply no longer good.

The radio-friendly pop sound that has ruined them for the last four years kills “Raditude” as well; they even enlist today’s preeminent mainstream whore, Lil Wayne, on “Can’t Stop Partying.”

Lyrically, the album brings very little to the table. Frontman Rivers Cuomo is still singing about how chicks don’t dig him, the same thing he was singing about 16 years ago -- only with even less depth.

The few bearable tracks on the album like “Prettiest Girl in the Whole Wide World,” are ruined by the awfulness of tracks like “The Girl is Hot.”

Bands are certainly allowed to evolve, but the band that is now giving us “In the Mall” is a much lesser band than the one that gave us “In the Garage.”

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