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 Somehow, that wasn't the end of the shenanigans. As the single stayed on the charts, Toto returned the favor by covering Weezer's "[[Hash Pipe]]," then Weezer parodied themselves for the long-delayed video for their "Africa," bringing [[Weird Al Yankovic]] along for good measure.
-Just when the "Africa" cycle seemed to finally end, Weezer sprung ''[[The Teal Album]]'']upon the world. Inspired by the success of "Africa," Weezer cut an entire album of oldies, generally sticking to the '80s, but finding space for the Turtles' "[[Happy Together]]" and Ben E. King's "[[Stand by Me]]" -- two '60s chestnuts that were omnipresent during the Reagan era. The exception to this rule is conspicuous: a version of TLC's [[1999]] smash "[[No Scrubs]]." By covering a beloved modern R&B hit, Weezer is opening themselves up to scorn and ridicule -- the deliberately gangly band is certainly not smooth enough to replicate TLC's groove -- but that's kind of the point of ''The Teal Album'': it's designed to generate online chatter for its existence, not for what it is. Taken on a strictly musical terms, ''The Teal Album'' is pretty anodyne stuff. Weezer replicates the arrangements of beloved songs, adds a bit more fuzz on the guitar solos, and flattens the vocal affectations, which amounts to one weird trick: Weezer doesn't attempt to make the songs their own, yet these versions unmistakably sound like Weezer. Chalk it up to the curious obsessions of [[Rivers Cuomo]], a songwriter who used to carry around a notebook so he could dissect why one pop song worked and another didn't. The meticulous replications of ''The Teal Album'' aren't a million miles away from that notebook, but by having Weezer pop into familiar settings, Cuomo has created a hyper-saturated, uncanny valley, where nothing seems quite real. An ideal album for the internet, in other words.}}
+Just when the "Africa" cycle seemed to finally end, Weezer sprung ''[[The Teal Album]]'' upon the world. Inspired by the success of "Africa," Weezer cut an entire album of oldies, generally sticking to the '80s, but finding space for the Turtles' "[[Happy Together]]" and Ben E. King's "[[Stand by Me]]" -- two '60s chestnuts that were omnipresent during the Reagan era. The exception to this rule is conspicuous: a version of TLC's [[1999]] smash "[[No Scrubs]]." By covering a beloved modern R&B hit, Weezer is opening themselves up to scorn and ridicule -- the deliberately gangly band is certainly not smooth enough to replicate TLC's groove -- but that's kind of the point of ''The Teal Album'': it's designed to generate online chatter for its existence, not for what it is. Taken on a strictly musical terms, ''The Teal Album'' is pretty anodyne stuff. Weezer replicates the arrangements of beloved songs, adds a bit more fuzz on the guitar solos, and flattens the vocal affectations, which amounts to one weird trick: Weezer doesn't attempt to make the songs their own, yet these versions unmistakably sound like Weezer. Chalk it up to the curious obsessions of [[Rivers Cuomo]], a songwriter who used to carry around a notebook so he could dissect why one pop song worked and another didn't. The meticulous replications of ''The Teal Album'' aren't a million miles away from that notebook, but by having Weezer pop into familiar settings, Cuomo has created a hyper-saturated, uncanny valley, where nothing seems quite real. An ideal album for the internet, in other words.}}
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