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{{Rivers Cuomo quote|I wrote a program to get all of the data from Spotify’s API, and we looked at the songs that were most popular that were not tagged “classic rock” or “alternative rock,” and that came out before 1994 — with the exception of “No Scrubs,” that one’s just too cool. I think there were about 200 songs in the report, so we picked the top ones and started learning them. I got all of the a capellas from YouTube and spent about 50 hours doing the vocals, really trying to get everything exactly right, and replicate all the different tracks. They did so much more layering in the ’80s than nowadays.|''Billboard'' interview, [[2019]]<ref>Ginsberg, Gab "Rivers Cuomo on His Data-Driven Approach to Weezer" ''Billboard''. 1 March 2019. https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/weezer-rivers-cuomo-data-driven-approach-interview-8500614/</ref>}} | {{Rivers Cuomo quote|I wrote a program to get all of the data from Spotify’s API, and we looked at the songs that were most popular that were not tagged “classic rock” or “alternative rock,” and that came out before 1994 — with the exception of “No Scrubs,” that one’s just too cool. I think there were about 200 songs in the report, so we picked the top ones and started learning them. I got all of the a capellas from YouTube and spent about 50 hours doing the vocals, really trying to get everything exactly right, and replicate all the different tracks. They did so much more layering in the ’80s than nowadays.|''Billboard'' interview, [[2019]]<ref>Ginsberg, Gab "Rivers Cuomo on His Data-Driven Approach to Weezer" ''Billboard''. 1 March 2019. https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/weezer-rivers-cuomo-data-driven-approach-interview-8500614/</ref>}} | ||
The Teal Album consists of ten covers of various popular songs from the 20th century, ranging from a cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" to "Africa" by Toto. It contains no originally written songs, making it the band's first and currently only covers album. After a successful internet fan campaign to get the band to release a cover of Toto's "Africa", the Teal album was released digitally on [[January 24]], [[2019]], and received a physical release on [[March 8]], 2019. | The Teal Album consists of ten covers of various popular songs from the 20th century, ranging from a cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" to "Africa" by Toto. It contains no originally written songs, making it the band's first and currently only covers album. After a successful internet fan campaign to get the band to release a cover of Toto's "Africa", the Teal album was released digitally on [[January 24]], [[2019]], and received a physical release on [[March 8]], 2019. | ||
==Release== | ==Release== | ||
The album was released on January 24, 2019 with no prior announcement. It peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200 within two weeks of its release. | The album was released on January 24, 2019 with no prior announcement. It peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200 within two weeks of its release. | ||
==Reception== | ==Reception== | ||
<blockquote>{{Rivers|As a student of music, maybe one of my motivations for making the Teal Album was to learn how the truly great songs work. I got all the a cappellas off YouTube and listened to every one of a hundred tracks of Michael Jackson’s voice, trying my best to replicate it. I mean, I can do a Weezer re-imagining of a song any day. You don’t have to put any thought into that.}} | |||
{{Interviewer|Wood|So the exercise was worthwhile for you. What about the listener?}} | |||
{{Rivers|You don’t see any reason to listen to Weezer’s “Africa” over the Toto version?}} | |||
{{Interviewer|Wood|I don’t.}}</blockquote> | |||
:::''—Los Angeles Times interview''<ref>Wood, Mikael. "Being Rivers Cuomo: Why Weezer’s frontman put his life into a spreadsheet" ''Los Angeles Times''. 22 Februar 2019. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-rivers-cuomo-weezer-teal-album-black-album-20190222-story.html</ref> | |||
''The Teal Album'' received mixed reviews from critics. The review aggregator Metacritic assigns a rating of 58 out of 100, based on 10 critic reviews.<ref>"Weezer (Teal Album)" ''Metacritic'' https://www.metacritic.com/music/weezer-teal-album/weezer</ref> In lieu of a review, ''[[Pitchfork]]'' published a review the day following the album's release with an article titled "Will Weezer Ever Stop Being Disappointing?"<ref>Mapes, Jill. "Will Weezer Ever Stop Being Disappointing?" ''Pitchfork''. 26 January 2019. https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/will-weezer-ever-stop-being-disappointing/</ref> | |||
===Critics=== | ===Critics=== | ||
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