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==Release== | ==Release== | ||
''The Teal 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. To promote the album, the band released a "Totally Tubular Teal Bundle" featuring the CD, a digital download of ''[[Weezer (The Black Album)|The Black Album]]'', a velcro wallet, and a signed dollar bill.<ref>"Totally Tubular Teal Bundle" Weezerwebstore.com. Archived by ''Wayback Machine'' on 24 January 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20190124203258/https://weezerwebstore.com/products/totally-tubular-teal-bundle</ref> A second promotional bundle followed including a | ''The Teal 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. To promote the album, the band released a "Totally Tubular Teal Bundle" featuring the CD, a digital download of ''[[Weezer (The Black Album)|The Black Album]]'', a velcro wallet, and a signed dollar bill.<ref>"Totally Tubular Teal Bundle" Weezerwebstore.com. Archived by ''Wayback Machine'' on 24 January 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20190124203258/https://weezerwebstore.com/products/totally-tubular-teal-bundle</ref> A second promotional bundle followed including a {{Wikipedia|Rubik's cube}} featuring teal on all sides.<ref>Breen, Lissa. "Album Review | Weezer Embrace Memes on The Teal Album" ''HeadStuff'' 19 February 2019. https://headstuff.org/entertainment/music/album-review-weezer-teal-album/</ref><ref>[[:File:Teal-RubiksCube.JPG]]</ref> The song "[[No Scrubs]]" trended on Twitter following the release of the album.<ref>Izadi, Elahe. "Everyone is talking about ‘No Scrubs’ because of Weezer. Welcome to 2019." ''The Washington Post''. 24 January 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/01/24/everyone-is-talking-about-no-scrubs-because-weezer-welcome/?noredirect=on</ref> | ||
==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.}} | <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.}} | ||
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