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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
"Beverly Hills" is arguably the most successful song [[Weezer]] | "Beverly Hills" is arguably the most successful song [[Weezer]] has ever released. It was nominated for a Grammy, and was also Weezer's first single to reach number one on an American chart. It is often known by more "die-hard" fans as the "boom-boom-chop" song because of its repetitive bass and snare drum rhythm. "Beverly Hills" is commonly [[List of common abbreviations used on Weezer forums|abbreviated]] by fans as BvH (to avoid confusion with [[Buddy Holly|BH]]). The song has a talk box solo making it the only appearance of a talk box in the Weezer catalogue. In the song, Rivers wishes for being able to live in Beverly Hills amongst movie stars and celebrities, but ultimately decides that he simply wouldn't fit in. | ||
===Band Commentary=== | ===Band Commentary=== | ||
'''Rivers:''' I was at the opening of the new Hollywood Bowl and I flipped through the program and I saw a picture of Wilson Phillips. And for some reason I just thought how nice it would be to marry, like, an “established” celebrity and live in Beverly Hills and be part of that world. And it was a totally sincere desire. And then I wrote that song, Beverly Hills. For some reason, by the time it came out—and the video came out—it got twisted around into something that seemed sarcastic. But originally it wasn’t meant to be sarcastic at all. | '''Rivers:''' I was at the opening of the new Hollywood Bowl and I flipped through the program and I saw a picture of Wilson Phillips. And for some reason I just thought how nice it would be to marry, like, an “established” celebrity and live in Beverly Hills and be part of that world. And it was a totally sincere desire. And then I wrote that song, Beverly Hills. For some reason, by the time it came out—and the video came out—it got twisted around into something that seemed sarcastic. But originally it wasn’t meant to be sarcastic at all. | ||