Weezerpedia:Today's featured song/October 18, 2008

"Beverly Hills" is the Grammy-nominated lead single and first track from Make Believe. It was also Weezer's first #1 single.

"Beverly Hills" is often referred to as "boom-boom-chop" song by fans. It is commonly abbreviated by fans as BvH (to avoid confusion with 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 to be able to live in Beverly Hills amongst movie stars and celebrities, but ultimately decides that he simply wouldn't fit in.

The song was the band's most commercially successful single until Pork and Beans was released, best remembered for its I-IV-V harmony, use of hand claps, simple lyrics that spoke of alienation and a distinctive talk box solo that Cuomo plays an extended version of when the band plays the song live. The song topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart for a week, spending months near the top of the Billboard Hot 100 (peaking at #10) and being certified gold on June 6, 2005. As of January 2006 the digital single has been purchased over 962,000 times on iTunes. It also did very well on other Billboard charts, such as Adult Top 40 (#8 peak), Hot Digital Songs (#1 peak) and Mainstream Rock Tracks (#26). (more...)