This one goes out to the roommate Trevor (no. 3).
I'm more thrilled than I can say to see River Cuomo and his boys in Weezer back at it again. It seems that they are just as fresh, creative and relevant as they were when we discovered them in their tribute Buddy Holly and Happy Days.
Their new video, Pork and Beans, has them again paying tribute to "classic" entertainers. However, their latest forces the question what is a classic? The video is an homage to every viral video, going back to the days before YouTube, when "All Your Base Belong to Us" and "My Spoon is Too Big" traveled by that ancient form of social networking "All Your Base."
Buddy Holly and Happy Days represented an iconic American experience. Weezer, by tying themselves to this tradition, elicited a sense of kinship.
But can an homage to an emerging form of media have the same affect?
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