Last week Weezer shared "Thank God For Girls," a sub-"Beverly Hills" quality song that suggested they have no interest in maintaining the critical goodwill they re-established with last year's solid Everything Will Be Alright In The End. Today Rivers Cuomo and Scott Shriner stopped by Beats 1 to debut another new song, "Do You Wanna Get High?" It's a lot more redeemable than the last one -- Pinkerton style meets Green Album quality, I'd say. Cuomo emotes about smoking weed and listening to Burt Bacharach atop a typical Weezer cocktail of '50s style rock 'n' roll and '70s heavy metal. The song is allegedly built upon a sample from an unnamed '60s song, a first for Weezer. Cuomo adds that the two new tracks are not necessarily part of a new album; because the band is out of its record deal, they're "on the loose" and "experimenting." Sounds like the same old Weezer to me, for better this time instead of worse.
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UPDATE: As Pitchfork points out, Cuomo has annotated "Do You Wanna Get High?" on Genius. His explanation involves Fred Durst:
this is about me and my darling girlfriend in 2000/2001—-the same girl that inspired “o GIRLFRIEND” from the Green album (“taking pills and mellowing out”) Those were some incredible nights.
(and the summer 2k jam “O Girl”)
I remember hanging out with Fred Durst around that time too.
i try to avoid pills now at all costs. even when i had knee surgery in 2013, i refused anything but advil. I love Advil now, though, I’ll tell you.
Cuomo also keeps track of his addictive substance intake on a Google Doc:
I’ll stop at 2 pills, max
I have a milligram scale to measure any kind of addictive substance I might be taking, for example, caffeine. I keep track of it all in google docs and taper my withdrawals to minimize discomfort.
