![]() Taken on a strictly musical terms, The Teal Album is pretty anodyne stuff. ![]() ![]() The exception to this rule is conspicuous: a version of TLC's 1999 smash "No Scrubs." By covering a beloved modern R&B hit, Weezer is opening themselves up to scorn and ridicule - the deliberately gangly band is certainly not smooth enough to replicate TLC's groove - but that's kind of the point of The Teal Album: it's designed to generate online chatter for its existence, not for what it is. King's "Stand by Me" - two '60s chestnuts that were omnipresent during the Reagan era. Inspired by the success of "Africa," Weezer cut an entire album of oldies, generally sticking to the '80s, but finding space for the Turtles' "Happy Together" and Ben E. Just when the "Africa" cycle seemed to finally end, Weezer sprung The Teal Album upon the world. As the single stayed on the charts, Toto returned the favor by covering Weezer's "Hash Pipe," then Weezer parodied themselves for the long-delayed video for their "Africa," bringing Weird Al Yankovic along for good measure. Somehow, that wasn't the end of the shenanigans. After six months of cajoling, Weezer relented - by releasing a version of "Rosanna," the hit Toto had before "Africa." The next week, the band unveiled their cover of "Africa," which swiftly became Weezer's biggest hit since 2005, matching that year's "Perfect Situation" placement at 51 on the Billboard Hot 100. A 14-year-old fan intuited that Weezer would be amenable to covering Toto's 1982 chart-topper "Africa," so she started a Twitter campaign in December 2017 to petition the band to do just that. ![]() Always a band keenly attuned to the fleeting fashions of the internet, Weezer were the ripe target of an online campaign. ![]()
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