For years, Cuomo seemed determined to drive away those who invested the most in his songs - especially the people who loved Pinkerton, the confessional masterwork that Cuomo disowned and was later reluctant to revisit on Weezer’s early comeback tours, a passive-aggressive punishment for the album’s initial critical and commercial drubbing. “I’m so afraid of you,” Rivers Cuomo sings in “Freak Me Out,” from 2005’s much-maligned Make Believe, supposedly referring to a spider jumping out at him on the street, though the song can easily be interpreted as a diatribe directed at his own fans.
This relationship between band and fan base can only be described as dysfunctional: Hating Weezer is often the biggest part of loving Weezer, and that feeling has at times appeared to be mutual. The more you care about Weezer, the harder it is to know exactly how you feel about Weezer. Rating Weezer, like all things concerning Weezer, can be highly frustrating.
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