Rating: 3.1 / 5.0I heard this song was Weezer's "Bohemian Rhapsody". That's only true if you count the fact that it's long, and has a lot of different musical motifs. But first of all, it doesn't hang together like Queen's masterpiece did; it doesn't sound as natural. Besides that, what defined "Bohemian Rhapsody" was its humility, it's world-wearied resignedness. Those qualities are nowhere to be found in the self-inflated, quasi-satirical voice of this song. "Bohemian Rhapsody" never had lines like "if you don't like it, you can shove it / but you don't like it, you love it." Now I get it: it's Weezer. But before we make comparisons to "Bohemian Rhapsody", we need to understand: it's Weezer.
That said, it's unlike anything they've ever done before. It's not the stand-alone masterpiece they probably hoped it would be, but it could be better in the context of an album. And hell, I didn't frankly expect this level of ambition out of Cuomo and Weezer; I thought they had lost all creative impulses. It's at least marginally reassuring to know that I was wrong about that much. There's something on this album. But two singles in, it's still hard to say exactly what.
-PTC
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