Does she like Weezer?
I’ve never played her Weezer. We mostly play her Japanese nursery rhymes. And actually, there are several melodies in these Japanese folk songs that I’m certain Puccini put in the Madame Butterfly opera. I, in turn, took some of Puccini’s melodies and used them on Weezer’s Pinkerton album. You managed to incorporate hip-hop slang like “bee-yotch” and “boo-ya” on the Red Album. What words will never be in a Weezer song? I don’t like to use real swear words. Weezer came up at a time when Jane’s Addiction released “Nothing’s Shocking” — everyone was trying to be controversial. We looked back to rock & roll’s pre-drug days — to the clean images of the Beach Boys — that felt, ironically, rebellious. Your tour starts in August. What do you have planned? We’re still ironing out the details of our hootenanny tour. My vision is to invite anyone to bring an instrument, and we’ll just jam out Weezer favorites. I won’t even need a guitar, because there will be hundreds of people playing. And you’r
