Rivers Cuomo: 'New Weezer single is designed to annoy our label'

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Pork & Beans is designed to annoy
Published 5/1/2008 at OH NO!!
... to write catchier songs, so wrote 'Pork And Beans' – a song with a deliberately inane theme. "I came out of it pretty angry," Cuomo said of the meeting with the label. "But ironically, it inspired me to write another song." Lyrics from 'Pork And Beans' include, “Everyone likes to dance to a happy song/With a catchy chorus and beat so they can sing along/Timbaland knows the way to reach the top of the chart/ Maybe if I work with him I can perfect the art." source: http://www.nme.com/news/weezer/36334

Weezer: Pork and Beans (Video)
Published 5/25/2008 by Consuela B at Right Celebrity
... Cuomo reveals that “Pork and Beans” was actually written to annoy Weezer’s record label, DCG. He had come to the label with new songs for The Red Album, but they were rejected as not catchy enough. Cuomo reveals, ...

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Published 6/5/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Nayana Anthony) at The Center Seat
This is brilliant. I love the irony that "Pork and Beans" (Weezer's unique way of thumbing their collective nose at their label) is a bonafide hit.