This week’s big Masked Singer reveal: “Beverly Hills” is still not a very good song
The Masked Singer put Weezer in a Pickle with its celebration of "2000s Week"
Aux News Michael Rappaport
There was always a pretty decent chance, given the subject matter, that The Masked Singer’s “2000s Night” was going to be a rough one. The show casts its unnamed celebrities for shock value more than musical talent, after all, and the depths of the era between 2000 and 2010 are rife with some truly godawful musical crimes.
Even so.
Even so, it’s been a minute since we’ve, let’s say, experienced something quite like the performance from “The Pickle” tonight, who unleashed an-even-worse-than-usual cover version of Weezer’s biggest hit/204th-best song, “Beverly Hills,” on the assembled audience, complete with a lot of “Pickle pickle” being tossed out between lines. It’s kind of a perfect storm of things we never wanted to see or hear, a statement that also encompasses the Pickle’s “Guesses” portion of the program, in which he bragged about his “Big Dill Energy,” and appeared to make host Nick Cannon seem genuinely uncomfortable with a slap on the ass. Alas, none of the judges’ guesses (which included Craig Kilborn, Howard Stern, and Dax Shepherd) were even remotely right, because apparently nobody heard that thick New York accent and thought “Michael Rappaport.”
But Rappaport it was, with the Atypical star ultimately revealed after failing to beat The S’More in an all-out Fall Out Boy showdown. (At least, we can’t help but think as the strains of “Beverly Hills” echo endlessly in our ears, it was better than last week’s big, exciting Tom Sandoval reveal.) Meanwhile, other performances tonight included an appearance from The Cow (singing “Cry Me A River” by Justin Timberlake), and the Gazelle, who performed a version of “Lucky” by Britney Spears, and who will now be eligible for a run at next week’s “A Celebration Of Elton John.”
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Hot take: with the exception of “Say It Ain’t So,” nothing Weezer has ever recorded qualifies as a very good song. Or even a good song, honestly. I tend to think that if Rivers Cuomo hadn’t gone to Harvard and didn’t wear chunky glasses, nobody would have known who the heck they were.
Weezer sucks.
A lot of their first two albums are at least pretty good, and some of it is even great, but in general “The Gizmos by way of Sunny Day Real Estate by way of KISS” just reminds me of how good those bands are (or, in the case of KISS, how uniquely weird)
Yeah those first two albums are unimpeachable, but its downhill from there.
The Sweater Song is fun
Granted. In a novelty song kind of way.
That song was on the Christmas tape at a mall retail store I worked at in college. The fact that I don’t absolutely despise it after hearing it that many times is a testament to it being a decent song, I think.
I can take or leave the rest but Buddy Holly, Sweater Song and Say It Ain’t So are a good time.
There are a lot of still-popular mid-late 90s bands I feel like I *should* like but don’t, Weezer is one of them.At least they have a couple songs I can listen to… I know a lot of people that love Radiohead but their music makes me feel like I’m trapped at a bar being forced to listen to a whisper-ghost telling me about the bad times it’s been having.
Bullshit. Even if you only take a look at the top 10 of their best songs by the link in the article, lots of those are jams.
I mean they they released by far their most successful album before he went to Harvard, so I’m not sure how much sense that makes?Also, I’m aware they became parodies of themselves so long ago that they’ve pretty much come out the other side, but we don’t need to be revisionist to the point of pretending that Blue & Pinkerton aren’t bangers.
If everyone who likes this show killed themselves nothing of value would be lost and the world would be a better place over night.
I hope that’s hyperbole, because that’s a horrible thing to say.
Pickle: I just suggested Two. Bad. Words.
hahahaaa!
Fun fact. Never in the history of the world has anyone ever answered the question “Name a famous person” and the response was “Michael Rappaport.”
These “pickle pickle” adlibs are everything.
“Michael Rappaport”? Never heard of him.
The trick to guessing the Masked Singer contestants is to immediately eliminate any A- or B-lister. You want someone who was a B-lister more than a decade ago, or used to be on that show you sort of liked. If they’ve been on Dancing with the Stars, they’re an automatic contender.
Maybe they’re not charting currently, but I think Gladys Knight and Leann Rimes are greats, and I’ll stand by that.
Maybe it’s because I’m not American , but surely “Buddy Holly “ was Weezers biggest hit? Don’t think I’ve heard “Beverly Hills” ??