Pitchfork

Here's another 15 seconds of fame for all your favorite internet sensations you were about to forget about until VH1 airs "I Love the Aughts", which was bound to happen in a month or two anyway. This YouTube video about YouTube videos starts to make sense of the aggressive quirkiness on display in the songs Weezer have released so far from their forthcoming self-titled "Red Album". Rivers Cuomo, long known as an attentive student of pop hooks, must've picked up on the fact that what causes a stir in the Twitter and Tumblr era is stuff with enough warts and weirdness to feel (dangerous word alert) authentic. As Weezer perform first "Red Album" single "Pork and Beans" backed by the old Mentos and Coke experiment, they're joined by "Chocolate Rain" guy, Miss South Carolina Teen, "All Your Pork and Beans are Belong to Us," and many other online celebrities I'm totally too busy and socially active to recognize (yeah, that's the ticket). Hope some of those kids finally made some money.