Weezer “Can’t Stop Partying” feat. Lil Wayne
Why bother? It’s gonna hurt me.
Yup, it’s Weezer and Weezy, but even Lil Wayne can’t save the Polow da Don produced Raditude track, “Can’t Stop Partying.” Raditude. Worst. Dwayne Carter could freestyle over microwave buzz and still kill it hard, but even his mediocre verse is wasted on this boring, poorly written embarrassment of a Weezer song.
Rivers Cuomo waxes completely un-poetically (as he often does of late) about things that would be better left articulated by those who have actual talent for articulating such things. Not that I haven’t cringed at a Weezer song before, but I think this one has a 10:1 cringe:non-cringe ratio. “I gotta have the cars/I gotta have the jewels/and if you was me, honey, you would do it too.” Jewels? Ugh, Rivers. This is worse than “Beverly Hills.”
I often ask myself, “How does Rivers get away with this stuff?” “Why does he write stupid songs that suck?” The answer, I realized, is because we let him. We’ve been letting him. Weezer was a big part of my life for a very long time when I was younger, and I think that’s a reason why a lot of us have had trouble seeing this for what it really is. I could throw a dart at the last page of the Village Voice local music listings and hit a better band than Weezer has been for the past 5 years. If their first two albums didn’t exist, would anyone be giving them the time of day? If “El Scorcho” falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
The truth is, they aren’t even trying anymore. And why should they? I have friends back in New York who are planning to spend their Halloween at a $60 Weezer show at Hammerstein Ballroom. Why? Do they love Weezer’s new music? Do they even own their last album, [insert color here]? No. They’re going because they’re hoping to hear as much old material as possible and rock out to “The Good Life” in their Halloween costumes. Sounds like fun to me, but this is why we end up with songs like “Can’t Stop Partying.” How many years of slack can you cut someone, even if they did write Pinkerton? It’s time to say enough is enough.
It’s over, kids. It’s been over.
“Can’t Stop Partying” by Weezer feat. Lil Wayne
Posted: October 26th, 2009 under Rants.
Tags: Can't Stop Partying, Lil Wayne, Weezer
Comments
Comment from Liz
Time October 28, 2009 at 12:45 am
I agree with you. I don’t think he cares at all. My point was that if a band doesn’t have any fans, they try harder. We’re enablers. Like the mother who keeps giving her drug addict kid $20 when she knows how it’s going to be spent. We should call that show Intervention and get Rivers on there. Make some real threats! OK, I’m kidding. Seriously though, what was I saying?
Comment from Drew
Time October 27, 2009 at 5:06 pm
“I often ask myself, ‘How does Rivers get away with this stuff?’ ‘Why does he write stupid songs that suck?’ The answer, I realized, is because we let him. We’ve been letting him.”
With all due respect, you couldn’t be more wrong. He’s doing it because he wants to. If you think he cares about what Pinkerton-obsessed fans (and yes, I’m one) care about at this point, you’re only kidding yourself. Sad but true.