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We Might As Well Be Strangers

Weezer comes back with a strong collaboration.

Robert Rackley
Robert Rackley
— 1 min read

The last few days have brought with them some serious nineties nostalgia. So it's fitting that Weezer released a video for their new single, "We Might As Well Be Strangers." The song represents a return to the form for the prolific but not always consistent band.

Perhaps the best part of the song and the video is the inclusion of guest Karly Hartzman of Wednesday. Hartzman brings her best punk rock sneer and pout to the breakup song. As Grace Robins-Somerville notes for Paste Magazine, Hartzman perhaps even outshines Weezer's frontman.

If a countrygaze queen like Hartzman has proven herself the rightful heir to the feedback-stacked angst-jangle that skyrocketed Weezer to stardom in the mid-Nineties, then Cuomo sounds as though he’s outgrown it.

I'm not sure I completely agree with the sentiment that a collaboration is some sort of contest. It's more about chemistry and here Cuomo and Hartzman work well together.

Weezer - We Might As Well Be Strangers (YouTube)

See a post about Wednesday's single "Elderberry Wine" here.

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Robert Rackley

Robert Rackley

Mere Christian, aspiring minimalist, inveterate notetaker, budget audiophile and paper airplane mechanic. Self-publishing since 1994. Fan of the open web.

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