Not sure, but that intro might have something to do with the gnarles barkley cover with that weird russian instrument that was running rampant on the sift... too lazy to look it up right now. Being in a slump, this video really brightened things up for me. +1 for Weezer, "Say it ain't so" still being my #1 choice for karaoke nights.

>> ^dag:
Afro Ninja's kick-ass comeback is the highlight of this video.


I concur! :-D

Apart from the Barenaked Ladies video
http://www.videosift.com/video/Weezer-Are-Thieves-Sound-of-Your-Voice-by-Barenaked-Ladies
check this one
http://www.videosift.com/video/Internet-meme-song
and the memes used:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Internet-meme-song#comment-207856
to satisfy you meme addiction..

WHERE IS PEDOBEAR?

WHERE?!?!?

Pretty average song though, either Weezer have been going downhill or I've lost interest in their kind of music.

Quantum, I studied the video, and imo it dosnt look the same. For starter, the ufo video is pretty much a bottems up view while the weezer vid is showing a top down view most of the time.

>> ^Napalm:
Wow first Weezer song since Pinkerton I think I've really liked.


Not even Island in the sun? Actually, I didn't like the song all that much until I saw the video. Pork and Beans would probably have been the same way, except that this is my first time hearing the song

This is a really fun music video and a really, really good song. If the rest of the album can match this level, this will be the first truly good release Weezer's had since Pinkerton for sure.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Weezer-Are-Thieves-Sound-of-Your-Voice-by-Barenaked-Ladies has some additional background on the featured lip-synchers.

*parody *Canada, *viral *rocknroll & *meme

Charlie (candy mountain) and Evolution of dance are both in my list.

EDD,I saw the cubes but since nothing was actually being done with them, its hard to attribute it to any meme. In my mind, the most coolest thing ive seen done with rubiks cubes in the past years, are the amature made cube solvers made with webcams and basic robotics. As for the light sabers, the 2 nerd duelist are ryan vs dorkman. They made 2 videos consisting of light saber duals, reproducing some high level special effects like terrain impacts and sparks. Its possible to attribute the light saber effect on lot of other things in the videos due to the gauntlet of HOW TO videos on making your own light saber effects in movies.

Eric, nice catch. Never seen the video till now, but the mouse placement and the overexposure glow from the window as well as overall color is dead on.

uhohzombies, nice catch, although I didn't notice nearly as many memes in there. Its possible they are from different circles. Weezers is pretty much a years worth of 4chans /flash board condensed into a video. And of course both BNL and weezers song itself sucks.. so yea.. their trying tp ride hype trains that are not their own.

And that mustache..Come on..Weezer went from trying to be nerd rock to be hipster rock - complete with ironic facial hair.

Weezer are still as unoriginal as ever.

Why can't I promote yet!? This is bloody brilliant. Well played, Weezer, well played. If this doesn't sift all the way to the top I will personally outstare Jessica Alba.

Wow first Weezer song since Pinkerton I think I've really liked.

>> ^intangiblemeg:
Wow, Weezer distilled the internet.


Yeah, but too bad the song sucks. Weezer is past their prime.

I was going to submit it but I made a bad decision to max out my queue.

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=weezer&p=r has a few shoots.

From http://videos.antville.org/stories/1798576/ and http://www.weezer.com/news/default.aspx/nid/13717 ...