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Some time ago (I’m not looking it up, just take my word for it), I read a quote from a member or members of Weezer saying that they’re going to release a Weezer version of the Snuggie. They referred to it as a Wuggie. I think someone from the band wore one onstage (I’m still not looking this up, but it happened).

At the time, I thought Weezer must be joking. Now, comes the hell this:

Haha, like the Snuggie commercial, but…this isn’t funny! It’s not serious, but that doesn’t make it funny! Well, if it scored two points on the funny scale, then the effort seemingly put into it is probably a three and a half.

The band seems to have blurred the lines between something unusual/consciously uncool/cheesy and something actually funny. I’m not super-sensitive when it comes to variations of the Snuggie, but I think we need to hold the band to a higher standard than this. Boycott these things and you’ll be glad you did.

This next clip finds Weezer performing a medley of MGMT’s "Kids" (cool) and Lady Gaga’s "Pokerface" (damnit). Usually when rock bands cover or tease a superpop song, they do it as a half-joke, but I don’t think that’s the case here. Not to belabour the point, but I’ve concluded that Weezer now exist in a weird state where some things they do can only be described as Weezerly. The medley works really well, I’ll give ‘em that.

Finally, you might have seen this already, but here’s Christopher Walken doing a spoken word performance of the same Lady Gaga song for BBC. It’s funny, and it shows her poetry in a different light.

Btw, an alternate segue between Weezer’s Snuggie and Lady Gaga was that Gaga’s including some of her hair in the deluxe edition of her new album.