Oct 4, 2015 http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/kanye-west-weezer-mashup-yeezer/?fb=dd "While West is off plotting his 2020 presidential run to stop tyrant billionaire Donald Trump from getting a second term in the Oval Office and Weezer continues its descent into the depths of dorky dad rock, Chuckie Nugget has discovered something elemental about both artists, something that fuses their music together in a way that has no right to work as well as it does—they're all huge goobers. Both West and Weezer have always had the air of nerdy kids trying, with varying degrees of success, not just to appear cool, but to bend the arc of coolness toward their own particular obsessions. If Taylor Swift had bested Kiss at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards instead of Beyoncé, Rivers Cuomo would have been the one to grab the microphone and let her finish. Well, to be fair, there's no way he would have actually done that, but you can imagine him fantasizing about it in his head. What's great about Yeezer, especially for the large cadre of Weezer fans who haven't been particularly enthusiastic about their last decade or so of output, is that the addition of West into their newer songs is done in a way that highlights how the band's strengths have remained, in many ways, consistent from Pinkerton through today. Cuomo and co. can write one h--- of a hook when they want to. Similarly, it shows how tracks from 2013's Yeezus have an strong undercurrent of winking, populist fun under a façade of austere, high-art seriousness."
