When Did Weezer Get a Bad Reputation? 

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What’s with the homies dissing my band?

Fun fact: all the members of the band were studying astrophysics and then decided to make a band.

People have been labelling artists they don't like "industry plants" for as long as there's been an industry

The hate for STP is not deserved they’re amazing and have their own unique sound

Meanwhile all the normal people were enjoying their music and the gatekeepers were just shutting them selves out.

I didn't know until right now that Weezer was hated. I've always liked their music and I've never heard of any hate

Imagine people hating you because you're just too good at your job.

Urge Overkill dismissing Weezer's success is weapons-grade copium.

I have literally in my 30 years of life not heard one person ever say they hated or even disliked Weezer

Weezer just a bunch of chill dudes from the 90's The music will be played for decades from now

This is literally the first time I've ever heard of Weezer having any sort of "hate" ngl

I'm so sick of STP being labeled as "ripoffs" anyone who thinks they are has never really listened to them. No reason to drag their name in any conversation regarding Weezer either.

I grew up at the time Weezer made it big. I have literally never heard anyone say one bad thing about them. Always loved Weezer.

Saw them live at the Hella Mega Tour with Greenday and Fall Out Boy. Definitely don't think their image is ruined in any way.

"Weezer has a terrible..." This is legitimately the first time I'm hearing this. Weezer got popular because that one Happy Days video was included on all copies of Windows XP. Like the U2 and Apple thing, but only one song and it was good.

It seems to be really common for people to hate those that have instant success.

STP had humble beginnings,Robert met Scott at a concert, they met Eric from an add in the paper for a drummer, then Robert asked his brother to join the band, the rest was history

This is the first I’ve heard that people hate Weezer. Edit: To clarify, I’m not surprised some people hate them. I’ve just never heard of some mass hatred of the band. The video makes it seem like they’re hated like Nickleback.

meanwhile Pearl Jam and Linkin Park with their first megapopular albums

My experience with Weezer was finding the Buddy Holly music video on my Win95 CD as a kid.

Weezer go hard, I honestly never heard anyone speak bad on them

STP is absolutely awesome. Never understood the hate for them.

7 top ten singles, 15 albums released and counting as well as 9 EP’s and two compilation albums. For whatever bad reputation they have, they’ve sure been massively successful!

I growing up poor but my first two CDs that i bought were Weezer's blue and foo fighters' raygun. I enjoyed them and still remember all the lyrics.

Weezer literally sounds completely different from the Pixies

New title, “3 dudes on Twitter with 100 likes said they hate Weezer”

virgin core music will always have a place in my heart

I really felt it when weeper said they were going to burn down an orphanage

Love Weezer. They never cared what anyone thought anyway, they actually have a ton of diverse sounding songs/albums, and over all have put out a ton of music. Great band

I'm 29 and literally have never thought of Weezer having a bad rep. I liked them for a little while when I was younger, not so much into them now, but I would never say they're a bad band. I remember even my parents liked Beverly Hills when it came out and they were pushing 40 at the time.

This is the first time I've ever seen anyone give a shit about Weezer.

I never knew they HAD a bad reputation.

Weezer has a way of making you say "i didn't know you could make money from being that minimalistic"

Beverly Hills stained them forever. No matter how much time passes there will always be middle class moms drunk yelling the lyrics.

Dude, the Blue album is the best. I road my bike 8 miles to Newbury Comics to purchase the CD. That was almost 30 years ago. Time flies.

I think when Beverly Hills dropped. That was the BIGGEST HATE TRAIN that started chuggin

So people literally hated Weezer because they were good… that’s some big ball status

People waking up and hating is wild

Watched Weezer play live last weekend and it was one of the best shows I’ve seen. They were really good! Been a Weezer fan forever 🤘🏼

whats with these critics dissin my album

So now according to gen z no one REALLY liked Weezer,so now they will act like they are the ones to FINALLY give them the chance they deserved

I didn't know they had a bad rep. I just knew about getting Weezered

STP was not a copy of anything. Such a great band.

I went to a concert of their last night. Absolute banger.

Lol I remember going to a weezer concert and the pixies opened for them

bro I will never understand the censorship of the nevermind album

ive always loved weezer. the blue album is an absolute classic

If I'm remembering the story correctly my mom went to a small concert Weezer had at her college before their first album was released. She said only like 20 people showed up. Also remember her mentioning the band being okay but not good at being on stage. Me and her went to a concert with Weezer and Green Day like a year or 2 ago and they still aren't great at interacting with the audience.

If STP is cheap copycat grunge, then I love cheap copycat grunge more than the real thing.

Woah woah woah- we don't tolerate hate against the Monkees. They were made to showcase what would become the music video, and other advancements in visual arts infused with music, just as much as they were made to simply cash in on the Beatles-esque music craze of the 1960's. Not only that, but they were still hired as an actual band, who always played their own concerts in the 60's, and recorded their own playing from their third album onwards... The Monkees are the exemption to the "manufactured boy band" archetype. That'd be more like The Dave Clark Five, if you want a real manufactured band purely for money. If anything, The Monkees was rock history's Pinocchio. They were supposed to be fake and disposable, but almost immediately forced themselves into doing bigger and better things than they were supposed to do. Also, they were seen as peers by The Beatles, Cream, and The Rolling Stones. The biggest artists and groups of the 60's respected The Monkees as an invention and a group. Hell, Frank Zappa even liked them enough to where he made a couple cameos in their show and movie. That's how you know they're good.

I have never heard anyone talk down on Weezer besides calling them dweebs

I still think Undone (The Sweater Song) is one of the greatest songs ever written

If they understood that Robert DeLeo is the real mastermind behind STP they wouldn't call STP corporate manufacturered. The dude's musical artistry goes so deep and wide.

I've literally never met anyone who hated weezer

Does Weezer really have a bad reputation though? Most normies who know about them seem to have a mixed or somewhat positive impression of them. Weezer fans themselves are usually the most critical lol.

"Alt band Urge Overkill..." Clearly a band that never had a blue album

Weezer and STP have some of the best records of the 90’s. Blue, Tiny Music, Pinkerton….all killer.

i got the notification for this video while in the middle of a weezer concert

your videos make me insanely happy please never stop making em

The Monkees where also talented musicians who eventually got to write their own music and even played it in the show. But soon after their show was cancelled. Corporate wanted a new band they could completely control. Fun fact. Weezer actually helped write one of my favorite songs on the Monkees 2016 album “Good Times!” The song is “She makes me laugh” The Monkees have fought for their recognition for a long time, and still are fighting to enter the rock and roll hall of fame. I’m sure Weezer has had a similar fight due to that criticism. It’s weird because we very much live in a world where most people don’t write their own music anymore and everyone is fine with the modern bands doing it. But you mention the Monkees and people throw a hissy fit.

Ive never heard that weezer has a bad rep… saw them at boston calling a few years back and it was a great show and it was at full capacity

Weezer has been on constant radio play since I’ve first heard of them almost 20 years ago. And their most recent album is actually really good. So it really doesn’t matter when the haters can’t even been seen from above the clouds

STP is badass, so Weezer is in great company. Critics can eat one.

Fucking annoying how critics keep getting mad at something at isn’t a issue in the first place

I hate RU-vid shorts, but I love you too much to care. It’s more MarcButEvil for crying out loud!

Everyone wants to get big fast, but when someone does get big fast, everyone accuses them of foul play.

Is this the next video? I AM SO HYPED =w=

It is a strange thing to have a sort of ego/spiritual/character death and then mourn it, especially with the knowledge that it was killing you. I’ve experienced this, along with the death of my alcoholism, that man had to go. “The same man will drink again.”

I don’t care much for Weezer outside of their first album anymore, but they will always be in my heart because they got me to start listening to music. They were the first band I ever got into, and I can’t thank them enough.

I never even heard people who don't like Weezer say that they hate them.

They “popped up out of nowhere” because that’s when Kurt Cobain became Rivers Cuomo

Weezer fucking rules. Even came out with a banger 25 years later with OK Human.

As a regular person who isn’t in the music industry I can say that I don’t care if someone is a “industry plant.” Music is music.

industry plants(jk) but they sounds nothing like the pixies

The Weezer hate train has existed since before their first album. They played in my hometown Plover, Wisconsin at a bar called "The Cottage" in '93 or so. Fun fact, Im assuming that's when they discovered Stevens Point Brewery (The City of Stevens Point and Village of Plover are two separate towns but you can't tell) "This bottle of Steven's awakens ancient feelings" is a reference to our beer.

I can name many bands who hit it big with their first album: linkin park, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and black sabbath

Man, if we discredited every band in the 80's and 90's that got called "posers" then I wouldn't have anything to listen to from that era.

Bro knows the Weezer lore

Drops Pinkerton…. two records that redefined a whole genre of music. People just going to hate.

For me, it was the 40th unwanted hearing of Holiday. I think their sound attracted 90s teens and college kids. The lucky ones grew out of it.

Weezer has always had a special place in my heart I wasn’t even aware of the hate they were getting

But people don’t hate weezer, it’s just a meme

I have never met an individual that hates weezer

The blue album is an absolute classic. Most bands never have a classic. Ever.

no way bro censored the nirvana baby

I love your videos. I expect them every week.

You're the reason I listened to White, Maladriot, Make Believe, Red and Black and White and Red are my 2 favourite weezer albums so thank you

Weezer didn’t do anything worth hate until they aboandoned their original sound for another level of pop stardom. They were very good at what they did and they slowly moved away from that sound. I stopped listening after their first 2 records. They still made an occasional song that reminded me of their glory years but I’d moved on by that point. Urge Overkill have a habit of saying bad things about bands that got famous before them with what appeared to be less work. They did the same thing with The Smashing Pumpkins. Jealous and sad people are always behind those kinds of rumors. ✌🏻🇺🇸

I love your videos keep it up

As someone who has closely followed the music scene of the 90s, I've literally never heard of this supposed hate directed at Weezer. The uploader literally just made up this narrative.

All I know is that “JSchlatt” hates them and that’s good enough for me.

I have NEVER heard anyone speak bad about Weezer.

I’ve literally never heard anyone hate on Weezer like what

If you hate Weezer you probably remind everyone at parties that you don't drink

Will never forget Weezer's Buddy Holly as part of Windows 95 wmv demo along with Edie Brickell - Good Times So long ago

I don’t hate weezer I hate the fact their fans can’t stfu about how much they love weezer

Pinkerton. That was their first album. And it is phenomenal!

"Weezer has a terrible reputation." No they don't.

Their first album just exploded. It was hard for them to ever follow that up