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Self-management is not as time-consuming as it looks, Cuomo says. "'Cause if there's something we don't wanna do, we don't do it. It's made things a lot simpler."
Many of the songs on the hard-rocking Maladroit appear to be about lost love, though there are lyrics that seem to touch on the band's newfound freedom. On "Slave," Cuomo sings, "When you're on your own/ You can see things clear, clear as a bell/ And you're free, slave." "Space Rock" includes the chorus "It's a game and you'll play/ But you can't have fun when all they do is says lies."
Cuomo, however, will tell you most of his songs are not about specific things, and he can make a pretty convincing case. Take the superbly infectious first single, "Dope Nose," for instance, and lines like "Cheese smells so good on a burnt piece of lamb."
"'Dope Nose,' as far as I can tell, has no meaning whatsoever. [It came from] just kind of writing random lyrics," Cuomo says. It's definitely not about drugs, as the title might imply. "It's kind of weird that we're singing a song about drugs all the time, 'cause we're not really a druggie band, and we don't have any political stance about it. It's just kind of random drug references that we don't really mean."
Perhaps Cuomo's simple approach to lyrics is what has made him such a prolific songwriter in recent years. Or maybe, as Weezer fans will argue, he's just a genius.
Since January 1, 1999, Cuomo has been numbering his songs. Although it's not on the set list for the Whisky, Weezer have recently been playing a song with the working title "367."
"I think I'm on number 378, something like that," Cuomo says nonchalantly. "It's not a lot, actually. It's like one a week or something."
Actually, it's more like two a week.
"It's 'cause there's nothing else to do," Cuomo continues. "Before, I was always in school or I had a girlfriend or some other responsibilities that were distracting me, but now there's just nothing to do but play music."
Weezer are constantly logging Cuomo's vast catalog of songs and expect to release their fifth album in January. That would make three albums in less than two years — shocking considering it took five years to follow-up fan favorite Pinkerton.
Aside from "longer passages of instrumental freakouts in big sections of big buildups," Cuomo says his new songs will include his most emotional lyrics yet. The catchy pop hooks will be there too, though blended with styles Weezer have not yet explored on record.
"I really feel that one of our strengths now is we can take on all different kinds of styles and fit them into our sound and have them be a Weezer song, even though it may be essentially a funk jam or a metal jam or who knows what," Cuomo says. "We can make it Weezer."
It hasn't always been that way. Four years ago, Cuomo went through what he calls a "really weird death metal phase." When he took the music to the band, they were so confused that none of the songs were recorded.
"If we listened to them now," reflects Wilson. "We'd probably be like, 'Right on.' "
Oh, how foosball can change a man.
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Photo: Geffen
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