Here is a brief list of the people who are "on drugs" in Weezer's new video for the song "We Are All on Drugs": a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses, the paperboy, a little girl skipping rope, a minivan-driving soccer mom, a traffic cop, a grandmother, a priest, a bus driver, a grocery store clerk, an old lady with a walker, a barber, a host on the Home Shopping Network, a TV weatherman, a construction worker, an ambulance driver and a fireman.
Yeah, pretty much everyone — save Rivers Cuomo and the rest of Weezer — is under the influence in the "Drugs" video, directed by Justin Francis of the Brooklyn, New York, collective Saline Project (Eminem's "Like Toy Soldiers," the Game's "Hate It or Love It").
The clip was shot on Monday and Tuesday in Los Angeles, and features Cuomo rehearsing with the band in a tiny living room — à la the clip for Weez's "Say It Ain't So" — before being interrupted by a wide-eyed pair of Jehovah's Witnesses. Against his better judgment, Cuomo decides to follow them, which begins his journey through a bizarre, drug-addled suburb.
According to the Saline Project's treatment, as Cuomo makes his way through the neighborhood, various drugged-out characters interact with him — and try to harm him. The paperboy absent-mindedly chucks the newspaper at Cuomo's head, a grandmother slams her car into his, a barber "accidentally" shaves off a large portion of his hair, and a cloudy-headed ambulance driver smashes into a telephone pole while transporting Cuomo to the hospital.
At the end of the clip, Cuomo emerges from the smoldering wreckage of the ambulance and limps home. As he reaches his own block, he notices that his neighbor's house is on fire; sadly, the firefighters are too drugged-up to notice, and they've turned their hoses on Cuomo's house, soaking it. But Cuomo doesn't seem to mind — he's just happy to return to the solace of his home and his band — and as water pours in the windows, he and Weezer rip through the song's final verse.
Sadly, while there are a whole bunch of whacked-out druggies running through the video, there's an absolute dearth of werewolves and medieval weaponry, which sort of makes the U.S. version of the "Drugs" video less cool than the Grim Reaper-approved international version, which Geffen Records put the kibosh on earlier this month (see "Grim Weezer: Band's Leather-And-Wolfman 'Drugs' Video Not Their Video At All").
A spokesperson for Geffen said the U.S. version of "We Are All on Drugs" is due to be completed in mid-August.
