Weezer, guarda l'esilarante video ufficiale di Thank God For Girls

Meno di una settimana fa i Weezer avevano suonato live per iHeartRadio a Burbank la loro nuova canzone, Thank God For Girls: ora è finalmente uscito l'esilarante video ufficiale.

Un semi-lyric video che vede come protagonista un uomo che si ingozza di cannoli, imboccato da una seducente cameriera:

Il brano arriva dopo un anno esatto dall'uscita del loro ultimo album "Everything Will Be Alright In The End" ed è già disponibile in streaming e digital download. 

Mentre il testo, da una parte, rappresenta una nuova direzione intrapresa dalla band californiana, dall'altra la musica ricorda i classici Weezer. La band ha anche condiviso la (non tanto pia) art cover del singolo:

Sul loro sito ufficiale Rivers Cuomo ha spiegato il suo parere sul pezzo:

Non sono un grande fan delle parti rappate nelle canzoni ma abbiamo fatto davvero un bel lavoro con le armonizzazioni. Penso che la musica sia davvero fantastica, sono un grande fan degli organi e dei pianoforti usati nei versi.

Sul loro profilo Facebook Cuomo ha raccontato come il testo gli ricordi i suoi lavori su Tumblr, specialmente nelle parti dove viene citato Adamo:

Dio prese una costola da Adamo / La macinò / Nella centrifga / La mescolò con il cardamomo e i chiodi di garofano / La cucinò nel microonde con la funzione popcorn

 Thang God for Girls - Weezer testo

The girl in the pastry shop with the net in her hair is makin' a cannoli for you
To take on your hiking trip in the woods with your bros that you've known since second grade
And you may encounter dragons and ruffians and be called upon to employ your testosterone
In a battle for supremacy and access to females glued to the TV
And even if you are victorious, you may receive many cuts, bruises, and scrapes
And you will require band-aids and antiseptic ointments and tender love and kisses on your stab wounds
And when you come home, she will be there
Waiting for you with a fire in her eyes
And a big fat cannoli to shove in your mouth
And that's why you
Thank God for girls
Hail Jesus Christe
From Tennessee to LA
Thank God for girls
On your reckoning day
You better bow down and pray
She's so big
She's so strong
She's so energetic in her sweaty overalls
Thank God for girls
(Thank God for girls)
Thank God for girls
(Thank God for girls)
I'm so glad I got a girl to think of even though she isn't mine
I think about her all the day and all the night; it's enough to know that she's alive
She says I give her sweaty palms she almost had a heart attack
The truth is that I'm just as scared I don't know how to act
I wish that I could get to know her better but meeting up in real life'll cause the illusion to shatter
I carved her name into all the trees; I sang a song down on one knee
Looking at the underwear page in the Sears Catalog like when I was 14
I'm levitating like a magnet turned the wrong way around
I'm like an Indian fakir trying to meditate on a bed of nails with my pants pulled down
Thank God for girls
Hail Jesus Christe
From Tennessee to LA
Thank God for girls
On your reckoning day
You better bow down and pray
She's so big
She's so strong
She's so energetic in her sweaty overalls
Thank God for girls
(Thank God for girls)
Thank God for girls
(Thank God for girls)
God took a rib from Adam, ground it up in a centrifuge machine
Mixed it with cardamom and cloves, microwaved it on the popcorn setting
While Adam was like, "(woo-hoo) That really hurt!"
(Going off into the tundra)
So pissed at God and he started lighting mighty forest fires, stealing osprey eggs
Messing with the bees who were trying to pollinate the echinacea
Until God said, "I'ma smite you with loneliness and break your heart in two"
And Adam wept and wailed, tearing out his hair, falling on his knees, looked to the sky and said,
"Thank God"