Um, Rivers, is this a twelve-step thing? Nobody’s mad at you, honest. In fact, after listening to Make Believe, we love you more than evs.
Cuomo has never sounded more like a regular guy than he does on Make Believe, but normality can be its own kind of straitjacket.
Here, Cuomo is trying to sort things out, sometimes beating himself up over past mistakes, sometimes looking at his surroundings sardonically, but something separates Make Believe from previous Weezer albums: a palpable sense of optimism, a feeling of hope, a new positivity
The music itself is Make Believe’s saving grace. Again, nothing startling, but it’s all sturdy.
Sometimes an album is just awful. Make Believe is one of those albums.
Sleepy time!
First off, I wanna say that I unironically like Beverly Hills. The city is real ass cheeks, and so is this song, but god dammit, it’s like eating pizza that you know is shitty but is still good.
As for everything after track 2, it kinda just passes by. It feels like the songs aren’t really there. They’re just blank spaces filled by formulaic Weezer music. If you remove the first two tracks, it’s a nothing album.
Favorite: Perfect Situation
Least Favorite: ... read more
I'm impressed at how consistent this album is. Every single track is bad, or mediocre in some capacity. Even the best tracks maintain a certain level of shittiness. I also love how this is the longest Weezer album so far. Good joke, Rivers. Please go back to making good music.
I don’t get the hate for this one, there were a couple of songs in a row that weren’t good. Mostly though, this album was not what I expected from them, it’s the first serious album I’ve heard since Blue album for me. You can see the other albums I’ve rated of theirs are the others I’ve listened too. The last album I did was the red album and this was a step up. I actually liked how they switched to slower songs close to the end of the album and they were ... read more
like, 3 good songs, but the rest are just kinda the same.
haunt you everyday is really good though.
favorite song: haunt you everyday
I dislike this, the songs are kind of repetetive with the same instrumentals over and over again. Beverly hills is one of those mediocre songs you just can't get out of your head. I don't really like this :[
1 | Beverly Hills 3:16 | 47 |
2 | Perfect Situation 4:14 | 80 |
3 | This Is Such a Pity 3:25 | 62 |
4 | Hold Me 4:22 | 63 |
5 | Peace 3:53 | 58 |
6 | We Are All on Drugs 3:34 | 33 |
7 | The Damage in Your Heart 4:03 | 52 |
8 | Pardon Me 4:15 | 53 |
9 | My Best Friend 2:47 | 39 |
10 | The Other Way 3:16 | 48 |
11 | Freak Me Out 3:26 | 44 |
12 | Haunt You Every Day 4:37 | 75 |