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Nevermind the OKGO . . . Here's the new Weezer video!

Rick Astley may have seized YouTube for a day, but Weezer's out to condense the whole damn thing into one music video. From the inbox:

"Today, Weezer unveiled the launch of their YouTube channel to coincide with the premier of  the band's new music video 'Pork And Beans' on the homepage of YouTube. This is the first time a major label band has featured such a multitude of YouTube celebrities in their video, which include Tay Zonday (Chocolate Rain), Lauren Caitlin Upton (Junior Miss South Carolina), Judson Laipply (Evolution of Dance) being three of more than fifteen YouTube stars making cameos in the video."

As reported a few weeks ago, "Pork and Beans" (and the rest of the Red Album) are no Blue Album, but the video's fairly entertaining, in the schizophrenic way only a mash-up of YouTube favorites can be. They even managed to squeeze a "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" reference in there - that's one of the pioneering viral Internet vids, in our opinion. And there's no denying the sheer brilliance of a mustachioed Rivers Cuomo hugging Chris Crocker with tender reassurance, all "It's okay, Chris, we'll leave Britney alone now." Those Weezer kids are tugging at our heartstrings, yo. 

Here's what Phoenix staffer Will Spitz had to say about it:

"Lauren Caitlin Upton on why Weezer have been unable to make a good record in the last ten years and what should be done about it:

'I personally believe that Weezer are unable to do so because, uh, they don't have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, Foo Fighters and, uh, the Green Day, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the Rentals, uh, or, uh, should help Rivers Curomo and should help the Weezer, so they will be able to build up a half-decent collection of songs, for our children.'"**

** Note: Lauren Caitlin Upston did not actually say this. We totally made it up. But she would've said that, we think. 

--Caitlin E. Curran

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