Buddy Holly (song)

"Buddy Holly"
Song

"Buddy Holly" is a popular single by Weezer. It was released as a single in 1995 and appeared on the self-titled debut album in 1994. The lyrics reference 50's singer, Buddy Holly and actress, Mary Tyler Moore.

Music video

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"Buddy Holly" music video

The music video for "Buddy Holly" was directed by Spike Jonze. It portrayed Weezer performing at the original Arnold's Drive-In diner from the popular 70's television show, Happy Days. The video combined contempory footage of the band with clips from the show. Happy Days cast member Al Molinaro made a cameo appearance in the video; he threw in a plug for his home town, Kenosha, Wisconsin in the introduction. The video also features brief cameos by some members of the band That Dog as dancers at Arnold's.

The innovative video scored four awards at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards, including prizes for Breakthrough Video and Best Alternative Video. It was also voted #497 in the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The "Buddy Holly" music video was included on the Microsoft Windows 95 CD-ROM.

Looking "just like Buddy Holly"

Rivers Cuomo is known for wearing thick-rimmed glasses, as did Buddy Holly. Weezer is often considered to be pioneers of fashion in the geek world, as one of its standards is the wearing of square glasses like Cuomo's. Ironically, Cuomo was not wearing his signature glasses in the video for the song. Weezer also inspired a small flourish of 'geek chic' fashion, making it popular to wear articles of clothing usually associated with geekdom, such as sweater vests.

The song was written because of Rivers Cuomo's frustration of his fellow bandmates always making fun of his eccentric Korean then-girlfriend. References to this can be found in the lyrics "Your tongue is twisted, your eyes are slit" and "what's with these homies dissin' my girl" and later he goes to say he doesn't care what they say about them.

External links

• Lyrics to Buddy Holly