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User:A Generic Reality/themes
From Weezerpedia
just throwing something together based on TMBW's song themes... feel free to help out :)
also inspired by Bills
Contents
- 1 Animals
- 2 Being above or high up
- 3 Body parts
- 4 Bugs, insects, arachnids
- 5 Children
- 6 Drinks
- 7 Drug & alcohol use
- 8 Education & learning
- 9 Ennui
- 10 Family
- 11 Games
- 12 Girls
- 13 Language
- 14 Loneliness
- 15 Music
- 16 Places
- 17 Space
- 18 Sports & recreation
- 19 Swear words
- 20 Time, clocks
- 21 Vehicles & transportation
- 22 Violence & death
- 23 Weather
Animals
- High as a Kite - "Flying like a beautiful bird"
Being above or high up
Body parts
- Can't Knock the Hustle - "The future's so bright I gotta poke my eyes out"
- Living in L.A. - "No one to hold my hand", "My eyes are like far away spaceships"
- Zombie Bastards - "My heart pumps Kool-Aid"
Bugs, insects, arachnids
- Living in L.A. - "And the spider is sucking out my life"
- The Spider
Children
- High as a Kite - "So let me play this game for children and vanish into the atmosphere"
Drinks
- Can't Knock the Hustle - "Sellin' lemonade by the side of the road"
- Zombie Bastards - "My heart pumps Kool-Aid"
Drug & alcohol use
- Can't Knock the Hustle - "I never learned to roll a joint"
- Dope Nose
- Do You Wanna Get High?
- Hash Pipe
- Piece of Cake - "Let's do hard drugs"
- Say It Ain't So - alcohol
Education & learning
- Can't Knock the Hustle - "Higher education is the key to escape"
- The Rules of Life
- Run Over by a Truck - "I used like to learn how to speak in Chinese"
Ennui
- Run Over by a Truck - "I don't care much about anything", "I'm lackin' the passion to do anything"
Family
- Say It Ain't So - about Rivers' relationship with his father and stepfather
Games
- High as a Kite - "So let me play this game for children and vanish into the atmosphere"
Girls
- Living in L.A. - "This girl I like, I'm talking 'bout this girl I like"
- Run Over by a Truck - "I used to chat up the girls out in the club"
Language
- Run Over by a Truck - "I used like to learn how to speak in Chinese", "'O-Kudasai' means 'Baby, would ya please'" (which is Japanese)
Use of languages other than English
In addition to the Scott & Rivers project, which is primarily in Japanese:
- Can't Knock the Hustle - "Hasta luego" is Spanish for "See you later"
- Living in L.A. - "Je ne sais pas" is French for "I don't know"
- Meri Kuri - Cover of a Japanese song, title is short for "Merry Christmas"
- Rest in Peace - "Pitonnez toi" is French for "piton yourself"
Loneliness
Music
- Run Over by a Truck - "I'm happy to sing"
References to other musicians
- Zombie Bastards - "Walk between the raindrops, 'tween the raindrops, singing along to Queen"
Places
- Zombie Bastards - "Listen to reason or we'll get cast out of Egypt, la-dee-da"
Space
- Living in L.A. - "My eyes are like far away spaceships"
Sports & recreation
- High as a Kite - "I think I'm going parasailing"
- Run Over by a Truck - "I used to play B-ball down at the park"
- Zombie Bastards - "I don't know karate or kung fu, but I'm gonna make it in this world"
Swear words
- Can't Knock the Hustle - "I'm an ugly motherfucker but I work hella harder" and "Don't step to me, bitch"
- My Brain (SS2K) - "I tell the world to fuck itself"
Time, clocks
- Living in L.A. - "And now I hear the ticking of a clock"
Vehicles & transportation
Honorable mentions
- Can't Knock the Hustle - The entire music video takes place in a car
Violence & death
- Zombie Bastards - "Die, die you zombie bastards"
Weather
- High as a Kite - "I can fly up to the stratosphere, high above the cirrus clouds where I am one with the universe"