{"id":599,"date":"2016-05-11T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=599"},"modified":"2016-08-31T06:27:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T10:27:43","slug":"holy-shit-you-will-not-believe-weezers-creative-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/05\/holy-shit-you-will-not-believe-weezers-creative-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Shit! You Will Not Believe Weezer&#8217;s Creative Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Artists<\/em><\/strong>: Even if you are lukewarm on\u00a0Weezer,\u00a0this interview with\u00a0Rivers Cuomo (the band&#8217;s frontman) is <em>so<\/em> worth your time. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got more than a little experience with collaboration, creativity under duress, constrained writing techniques, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oulipo\">Oulipo<\/a>-like methods, and yet I&#8217;ve <em>never<\/em> come across a process like this, which is at once ornately technical (spreadsheets, demo files, something akin to A\/B testing) and is so meticulous in the interest of harnessing randomness and stripping context and formal planning out of the creative process.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Weezerians:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0To those\u00a0who\u00a0dig Weezer already, know this: The\u00a0stories in their songs are not stories they wrote, but stories you wrote in response to the fragments they gathered and the formulae they use to collect and organize those fragments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/259693249&amp;color=e93f91&amp;show_artwork=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Public Service Announcement:<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/songexploder.net\">Song Exploder<\/a>\u00a0is consistently awesome (for example, it introduced my 9yo to <a href=\"http:\/\/songexploder.net\/iggy-pop\">Iggy Pop<\/a> and made him an instant fan). \u00a0So worth subscribing and supporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists: Even if you are lukewarm on\u00a0Weezer,\u00a0this interview with\u00a0Rivers Cuomo (the band&#8217;s frontman) is so worth your time. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got more than a little experience with collaboration, creativity under duress, constrained writing techniques, and\u00a0Oulipo-like methods, and yet I&#8217;ve never come across a process like this, which is at once ornately technical (spreadsheets, demo files, something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2016\/05\/holy-shit-you-will-not-believe-weezers-creative-process\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holy Shit! You Will Not Believe Weezer&#8217;s Creative Process&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[19,11,8],"tags":[27,28,26,55,25],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}