![]() ![]() Producer Ric Ocasek persuaded him to include it. He originally planned to exclude it from the album he felt it was "cheesy" and perhaps did not represent the sound he was pursuing for Weezer. Songwriter Rivers Cuomo wrote "Buddy Holly" after his friends made fun of his Asian girlfriend. VH1 ranked it as one of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s at number 59 in December 2007. The digital version of the single for "Buddy Holly" was certified gold by the RIAA in 2006. But the song moved up 15 spots to number 484 in the 2021 update. Rolling Stone ranked "Buddy Holly" number 499 in its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2010), dropping it 2 spots down from number 497 (2004). The song also reached number six in Canada, number 12 in the United Kingdom, number 13 in Iceland and number 14 in Sweden. It reached number two and number 34 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, respectively. ![]() The lyrics reference the song's 1950s namesake and actress Mary Tyler Moore. The song was written by Rivers Cuomo and released as the second single from the band's debut album, Weezer (Blue Album) on September 7, 1994, which would have been Buddy Holly's 58th birthday. "Buddy Holly" is a song by American rock band Weezer. Twitch streamer jschlatt has been a frequent target for being Weezered by various users.August-September 1993 at Electric Lady Studios, New York, NYĪlone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo The meme involves zooming in heavily on a blue object, and/or quickly cutting to the guitar lick part of the song. The song was also used as a popular bait-and-switch meme on TikTok known as You Just Got Weezered or Get Weezered. The cover (shown below, right) received over 213,000 views in nearly three months. On August 22nd, 2022, YouTube user eg_9371 posted a cover of the song in the style of the 1993 computer game Doom. The cover (shown below, left) received over 114,000 views in nearly four months. On July 20th, 2022, YouTube user Sadego! posted a cover of the song using the instruments and sounds from Super Mario 64. The video (shown below) received over 466,000 views and over 33,000 likes in over nine months. On January 24th, 2022, YouTube user Kainoah Bowman posted a Shorts video in which he gives a tutorial on how to perform the guitar lick from the song. The cover video (shown below, right) received over 368,000 views in over one year. On May 21st, 2021, YouTube user Frog Leap Studios (Leo Moracchioli) posted a metal cover of the song. The cover video (shown below, left) received over 185,000 views in over three years. On March 20th, 2019, YouTube user Ska Tune Network posted a Ska cover of the song. ![]() ![]() A clip of the episode (shown below) was posted to YouTube by Comedy Central UK on February 26th, 2018, where it received over 3.1 million views in over four years. On May 25th, 2017, Stranger Things actor Finn Wolfhard lip-synced the song on an episode of Lip Sync Battle while dressed up as Buddy Holly. The music video was also included in the installation CD-ROM for Windows 95 (shown below, right). Al Molinaro, however, plays his old Happy Days character Al Delvecchio in the video. The music video features Weezer performing the song as if it was an episode of Happy Days, with various characters from the show dancing to the song using edited clips from the show. On June 17th, 2009, the song's music video (shown below, left) was posted to YouTube by Weezer's official channel, where it received over 65 million views in over thirteen years. The song was first released on Weezer's Blue Album on May 10th, 1994, and was released as a single on September 7th, 1994. ![]()
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