Pork and Beans (song)

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"Pork and Beans"
A red square with a three-dimensional version of the Weezer logo. The bottom right corner contains the text "Weezer" on top of the text "pork and beans".
Single by Weezer
from the album Weezer (The Red Album)
ReleasedApril 22, 2008[1]
Recorded2008
Genre
Length3:09
LabelGeffen
Songwriter(s)Rivers Cuomo
Producer(s)Jacknife Lee
Weezer singles chronology
"This Is Such a Pity"
(2006) 		"Pork and Beans"
(2008) 		"Troublemaker"
(2008)
Music video
"Pork and Beans" on
YouTube

"Pork and Beans" is a song by the American

Modern Rock chart, and spent eleven weeks at number one. The song charted in many countries such as Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States
.

A

Grammy Award for Best Music Video at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards.[4]

Writing and inspiration

Rivers Cuomo, lead singer and guitarist for Weezer, wrote the song in reaction to a meeting with Geffen executives, who told the band members that they needed to record more commercial material.[5] Cuomo remarked, "I came out of it pretty angry. But ironically, it inspired me to write another song."[6] Jacknife Lee produced the track with the band in early 2008 in what was the third and final recording session for the album.[7] The many references to popular culture in the song are said to be a "statement of defiance" according to Internet reviewer David Ritter, who later describes it to be an "anti-anthem anthem" that opens up a "broad space for critical exploration of what it means to be an aging band in the major label system".[8]

Composition

According to the director of the video for "Pork and Beans", the song is about "the idea of being yourself, of being happy with who you are".[9] In the album notes, Cuomo compares this to Timbaland's music, "It actually sounds like a Timbaland kind of production; he has little baby crying type of sounds."[10] A reference is also made to Timbaland in the second verse with the line "Timbaland knows the way to reach the top of the chart".[11] The song similarly refers to items such as Rogaine and Oakley sunglasses.[12]

Reception

The song has been generally well received by critics.

lead vocals and power chords.[8]

Commercial performance

In terms of chart performance, "Pork and Beans" is one of Weezer's most successful singles in its 25-year career. Debuting at number 19, the song reached number one on the

Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it is peaked at number 25 and debuted in the Billboard Hot 100 at number 84 with 17,000 downloads of the song on iTunes and peaked at number 64.[21][22] "Pork and Beans" was voted number one on Toronto radio station 102.1 the Edge's list of Top 102 Songs of 2008.[23] This song was number 30 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.[24]

In popular culture

The song was featured in the 2009 film trailers for

Whip It!,[25][26] and is a playable downloadable song for the Rock Band video game series.[27] It is also a featured song in Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 3 and in the Spill.com
podcast "The League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen".

Music video

Diet Coke and Mentos eruptions
in the music video

The

Dancing Baby, DoctorLegua's dancing CGI Donald Duck and gorillas,[31] and the hoax UFO sighting in Haiti. Dan Dzoan, former world record holder for solving a Rubik's Cube with one hand in 17.90 seconds, was present for the shooting but does not appear in the video, though there are Rubik's Cubes in the video, and Dan is present in another video posted by Weezer to YouTube.[30] Neil Cicierega's Potter Puppet Pals were slated to be in the video but were left out due to problems with shipments of props. A mock-up of the Dumbledore puppet can be seen in the video nonetheless.[32]

Tay Zonday was one of the multiple YouTube stars who appeared in the video.

The video shares some thematic similarities with the music video for the

Video Music Awards[38] and for Favorite Online Sensation at the 35th People's Choice Awards.[39] The video won a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video at the 51st Grammy Awards Show.[4]

On June 2, 2008, a video of an acoustic version of the song, with Brian Bell on guitar and Tay Zonday on vocals, was released on Weezer's official YouTube channel.[40]

On January 12, 2009, a

Badger Badger Badger", Little Superstar, Philippine prison inmates dancing to "Thriller", Leeroy Jenkins, Ronald Jenkees, BigDog, Ask a Ninja, Back Dorm Boys, Line Rider, "I Like Turtles", Techno Viking, and Pickle Surprise, and ends with the viewer being rickrolled.[42]

Track list

Radio only promo CD

  1. "Pork and Beans" – 3:09

UK retail CD

  1. "Pork and Beans" – 3:09
  2. "
    Are 'Friends' Electric?" – 5:24 (Tubeway Army
    cover)

UK retail 7″ #1

  1. "Pork and Beans" – 3:09
  2. "Love My Way" (The Psychedelic Furs cover)

UK retail 7″ #2

  1. "Pork and Beans" – 3:09
  2. "Oddfellows Local 151" (R.E.M. cover)

Personnel

Weezer
Additional personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[43] 95
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Wallonia)[44] 23
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[45] 29
Canada
Rock (Billboard)[46]
 4
European Hot 100
 92
Irish Singles Chart[47] 42
UK Singles (OCC)[48]
 33
US Billboard Hot 100[49] 64
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[50] 33
US
Adult Alternative Songs (Billboard)[51]
 25
US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[52] 1
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[53] 25
US Pop 100 70
Venezuela Pop Rock (Record Report)[54] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (2008) Position
Canada Rock (Radio & Records)[55] 18
US Alternative Songs (Billboard)[56] 3

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