There are more news about Weezer, as their upcoming eighth album will have actor Jorge Garcia (‘Hurley’ from the series ‘Lost’) on the cover, according to Spinner which spoke to Rivers Cuomo. This is what the Weezer man said to Spinner:
‘We struggled super hard trying to come up with an album title, trying to find some kind of phrase that summed up the whole aesthetic behind the album: ‘Heavy Mental,’ ‘Smaller Than Life, I was coming up with all kinds of stuff, but ultimately, we just went with some random word that doesn’t really have anything to do with anything. I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia — it just had this amazing vibe. We didn’t want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as ‘the Hurley record’ even if left it without that title, so we just called it ‘Hurley.’ No words are on the cover because all we wanted was his amazing face.’
OK, that’s so random, and at the same time that’s so Rivers Cuomo! There is no connection with the actor or the ‘Lost’ series and the album, and Cuomo said he didn’t even watch the show until meeting Garcia a month ago.
The cover of ‘Raditude’ was not exciting (a jumping hatted dog in a funky living room) but this cover is going to top everything on the randomness scale.
If you are a Weezer fan, go to Spinner.com, you will be able to download a picture of Cuomo and Garcia, edit it the way you want and submit it before Friday 13th. Rivers’ favorite ones will be autographed and sent back to the winners.