Pitchfork: Weezer Team Up With Kenny G, Chamillionaire, Sara Bareilles
Weezer: Still finding ways to surprise us! Branded Snuggies? Lil Wayne guest verses? Letting Dwight from "The Office" name their album? These are all one thing. But becoming the first even vaguely credible rock band to embrace Kenny G? Well, that's another thing entirely. Next to this, Ween's David Sanborn collab seems positively pedestrian.
Yesterday, the band taped five songs for a future edition of AOL Sessions at AOL's Beverly Hills studio, as Spinner reports. They brought a few surprise guests with them: thinking man's Flo Rida Chamillionaire, "I'm not gonna write you a love song" chick Sara Bareilles, and, yes, Kenny G, the frizzy-haired smooth jazz goblin who made the 90s an infinitely shittier time to be alive.
Said Kenny G: "I don't know anything about Weezer-- nothing. I've heard the name, but I never knew any of their songs [except] some song about a sweater... with the wool coming apart?" Oh, Kenny G.
During the AOL Session, Kenny G played an improvised solo on his horrible little saxophone thing during Weezer's "I'm Your Daddy". Chamillionaire filled in for Lil Wayne on "Can't Stop Partying". Bareilles helped out on the single "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To". (According to Spinner, Weezer recruited Bareilles for an acoustic duet version of "I Want You To", which they recently shot a video for, and will perform together tonight on "Jimmy Kimmel Live".) Weezer also played an acoustic cover of Green Day's "Brain Stew".
Weezer Team Up With Kenny G.!
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