On March 16, 2022, Weezer released the lead single, "A Little Bit Of Love". [12] On March 16, Cuomo used his game, Weezle (a Weezer-themed spin on the popular web game Wordle), to preview snippets of the forthcoming Spring songs. [13]

Yeah, I don’t I don’t know if it’s a strength or a weakness, but for some reason, as I’m writing, wherever you start me, it can be from from the most innocent theme, I end up veering off into something dark and weird. Cuomo, Rivers. Mr. Rivers' Neighborhood. Archived 1 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201101214010/https://www.riverscuomo.com/wall Do you work better that way? You know, announcing something, committing to do it even though you haven't done it yet? No, it’s not intentional. And I’m trying to be really straightforward and and just say what I’m feeling as I’m writing. It’s only in retrospect that I realized there’s a lot of weird turns or a lot of things that confuse or titillate or surprise people, but that wasn’t my intention. Cuomo, Rivers. Mister Rivers' Neighborhood 10 July 2021 https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:SZNS7_10_21.jpgWhat kind of reaction have you gotten from fans of yours? Sometimes, I think fans get a little too in love with what they liked about you when you started, and maybe don't like it when an artist tries to do new things. Weezer, under their Goat Punishment pseudonym, performed SZNZ: Winter in its entirety at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, California on September 19, 2022. [5] Release [ edit ] Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "SZNZ: Spring Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine". AllMusic . Retrieved March 30, 2022. Thankfully it takes everything that failed in Autumn and fixes it. The songs change tempo and time signature within their runtime but manage to be catchy and enjoyable. The lyrics are silly in the way that Weezer lyrics tend to be silly, but the emotional loneliness that is associated with cold and isolation pops up. It seems like you’ve evolved so well with a music industry that is constantly evolving and shifting.

On February 2, 2022, Cuomo shared a Google spreadsheet with fans which included the release dates, possible producers, overall emotion, spirituality tone, planned genre, and planned singles for each of the SZNZ EP. Spring's emotion was set to be optimistic sorrow. [11] The spreadsheet also included the band's look and the aesthetic era the clothes and EP are based on. Aesthetically, the band linked SZNZ: Spring to a pre-Christian era with influences from Celts, Paganism, and Wicca. On March 1, the official Weezer YouTube account reposted River's TikTok video featuring a snippet of A Little Bit of Love with the caption: "Before you know it Spring will be here 😏 #SZNS". [28] Kreps, Daniel (December 9, 2022). "Weezer Pine for Canine Companionship on New Song "I Want a Dog" ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved December 27, 2022. Also, not confirmed with any record company or manager.— Rivers Cuomo (@RiversCuomo) February 7, 2022 Some of the melodies may sound familiar; you may recognize it from like an old commercial that used a Vivaldi song or a movie or something, but I don’t know how well-known they are. They seem pretty obvious to me.Wood, Mikael. "It’s not ‘Pinkerton.’ But Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo gets pretty emo on ‘OK Human’ " Los Angeles Times. 26 January 2021. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-01-26/weezer-rivers-cuomo-ok-human Prog is alive and well, with Weezer releasing an EP that will go down in history as one of the most essential progressive records ever put to tape. Songs about wanting a dog and being bad at basketball may mislead feeble ears into thinking this is simply a childish throwaway record released by a band way past their prime that simply needs to finish their tetralogy, but that would be a foolish conclusion. This album contains red herrings to confuse those newer to more complex genres such a prog into thinking this isn't worth their time (thus gatekeeping it for us music professionals). In reality, as you can tell by the time signature changes in the 2nd half of Iambic Pentameter and the child's chorus singing about wanting to die during the epic guitar climax of The Deep and Dreamless Sleep, this album is actually really deep and complex and trained ears will understand that. We definitely went through that phase, like in the beginning of the 2000s. It was real tough. But it seems like we're surrounded by fans who are super excited about new music and they themselves are actually frustrated when they encounter other people who have closed minds [towards] the new stuff. So it feels like we've got a great, great little neighborhood around us. Elsewhere, "Basketball" is one of WEEZER'S strongest songs from the entire "SZNZ" series. In it, Cuomo tells a story of hiding from a basketball coach under the bleachers of a high school gym. With whimsical storytelling lyrics and the swagger of WEEZER'S 2008 hit, "Pork and Beans", "Basketball" is a fun ditty that drums up all kinds of nostalgia. And so considering that, are these the best of times or the worst of times to be in the music business?