If you've been helping him write a sawng, you know Rivers Cuomo loves YouTube. But as guitarist Scott Shriner recently revealed to Buzznet, Weezer's video for first single "Pork and Beans" takes the band's viral obsession to a new level.



As if "Pork and Beans" weren't already awesome enough, the video (which dropped on YouTube this morning) features cameos from "Rain"-man Tay Zonday, emotional Britney Spears defender Chris Crocker, "Shoes" singer Kelly (OMG!) and even Kevin Federline — bopping his head along to the band's latest jam. And that's not all ... It kicks off iSight style, with the band rocking out for their laptop cameras before three minutes of hitting the YouTube LOL-jackpot — managing to make fun of All Your Base Are Belong To Us, overdubbed "G.I. Joe" clips, the Soulja Boy dance and the Star Wars Kid — and that's barely scratching the surface.

Starting way back with "Buddy Holly," the Weezer music video tradition is unquestionable, but this might be the greatest of all. Fitting for a band whose new album has a track called "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" (which Shriner called Weezer's "Bohemian Rhapsody" [The famous Queen track]). As previously reported, the The Red Album is due June 3 (check out the track list), pushed up from its original June 24 date, perhaps in response to the bulk of the album leaking online.

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-David Greenwald