The second single released from Weezer’s Red Album, ‘Troublemaker’ is perhaps one of the most repetitive pieces of music you’re ever likely to come across. Both vocally and instrumentally also there is very little variation here, and the track therefore becomes quite tiresome incredibly quickly.
Weezer has written some fantastic tracks throughout the years, ‘Troublemaker’ is certainly not one of them though, and this is by no means a shining example of Weezer’s finest work.
The guitar riff is fun at first, it soon grows old though, and the chorus just isn’t strong enough for me. In places the track has potential, it never quite bursts out of the blocks though, and ‘Troublemaker’ instead just plods along without ever really doing too much to please.
I’ve always had quite a fondness for simplistic songwriting skill of quirky Rivers Cuomo, what’s displayed here with ‘Troublemaker’ just doesn’t impress me though, and Weezer can quite frankly just do so much better than this.
Label: Geffen
Release Date: November 24th 2008
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