Weezer's "Pork and Beans" gives YouTube viral stars their 15:01

Check this out.  In what can only be the largest ever assemblage of viral video stars, Weezer has managed to round up an incredible guest cast for its new "Pork and Beans" video, a teaser for the band's upcoming red album -- titled "Weezer" again, which comes out June 3.

With a chorus that goes, "I'm gonna do the things that I wanna do/I ain't got a thing to prove to you," the song is a meditation on what's cool and why it's probably not worth doing it to get ahead. Certainly the viral stars in the video didn't win their seven minutes of fame by being cool.   

Here's a partial roll call -- there are a few I'm missing so feel free to fill them in: You've got Tay Zonday of Chocolate Rain, Chris Crocker of "Leave Britney Alone," the Numa Numa guy, Judson Laipply from the Evolution of Dance (YouTube's #1 video of all time), Miss South Carolina Teen USA, Daft Punk Hands, Mentos and Diet Coke guys, Liam Sullivan from "Shoes," Afro Ninja, the Dramatic Look squirrel, All Your Base Belong to Us, and, I think the beginning is an homage to funtwo's Canon in D. 

In most of the riffs, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo inserts himself into a re-enactment of each YouTube hit -- wearing a lab coat to conduct the Mentos experiment, hugging a crying Crocker, or singing along with Zonday. (Apropos of nothing, Kevin Federline also makes an appearance -- a possible nod to his own quarter-hour of fame?)  At the end, a bunch of the stars appear together on a music video set for a chaotic, mega-viral effect.

YouTube's beside itself with excitement about this one -- it's sort of like one big tribute to its early days, and it's certainly fun to watch.

Comments

[Casi]

I think the Kevin Federline appearance is because of his terrible, terrible 'PopoZau' video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=TxXLp-2J3wI