I stumbled across this nice lil’ essay by Sady Doyle on Weezer’s frontman; Rivers Cuomo. At first, I was apprehensive, i mean come on, how much can you write about a guy who plays guitar and sang songs about sweaters. Well, apparently a lot. Here’s a snippet to get you interested, the entire essay can be found here

“Perhaps no adult rock star has more enthusiastically appropriated the iconography and reference points of childhood than Rivers Cuomo. (Well. There is Kimya Dawson! But that is a different thing.) When Weezer finally did a video with the Muppets, it was not a surprise; the surprise was that Weezer hadn’t done it already, and that they didn’t also get Spike Jonze to insert them into an episode of He-Man. The result of Rivers Cuomo’s exceptionally prolonged adolescence—which only came into the public eye, mind you, when he was already twenty-four years old—was that he was a grown man who remained approachable and sympathetic to tween girls; simultaneously more powerful than you and less so, older than you and also your age. Rivers Cuomo was Justin Bieber, if it were possible to imagine Justin Bieber ever having grown a chest hair. Oh, but no, there is a better comparison: Rivers Cuomo was the Michael Cera of his generation.”

via The Awl