Weezer released today the first single from their next album, Ok human. The video clip for “All My Favorite Songs” features a surprising number of Google Pixel 5 devices in what is presumably a promotion.
The first frame of the video is Rivers Cuomo sliding on a Sorta Sage Pixel 5. A bandmate finally stops him and starts filming “All My Favorite Songs”. “Ok Google, record a video” starts, with the latest Google camera app clearly visible. The opening moments also feature the new Google Assistant and Pixel Launcher with custom band wallpaper.
About two minutes after the start of the video, Pixel 5 makes another appearance in a pseudo-AR moment. Once again, the rear of the flagship Made by Google is shown very clearly, even the glossy “G” logo on the rear.
Near the end, all Weezer members are shown holding the phone while playing absently. This scene contains at least six Pixel smartphones. This one technology addicted motive comes as the next album, available on January 29, is “made by a handful of humans using only analog technologies (including an orchestra of 38 instruments) for all of you humans to consume.”
Ok human it was done at a time when humans playing instruments was a thing of the past. All we could do is look back to ancient times, when humans really mattered and when the dark fantasy of technology acquisition did not exist.
We used our instruments to connect with the 1960s and 1970s and, with the orchestra, back to the 18th and 19th centuries. We had no click range, loops or high-tech sounds. Not even an electric guitar.
It is unclear whether Google was involved in supplying the Pixel 5 devices seen in this new video from Weezer. There is no mention of the company’s involvement in the end credits or YouTube description.
Comes after the Google Photos parody of “Photograph” by Nickelback, an official collaboration released last year, and there was, of course, the time when a Pixel 3 appeared in Avengers: Endgame.
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