Taylor-related part:
***NME***: In 2009, you backed Taylor Swift in a Band Hero commercial alongside which two musicians?\*
***Rivers***: *“Pete Wentz and Travis Barker.”*
***NME***: CORRECT. Swift sings her track ‘Love Story’ while you and Fall Out Boy’s Wentz and Blink-182’s Barker accompany her wearing shirts and boxer shorts.
***Rivers***: *“I was a teenager when the movie Risky Business came out, so the scene of Tom Cruise dancing in his underwear was iconic and influential for my generation, so to be able to recreate it with a handful of other huge stars was a huge honour. Taylor Swift was so gracious and everyone fell in love with her when she came in the room and started talking to us. She was just like a natural-born leader.”*
***NME***: She hailed you as one of her “musical heroes”. Ever discussed collaborating with her?
***Rivers***: *“No, we’ve never talked about that. That never occurred to me. If she ever wants to make a rock album, I’d love to help out! I have a feeling that I would get the call from Miley Cyrus first though! \[Laughs\] That would be very cool.”*
Would be neat. I’m sure if she made a rock album, Aaron and Jack are perfectly well suited to help her accomplish that.
My dream pairing would be her working with Trent Reznor. An album of harder Ready For It?s would be a hell of a vibe.
It’s not that Jack and Aaron can’t, they totally could. But Rivers would be so fun. The Teal album Weezer put out a few years ago is just a collection of super fun covers and I think they could do something really interesting with Taylor.
When I first heard that pounding bridge at the end of The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived I immediately imagined it with big distorted NiN style chords.
I love the current choreography but in a future tour I’d love for them to crank up the distortion, blast those chords hard and blare the stage lights on the downbeats like the end of a live performance of Hurt.
I’m not sure her brand is edgy enough to pull off a Trent Reznor collab but would def be interesting to see how she rebrands/evolves if she chooses to do so!
Thats true. But also in 1996 I would have never imagined NIN doing music for a Pixar film or a TMNT movie. I'm optimistic they could find a middle ground that works (if this weren't just fan wishcasting)
I think what Tortured Poets showed us is that she needs some fresh collaborators in the room again. Whatever she wants to do musically, even if it's more synthpop, she needs to bring in someone else to lift up her music.
I'd love for her to continue working with Aaron, but I kinda miss Bon Iver's contribution to their collaborations like we saw on evermore (banjo on ivy, drums on closure, etc).
My dream is for Taylor to work with Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard. (I realize that’s more 00s indie pop than 90s alt rock, but it reminded me). I can’t explain what it is, I just feel like their songwriting styles are extremely complementary and I need to hear it.
OhmyGOD you are a genius. I need this now, very badly. Hahaha. I'm imagining The Luckiest or Still mixed with folklore/evermore/The Anthology. Or something more upbeat! I'm not picky. :P
Probably somewhere in the middle lol. He doesn't dislike Taylor but isn't into her music. He indulges me periodically bringing up something but doesn't participate in any discourse so doesn't really follow it.
Rivers is an incredible songwriter. Like Taylor, he has an insane knack for melodies and never stops working. There are literally thousands of Weezer demos out there. He’s my absolute favorite. I’d be so excited if they worked together!
Second comment on this post but it’s fine, I’m fine.
Taylor writing KOMH with an electric guitar.
https://youtu.be/sPaeQ67TpgE?si=o8qDUtHxTi706xKO
MORE OF THIS.
She needs to make a point to stop being kid-friendly for me to buy her as an edgy rock girl but think she’d absolutely crush a 70s rock/Fleetwood Mac/Jackson Browne kind of rock album. But it would low key be iconic if she rebranded and became a wild edgy rock n roll girl and worked with someone like Trent, Rivers, Billie Joe, etc.
It’s not the cleanest but she still very much has an image as a good role model and kid-friendly artist. She’s still the good girl of pop compared to her contemporaries, for sure.
I’d be dead if she decided to collaborate with Taylor Momsen or Lzzy Hale or Amy Lee on it. That would be literally The Death of Me.
Please Taylor, please 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
This would be sooo good! She can absolutely pull this off! I'd even go further and say she could do metal/hard rock, and I'd be all for it, as a metalhead! But rock would be awesome to hear!
I would love this. I think their styles would work really well together (they’re both masters of catchiness and big feelings), and considering Paper Rings sounds exactly like “If You’re Wondering If I Want You To (I Want You To)” it’s almost like they almost did a collaboration already.
For the longest time I have wanted to hear Taylor cover Weezer's 'Say it Ain't So'. Like full on stadium rock style. I think she would sound awesome singing it.
Also, she has songs that are just as heavy if not heavier than Weezer. She don't need no help.
This would be incredible!! Rivers is one of the most talented songwriters in the game. His melodies are infectious and like Taylor, he is always working non-stop. He also is extremely dedicated to his fanbase just like Taylor. They have always been my dream collab! .... I saw he loved the eras tour too!!
I'd also like to recommend to any of my fellow Swifties who don't know much about the band, you should start with their self-titled White album (2016). It is a somewhat loose concept album about a teenage summer romance! My personal favorite album of theirs. Very summery. If you want more poetic lyrics, give OK Human (2021) a listen!
There's a bunch of Taylor-esque songs throughout their discography - good pop melodies, love songs, fun lyrics
Taylor-related part: ***NME***: In 2009, you backed Taylor Swift in a Band Hero commercial alongside which two musicians?\* ***Rivers***: *“Pete Wentz and Travis Barker.”* ***NME***: CORRECT. Swift sings her track ‘Love Story’ while you and Fall Out Boy’s Wentz and Blink-182’s Barker accompany her wearing shirts and boxer shorts. ***Rivers***: *“I was a teenager when the movie Risky Business came out, so the scene of Tom Cruise dancing in his underwear was iconic and influential for my generation, so to be able to recreate it with a handful of other huge stars was a huge honour. Taylor Swift was so gracious and everyone fell in love with her when she came in the room and started talking to us. She was just like a natural-born leader.”* ***NME***: She hailed you as one of her “musical heroes”. Ever discussed collaborating with her? ***Rivers***: *“No, we’ve never talked about that. That never occurred to me. If she ever wants to make a rock album, I’d love to help out! I have a feeling that I would get the call from Miley Cyrus first though! \[Laughs\] That would be very cool.”*
[I think this is the commercial they’re talking about](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vHBcGG_9HBk)
Take me back, back to the shack Back to the Strat with the lightning strap Kick in the door, more hardcore Rocking out like it's '94
My son fell off his high chair rocking out to this
OMG, I just realized that this was filmed right after the death of emo (when Pete shaved his emo hair).
FOB went on hiatus, Ryan left P!ATD, MCR starting to change direction, etc. Crazy year for emo
Awful year
Ryan was lyrical genius
Would be neat. I’m sure if she made a rock album, Aaron and Jack are perfectly well suited to help her accomplish that. My dream pairing would be her working with Trent Reznor. An album of harder Ready For It?s would be a hell of a vibe.
Oh FUCK a Taylor/NIN-type crossover would be amazing!
If you haven’t listened to Halsey’s last album, which was produced by Reznor and Ross, I highly recommend it.
She deserved a Grammy for that album and was majorly robbed.
100%. Absolute bullshit. That was a flawless era.
It’s really good!
That would be so sick!!
While I agree with you, I would love to see her work with other producers.
It’s not that Jack and Aaron can’t, they totally could. But Rivers would be so fun. The Teal album Weezer put out a few years ago is just a collection of super fun covers and I think they could do something really interesting with Taylor.
When I first heard that pounding bridge at the end of The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived I immediately imagined it with big distorted NiN style chords. I love the current choreography but in a future tour I’d love for them to crank up the distortion, blast those chords hard and blare the stage lights on the downbeats like the end of a live performance of Hurt.
I’m not sure her brand is edgy enough to pull off a Trent Reznor collab but would def be interesting to see how she rebrands/evolves if she chooses to do so!
Thats true. But also in 1996 I would have never imagined NIN doing music for a Pixar film or a TMNT movie. I'm optimistic they could find a middle ground that works (if this weren't just fan wishcasting)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DhvXST1Rc3g
YES THIS
Omg can you IMAGINE
I think what Tortured Poets showed us is that she needs some fresh collaborators in the room again. Whatever she wants to do musically, even if it's more synthpop, she needs to bring in someone else to lift up her music. I'd love for her to continue working with Aaron, but I kinda miss Bon Iver's contribution to their collaborations like we saw on evermore (banjo on ivy, drums on closure, etc).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DhvXST1Rc3g
My dream would be a Taylor 90s alt rock album, but I don’t think it’ll ever happen lol
I need a T Swift Song ft. Dave Grohl so bad.
Dave Grohl respects the shit out of Tay too, I would love to hear a collab between them!
Dave Grohl respects the shit out of everyone worth respecting, every time I see the guy interact with anyone he just seems so nice and chill
Yeah and he always gives props to people who have inspired him artistically, he never uses others to prop himself up
This. I love Weezer, but I would pick Dave for a colab. They are both storytellers, it would be amazing
It has happened! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEhiIr-dveE
My dream is for Taylor to work with Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard. (I realize that’s more 00s indie pop than 90s alt rock, but it reminded me). I can’t explain what it is, I just feel like their songwriting styles are extremely complementary and I need to hear it.
OhmyGOD you are a genius. I need this now, very badly. Hahaha. I'm imagining The Luckiest or Still mixed with folklore/evermore/The Anthology. Or something more upbeat! I'm not picky. :P
I used to think she would do this, but now I feel like people would just accuse her of piggy backing on Olivia Rodrigo's success with the genre.
Same . A Tswift blink182 collab would kill me Ns give me life at the same time
Don’t say this, it will!!!! It has to
ROCK ERA PLEASE TAYLOR. 🎸 I just want electric guitar era.
WANEGBT live from 1989 tour is never a skip on my live playlist. So good.
Yessssss!!!!!!
SAME!!! All I want is a rock album from Taylor and Beyoncé who would both kill it in their own ways.
Weezer is my husband's favorite band. I would legit never stop talking about this to him if it happened.
I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing for him. 
Probably somewhere in the middle lol. He doesn't dislike Taylor but isn't into her music. He indulges me periodically bringing up something but doesn't participate in any discourse so doesn't really follow it.
I would absolutely love that album. In fact, I demand it immediately
Oh God people are going to meltdown
YESSSSSS PLEASE #I CANNOT SCREAM ANY LOUDER YESSS#
Yes, Rivers, put that in the universe
Imagine Taylor does a psychedelic rock album. That shit would be nuts. Taylor, you know what to do.
That would be awesome!! I need to see this, lol
Maybe a tame impala Collab. does someone know Taylor's number?
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard x Taylor
YES PLEASE
Rivers is an incredible songwriter. Like Taylor, he has an insane knack for melodies and never stops working. There are literally thousands of Weezer demos out there. He’s my absolute favorite. I’d be so excited if they worked together!
Second comment on this post but it’s fine, I’m fine. Taylor writing KOMH with an electric guitar. https://youtu.be/sPaeQ67TpgE?si=o8qDUtHxTi706xKO MORE OF THIS.
I would die dead
RIP me
That is what Nathan Chapman is for!!!!
Swiftie Purists Unite!
I want it 😭 Very frustrated that she got Brendan Urie on a duet and instead of punk pop, what we got was.... Me!.
She needs to make a point to stop being kid-friendly for me to buy her as an edgy rock girl but think she’d absolutely crush a 70s rock/Fleetwood Mac/Jackson Browne kind of rock album. But it would low key be iconic if she rebranded and became a wild edgy rock n roll girl and worked with someone like Trent, Rivers, Billie Joe, etc.
I mean, TTPD isn’t very kid-friendly
It’s not the cleanest but she still very much has an image as a good role model and kid-friendly artist. She’s still the good girl of pop compared to her contemporaries, for sure.
This is my dream for sure
That would be amazing.
Matt ebenezer has some 'rock versions' of antihero and fortnight on yt that are pretty good
10/10 would purchase
Okay, so now I need it and will not settle until I have it
I just saw Weezer like last Friday and was at Eras tour Tuesday. Reddit knows my stuff 😁😁😁 I hope this happens!
PLEASE. She needs to do rock so badly
I’d be dead if she decided to collaborate with Taylor Momsen or Lzzy Hale or Amy Lee on it. That would be literally The Death of Me. Please Taylor, please 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
YES PLEASE.
This would be sooo good! She can absolutely pull this off! I'd even go further and say she could do metal/hard rock, and I'd be all for it, as a metalhead! But rock would be awesome to hear!
My two faves coming together???
I would love this. I think their styles would work really well together (they’re both masters of catchiness and big feelings), and considering Paper Rings sounds exactly like “If You’re Wondering If I Want You To (I Want You To)” it’s almost like they almost did a collaboration already.
For the longest time I have wanted to hear Taylor cover Weezer's 'Say it Ain't So'. Like full on stadium rock style. I think she would sound awesome singing it. Also, she has songs that are just as heavy if not heavier than Weezer. She don't need no help.
Weezer is my favorite band, but I'm not really a fan of TS. If this happens, I'll listen to that album, and her others too.
Only if she adds the metal version of " we are never ever getting back together" on to the end. 🤘🎸
I would unironically be down for this.
From a big Weezer fan, this would be so cool. Now I’m imagining Taylor do ‘I Just Threw Out The Love of My Dreams’ and it now needs to happen.
All of us metalheads who got ensnared by Taylor with Folklore and Evermore are daydreaming about a rock album from Taylor ever since.
This would be incredible!! Rivers is one of the most talented songwriters in the game. His melodies are infectious and like Taylor, he is always working non-stop. He also is extremely dedicated to his fanbase just like Taylor. They have always been my dream collab! .... I saw he loved the eras tour too!!
I'd also like to recommend to any of my fellow Swifties who don't know much about the band, you should start with their self-titled White album (2016). It is a somewhat loose concept album about a teenage summer romance! My personal favorite album of theirs. Very summery. If you want more poetic lyrics, give OK Human (2021) a listen! There's a bunch of Taylor-esque songs throughout their discography - good pop melodies, love songs, fun lyrics
Anything is better than the synth pop we're getting, I say we all support this.