Are you a 15-year-old TRL addict looking for a step up from Sum 41 and American Hi-Fi? Something you can connect to on an emotional level that won’t sacrifice that mindless accessibility you’ve been force-fed all your life? You liked the new Weezer album, didn’t you? Well, this is like that, but better! Never will Jimmy Eat World venture into “too much information” territory like that Rivers what’s-his-name and his “Hash Pipe.” You want love, happiness and “whoa’s.” You want to cruise around the housing development with the windows down, doing donuts in the cul-de-sac with your newly obtained permit, blasting music so empty and sincere even you could have written it.

Ryan Schreiber, “Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American,” Pitchfork, August 21, 2001

Yeah! Listen to Weezer, you idiots!