You did write it and it is a great song.'" Bassist Matt Sharp recalled: "Ric said we'd be stupid to leave it off the album. Do it anyway, and if you don't like it when it's done, we won't use it.
In the book River's Edge, Ocasek is quoted saying: "I remember at one point he was hesitant to do 'Buddy Holly' and I was like, 'Rivers, we can talk about it. Producer Ric Ocasek persuaded him to include it. He originally planned to exclude it from the album he felt it was "cheesy" and perhaps did not represent the sound he was pursuing for Weezer. Songwriter Rivers Cuomo wrote "Buddy Holly" after his friends made fun of his Asian girlfriend. VH1 ranked it as one of the 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s at number 59 in December 2007.
The digital version of the single for "Buddy Holly" was certified gold by the RIAA in 2006. But the song moved up 15 spots to number 484 in the 2021 update. Rolling Stone ranked "Buddy Holly" number 499 in its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2010), dropping it 2 spots down from number 497 (2004). The song also reached number six in Canada, number 12 in the United Kingdom, number 13 in Iceland and number 14 in Sweden. It reached number two and number 34 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, respectively. The lyrics reference the song's 1950s namesake and actress Mary Tyler Moore. The song was written by Rivers Cuomo and released as the second single from the band's debut album, Weezer ( The Blue Album) on September 7, 1994, which would have been Buddy Holly's 58th birthday. Weezer – O Girlfriend – 3:49 (1056 kbps, 28." Buddy Holly" is a song by American rock band Weezer.Conversely, Rivers Cuomo’s twisted genius makes its way onto the anxious and paranoid “Hash Pipe” and the jittery “Glorious Days,” making the “Green Album” the most absorbing and rounded vision from these pop masters yet. In fact, one could say they’re almost as green as Green Day, especially on “Knockdown Dragout.” At their best, Weezer show such boundless energy and gleeful aplomb that you’d swear you were listening to a lost Badfinger album. On their third album (self-titled, like their first, but referred to as the “Green Album”), the band makes a concentrated effort to return to anthemic ’60s punky pop, demonstrating that, for Weezer at least, it’s rather easy being green. Their sophomore release turned its back on the band’s clean-cut debut, with a thrash approach more influenced by Sabbath and Kiss than the Beach Boys. Weezer, those geek rockers who topped mid-’90s charts with those oh-so-precious pop fables “Undone (The Sweater Song)” and “Buddy Holly,” were almost undone by 1997’s bombastic Pinkerton.
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