Why did the Home windows 95 CD have a Weezer music video on it?
Why did the Home windows 95 CD have additional enjoyable stuff, just like the “Good Instances” and “Buddy Holly” music movies, the Rob Roy trailer, and the cartoons by Invoice Plympton? As a result of it was enjoyable! Why does one need to justify having enjoyable? Along with the multimedia enjoyable, there was additionally online game enjoyable, with the addition of Pinball and the mercifully-forgotten hovercraft sport Hover! (A few of us thought it was so terrible, we secretly referred to as it Hoover!)
Extra lately, in February 2026, Raymond Chen wrote one other weblog submit that solutions how Microsoft received permission to incorporate the Weezer music video on the Home windows 95 set up CD.
Relating to the music itself:
First, Microsoft needed to safe the rights to the track itself, which was negotiated instantly with Weezer’s writer Geffen Information, and apparently with out the information of the band members themselves. They have been reportedly upset that they weren’t consulted however later realized that it was “one of many biggest issues that might have occurred to us. Are you able to think about that occuring right this moment? It’s like, there’s one video on YouTube, and it’s your video.”
After which relating to the music video:
The video takes place in a reconstruction of a location from the Comfortable Days tv program, and clips from that present have been spliced into the music video to create the phantasm that lots of the characters from the present have been a part of the video. The lawyer liable for securing the rights to the video needed to contact all the actors from Comfortable Days to get their permission. That lawyer completely loved the task. I don’t know whether or not he received to speak to the actors instantly, or solely to their brokers, however I can think about it being an attention-grabbing expertise looking for Henry Winkler’s phone quantity (or his agent’s phone quantity) with an opportunity of speaking to The Fonz himself.
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