Ongoing History Daily: The Weezer song that was inspired by an all-female top 40 group

Sometime around 2004, Rivers Cuomo went to see a concert at the Hollywood Bowl. As he flipped through the night’s program, he saw a picture of Wilson Phillips, the all-female pop group that had some massive hit singles over the previous decade.

All the members of the group were daughters of famous and rich musicians. For reasons he can’t explain, Rivers started thinking about how cool it would have been to be married to someone like that, an “established” celebrity with a home in the best part of town with all that money. He was genuinely wistful.

But when the resulting song finally came out, it turned out sarcastic and funny, which wasn’t the original intent. Just as well because “Beverly Hills” became a major single from Weezer’s Make Believe album.