Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox gives the song a jazzy spin Finally, SNL rounded out the year by making this cover a hot topic in an “Africa”-inspired sketch. In September 2018, four months after the song debuted, the band kept up their good humor, releasing a music video for the song that not only starred Weird Al as lead singer Rivers Cuomo, but was also a clear allusion to Weezer’s music videos for their classics “Undone” and “Buddy Holly.” Weird Al also took to the stage to perform the song with Weezer on tour. Weezer covers “Africa” and includes Weird Al in the music video And the covers kept on coming.įollowing in Weezer’s footsteps, several other bands recorded standout renditions of “Africa.” From fun-poking to point-making, each of the below groups “blessed the rains.” Give them a spin - our guess is that they don’t leave your stream (online or of consciousness) anytime soon. While plays of Weezer’s cover have since tapered off, the original song stands tall, like Mt. Then, giving the fans what they wanted, Weezer dropped a cover of “Africa” that would ultimately join the streaming ranks of the band’s hit originals “Say It Ain’t So,” “Island in the Sun,” and “Beverly Hills.” The internet (or one teen on it) had actually been requesting for a year that the band cover Toto’s “Africa” via an insistent Twitter account.
Nineties alt rock standout Weezer first covered Toto’s “ Rosanna ” in May 2018, which set off an internet frenzy: Weezer had out-memed a meme. Which means that “Africa” is no longer only a fixture of classic rock playlists, but has found its way into alt and pop charts, and-surely-plenty of intergenerational family car-ride singalongs. In fact, plays of Toto’s original song doubled in 2018 from the previous year. The tune could have easily faded into the 1980s rock canon, instead, it streamed strong in 2018. The song, as synonymous with the eighties as leg warmers and The Breakfast Club, owes its resurgence to, essentially, a bit gone viral.
And if you can’t get its karaoke-ripe chorus out of your head, you’re not alone. It’s not just your imagination: Toto’s “Africa” is playing on loop.
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