Tony Hawk and Christopher Mintz-Plasse stand in for Weezer in the C.E.O. video

Weezer have released the video for "C.E.O.," the latest single from their self-titled 20th studio album, The Gold Album, Pitchfork and Spin both reported on August 5. In the clip, a pair of record executives played by Rob Riggle and Rob Huebel hound Rivers Cuomo into reenacting the band's 1994 "Undone (The Sweater Song)" video, now shot on a gold-painted soundstage with Obsession's Curry Barker directing.

"People are hungry for nostalgia," Huebel's character insists, brandishing a "CEO" mug. "They want to see the old with a new twist." Bored with the band's halfhearted performance, the in-video director releases a swarm of live bees onto the set, a callback to the dogs unleashed in the original "Undone" clip, and the band walks off in protest.

The executives simply make some calls: in Weezer's place arrives a replacement band made up of Tony Hawk, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Michael Pena, Giovanni Ribisi, Dax Flame and Jay Renshaw playing an in-character version of Curry Barker's alter ego, Chit. Weezer's own memo accompanying the video kept the joke going, thanking the cast for their appearances and awarding each "the Gold Star of Excellence for exemplary performance."

The song itself finds Cuomo turning the joke inward. "Cranking out another '90s jam," he sings, "wish I could do something new, but nobody wants to hear that, they just want the classics." A spoken-word bridge recalls his earliest days making music "alone in my room playing with a Tascam 688," before Cuomo admits he has to "stop thinking like a mad professor" because "it's getting me nowhere."

"C.E.O." marks the veteran rock band's first collaboration with producers Klas Ahlund and Kenneth Blume (formerly known as Kenny Beats), and reunites Cuomo and drummer Pat Wilson as songwriting partners for the first time since Weezer's 1994 debut. The Gold Album, due August 21 and tracked in the release calendar, follows two earlier singles, "We Might as Well Be Strangers," a duet with Wednesday's Karly Hartzman, and "Shine Again."

Alongside the video, Weezer expanded its 2027 Gathering world tour with newly announced UK, European and Japanese dates, joining a previously confirmed 32-date North American arena run this fall with support from the Shins and Silversun Pickups; Taking Back Sunday will join the overseas leg.