Barenaked Ladies Still Awesome, Says Barenaked Ladies Fan

A Melburnian fan of Canadian rock outfit the Barenaked Ladies has unleashed a lengthy post on Facebook "just to let all you fake Barenaked fans know" that the mid-'90s curiosities are still a band, and that circumstances among the 26-year vets are "as awesome as ever".

The masterminds behind 1998 hit single One Week, as well as — apparently — other radio-beaters The Old Apartment, Pinch Me, If I Had $1000000, and Brian Wilson, parted ways in 2009 with founding member Steven Page, who you would remember as the guy who sings most of One Week and presumably those other songs, but nonetheless soldier on to bring the fury to those somehow still in thrall to Barenaked fever.

"Barenaked Ladies are alive and well in the Year Of Our Lord 2014," the fan wrote in the truly unsettling, slightly passive-aggressive missive. "Even without Steven, they still totally rock One Week on stage, and, newsflash, a-holes: they have thirteen albums. They released an album last year. There are a lot of songs on there that are not One Week, OK, so stop asking about One Week."

"For example," the fan continued, "on their most recent straight-to-Target LP Grinning Streak, there is a track called Did I Say That Out Loud? which, with its nimbly worded reflection on the eternal struggle of brain vs mouth that we all face every day, underwritten by their famed catchy-but-just-aggressive-enough-to-worry-your-parents hooks and pop-rock sensibilities, utterly destroys anything that Steven ever wrote.

"Anyway, BNL are playing a show at the Toronto Hall of Soft Rock on August 31. Doors at 7. Please go and see them!

"...Please."