after over two decades of ups downs and
thoroughly catchy music this staple band
and the Canadian music scene is once
again ready to rock it’s not not high
brouwers harder anything it’s just off
the cuff and fun hi I’m Rebecca Braden
and welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re speaking with the barenaked ladies
about how they keep it fresh tell us
about the importance of improv to the
barenaked ladies if I hit a ton of
spontaneity and any prob in the live
shows I think that’s what makes it
that’s what makes the show unique and
that’s what makes it fun for us because
we never know what’s gonna happen many
reviews that we’ve seen lately I’ve been
mentioning some of the improv bits and
say oh they must have rehearsed that but
it’s new it’s never rehearsed it’s
something we just are good at doing
after by doing it for 20 years when you
look back on songs like one week or if I
had a million dollars what do they
represent for you now number
I fine
if I had a million dollars of song we
played every night for 20 years but the
audience reaction to it and the fun and
spontaneity and it just keeps it fresh
many songs like one week we totally
reinvented we played it as a bluegrass
song for a while we’ve gone back to
playing it more rock good news I mean
that’s kind of our philosophy is if
we’re bored of it we don’t do it
otherwise we change it there are certain
songs big hits that I think people want
to hear when they come to the show so we
find ways to make them fun for us and
sometimes that’s through reinvention and
sometimes it’s just living the song
through the audience tell us about the
new album we’ll start by talking about
the album art it’s a little more somber
than what you had been doing previously
what were you trying to convey with that
image well the last three records that
we’ve done have been sort of more
cartoonish drawings oriented and I think
on this record we wanted to show where
this group was right now who was in it
and sort of give a a real visual
reference point and what about the music
what were you trying to go for on the
new album I think we just tried to be
daring on this record and not not do
anything because of people’s
expectations just serve the song and
make a great sounding record we’d sort
of developed this unwritten rule book
when we were in the studio of how things
went and we were able to discard that a
little bit and reinvent things and also
with this new tour with reinventing the
old songs sort of it’s been refreshing
now you guys were earlier adopters of
you know Facebook Twitter that kind of
thing tell us about how these types of
social media affect your relationship
with the fans it’s bizarre I mean I
remember being a huge music fan as a
teenager and never had any desire or
expectation to have any contact with the
people I was a fan out you know I joined
their fan club and I got press clippings
mailed to me and I was totally stoked
about that now people think that it’s
ludicrous that we don’t respond to every
single Twitter they focused enough so
the contact is great because we can
reach our fan base very instantaneously
but sometimes the expectation of
communication and a direct relationship
is pretty overwhelming the other night
we were thinking we have way too many
baked goods you know if you had some
fans that keep bringing us cookies and
so Tyler who is our resident tweeter
tweeted thank you very much but without
enough cookies you know why we have
those why cuz Jim tweeted that he wanted
people to bake us stuff Syria there you
go then Twitter two cookies yeah I did
my best
now
thoroughly catchy music this staple band
and the Canadian music scene is once
again ready to rock it’s not not high
brouwers harder anything it’s just off
the cuff and fun hi I’m Rebecca Braden
and welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re speaking with the barenaked ladies
about how they keep it fresh tell us
about the importance of improv to the
barenaked ladies if I hit a ton of
spontaneity and any prob in the live
shows I think that’s what makes it
that’s what makes the show unique and
that’s what makes it fun for us because
we never know what’s gonna happen many
reviews that we’ve seen lately I’ve been
mentioning some of the improv bits and
say oh they must have rehearsed that but
it’s new it’s never rehearsed it’s
something we just are good at doing
after by doing it for 20 years when you
look back on songs like one week or if I
had a million dollars what do they
represent for you now number
I fine
if I had a million dollars of song we
played every night for 20 years but the
audience reaction to it and the fun and
spontaneity and it just keeps it fresh
many songs like one week we totally
reinvented we played it as a bluegrass
song for a while we’ve gone back to
playing it more rock good news I mean
that’s kind of our philosophy is if
we’re bored of it we don’t do it
otherwise we change it there are certain
songs big hits that I think people want
to hear when they come to the show so we
find ways to make them fun for us and
sometimes that’s through reinvention and
sometimes it’s just living the song
through the audience tell us about the
new album we’ll start by talking about
the album art it’s a little more somber
than what you had been doing previously
what were you trying to convey with that
image well the last three records that
we’ve done have been sort of more
cartoonish drawings oriented and I think
on this record we wanted to show where
this group was right now who was in it
and sort of give a a real visual
reference point and what about the music
what were you trying to go for on the
new album I think we just tried to be
daring on this record and not not do
anything because of people’s
expectations just serve the song and
make a great sounding record we’d sort
of developed this unwritten rule book
when we were in the studio of how things
went and we were able to discard that a
little bit and reinvent things and also
with this new tour with reinventing the
old songs sort of it’s been refreshing
now you guys were earlier adopters of
you know Facebook Twitter that kind of
thing tell us about how these types of
social media affect your relationship
with the fans it’s bizarre I mean I
remember being a huge music fan as a
teenager and never had any desire or
expectation to have any contact with the
people I was a fan out you know I joined
their fan club and I got press clippings
mailed to me and I was totally stoked
about that now people think that it’s
ludicrous that we don’t respond to every
single Twitter they focused enough so
the contact is great because we can
reach our fan base very instantaneously
but sometimes the expectation of
communication and a direct relationship
is pretty overwhelming the other night
we were thinking we have way too many
baked goods you know if you had some
fans that keep bringing us cookies and
so Tyler who is our resident tweeter
tweeted thank you very much but without
enough cookies you know why we have
those why cuz Jim tweeted that he wanted
people to bake us stuff Syria there you
go then Twitter two cookies yeah I did
my best
now
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