As part of the avclub.com‘s ongoing HateSong feature Skeletonwitch bassist Evan Linger expressed his distaste for the Barenaked Ladies‘ 1998 hit, “One Week“. Speaking on why he hates the song, he offered:
“I did a lot of soul searching on this one. There are a lot of songs I hate, because I’m naturally a hater. I just hate this one the most. In the late ’90s, music really took a turn for the worse, grasping at the straws of all this alternative music.
s stuff like Sugar Rayre so bad. Hootie And The Blowfish: terrible. Blues Traveler“One Weekt even a rock song.
It’s a weird college-rock song with some rap in it, and it doesn’t even qualify as music. It’s sort of like a big joke, so that’s why I picked it.”
When asked to elaborate, he offered up:
“It’s the weird rap, and it’s some of the particular lyrics to the rap. Like I said before, it’s a college-rock song until the rap starts and I don’t like college rock. Plus, it’s Barenaked Ladies, and they’re the total package. They did the theme for that Big Bang Theory show and that show is terrible. Every other song they have is terrible. Have you ever seen the video?”
The full feature in question can be read at this location. The article even reached the Bareknaked Ladies themselves, who tweeted the following response:
I don’t think Evan would like this restaurant. #hateisthenewlunch #positiveliving @Skeletonwitch pic.twitter.com/SCjfvGJ7Zi
— Barenaked Ladies (@barenakedladies) November 28, 2013
