Music

Here's Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" except with "It's Been" instead of instruments

by Luke Ottenhof

Look, it’s almost 2017, and I’m as sick as you of articles starting with little sarcastic, try-hard anecdotes about this year. But if there’s any evidence of the extremes that the past 12 months have pushed us to, it’s the fact that someone made this: a remix of Barenaked Ladies’ 1998 gem, “One Week,” except with all instruments scrubbed out, replaced instead by the iconic opening words: “it’s been.” Someone literally took the time to properly pitch and edit these two words into guitar, bass, and drums for the track. That’s what this year has driven us to.

If anyone needs me in the next two days, I’ll be locked in my room eating Ferrero Rochers with this on repeat, cradling a photo of Steven Page. (ED Note: JUST GET BACK TOGETHER, GUYS. PLEASE).

H/T Stereogum