One Week (song)

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"One Week"
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from the album Stunt
B-side"When You Dream"
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LabelReprise
[[Songwriter|SongwriterTemplate:Pluralize from text]]Ed Robertson
[[Record producer|ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text]]
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"One Week" is a song by Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies released as the first single from their 1998 album, Stunt. It was written by Ed Robertson, who is featured on the lead vocal of the rapped verses. Steven Page sings lead on the song's main hooks, while the two co-lead the pre-hooks in harmony. The song is notable for its significant number of pop culture references (along with foods and places) and remains the band's best-known song in the United States, where it topped the Billboard Hot 100. Coincidentally, when the song reached No. 1 on that chart, it remained in the top spot for one week.

In Canada, "One Week" reached No. 3 on the RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart, while worldwide, the song peaked within the top 10 of the charts in Iceland and the United Kingdom. The band has not equaled this level of US chart success since, though singles "It's All Been Done", from the same album, and "Pinch Me", from their subsequent album Maroon, both broke the top 50 of the US Hot 100. Apple used the song at MacWorld 1999 for presenting Mac OS X Server on a wall of 50 iMacs.[8][9]

History

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Ed Robertson wrote the ideas for the non-rap "hooks" with the concept being the structure of a fight where the protagonist knows they're wrong and is just trying to save face. Robertson wanted to come up with a rapped verse for the song but all attempts failed. Bandmate Steven Page suggested he simply improvise the rap, as the two did onstage every night. Robertson heeded the advice and set up a video camera. He improvised the song at a slower pace to make rhyming easier and arrived at about four minutes of rap. He sent it to Page, who told him not to change a word. Two minutes of the improvising was almost directly compiled (with very little, if any, tweaking) into the verses of the song. Due to its improvised nature, the rapped sections are not intended to have any direct relation to the plot of the sung sections. The lyrics in the liner notes from Stunt contain some additional lines of rap that did not make it into the recorded version.

Band members have stated that the first live run-through of "One Week" did not go well and that it took some time to get the song to sound good live. The instrumental parts are played by band members, notably Ed Robertson on guitar, and Kevin Hearn sometimes on guitar and sometimes on keyboards; as well, while Hearn was away from touring shortly after the song's release, his place at shows was taken by one of two other musicians on keyboards who each added their own unique parts to the song, helping to shape its live sound early.

The song is rife with references to pop culture, food, drink, activities, and places. References include the comic book Aquaman, Toronto-based eatery Swiss Chalet, East Asian foods sushi and wasabi, US rapper Busta Rhymes, country singer LeAnn Rimes, German music composer Bert Kaempfert, vanilla milkshakes, the film Vertigo, hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest's song "Scenario", sci-fi series The X-Files and its character, The Smoking Man, the film Frantic and its movie star Harrison Ford, British musician Sting, tantric sex, confectionery brand Snickers (and its then-slogan "Guaranteed to satisfy"), East Asian filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, golf clubs, anime series Sailor Moon, sports venue Birchmount Stadium and its annual Robbie International Soccer Tournament.[10] Due to the song's pop culture references and fast-paced, nearly rapped vocals, it is similar in style to "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" by the band Reunion.

In performances beginning in 2003, the band developed an acoustic, bluegrass version of the song (released five years later). It is typically used in a new performance setting they developed on the Peepshow Tour that year, in which they play acoustically while they stand around and sing into one omni-directional microphone. With the departure of Page in January 2009, Hearn has assumed lead vocal duties on most hooks. Hearn often sings the hooks together with drummer Tyler Stewart, who also performs the harmonies during the bridge. Both the third, final hooks and the following, ending part of the song are sung by Robertson, along with Stewart's harmonizing.

Critical reception

AllMusic's Liana Jonas called the song, "a well-crafted recording, which marries words that are funny and endearing with clever and bouncy music. Added kudos must be given to Robertson and co-frontman Steven Page for singing such a speedy mouthful without skipping a beat."[11]

Music video

The music video was directed by McG[12] and begins with the band performing the song in a royal court, featuring a singing girl on a wind-up pedestal (portrayed by Kiva Dawson), similar to a scene from the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. During the interlude they make an escape and sing while driving a lookalike of the General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard (using the numbers 07 instead of 01, minus the Confederate flag on the roof, and a 1968 rather than 1969 model year) and Starsky & HutchTemplate:'s Ford Gran Torino. The band drives into a suburb, where they perform a concert in front of a 1950s bus, with a female motorcyclist, dressed like Evel Knievel, performing stunts. The video ends with a shot of the motorcyclist stuck on a tree. The video features Carmit Bachar from The Pussycat Dolls playing an angel.[12]

Track listings

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Personnel

Charts

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Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[37] Gold 35,000 
New Zealand (RMNZ)[38] Platinum 0 
United Kingdom (BPI)[39] Platinum 600,000 

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
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 Reprise [40]
Canada June 9, 1998 Radio [40]
United States July 21, 1998 Contemporary hit radio [41]
September 15, 1998 CD [1]
Canada [42]
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  • CD
  • cassette
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Japan February 24, 1999 CD [44]

"One Week" appears as a recurring element of the mashup album Mouth Moods by American musician Neil Cicierega.[45]

The song was used in a 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer commercial in which a number of young people sing along with the song as it presumably plays on the radio and they drive around a parking structure.[46]

It was used in Digimon: The Movie[47] and subsequently featured on its original motion picture soundtrack.[48] The song was also featured in the 1999 comedy films American Pie and 10 Things I Hate About You

The song was also featured in the What We Do in the Shadows episode, "The Wellness Center".[49]

References

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