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WatchMojo chats with Ed and Kevin from Barenaked Ladies to learn about their album, All in Good Time.

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Barenaked Ladies Band on All In Good Time Rebecca: After over two decades of ups, downs and to really catch music, this staple band in the Canadian music scene is once again ready to rock. Male: I was not hyper or smarter anything, it’s just off the guff and fun. Rebecca: Hi, I'm Rebecca Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com and today we are speaking with the Barenaked Ladies about how they keep it fresh. Tell us what the importance prop to the Barenaked Ladies. Male: —in the live shows and I think that’s what makes the show unique and that’s what makes it fun for us because we never know what is going to happen. Male: Many reviews that we’ve seen lately, I had been mentioning some of the—and saying they must have rehearsed that, but it is never rehearsed, it is something we just good at doing after doing it for 20 years. Rebecca: When you look back on songs like One Week or If I Had A Million Dollars, what do they represent for you now? Male: If I Had A Million Dollars is a song we played every night for 20 years but the audience reaction to it and the—it just keeps it fresh. Songs like One Week, we totally reinvented, we played it as a blue grass song for a while, we've gone back to playing at more rock. I mean that is 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 true reinvention. And sometimes it is just leaving sounds through the audience. Rebecca: Tell us about the new album. We’ll start by talking about the album art. It is a little more summer than what you had been doing previously, what were you trying to convey with that image? Male: Well, the last three records that we 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 is in it and sort of give a real visual reference point. Rebecca: And what about the music, what were you trying to go for on the new album? Male: I think we just try to be daring on this record and not do anything because of people’s expectations just serve the song and make a great sounding record. It sort of develop this unwritten rule book when we are in the studio of how things went and we’re able to discard that little bit and reinvent things and also with this new tour we’re reinventing the old songs and sort of it’s been refreshing. Rebecca: Now, you guys we’re early adaptors of Facebook, Twitter that kind of thing. Tell us about how these types of social media affect your relationship with the fans? Male: 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 people I have was a fan of. 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. So, the contact is great because we reach our fan days very instantaneously, but sometimes the expectation of communication and a direct relationship is pretty overwhelming. Male: The other night we were thinking, we have way too many big goods, we had some fans that keep bringing us cookies and so Tyler who is our resident Twitter twitted thank you very much, but we have enough cookies. Male: You know why we have those. Male: Why? Male: Because Jim twitted that he wanted people to bake us stuff. Male: Are you serious? Male: Yeah. Male: There you go. Rebecca: Then the Twitter gives you cookies. Male: Yeah.