When the Barenaked Ladies split with Steven Page earlier this week, many of their fans worried about how the band would go forward without the combination of their two frontmen, Page and Ed Robertson. A representative of their label has spoken out and he, for one, isn’t worried.
“If you really disseminate the last six, seven years of the Barenaked Ladies, it’s very much an Ed and Steve collaboration, but Ed’s written probably 90 per cent of the singles,” Nettwerk’s Terry McBride told the Canadian Press. “He’s really been, in the last decade, the driving creative force behind the band.”
The band is recording their first album without Steven Page in April and McBride says there will be no change in the Barenaked Ladies formula. “They’ll be authentic to do what they basically do – funny, intelligent folk rock. That’s what they’ve always done. Smart lyrics, and very, very beautiful melodies.”