ATLANTA — Barenaked Ladies is a phrase that might have caused Beavis & Butthead to snigger loudly three decades ago.
But the sexual innuendo embedded in that name has long dissipated simply because the whimsical Canadian band behind the name has become a musical institution with a series of delightfully catchy tunes such as “It’s All Been Done,” “If I Had a Million Dollars” and the unlikely 1998 No. 1 hit “One Week.”
“We’ve turned the phrase into a whole new thing,” said Tyler Stewart, the band’s drummer since the early 1990s. “You now think of Barenaked Ladies as a band, not nude women.”
