Posted AT 3:48 AM EDT on 14/05/08
Making music for the cool kids
'Oh, the cat will have to do with eight lives now/ And the Chinese will be out of luck," Ed Robertson sings on the new Barenaked Ladies album. And why will these terrible things happen, you ask? "Cause 7 ate 9!"
Okay, so it's a childish joke, but this time it's wholly justifiable, because the song in question, 789, is the first track on the Ladies' new children's album, Snacktime.
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