Barenaked Ladies/YMMV

• Critical Dissonance: The band has an incredibly Broken Base with regard to critics - one example given in a review was that one critic admitted to a friend who reviewed music for Entertainment Weekly that he nearly broke up with a girlfriend on the spot when he saw she owned BNL albums.
• Harsher in Hindsight: A great number of songs after Steven Page's departure, most notably "Call and Answer", "Alcohol", and "War on Drugs".
  • "Sell, Sell, Sell", an already politically charged song, becomes this after 9/11 and the ensuing War on Terror.
    • Especially with the line about Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
  • The line "Try to behave" in "Celebrity".
• Hilarious in Hindsight: "Box Set". Hard to believe they were this Genre Savvy on their first album.
• Nightmare Fuel: "The Ninjas" from Snacktime! has the lyrics "The Ninjas are deadly and silent. They're also unspeakably violent. They speak Japanese and do whatever they please, and if you tear off their mask they'll be smilin'."

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