Editing Barenaked Ladies (section)

==Musical style==
Barenaked Ladies' music is primarily classified as [[alternative pop]], influenced by [[Folk music|folk]] and [[Rock music|rock]]. The band, known for witty lyrics and catchy melodies, developed its [[comedy rock]] to suit audience demand in their early days of [[Opening act|opening]] for college [[comedy troupe]]s.<ref name=AllMusic>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/barenaked-ladies-mn0000139089 |title=Biography: Barenaked Ladies |last=Leahey |first=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Leahey |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref> The intellectual appeal of their lyrics has led to a label of [[geek rock]] by [[Eric Weisbard]] and others.<ref name="Weisbard">{{cite magazine|title=Geek Love|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|SPIN]]|date=December 2000|first=Eric|last=Weisbard|author-link=Eric Weisbard|pages=158–162|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPe2ZKjsEBIC&pg=PA159}}</ref><ref name="Cantrell">{{cite book|chapter='A Very Subtle Joke': T. S. Eliot, J. D. Salinger and the ''Puer Aeternus'' in ''God Shuffled His Feet''|first=Paul Alexander|last=Cantrell|pages=79–98|title=Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music and Subculture|editor1-first=Alex|editor1-last=DiBlasi|editor2-first=Victoria|editor2-last=Willis|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2014|isbn=9781442229761|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hX1MBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA79}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Turner |first=Katherine L. |date=2016 |title=This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and Popular Culture |publisher=Routledge |page=147 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ReCqCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA147 |isbn=9781317010548}}</ref>