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Barenaked Ladies
Old Apartment
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“The Old Apartment” is a song by the Canadian alternative rock group Barenaked Ladies. It was the band’s first American hit, and appears on the albums Born on a Pirate Ship, Rock Spectacle and the compilation album, . The music video for the song which garnered a Best Director nomination at the 1997 MuchMusic Video Awards, was directed by fellow Canadian and fan of the band, Jason Priestley, at his own suggestion.
Steven Page has said that the song was partly inspired by “Back to the Old House” by The Smiths. While some have misinterpreted the lyrics to mean that the man in the song is stalking an ex-girlfriend and breaks into her apartment to terrorize her, Page has said that this is definitely not the case. The person in the song and his girlfriend are still together and...
Read on...Song lines: ♪ This is where we used to live ... Broke into the old apartment ♫
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