One Week ( song ) - wikipedia One Week ( song ) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( February 2013 ) `` One Week '' Single by Barenaked Ladies from the album Stunt Released September 22, 1998 ( 1998 - 09 - 22 ) Format CD, 7 ``, 12 '', cassette Recorded 1998 Genre Alternative rock, novelty Length 2 : 52 Label Reprise Songwriter ( s ) Ed Robertson Producer ( s ) Barenaked Ladies, David Leonard, Susan Rogers Barenaked Ladies singles chronology `` Brian Wilson ( 2000 ) '' ( 1997 ) `` One Week '' ( 1998 ) `` It 's All Been Done '' ( 1998 ) `` Brian Wilson ( 2000 ) '' ( 1997 ) `` One Week '' ( 1998 ) `` It 's All Been Done '' ( 1998 ) Music video `` One Week '' on YouTube `` One Week '' is a song by the Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies, and is the first single from their 1998 album Stunt. It was written by Ed Robertson, who is featured on the lead vocal of the rapped verses. Steven Page sings lead on the song 's chorus, while the two co-lead the prechoruses in harmony. The song is notable for its significant number of pop culture references, and remains the band 's best known song in the United States. Coincidentally, the song reached # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for one week. `` One Week '' is the band 's best - performing single on the charts in both the U.S. and the U.K., though it slightly under - performed several other singles in the band 's native Canada. It was the band 's only number one single in the U.S. on both the Hot 100 and the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks ( for five non-consecutive weeks ). The song spent seven weeks at number 3 on the Hot 100 Airplay and an additional four weeks at number two behind the Goo Goo Dolls ' `` Iris ''. The band has not equaled this level of U.S. chart success since, though singles `` It 's All Been Done '', from the same album, and `` Pinch Me '', the first single from their subsequent album Maroon, both broke the top 50 of the U.S. Hot 100. Apple used the song at MacWorld 1999 for presenting Mac OS X Server on a wall of 50 iMacs. In 1999, American parodist `` Weird Al '' Yankovic recorded a parody titled `` Jerry Springer '', a song about a man 's strange obsession with The Jerry Springer Show, for his album Running with Scissors. The song has been featured numerous times in other media, including the films Digimon : The Movie, American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You, the band appear to perform it live in `` College Kids '', an early season 4 episode of The West Wing, the video game Alvin and the Chipmunks, and in the video game Rock Band Blitz, and in an ad for Mitsubishi Lancer, which featured teens trying to sing the song but being unable to keep up with the fast rapping at some points. Contents 1 History 2 Music video 3 Charts 3.1 Weekly charts 3.2 Year - end charts 4 References 5 External links History Ed Robertson wrote the ideas for the non-rap `` choruses '' with the concept being the structure of a fight between a man and a woman where the protagonist knows he is wrong and is just trying to save face. Robertson wanted to come up with a rapping verse for the song but all attempts failed. Bandmate Steven Page suggested he simply improvises the rap as the two commonly did onstage every night. Robertson heeded the advice and set up a video camera. He improvised the song at a slower pace to make rhyming easier and arrived at about four minutes of rap. He sent it to Page who told him not to change a word. Two minutes of the improvising was almost directly compiled ( with very little, if any, tweaking ) into the verses of the song. As it is improvised, it is not intended to directly have any relation to the plot of the chorus sections. The lyrics in the liner notes from Stunt contain some additional lines that did not make it into the recorded version. Band members have stated that the first live run - through of `` One Week '' did not go well, and that it took some time to get the song to sound good live. The instrumental parts are played by band members, notably Ed Robertson and Steven Page on guitar, and Kevin Hearn sometimes on guitar and sometimes on keyboards ; as well, while Hearn was away from touring shortly after the song 's release, his place at shows was taken by one of two other musicians on keyboards who each added their own unique parts to the song, helping to shape its live sound early. The song is rife with pop culture references, which includes the following : Aquaman, Swiss Chalet, LeAnn Rimes, Bert Kaempfert, The X-Files and its character, The Smoking Man, the film Frantic and its star Harrison Ford, Sting, Snickers, Akira Kurosawa and his film Seven Samurai, Sailor Moon, A Tribe Called Quest ( `` Chickity China the Chinese chicken '' was greatly influenced and almost the same as a line from Busta Rhymes 's verse on 1992 's `` Scenario '', except Busta Rhymes rapped `` Chuck - a-dee Choco '' ) and Birchmount Stadium. The song is also featured on the third installment of the Big Shiny Tunes series, Big Shiny Tunes 3. In performances starting in 2003, the band developed an acoustic, bluegrass version of the song. It is typically used in a new performance setting they developed on the Peepshow Tour that year, in which they play acoustically while they stand around and sing into one omni - directional microphone. With the departure of Steven Page in early 2009, Kevin Hearn has taken over singing Page 's lead vocals on almost all of the choruses ( during the first few performances of this song without Steven, all of the three choruses were sung by Ed Robertson, until Hearn took over performing the first two of them about a year later, in 2010 ). Often, Kevin sings the choruses together with drummer Tyler Stewart, who also performs Steven 's harmonies during the bridge. Both the third, last chorus and the following, ending part of the song are sung by Robertson, along with Stewart 's harmonizing. Music video The music video was directed by McG and begins with the band performing the song in a royal court, featuring a singing girl on a wind - up pedestal ( portrayed by Kiva Dawson ), similar to a scene from the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. During the interlude they make an escape and sing while driving a lookalike of The General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard ( using the numbers 07 instead of 01 and minus the Confederate flag on the roof ) and Starsky & Hutch 's Ford Gran Torino. The band drives into a suburb, where they perform a concert in front of a trailer, with a female motorcyclist, dressed like Evel Knievel, performing stunts. The video ends with a shot of the cyclist stuck on a tree. The video features Carmit Bachar from the Pussycat Dolls, playing an angel. Charts `` One Week '' debuted at number three on the US chart, climbing to number two the following week and the top spot the week after. The song aptly spent one week at number one on the chart. Weekly charts Chart ( 1998 ) Peak position Australia ( ARIA ) 16 Canada Adult Contemporary Tracks ( RPM ) 5 Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) Ireland ( IRMA ) 29 Netherlands ( Single Top 100 ) 79 UK Singles ( Official Charts Company ) 5 US Billboard Hot 100 US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay US Billboard Top 40 Mainstream US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks US Billboard Adult Top 40 US Billboard Top 40 Tracks Year - end charts Chart ( 1998 ) Position Canadian RPM Adult Contemporary 19 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 51 Preceded by `` The First Night '' by Monica Billboard Hot 100 number - one single October 17, 1998 Succeeded by `` The First Night '' by Monica Preceded by `` Inside Out '' by Eve 6 Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number - one single August 22, 1998 September 5 -- 26, 1998 Succeeded by `` Inside Out '' by Eve 6 References Jump up ^ `` Mac OS X Server at Macworld SF ' 99 ''. Jump up ^ `` Australian-charts.com -- Barenaked Ladies -- One Week ''. ARIA Top 50 Singles. Jump up ^ `` Dutchcharts.nl -- Barenaked Ladies -- One Week '' ( in Dutch ). Single Top 100. Jump up ^ `` Barenaked Ladies : Artist Chart History '' Official Charts Company. Jump up ^ `` Adult Contemporary - Volume 68, No. 12, December 14, 1998 ''. RPM. Retrieved 2012 - 10 - 05. Jump up ^ `` Billboard Top 100 - 1998 ''. Retrieved 2010 - 08 - 28. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Preceded by `` Building a Mystery '' by Sarah McLachlan Juno Award for Best Single 1999 Succeeded by `` Bobcaygeon '' by The Tragically Hip Barenaked Ladies Jim Creeggan Kevin Hearn Ed Robertson Tyler Stewart Andy Creeggan Steven Page Studio albums Gordon Maybe You Should Drive Born on a Pirate Ship Stunt Maroon Everything to Everyone Barenaked for the Holidays As You Like It Barenaked Ladies Are Me Barenaked Ladies Are Men Snacktime ! All in Good Time Grinning Streak Silverball Live albums Rock Spectacle Extended Versions Talk to the Hand : Live in Michigan BNL Rocks Red Rocks Compilation albums Disc One : All Their Greatest Hits ( 1991 -- 2001 ) Hits from Yesterday & the Day Before Stop Us If You 've Heard This One Before DVDs Barenaked in America Barelaked Nadies Talk to the Hand : Live in Michigan Singles `` Be My Yoko Ono '' `` Lovers in a Dangerous Time '' `` Enid '' `` What a Good Boy '' `` Brian Wilson '' `` If I Had $1000000 '' `` Jane '' `` Alternative Girlfriend '' `` Shoe Box '' `` The Old Apartment '' `` One Week '' `` It 's All Been Done '' `` Call and Answer '' `` Get in Line '' `` Alcohol '' `` Pinch Me '' `` Too Little Too Late '' `` Falling for the First Time '' `` Another Postcard '' `` Celebrity '' `` One Little Slip '' `` You Run Away '' `` Every Subway Car '' `` Boomerang '' `` Odds Are '' `` Say What You Want '' `` Duct Tape Heart '' Concert tours Au Naturale Tour Side projects The Brothers Creeggan Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle The Vanity Project Yukon Kornelius Related articles Discography Chris Brown Greg Kurstin Barenaked on a Stick Demo tapes Barenaked Ladies Public Stunts Private Stories Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=One_Week_(song)&oldid=797606063 '' Categories : 1998 singles Barenaked Ladies songs Billboard Alternative Songs number - one singles Billboard Hot 100 number - one singles Billboard Mainstream Top 40 ( Pop Songs ) number - one singles Music videos directed by McG Songs written by Ed Robertson Patter songs Reprise Records singles 1998 songs Hidden categories : Use mdy dates from July 2016 Articles needing additional references from February 2013 All articles needing additional references Articles with hAudio microformats Singlechart usages for Australia Singlechart usages for Dutch100 Singlechart usages for UKsinglesbyname Singlechart called without song Talk Contents About Wikipedia Italiano Edit links This page was last edited on 28 August 2017, at 05 : 23. 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Question: who sings it been one week since you looked at me
Answer: Ed Robertson