Barenaked Ladies Now Too Hard for Disney

Since lead singer Steven Page’s run-in with the law surrounding a small vial of cocaine on a kitchen table at a girl’s house (for which the singer received a high-five and an ass-smack from Keith Richards), the band has had to pull themselves from the Disney-organized children’s charity event they had previously been booked for, Reuters reported Friday. The band is apparently just too crazy and “rock and roll” for the kids, and parents everywhere fear they may be one of those nasty, evil party bands that play the devil’s music.

In a statement posted on the band’s Web site, manager Terry McBride said, "Members of the band completely support Steven Page, but we don't want to put Disney in an awkward position before issues involving Steven's arrest are resolved."

I don’t know about you, but we at Cinema Blend knew this was coming all along. It was completely clear, from the band’s sex-crazed, vice-laden name, that those five gentlemen were too misguided to be playing music for civilized ears. May the good Lord spare them.

But really, it’s ridiculous to expect a group of musicians to stay caged up playing to auditoriums full of parents and kids, and it’s about time one of them got caught doing something. For a band to go through an entire career staying as squeaky clean as the Jonas Brothers' Nikes is just wrong, and it could probably only happen as the result of several smoothly executed cover-ups anyway.

Whatever happens with the Barenaked Ladies as a result of Page’s tiny slip-up, they’re always welcome to party at my house … I mean my friend’s house.


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