Their fifth album, Maroon, featuring the lead single " Pinch Me", also charted highly. The album featured their highest-charting hit, " One Week", as well as " It's All Been Done" and " Call and Answer".
The band's popularity subsequently spread into the US, beginning with versions of "Brian Wilson" and " The Old Apartment" off their 1996 live album Rock Spectacle, followed by their fourth studio album Stunt, their breakout success in 1998.
They reached mainstream success in Canada when their debut with Reprise Records, Gordon, featuring the singles " If I Had $1000000" and " Brian Wilson", was released in 1992. The band developed a cult following in Canada, with their self-titled 1991 cassette becoming the first independent release to be certified gold in Canada. All we know, and all that matters, is that we got him.Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian rock band formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario. It doesn’t matter who Bremer is, or if people remember why he said it. “We got him” seems to be, at least in America, deeply embedded in the collective psyche.īarack Obama said it when navy seals shot Osama bin Laden in 2011 (“Looks like we got him”), and the mayor of Boston uttered it when they captured Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in 2013.Įither of these could have easily been used instead of Bremer’s remarks – and perhaps they will be used in some future iteration – but the randomness of his appearance in the original meme is part of its beautiful humour. But there’s reason to believe it will stick around, at least in some form. Or a major political party will undoubtedly use it and it will die. Younger meme-makers may find it increasingly less funny. 15 years ago today, Paul Bremer called a press conference that would go down in the annals.Īll of us remember the moment the world found out Mark Latham had just become leader of the Labor Party /ohqZatA5qk- nondescript twiitteer user December 15, 2018Īs we move further away from its origins and the cultural memory of the Iraq war, what happens next is up for debate.
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