"Falling for the First Time" is the third single by Canadian group the Barenaked Ladies

Barenaked Ladies

Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian alternative rock band. The band is currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart. Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, then a suburban municipality outside the City of Toronto...

 from their 2000 album, Maroon. The song was composed by Steven Page

Steven Page

Steven Jay Page , is a Canadian musician. Along with Ed Robertson, he was a founding member, lead singer, guitarist, and a primary songwriter of the music group Barenaked Ladies ; he left the band in 2009 to pursue a solo career....

 and Ed Robertson

Ed Robertson

Lloyd Edward Elwyn Robertson , better known as Ed Robertson, is the Canadian lead singer, as well as a guitarist and songwriter in the band, Barenaked Ladies...

. The song also appears on the band's 2001 compilation album, Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits and the soundtrack

Music from Malcolm in the Middle

Music from Malcolm in the Middle is the soundtrack to the television series, Malcolm in the Middle released on November 21, 2000.-Track listing:#"Boss of Me" - They Might Be Giants #"Washin' + Wonderin'" - Stroke 9...

 of the TV show, Malcolm in the Middle

Malcolm in the Middle

Malcolm in the Middle is an American television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. The series was first broadcast on January 9, 2000, and ended its six-and-a-half-year run on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes...

. Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the song was placed on the list of post-9/11 inappropriate titles distributed by Clear Channel

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.

Music video

The music video begins with a security guard at a museum (played by BNL's keyboardist Kevin Hearn's

Kevin Hearn

Kevin Neil Hearn is a Canadian musician who is currently the keyboardist of Barenaked Ladies and his own group, Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle. He is also a former member of Rheostatics.-Early life:...

 cousin Harland Williams

Harland Williams

Harland Williams is a Canadian actor, comedian, author, artist, musician and radio personality.-Personal life:Harland Reesor Williams was born on November 14, 1962, in Toronto, Ontario, to Lorraine , a social worker, and John Reesor Williams, who worked as a member of the Ontario Provincial...

) who is bored watching the camera monitors decides to change the channel to a TV station. The first and only channel to pop up shows the band playing the song, despite efforts by the guard to return the monitors to normal. Enraged the guard takes the camera monitor and tosses it into the garbage bin. As the guard returns to his desk the song has just ended, in the background the band can be seen leaving with several pieces of stolen artwork from the museum along with taking the monitor he just tossed, revealing that the video was used to distract the guard.

Critical response

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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magazine said that the single "strives to translate the emotional rush of falling in love into a swirling, shimmering wall of sound—with a nice detour for the earthbound observation, 'anyone perfect must be lying.'" Billboard said the song was "shimmering."

Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40	11