Enid (song)

Infobox Single |
Name = Enid


Artist = Barenaked Ladies
from Album = Gordon
Released = 1992
Format = CD; cassette
Recorded = 1992
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 4:07
Label = Reprise Records
Producer = Barenaked Ladies,
Michael Phillip Wojewoda
Last single = "Lovers in a Dangerous Time"
(1992)
This single = "Enid"
(1992)
Next single = "What a Good Boy"
(1992)

"Enid" is a song by the Canadian musical group Barenaked Ladies. It originally appeared on their 1992 debut album, "Gordon". It was written by Steven Page and Ed Robertson.

The song's title was inspired by Enid Léger, a waitress at Spanky's Pub in Moncton, New Brunswickfact|date=November 2007. The band found it interesting that "Enid" spelled backwards is "dine." However, the song is not actually about her.

The original studio version of the song has been described as one of the most complex recordings of the band's earlier career by Steven Page in the liner notes for "." It includes a horn section, pedal steel guitar, a cuica and a pastiche of Depeche Mode as an intro (the voice in which is that of producer Michael Phillip Wojewoda).

The music video was made in 1992 and was the band's second official video. It features the band playing in a room with a red-white-and-blue ball theme, similar to the "Gordon" cover. The band stated in "Barelaked Nadies" (probably jokingly) that the video was originally supposed to be a parody of the film "Delicatessen". One of the video's gimmicks is that the film keeps cutting without the camera being moved, resulting in the band members disappearing and reappearing and moving around in shots. Also in the room are TV screens, showing the band playing in other locations, such as Kensington Market and St. James Park.

The song was nominated for Single of the Year at the 1993 Juno Awards, although it lost to "Beauty and the Beast" by Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson.

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