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Originally Posted by arloiginla
Wow, the indie music crowd in here resembles canucks fans with their "we're the best cause we're so different, Nickelback sucks, everyone knows that" lines.
You people might as well be plugging your ears and repeating the same thing over again. Sort of like most people at the stadium were plugging their ears in the 2nd intermission at the game. Everyone around me was commenting along the lines of "wtf?" and no one was getting excited and into it from what I could see. Doesn't make that a right or wrong opinion - but it's a fact that not too many people were excited about it.
Look - you hate Nickelback because they are so popular, and they don't "evolve" as a band. Doesn't change the fact that they are the most popular. It's like hating on the Habs because of all their Cups - doesn't change the fact that they've still won 24 of them. And no, I'm not a Habs fan by any stretch.
I have a music degree and a performer's diploma as well. I'd never heard of Metric before yesterday - mostly because I don't listen to indie music. And yesterday reminded me of why I never do. Emily Haines had a terrible singing performance, just awful. The music was depressing instead of upbeat - NHL would have been far better off hiring Nickelback or other recycled stuff we've all heard before - at least they would have pumped the crowd up.
Seems the organizers tried too hard to be different.
Seems some people in this thread are trying too hard to be different as well.
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I do see where you are coming from. They're not really my thing, but I see no reason to rag on them. Bands and musicians that I don't necessarily like are always on TV or in public and I couldn't care less. For some reason, Metric at the HC is really stuck in some people's craw. I think that is why Nickleback became the example here. People who don't like them are bombarded by them in all types of mainstream media all the time. It seems like most of the people that don't like Metric are the same ones who hadn't been exposed to them often. It's rare for a band like Metric to get a showcase like this, and right away people start complaining. I don't think it's really fair to Nickleback fans either though just because that band is overexposed..
I can't understand how anyone could have thought the music that Metric played was depressing by any means though. I am willing to bet that you went into it with your mind already made up.