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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 didn't realize we should be bringing up our resume's on this thread as well. But more than the 'fire Sutter,' 'trade Iggy,' 'blow the team up' threads that have happened on CP - this one has frustrates me the most. I also have extensive background in the music biz. As a writer, performer, manager and agent with a 4.00 gpa and scholarship in music business from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Like you said, it doesn't mean I have all the answers. It doesn't mean my opinions are right. There are no rights or wrong here, like you mentioned.
True, this is a sports thread so obviously it's a demographic that clearly doesn't seem to fit in with the 'indie crowd.' Bottom line - I appreciate the effort the NHL programmers did in trying to bring something less predictable than Nickelback and make an effort to bring that sort of awareness to the Calgary market.
But I would like to clear up a couple things, personally, to what you mentioned. I don't dislike Nickelback because they are popular. I'm a big fan of the Stones and the Beatles so that argument makes no sense to me. Jealousy is not a factor here. Again, at least not for me. I just simply don't like Nickelback, but I've given them a shot - many, many times.
Secondly, when you are pursuing a career in music, you may have learned that even the most god-awful performers have as likely a chance of success as the most well educated musicians on this planet - so long as they have the luck, drive, tenacity to succeed and ability to learn from everyone - everyone. The sentence
'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.' to me is what's wrong in the art scene in Calgary. You can recognize a poor performance - fine. Most people there recognized it. But why that should make you turn to Nickelback as a musical solace is scary. Open your mind. Listen to everything, enjoy coming up with your own judgements. Find even a single phrase that you can enjoy, critique the things you don't like. But don't judge every other band you consider 'indie' simply because of Metric's performance.
One last time - it was cold. It was an off show for Emily. But one last time - NHL - thank-you for having the marbles to try something different. I find it refreshing to know that the hockey world has the potential to embrace music as a whole as opposed to a formula.