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so the new Metric album comes out next week. fun fun fun.

i like Metric. i don't love them the way i love alot of bands, but i quite enjoy Metric. they're only a point of focus in my mind this week because i bought a ticket to see them in Tampa in November. if you're in the area, i suggest you come. they're a fun band and tickets are only ten bucks. November 16th, for those of you palying at home. if you're not in florida, see if they're playing near you. if the tickets are cheap here, they might be everywhere else too.

anyway, i thought i'd share a couple of their music videos, since moving images are more effective means of exciting people into paying attention, ok? specifically, i'm going to be pointing out the recurring theme of soldiers as toys.


Succexy was just about everybody's favorite track from 2003's Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?. The video very simply but graphically portrays a platoon of G.I. Joes being taken out by a sniper on a table top, then, two armies of little plastic army men annihilate each other out across the kitchen floor.


Combat Baby takes that concept a step farther, involving some limited puppetry, animation, and live action footage into the moving diorama of action figures and plastic toy tanks involved in choreographed dancing.


Monster Hospital is the first single from the new album, Live It Out, and I think its an appropriate choice, since I feel that alot of the music on this album conveys a "monster movie" feeling. This video is almost exclusively live action, with some film sequence montage stuff thrown in during the bridge, where we also see the return of the little army man, seen above.

War is clearly a prevalent theme in Metric's songs, noticeably in these three which have all been successful singles. I particularly enjoy the chorus of "Monster Hospital," where Emily sings "I fought the war. I fought the war but the war wouldn't stop for the love of god. I fought the war. I fought the war but the war won."

Emily is also one of the two female vocalists for canadian indie supergroup Broken Social Scene (the other female vocalist is solo crooner and King of Convenience collaborator Leslie Feist), where she sang the song that broke my heart and made me love BSS, "Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl"