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Metric is a [[Canada, Eh?|Canadian]] indie band founded in 1998 in [[Toronto]], consisting of vocalist [[Ms. Fanservice|Emily Haines]] (who also plays the synthesizer and guitar), guitarist James Shaw (who also plays the synthesizer and theremin), bassist Josh Winstead and drummer Joules Scott-Key.
 
The band (originally comprised of Haines, the daughter of British poet Paul Haines, and Shaw, a Julliard-trained guitarist who she met in Toronto) formed in 1998 under the name Mainstream, and released an EP that was electronica-based. In the fall of that year, Haines and Shaw moved to [[Big Applesauce|New York]] to work on new material, renaming the group Metric as a result. During this time, they also released their first official LP, ''Grow Up And Blow Away'' in 2001. Later that year, the group brought on Scott-Key (a native of Flint, Michigan who was studying at the University of Texas) and his friend Winstead, who both performed music and met the duo during a trip to New York. With the new lineup, Metric released their first full-length album, ''Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?'', in 2003 and earned a Juno Award nomination for Best Alternative Album. Their follow-up CD, ''Live It Out'', was released in 2005 and was nominated for the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the Canadian Album of The Year and the Juno Award nomination for Best Alternative Album. Their latest album, ''Fantasies'', was nominated for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize for Canadian Album of the Year, and won Alternative Album of the Year at the 2010 Juno Awards.
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* [[Performance Video]]: A staple of the band's work, most videos just have the band performing in front of various backgrounds, or (in the case of "The List") the events leading up to a live performance.
* [[Protest Song]]: "Succexy" is a veiled call to arms against the glamorization of the U.S. War on Terror.
* [[Ripped Fromfrom the Headlines]]: ''Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?'' is one long rant at the U.S. government's occupation of Iraq in 2002-2003. Several of the music videos (Combat Baby, Succexy) invoke anti-war imagery, and several of the songs (I.O.U. and others) reference child soldiers and anti-war sentiments.
* [[Sanity Slippage Song]]: "Monster Hospital" and the accompanying music video.
* [[Shout Out]]: "The List" features the lyric "Broken accidental stars," a reference to [[Broken Social Scene]], KC Accidental and Stars (three Canadian indie bands Haines has performed with).
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