Metric Inspired

Oh darling If this heart was a card would you deal it? If this life was a pulse would you feel it? If this love was a wound would you heal it? (Or just make it better)

When there was a wilderness, we wandered wild and free Guilt, she is the governess that guides me back to grief What if we were dumb enough to spend eternity Gathering the garbage washed up on the beach?

I want them to hate me So you can love me on the sly

- On the Sly, Metric

Metric ‘Hidden Gems’ - The People

Fun fact: Before Metric became known as Metric, the group called themselves ‘MainStream’. 

Recorded in 1998, before Joshua Winstead and Joules Scott Key joined, MainStream’s “MainStream EP” was the first collection of songs released by Emily and Jimmy.

Emily Haines : Poster of a Woman

From: Nuvo Magazine

Emily Haines, the frontwoman of the band Metric and her own personal project, Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton, opens up about her songwriting process, her recent album Choir of the Mind, and her thoughts on stardom and fame in this article.

Some of her quotes that stood out to me:

“You have to go for the thing you can’t do, always looking for where you are weak.”

“If you can embrace weakness, and your flaws, and go toward what seems like uninhabitable pain … it’s a source of strength. And growth.” 

“The paradigm you inevitably walk into as a musician is, ‘I’m going to do this, and you are going to applaud.’ You can see it with children at recitals performing for Mom and Dad: the training becomes doing it for the applause.”

Doo-doo-doo we're on to you Tearing her down, talking her down under your breath Making a mess, see she is happy you want to break it,

Sunday fun day.

Metric ‘Hidden Gems’ - The Gates

Another song off of the B-Side of ‘Fantasies’, “The Gates” is a slow and downbeat song that highlights Emily’s vocals and Jimmy’s acoustic guitar. 

The JMJ Signature Mustang! First off the line!

Joshua Winstead with Justin Meldal-Johnsen

“Hiding from the storm in a song”

Metric’s Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw working on the new album.

Get me out of this state I'm in When I spiral down, it's a vile spin Got something I can't hide Still alive, it's an overwhelming drive

“Are we all designed to be confined Buy ourselves chastity belts and lock them Organize our lives and lose the key Our faces all resemble dying roses From trying to fix it”