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Nice attempt at spin by Susanne Boyce. However, the majority of which she speaks aren't those that would bother to dissect the problems with Canadian music -- no, they're the demo that lusts after satellite radio while playing Xbox and drinking a coke or some such crap.
Oh well. Susanne Boyce FTW!
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"all represented by small, independently run labels, which Drew says take the time to foster talent." Although I do agree with him, he couldn't have been talking about himself because Broken Social Scene had by far the worst performance of the night, if that's any indication of their music I would rather listen to a Canadian Idol any day than that horribly out of key noise. If someone is going to bash something else at least have some credibility when doing it.
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I recently started getting into them, because I really liked Stars and heard there was a few of the members from them in Broken Social Scene. While I didn't witness the Juno performances, I will say that I don't think their style really caters to live acts. Their collaboration of instruments is really unique and a couple of their songs just really hit.
With that said, we know that all indie bands are a bit too outspoken..
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Don't forget that the Junos now have "alternative" categories. As I pointed out before, what this does is to permanently put "alternative" music in a separate category, so that commercial pop still rules the roost.
The Junos exist for bands like Nickelback and for Canadian Idols. The purpose of awards like this is to hype commercially successful bands. Nominations are based on record sales. The awards and nominations go to acts that the industry wants to promote. They are awards for making money, and the purpose of handing them out is to make more money.
The reason an alternative category was created was to allow the industry to recognize music that music fans like, without pushing people with lower sales -- the people they don't want to promote -- into the limelight. They've created a permanent second prize for bands like Broken Social Scene.
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