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Arcade Fire Wins Grammy, prompting Americans to wonder who they are anyway
JimmyJazz:
Do does an ignorance of the existence of Arcade Fire and a love for Justin Bieber go hand-in-hand with not being able to construct a sentence that makes grammatical sense?
ALoveSupreme:
--- Quote from: Tom on 14 Feb 2011, 12:26 ---Arcade Fire; the most mainstream band you've never heard of.
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I still feel like everything great they did was part of Funeral (a track here and there has been good, but I feel like Funeral was something of an opus), but it's good they got some recognition and a good tumblr out of it (which I will now follow).
Katherine:
--- Quote ---Alicia Someone: Who they he'll are this people singing right now ahhhhhhhhhhhhh they are scary !!!!!!!
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John Someone: Run Forrest Run...
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John Someone: Alicia...your scary group just won!
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Alicia Someone: I know who the hell are these people?????
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John Someone: Millionaires now! LOL
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Katherine Me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_fire
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Alicia Someone: Thanks Catherine I had not a clue who the he'll they were lol and I don't really listen to much of any music so I really was clueless with them :) lol
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Barbara Someone I said the same thing to myself.....OUCH!
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This kinda pissed me off last night. "Scary people"? Really? "Millionaires now haw haw haw" Ugh. And I love how she spelled my name wrong in replying to me...
ALoveSupreme:
--- Quote --- Alicia Someone: Thanks Catherine I had not a clue who the he'll they were lol and I don't really listen to much of any music so I really was clueless with them :) lol
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I think that sums up everyone's problem with this award. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, but people who "don't listen to much music" shouldn't be surprised when they don't know more-than-just marginally culturally significant musicians.
Tom:
If we wanted to go into a silly discussion of originality => greatness, then Arcade Fire is way ahead of this tiny curve. Bieber (Lief Garrett and other boy-teen idols) and Gaga (Madonna 2.0) aren't really attempting to do anything groundbreaking or new. Thus, Arcade Fire probably deserves this inconsequential more than either of those acts.
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