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The strangest parts of my body are falling apart--certain areas of my mouth's inner lining are now sizable flaps. Confession (or reiteration): I hate Metric. I find them embarrassing. I think they're trying to be a super dance pop version of Cat Power. Think about it. I especially take offence to the use of the word remodel in the song Dead Disco--YEAH, REMODEL, YOU STUPID, AFFECTED, WANNABE BITCH. THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE CLEARLY AND DESPERATELY TRYING TO DO AND YOU'RE MAKING WHAT YOU THINK IS SOME SORT OF CATTY, CLEVER AND IRONIC STATEMENT ABOUT IT. Well, holy fuck, way to set up your own downfall: IN THE CHORUS. I will also say that I could easily see the first verse of that song being sung by Modest Mouse. So, hopefully, enough said on that matter. I could go on about other lyrics in other songs, I won't at length: I'll just say that I find them, for lack of a better term, try-hard--they're shooting for something poetic, but they're not quite obscure enough (see, ladytron, cLOUDDEAD, cocorosie) or political enough (see, le tigre, M.I.A.) to reach what seems to be their desired affect. "Cold as numbers," is easy poetry, and that's a problem in this case--it's actually trying to be poetry. The metaphor sucks, it's a cliche now. B minus. Writing song lyrics is very different from writing actual poems. Song lyrics should be song lyrics and, for the most part, it takes a different type of honesty to make song lyrics poetic (I'm thinking of The Knife and Siouxsie & the Banshees as exceptions--many of their lyrics could quite possibly work as poems on their own). It seems Interpol knows this. The lyrics of Evil are a very, very good example of what I'm saying here: they don't struggle to go beyond themselves, and are comfortable in and with themselves, while at the same time still being incredibly rich, full, and loaded. They don't strain, affectedly, against the music that carries them, that much is clear. ONE OF METRIC'S SONGS IS CALLED POSTER OF A GIRL. What. The. Fuck. Her voice is like Nico's, if Nico had been trained in a choir. The only song I "like" is Monster Hospital, and that's mostly because 1) her voice seems less constrained for the most part and 2) the first bam-chic-a-bam riff at the very start is actually pretty fucking awesome: I love the distortion . .everything in that song is OK, all well and good, until we reach "I fought the war and [guess what] the war won." Then it's like Brittney Spears making "indie" (whatever--shut the hell up) music: "I fought the war, and THE WAR WON TOXIC GUN, TOXIC GUN//I'M SLIPPING UNDER. I also just love how she PUTS HER OWN RECORD ONTO THE PLAYER AT THE START OF THAT VIDEO: "Oh, what could THIS be? A Record?!!?! Oh, my! IT'S MY RECORD! I MADE THIS RECORD WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS! I know! oh, oh: I KNOW! Let's be supertastic meta and I'll put MY OWN RECORD ON IN MY OWN BLACK AND WHITE VIDEO." Though, I'm listening to them right now (quite possibly to solidify my opinion), and am laughing to myself. Which more than likely makes me seem like an asshole, but what else is new over here in Caroland? You were a little girl, you really liked Swanlake, you'd dance around in your bedroom. Your mother bought you the princess, fairy tutu you always wanted--YOU'RE LIKE A YOUNG KAREN KAIN!