Metric Premiered "Youth Without Youth"

To go along with Tuesday's release of their fifth studio album, "Synthetica," Metric has premiered the music video for their gleaming, stomping glam-pop single "Youth Without Youth," the lead single from Canadian indie rock band's new record. The foursome rock band is known to grace their albums with at least one standout song. The new tune is no exception, it's a driving, punchy number that vaguely resembles Muse with band's frontwoman Emily Haines at the helm.
"Youth Without Youth" tackles the subject of a fraying social state through the eyes of a deprived youth, and is about a troubled youth was inspired by the spiraling student loan debt, which at the time it was written had reached $1 trillion in America. Haines said that the track's inspiration "started as just one verse, a very slow, sad story, and the song grew from there. The lyrics trace innocence lost as childlike games grow into teenaged trouble, and these words are buoyed by a glammy, sleazy, danceable sound.
Lyrically, Haines toys with powerful imagery, using phrases like double dutch with a hand grenade, and "rubber soul with a razor blade to describe a young life full of malaise and even criminality. "Youth Without Youth," is far more striking with its funky riff, blending nicely with Haines' honeyed tones, and it is a glam sugar with a bitter core. Perennial indie crush Haines drops a wasted-youth anthem with scarred poetry like 'We played blindman's bluff till they stopped the game,' over a bleak-bubblegum stomp.
Haines ignites some powerful, heady sociopolitical messages atop fuzzed-out electro-rocking melodies and rhythms in Justin Broadbent-Directed clip, which is the most '90s-MTV thing I've seen in a while. It opens with a stomping, strutty beat that ushers in Haines, who's flicking lighters. In a drably colored room, back-in-the-day childhood imagery is juxtaposed with more violent material, mirroring the song's sentiment. There's a girl building a multi-tiered birthday cake, a bunny rabbit, a stuffed animal and football, all interspersed with guns, handcuffs and grenade.

Metric Premiered 'Eclipse (All Yours)' Soundtrack

Happy "Eclipse" day! As the Twilight nationwide squeal about today's release of "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," the third film in the blockbuster vampire romance series, Canadian indie rock foursome, Metric have stepped in to help raise the anticipation by releasing a official music video today for their lead-off track and theme song "Eclipse (All Yours)," featuring music from new movie's star-studded soundtrack, has been released since June 8 and remains in the the Billboard 200 top 10 this week. The video is complete with scenes from the film.
The video starts out innocently enough, with the absolutely flawless lead singer Emily Haines hanging out in a remote cabin, scribbling lyrics and tapping on piano keys in an attempt to capture the muse. The rest of the video features teaser footage, from werewolf battles and smoky Taylor Lautner closeups to lip-locking by Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart on a beautiful, flower-dotted hillside. Metric go to a secluded location in new video, they are seen occupied with the songwriting of 'Eclipse' soundtrack.
Haines and guitarist Jimmy Shaw, along with legendary film composer Howard Shore wrote "Eclipse (All Yours)," which is Metric's first song for a movie and they are very excited to have their first attempt at movie stardom reach such a large audience. "I've always wanted to write music for a film, but I never expected to start with something on this scale," said Haines about the soundtrack.
Metric had embraced an eclectic and adventurous outlook — the group's music encompasses elements of indie rock, new wave, dance rock, and electronic music. This appeals squarely to the early teenaged girl crowd, much like Paramore was a perfect fit: it features heavily eyelinered Haines scrawling in her journal high school style, laying around in roots and dirt and stuff, crouching helplessly. The rest of the band strolls along the purported Portland seaside and forests.