Music
Feist wins 7th annual Polaris Prize
by Tyler Munro
September 25, 2012
After months of deliberation, last night’s Polaris Prize Gala announced that Feist had won the seventh annual prize, which comes with $30,000 in prize money and a seemingly endless barrage of think pieces. But whether she “needed the money” or whether her performances over the course of the past year played a factor in the victory are unimportant to the fact that another hard working artist has won a well earned chunk of cash that, iPod commercials aside, goes towards the continual betterment of the ever-increasingly strong music industry this country builds on each year.
The Polaris Prize celebrates most forms of Canadian music, and while the shortlist might for some have been a reflection of the industry’s equator, it nonetheless represented everything from the commercial megaton bomb that was Drake’s Take Care in the same breath as some albums this writer wouldn’t hesitate to call weird for the sake of it. With that said, can she maybe give some of the money to Mastodon? Metals was good enough, but hell if a full length Feistodon album wouldn’t be just dangerous enough to challenge it.
Congratulations, Feist. You earned it.
