"Succexxy" Metric 2003

As the Iraq War got underway, anyone who criticized it, like, say, the Dixie Chicks, was quickly taken to task -- and though the indie rock scene certainly offered a more open-mind than the closed-ranks around Nashville, few bands sang about the situation at first. But after fleeing their lower Manhattan loft when the towers fell and returning Toronto, Metric used the Terror Era to infuse their electro-pop with weight. "Let's Drink to the military," snarked singer Emily Haines, though most of her ire was directed at the apathetic masses who simply "talk, sit, switch screens/As the homeland plans enemies."