About this episode

Hrishikesh Hirway interviews Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Metric about their song 'Victim of Luck' from their album 'Romanticize the Dive'.

Metric is a band from Canada that was formed in 1998. They’ve won four Juno Awards, including Group of the Year. Rolling Stone included them in their list of the 50 Greatest Canadian Artists of All Time. In April 2026, Metric released their 10th album, Romanticize the Dive . And for this episode, I spoke to Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw about how they made the opening song on that album, “Victim of Luck.” For more info, visit songexploder.net/metric.

People in this episode

Host: Hrishikesh Hirway

Guests: Emily Haines, Jimmy Shaw

Topics covered

• Canadian music
• album creation
• songwriting process
• Juno Awards
• band history

Keywords

• Metric
• Victim of Luck
• Emily Haines
• Jimmy Shaw
• Romanticize the Dive
• Canadian band
• Juno Awards

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Metric, Rolling Stone

Books & works: Romanticize the Dive, Victim of Luck

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