

mashed together all at once without any lyrics, showing Paper Mario fighting a real-life pair of scissors, stapler, and tape roll all taped together.

He responded to it first by making a video that's all three songs.

Still, there’s something inherently off-kilter about the way the Juno Awards celebrate home-grown talent. “I like to say I bend the industry, not let the industry bend my artists.” Why emerging talent doesn't have much of a chance in Canada “We’re not really paying attention to any infrastructure that’s been in place, and I think that’s what made us successful,” Kaytranada’s manager, Will Robillard Cole has said. The Grammy award-winning Haitian-Canadian record producer and DJ made a name for himself internationally by growing his base online before signing the British independent record label XL Recordings. Of course, there’s the Kaytranada school of thought that suggests that Canadian musicians don’t need industry anymore. Alternative rock’s Matthew Good, who never attended the ceremonies in the years he’s won, in 2009 called the awards “marketing warehouses for the United States.” The first-ever Black woman to win a Juno Award, Liberty Silver, has expressed her disappointments in the country’s slow goings in supporting a large pool of talent. “It took the United States and the rest of the world embracing me before Canada realized, ‘Oh, man, I guess this guy really is good.’ Unfortunately, that’s a sad history Canada has.” -Kardinal Offishall in The Globe and Mail Are establishments like the Juno Awards, and by extension the Canadian public, doing its part? What’s more, last month the Government of Canada announced a $70 million over a three-year period to Canadian Heritage for the Canada Music Fund in support of the live music sector. In Ontario, $2.5 million was invested in relief programs to help strengthen music in the province. The pandemic may have warped our collective sense of time, understandably, but have we gone back to 2002? With taxpayers pouring millions into supporting grassroots music annually, it would make more sense if the Juno Awards tried to complement those efforts by putting emerging acts first.Īs part of the 2021 budget, the federal government added $10 million to the Canada Music Fund in support of the production, promotion, and distribution of Canadian music. Last year's fan choice went to Avril Lavigne of " sk8er boi" fame. He’s nominated for five awards, including fan choice and artist of the year. Bieber is returning to perform for the first time since “Baby” was belted out in 2010.
