Sick Muse

*This would also make sense with Metric's decision to release Fantasies on their own label and Emily's admission that she considered giving up music.

I agree with the idea of the money-driven aspect of the music industry and its pressures. It reminds me of how often, one of the pressures is when someone is offered a solo deal, or something of the sort. The line "She said I'm with stupid: money is a sick muse" makes me think of a lead singer leaving the band (or, 'stupid') for a solo opportunity, motivated by the sick muse, more money.<br /> Another idea I think of is maybe "stupid" is the genre, or the image of the band, and the sick muse, money, is supposed to motivate the band into transforming itself for the sake of selling more albums, etc.

It's hard to measure success when you're independent and lack the tools to do so. This is one of Metric's challenges. Also since pressures of the music industry reflect consumer demand, they are willingly turning-down a larger market. But all this focus and creativity just makes them stronger in the end, like fine gold tempered in a furnace. <br /> <br /> I know that this is just the sort of thing I am drawn to, and the more I witness money being used to take the easy way out in life, the more I am repulsed by it, by people who cling to it, who've eagerly chained themselves to the wrong gold.

Huh, I always heard it as MOMMY is a sick muse. Which given the references to Cupid (and muses, another element of greek mythology) would refer to Aphrodite, Cupid's mother, and thus to love as a whole.