Metric was formed in 1998 in Toronto, Ontario, and by 2006 was quickly gaining in popularity, with various nominations by Canadian-centric awards such as Juno Awards and Polaris Music Prize. It wouldn’t be until 2010 that they won their first Juno Award “Best Alternative Album of the Year” for their 2009 album Fantasies.
Black Sheep in particular was released on August 10th, 2010 on the Band’s MySpace page. This song would be used as the soundtrack for the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, although the song is sung by Brie Larson portraying the character Envy Adams instead. Bryan Lee O’Malley said that Envy Adam’s poses in the graphic novel were inspired by concert photos of Emily Haines (the lead singer of Metric).
Blacksheep is Metrics most listened to song on spotify, with 163 million listens on the Brie Larson vocal version (as used in the Scott Pilgrim movie), and 131 million listens to the band’s original version.
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Personally, I do actually prefer the Brie Larson vocal version. I can see why is has the most listens, although much of that is probably boosted from the movie itself and the new highly popular Scott Pilgrim Takes Off netflix anime which also features the song.
Fuckin great song. Loved it in Scott Pilgrim. It’s on my workout playlist, because I’ll get back to hitting the gym regularly next week.
Allegedly the song was never meant to be released until the Scott Pilgrim movie wanted an original Metric song to put in there. They drug it out of the reject pile, polished it up, and now it is their most notable song. Funny how it works like that sometimes.