They Know My Name 'Cause I Told It To Them

I know this is a couple days old, which in Internet time means it’s so 2000 and late, but it’s still making me laugh: Who Is Arcade Fire?

For anyone who missed it, Arcade Fire won the Grammy for Album of the Year Sunday night with their 2010 album, The Suburbs. And apparently a few people were a little bit miffed.

The thing is, this band is everywhere. They are headlining (that’s right—headlining) Bonnaroo this summer, as was announced today. Their song Wake Up was prominently featured in every Where The Wild Things Are trailer leading up to its release in October of 2009. It was even the theme song for the 2010 Superbowl! The band themselves turned up in my favorite SNL sketch of all time, which aired in 2007. In every city in every state, somewhere there’s a hipster sipping Schlitz (PBR is so over) and not talking about Arcade Fire, because even talking about how Arcade Fire used to be cool is passé.

I mean, clearly Bieber was robbed, but where I’m the most alarmed is that there are this many people left who still put stock in the Grammys. The Grammys rank just below the People’s Choice Awards in terms of award shows I give credit to, and the People’s Choice Awards are a few rungs below even the Kids’ Choice Awards. There’s very little correlation, I think, between who wins Grammys and who is putting out good music these days, and even that small amount of correlation is incidental. The fact that this year, a good album by a good band won Album of the Year was probably the result of an errant dart throw.

But I mean, Arcade Fire? Who or what is that? How many top 10 singles do they have? I think that band The Suburbs shoulda won.