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| The Arcade Fire, hours before returning their awards. (Photo: andysternberg/Flickr) |
In response to the outpouring of outrage across the internet, members of the Arcade Fire returned their Album of the Year Grammy award less than 12 hours after receiving it. "The people have spoken," said lead vocalist Win Butler. "It's true -- nobody knows who we are, so how could we possibly have created an album worthy of the award?"
"My parents don't even know that I'm in a band," added multi-instrumentalist and singer Régine Chassagne.
Though the largely unknown band was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album Grammys in 2005 and 2008, this is the first time they were nominated -- and won -- Album of the Year.
"It just doesn't make any sense," Butler said, "So we've returned our award in hope that the committee would present it to someone more deserving. Perhaps if our next critically acclaimed album is commercially successful enough, it may be worth considering."
"We appreciate the rightly dismissive millions of you who don't know us for inspiring us to do the right thing," Butler stated. "Besides, have you listened to Teenage Dream? Any single song on that album has a lot more to say about life today than The Suburbs does in its entirety."
