On staying power and The Hip
I’d warned that I would likely be blogging about The Hip a fair bit leading up to (and away from) the concert here in New York in May. As the excitement builds, I’ve been trading emails with my brother-in-law about music, concerts, and Hip facts and fiction.
Today he sent me a link to this article in The Record that talks about the staying power of this band, and how they’ve remained relevant. My brother-in-law and I have mused about what it is about The Hip that sticks with us, long after the song-of-the-day bands have come and gone. The Hip don’t generally write songs that snare me at once, to be later discarded; rather, they write songs that grow on me, and these songs only seem to get better with time.
The fact that they don’t seem to take themselves too seriously helps, too. A qunitessentially Canadian band on a quintessentially Canadian show — it’s like I’m peering into the nexus of the universe, and beaver riding a moose is gazing calmly back at me.
