Last night saw Jeremy Dutcher hand over the virtual Polaris crown, the one he was wearing having been brought from home, along with the $50,000 to Haviah Mighty for her album 13th Floor, beating releases from the likes of Marie Davidson, PUP, Jessie Reyez, FET.NAT, Shad, to name but a few.
The Toronto rapper began producing at age 15 b her first mixtape, No Studio, only 2 years later. In the meantime she would win ‘So You Think You Can Rap Canada’ along with the opportunity to perform at CNE’s Rising Star Talent and formed one quarter of The Sorority, along with Keysha Fressh, Lex Leosis, and Phoenix Pagliacci after collaborating on a cypher for International Women’s Day before releasing their debut album, Pledge, in 2018.
On March 23 Haviah announced her debut studio album, 13th Floor, via social media and that the album would arrive soon. The album became one of the most anticipated Canadian albums of the year so far according to both CBC Music and Exclaim! with the lead single, In Woman Colour, receiving positive reviews.
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Hi there.
Disappointed!
I was seriously distracted last night and still am today as I work to unravel what is going on for our kid with Katimavik. Her group has gone from 11 to your participants and the project leader has been let go. They are no longer going to Moncton next but Quebec City. I have travel plans to completely redo!
Still, terribly disappointed with the Polaris outcome.
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Oh that is disappointing news about your daughter’s Katimavik group. From what I have seen about the program, it is quite different than back in my day. I have heard a couple stories about groups falling apart. That sucks! It also sucks you have to re-do all your travel plans because of it. ugh…
I am not very disappointed with the Polaris outcome. I was hoping for a Hip Hop/Rap album to finally win. I had hoped it would be Shad but Haviah Mighty definitely got my attention when I was listening to the albums. I know you are a big Elisapie supporter and while I agree it is a lovely album, it just didn’t have the interest for me. Didn’t fill that pushing artistic boundaries or just wowing me with beauty thing I listen for. You were not alone in backing Elisapie, just was the bottom of the 10 for me personally.
I would have been behind Shad or SNRK taking home the prize. While Hip Hop/Rap is not my jam I have learned to put the earbuds in and listen hard and appreciate. The winning album was actually one of the albums I was referring to as boring the other day.
I am out $150+ so far after cancelling the accommodations. I haven’t even gotten to waiting on hold with Air Canada …
I always find it interesting what different ears hear and what clicks with people. I like that we enjoy different music with other music in common. I also like that we don’t have to call each other names to express our opinion. 😉
Changing those plans is going to hurt but at least you have some advance warning.
I agree all around @darbar!
It has stopped raining for a moment so I’m going to attempt some outside stuff.