Arcade Fire Responds to Steve Stoute's Letter

Don't think they weren't gonna fire back.

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Steve Stoute's Grammy rant in the New York Times took a few shots at Arcade Fire. Now the Album of the Year-winning band's manager Scott Rodger has responded. Read an excerpt below:

"Arcade Fire deserved the win this year. They made the best album. If the award was names "Album Sales Of The Year" award, there would be no discussion. Stoutes letter was nice piece of self publicity. Did he see Kanye’s tweets when we won and the praise he gave us?? He needs to tune in. Eminem made a big selling album but it was far from being his best work. Katy Perry made a big pop record that simply didn’t have weight or credibility. Gaga’s repackage, great album but it was a repackage of the main release. I think everyone felt it was going to be Lady Antebellum’s moment having won 5 out of 6 awards to that point. We all felt that way too."

Read the entire response on his blog.

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