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“It’s totally a tradition at this point. I don’t think the Junos are that out of touch with reality. Are they the best, most exciting, most ground-breaking or most innovative? Absolutely not. But they do represent a lot of the big-name performers representative of what the average Canadian music fan is interested in.”

-- Aaron Brophy, editor of Canadian music magazine Chart, quoted in Metro commenting on perennial criticism about the Juno awards.