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Wainwright Thinks There’s Something Wrong with Toronto
He writes about going to town in Paris, Barcelona, and Tulsa. The American-born, Canadian-raised operatic-pop-piano-rock singer says he loves Iceland, Greece, and Costa Rica. But the one place that he can’t stand? Deny the claim all you want, Torontonians, but it’s us.
Although he grew up in our French sister city, Wainwright blacklisted our city as his least-favourite in Sunday’s Q&A in the Guardian. Hurt? Shamed? We kid you not. When asked where he’d never return, here’s what the man had to say:
Toronto. I can’t stand it—the place drives me mad. I’m allowed to say this because I’m Canadian. I have friends there, I work there, but I find it really hard to like. I will have to go back there, but I wish I didn’t have to. It’s trying to be the New York of the Midwest. I much prefer Montreal.
So there you have it, folks. Looks like we’re just the wannabe cousins of our bigger south-eastern counterparts. And hey, maybe if we could travel the world and get paid to write about it, we’d be singing a different tune. But with summer in the city, and festivals aplenty, Toronto is hitting all the right notes with us. Maybe there’s just something in his (cigarettes and) chocolate milk.
Photo from foxyfemke.