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Singer Feist is set to be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, citing her recent music placements in the hit show Heated Rivalry as a career-defining boost that she compares to the Beatles' impact.
The first episode of the first season of the smash-hit Canadian gay hockey drama Heated Rivalry ends in a sexually charged locker-room encounter.
“We can forget that happened in there, okay? ” one player says to the other afterward. The second player, wearing nothing but a towel and a smile, isn’t buying it: Neither of them are forgetting anything. The scene closes with the sounds of Leslie Feist’s song Sealion, from her 2007 album The Reminder.
You can bet Feist isn’t forgetting that moment and another one just like it: Her My Moon My Man , co-written with Chilly Gonzales and from the same Grammy-nominated album, was used in a long, extended montage that opened Heated Rivalry ’s fourth episode. The song placements on the beyond buzzy television show have been a boon to her already highly successful career.
“It’s eclipsed anything that’s happened in my career so far,” she said on a recent video call. “I feel like the Beatles. ” Feist, 50, will be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on Saturday at a gala concert held in Toronto’s Massey Hall. The 2026 class also includes the Tragically Hip, Roch Voisine and Loverboy’s Mike Reno and Paul Dean.
The induction ceremony will be livestreamed on Prime Video in Canada and globally through Amazon Music. Among the scheduled performers are Allison Russell, Amanda Marshall, Charlotte Cornfield, City and Colour, Finneas, Isabelle Boulay, Jeff Tweedy, Ludovick Bourgeois, Our Lady Peace and Ruby Waters. Feist’s biggest moments of exposure didn’t come by any machinations of her own.
Her breakout 2007 hit 1234 , a catchy, banjoed nursery rhyme co-written with Australian singer-songwriter Sally Seltmann, rocketed to chart success when the song’s video was used in an Apple iPod Nano commercial. The song’s video was a simple and joyful dance production shot in an empty sound stage. At the time, MuchMusic and MTV were on the cultural decline, YouTube wasn’t the mainstream force it would become and TikTok was just a sound a clock made.
“I remember thinking, this is crazy,” Feist recalled. “There wasn’t really a place for it to go. The heart inside of it was so pure that when I was asked by Apple to use it, it felt like a no-brainer. ” Though the Alberta native wasn’t given money for the use of the video, the exposure was more than enough payment.
The single made her internationally famous.
“Apple was saying, ‘We’re going to put your music video everywhere in the world. ’ I thought, that sounds like a pretty fair deal. Let’s do it. ” On the morning of our interview, Feist received an e-mail from an Australian theatre company asking to use one of her songs.
She doesn’t remember which one it was − “It may have been Mushaboom ” − and didn’t really give the matter a lot of thought before okaying its use.
“There’s no reason to stop the song’s expression from continuing to do its expressing. ” In 2010, British singer-songwriter and producer James Blake covered Limit to Your Love , another song Feist co-written with Gonzalez. Blake’s minimalist version cracked the British Top 40 chart.
“I couldn’t be more grateful, because the song deserved to have a different set of wings,” Feist said. “It went different places than it could with me. ” The 12-time Juno winner feels the same way about covers by Blake and Bon Iver as she does about amateurs performing her compositions on Instagram.
“I see them from Argentina or Seoul or Saskatoon, and I love watching them. It’s my privacy travelling across wires, rays and beams that get songs from me to them and goes into someone else’s privacy. And if it can go all the way in to where they feel it’s their own, that’s the best outcome. ” 1,2,3 songwriters on Feist Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy : “There’s an intimacy to Leslie’s songwriting.
She’s letting you in. I believe she works really hard on not putting out anything that doesn’t feel great to her. The criteria she has is a very high bar. ” Quebec pop-classical pianist Jean-Michel Blais : “I recorded Mushaboom in 2018.
Her songwriting has always fascinated me, especially here, in the way she makes the extraordinary emerge from the everyday. Mushaboom turns the mundane into a dream, bringing us with her. There is something I love about the way she imagines a future that already carries the flavour of a memory. ” Broken Social Scene’s Charles Spearin : “Leslie’s contribution to Broken Social Scene goes far beyond just the lyrics, melody and spirit of the songs she sings.
She somehow changes the weather and the seasons, elevating all of us. ”
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