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"  Metric&amp;#039;s 2005 album Live It Out solidified the Toronto-based band as pop stars and saw them playing with bands like Bloc Party and the Rolling Stones. But after stepping out of the spotlight for almost four years, they needed a gigantic gesture to reinvigorate fans. They did just that with  Fantasies, their dreamy and catchy new album, whose first single &amp;quot;Help, I&amp;#039;m Alive,&amp;quot; starts out with an unsure lead singer Emily Haines crooning &amp;quot;If I stumble, they&amp;#039;re gonna eat me alive.&amp;quot; She needn&amp;#039;t worry, as the song is already a staple on radio stations, and &amp;quot;Front Row,&amp;quot; another cut from the album, was used in an episode of Grey&amp;#039;s Anatomy earlier last month. The album can currently be bought on iTunes and gets its physical release in the U.S. on April 14, with a tour to follow this summer. We caught up with Emily to talk about the multiple meanings behind Fantasies, her possible film career, and drunk-Twittering Paul McCartney.  Metric was formed in New York City, and you lived in Williamsburg with members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and TV on the Radio. What was that like?    I don&amp;#039;t mean to completely torpedo the romance of it, but it was a convenience thing. I know it seems like it was like a &amp;#039;60s commune or something, but it was very much the &amp;#039;90s. I see the guys from TV on the Radio once in a while. Tunde Adebimpe did a show the other night at the Stone with my friend Ryan Sawyer, and I&amp;#039;m just really excited for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I&amp;#039;m really proud and happy to see everybody&amp;#039;s accomplishments from those crappy times.   What was it like opening for the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden?  It&amp;#039;s one of those times that was historic and also anticlimactic. We had a photo op with them and it felt like we were meeting the president or something. It was highly orchestrated with minimal contact. We&amp;#039;re actually not allowed to do anything with the photograph\u2014it&amp;#039;s in our contract. I don&amp;#039;t even look at it for fear of retribution.  You went to Buenos Aires to write some of the album. Why did you feel the need to go somewhere that you didn&amp;#039;t know in order to write Fantasies?   I was feeling really cornered, actually. You know those times in your life where you&amp;#039;ve just created a situation for yourself that you can&amp;#039;t get out of? That was where I was at. Anywhere I went was too referential. We&amp;#039;ve played in all these places. I know too many people in all these places. I just need to disconnect and remember what the point is of what I&amp;#039;m trying to do. So it really just began with me looking for the best place that I can rent that had a good piano in it. And I found this apartment in Buenos Aires that was kind of French-style and gorgeous, with a piano in the living room. Let&amp;#039;s talk about the title of the album. Why Fantasies?   It really sums up what we&amp;#039;re really trying to accomplish on this record. Definitely for Jimmy Shaw\u2014the guitar player and other writing half of the band\u2014he wanted to convey a dream state, an escapist imaginative sound. Which was a pretty stark contrast to Live It Out, which was intended and sounded like four people recording in a bedroom who had been on tour for five years. We wanted to convey more color and more emotion on this record. But for me it&amp;#039;s more like you think of fantasy as sort of a magical place to disappear into, but I&amp;#039;ve seen a lot of people kind of disappear permanently in to a world that is a fantasy but not in a good way. You need to have dreams, but then you need to come back to reality. The absence of reality to me is not a goal. The word has multiple readings. It&amp;#039;s a multifaceted word and a multifaceted idea.  You&amp;#039;ve said you were pretty fragmented in your career and life before this, and this album was a way to reconcile your whole self. Can you elaborate on that?  I don&amp;#039;t want to portray myself as someone really troubled, because I&amp;#039;m not, but I think that most people can relate to the strange reality that we live in now, just with the technology at our fingertips. You can really be anyone you want in any number of circumstances. Just even with the idea of online identities.  It&amp;#039;s also interesting that you mention online identities, because you&amp;#039;re Twittering now and you&amp;#039;re blogging. Do you feel pressure with that?   It&amp;#039;s been an ongoing debate and I&amp;#039;ve been gently prodded toward not being so reticent to participate in the online world. I just didn&amp;#039;t want to get into small talk and gossip. But I realize that we have such a close connection with our fans that it&amp;#039;s really not that scary, people aren&amp;#039;t that scary. I&amp;#039;ve lightened up a little about the whole thing.  Do you like Twittering?   I went to the Grammys and it was a celebratory evening, and I&amp;#039;d had a couple drinks for sure and I was like, Oh my god, I&amp;#039;m going to drunk-text-Twitter. And I sent something to Paul McCartney, and I don&amp;#039;t even know if I sent it. I can&amp;#039;t even remember. I was there with John O&amp;#039;Mahony who was nominated for mixing the Coldplay record and he mixed Fantasies as well. He had this idea of a cell phone that has a breathalyzer built in, so when you reach a certain level, you can&amp;#039;t call your mother or anyone you work with\u2014the only phone call you can make is to call a cab. And after that 911. Your band was featured in the 2004 French film Clean, which was nominated for a Palme d&amp;#039;Or at Cannes. Your music was also featured on its soundtrack. Are you currently working on any other films?  The film kind of came our way; we never pursued it too actively. We&amp;#039;re doing a film right now with Edgar Wright. He did Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz and is one of my favorite comic directors. We&amp;#039;re on a soundtrack for that with Nigel Godrich, the Radiohead producer. They&amp;#039;re shooting in Toronto, and it&amp;#039;s based on a graphic novel called Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. I really enjoy working on films and hopefully more films come our way. You were great on camera in Clean. Ever thought about acting?   There&amp;#039;s something on the table right now that I would like to do. I tried to ignore it, so it would go away, and then it didn&amp;#039;t. I&amp;#039;m really open-minded about things, but I really like being in Metric and I don&amp;#039;t want to make my fans cringe and feel really bad for me. So I&amp;#039;m going to be really careful about acting. 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