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"Gimme Sympathy" is the third single from Canadian rock group Metric's fourth studio album Fantasies. The song was released for radio airplay in March 2009.

Song information
The song was written by Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw and produced by John O'Mahony. It was one of the first songs written for Fantasies, and was written at Bear Creek Studios just outside of Seattle.

The band recorded the song as an acoustic version (during the filming of The Rawside Of...Metric), and gave it to fans who pre-ordered any of the packages of for the new album, along with Help I'm Alive and Jimmy Shaw's cover of Nobody Home by Pink Floyd.

Music Video
The music video for Gimme Sympathy was filmed at The Sound Academy in Toronto, Ontario. It is a one-shot style video, very similar to Feist's music videos for The Reminder. It starts off with Haines getting ready for a concert backstage. The camera then follows her as she makes her to the microphone. The three other band members are playing their instruments and as the video progresses, they all change outfits and instruments off screen and by the end they are all back to their starting positions.