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So, why do people hate Nickelback exactly ?
- Thread starter CaptainKashup
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A copyright notice took down a Trump tweet using the Photograph meme to attack Biden. So, I guess they're good.
For now.
For now.
As a kid, I honestly hated Nickelback just because of how overplayed they were on the radio. It also doesn't help that the tone and melodies of the songs themselves were oftentimes as bland as bland could get and elicited no emotion at all. I'll forever associate those songs with the frequent hot summer car rides to football practice. I'm pretty sure those conditioned me to feel queasy whenever I hear the singer's gravely-ass voice.
I was fine with Imagine Dragons until Thunder. That song is a crime against humanity, and far worse than anything Nickelback has ever done.
Outside of that, they are fine, though.
Had to look up how many copies 'Back in Black' have sold by now after seeing that video. BiB has alone sold as many copies as all of Nickelback's albums combined, lol.
Because some of us wonder how mediocre butt-rock sung by a guy who sounds constipated got to be so huge.
I really don't know. They're so inoffensively generic with some catchy songs, I think it's just a meme to loathe them at this point.
No wonder they got mad when you mislabeled them like that. Everyone knows Nickelback is technical math metal.
Dang I didn't know that prob cause I'm not canadian
They're one of the most popular and successful bands of that era, and like virtually every other pop band...they homogenized their sound to ensure maximum profits.
Now that we've settled that can we talk about the bangers on Creed's My Own Prison? Or should I start a new thread?
Now that we've settled that can we talk about the bangers on Creed's My Own Prison? Or should I start a new thread?
Canadians only listen to blackened fantasy power metal like Imagine Dragons tbh.
Imagine Dragons? Oh yeah, the band that shamelessly ripped early aughts Coldplay to fame and fortune...let's todd them on the sacrificial altar while we're at it!!
Fuck them giant drums
I have always had an irrational hatred for that video. It takes How You Remind Me and Someday and smashes them together. Whoever made it changed the key and tempo of Someday, and even then they really don't mesh together at all. The idea is sound, but the execution was really poor.
I mean, if you allow tempo and key changes, you could do that with 95% of music, as all you are pointing out is that they go verse, chorus, verse, chorus, chorus. Like just about all pop music.
I do like the song Yellow by Coldplay. Speaking on behalf of all Canadians ofc.
It's this. I might not hate them as much as I do if they weren't crammed down our throats so much, especially in that first year. But it turned me away from radio rock and toward other music so for that I will be forever grateful to them.
I did a complete 180 on many songs or bands that were successful in my teenage to mid twenty years. I liked nickelback back then but it slowly turned around. On the other hand I hated Backstreet Boys, but now I think some of their songs were pretty good as far as mainstream popsongs go.
I do think their song "figured you out" is one of the worst songs of all time. Meme or not they are not a good band in my book.
I dislike them about as much as any other American pop rock band from that era. I just think they're super generic, and I really don't like their lyrics.
I used to listen to them, but just can't any more. The music sounds boring and uninspired to me now.
I read or heard that Chad Kroeger and maybe the band in general tried to make the music sound perfect(?). Which if true makes sense, because their songs all kind of sound the same to me.
I read or heard that Chad Kroeger and maybe the band in general tried to make the music sound perfect(?). Which if true makes sense, because their songs all kind of sound the same to me.
I actually don't hate them specifically, but I dislike that style of music. That late 90s/early 00s post-grunge rock sound. It's not my style and if I would've heard it on the radio back then, I would've switched the station.
I just don't like their songs and they are overplayed. When you hear a song you like overplayed, you start to grow sour to it, but if you hear a song you don't like overplayed, you start to HATE IT even more. I can say the same for Adele's "Hello", which I kinda liked, but was overplayed to hell and back to the point I can't hear that song anymore. I'm just over it. It's like the saying, "Hell is repetition."
I listened to Nickelback a *lot* when I was growing up. They're not the worst band I've ever heard. I'd like to say that I'm indifferent to them, but I just find them to be painfully generic.
This fella tried to get to the bottom of the Nickelback hate:
This fella tried to get to the bottom of the Nickelback hate:
Greetings my fellow North American...I too like the song Yellow by Coldplay.
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The change after the second album was quite dramatic, but it was still good. First two albums are where it's at though.
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Never hated them. I enjoyed their music initially during middle school & high school but damn they were played so much that I just grew tired I guess.
They're boring, massively overplayed generic "rock" that somehow survived the early 2000s glut of boring, massively overplayed generic "rock" despite not evolving as musicians.
The hate is overblown though as everyone wasting their time hating Nickelback should be aiming their ire at our collective true enemy: fucking Kid Rock.
The hate is overblown though as everyone wasting their time hating Nickelback should be aiming their ire at our collective true enemy: fucking Kid Rock.
It's one of the few things in life that makes me laugh no mater how much time passes.
