I feel like hatred for this band is one of the best evidences for how powerful bandwagon hate truly is. It can escalate to the point where so many people literally come up with extremely detailed conspiracy theories to justify and explain why the world hates the band so much. If you like a certain band, then like that certain band, people tend to rely on other people’s opinions too much.
Lol no it’s because Niclleback was horrible and was just trying to copy the sound of Creed like most rock bands in the early 2000s and they did a horrible job at it. Nickleback was the bandwagon.
They got so much because of their place in time and their platform. They existed right before everyone who really cares about music stopped listening to the radio because they could use the internet but also at the time all radio stations were basically own by 3 companies. This time period was also when they were very few music labels and no way to make it on your own. They are commercial rock for 35-60 year old white parents who liked listening to rock music when they were younger but don't want music to have any edge to it. 35-60 year old white people are a very profitable demographic, especially during the early 2000's when everyone 25 and under is downloading music for free. The radio labels then shoved them down everyone's throats, which I am guessing helped lead to the major decline of radio and transition to Pandora and Spotify.
Here’s the best way to describe Nickelback. Everybody says they hate Nickelback. Then they hear a Nickelback song in their shuffle, and start singing the lyrics word for word.
people are sheep unable to think for themselves... I never hated nickleback, not the best, but decent enough songs, but there was no way I was going to be caught dead listening to nickleback, what would people think of me. We are sheep, afraid to have our own opinions, we must bow before the herd.
It's so strange to hear people say Nickleback is "so generic", yet if you heard a Nickleback song for the first time, you would instantly identify it as Nickleback.
That is a really good point, there are however lots of legendary rock bands that I listen to all the time that I will mistake for another. Personally I find the Nickelback hate to be one of the biggest mysteries in modern pop culture.
Do you like AC/DC? Do you think they play good music? I sure think so. If I accidentally catch their song somewhere, I would listen. But I don't stream them, I don't have CD's. Because every song regardless of the decade sounds the same. I don't want to listen to 100 variations of one song, I want to listen to 100 different songs.
Timbre is a thing. Of course you can easily identify it - by the voice alone. Doesn't mean the song writing isn't generic. Quite the opposite. ACDC - already mentioned here - isn't generic blues rock. The sound totally differs from Canned Heat, Free and the likes, but their own songs mostly are generic ACDC songs. They wouldn't be if it came up and until 1 minute into the song you couldn't guess that it's ACDC.
I remember that for a chunk of my high school years I was ashamed to tell anyone I listened to Nickelback, even though they had so many really heart felt songs, including songs my dad had used to help get him through tough times. I then had a breakdown and sat with my dad talking about how I didn’t feel like being alive anymore. My dad just sat with me listening to music he grew up loving, and whilst listening to “If Today Was Your Last Day” I realised just what my dad meant when saying Nickelback had helped him through tough times. I always hated the hate they received, it was uncalled for and to this day any hate I see thrown towards them I’m immediately, “yeah whatever” to it.
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Nickelback was actually creed with a different singer. They were creed until 2000, once the singer left, they got a new singer and changed their name. Ppl need to study their pop history before commenting y’all
We live in a society. Humans have always understood that it makes more sense to agree with your tribe right or wrong because being an independent thinker leaves you alienated and probably dead. Studies show people are stupid and don't deserve to have civilization.
My friends got me into them in middle school. Then a year later the same friends kept saying over and over that they were the worst. But never were able to explain to me why. I never stopped listening to them. Screw bandwagon opinions.
i can explain to you why. its because they were always a watered down, generic, and uninspired copy of first wave grunge bands like STP, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, ect. they got way to much air play for their mediocre songs, which all sound the same, and so people got tired of them quickly.
All the hate for Nickelback only brought them more fame. Truthfully, I never knew of this band til my friend said something like "god I hate this band" and I became curious to what he was on about, bought their album, listened to all their songs and I became a hardcore fan ever since. Til this very day, I still can't figure out why the hate for this band.
Yeah, but haven't we just reached a cultural moment where it's cool to say "eh, everybody hates on Nickelback for no reason, but not ME. I liked them all along..." They aren't spectacular, they aren't awful, just listen to whatever you personally enjoy.
I was always confused by the hate. People told me they were a bad band and I asked for specific examples in their music, and they have a VERY hard time explaining it to me.
@@maras3naraz I live in Sweden and we had internet but this is the first time i heard of the "hate".. i listened to a few of the songs in the early 2000. To be fair i stopped watching tv around the same time so it might have been that nobody clued me in on what we are supposed to think about them
I don't hate them but I was really disappointed by them. They had this real banger of a song "how you remind me" so 10 year old me went out with my pocket money and bought that dang expensive cd.... which was soooooo laaaaaame.
I've always thought all of the individual parts of the band are great, I think there's a lot of talent there, especially Chad Kroeger as a singer/songwriter (I really like the collaborations he's done with other artists). I think they're just artistically kneecapped by the massive massive early commercial success they found in making "radio rock", because that's why people like them and that's what people want to hear.
For me, it wasn’t the radio; my mom was obsessed with them and would play their Silver Side Up album EVERY TIME we were in the car for years. Granted, it didn’t make me hate them, but it was definitely annoying.
Back in high school, my friends and I knew Nickelback and some of us loved them. I was never a fan but I thought the hatred of Nickelback was really bizarre. I tried asking people around sincerely why they didn't like Nickelback but most couldn't give a straight answer. Only a handful out rightly said they didn't like their music and they considered it bad.
I'm glad you posted this. I never really understood the hate. They were a little popish for my taste but I didn't think they had a bad sound at all. Its incredible how easily led the average person is. I can understand the school kids referenced in the video, but it is more than school kids who jumped on the "hate Nickleback" bandwagon. It's a shame that one person can have this sort of influence. ALSO, on the accusations of generic sound and the band not evolving...AC?DC hasn't altered their sound in a half century and they are one of the most loved bands of all times. Conversely, Van Halen greatly altered theirs when they started using more keyboards and switched lead singers and half of their original fan based still hasn't forgiven them. The accusation is baseless.
@@aaronthomas6155 I would sort of agree. Starting with the black album, their sound moved a little more toward mainstream. Sure, you could still tell it was Metallica, but it was softer and (frankly) starting especially with Load, not very deep. Long time fans hated the newish sound. Then Death Magnetic took them back to their original sound.
@@aaronthomas6155 Also, to be clear, I'm not criticizing a band for "not evolving." I 100% prefer the old Metallica and the pre-Hagar years Van Halen. I was just making a point on how fickle people are.
But in the words of another over-spammed and commercialised song; they didn't want to be American Idiots, one nation controlled by the media, information age of hysteria, the subliminal mindf#ck America. - Billy Joel... (Who also helped Martha Stewart bake cookies along with Snoop Dog for daytime TV)... Yeah f#ck "the system"! Free thinkers and breaking the mold! You have to wonder; who profited the most from 9/11, the US military industrial contract, or Greenday? 🤣😂🤣
I mean Nickelback is still unoriginal. It's not always just about following a trend, sometimes a band is just painfully generic like Nickelback, which is almost worse that just being bad.
The hate for Nickelback has always been uncalled for. They are FAR from the worst band. As someone who enjoyed their hit songs in elementary school, I admittedly felt a bit embarrassed when I learned in highschool that everyone was hating on them for no reason. But every time one of their songs comes up, I genuinely enjoy it. You gotta admit they're pretty iconic. "Hero" from Spiderman? That song fucking slaps. Sure, they start to sound very familiar and even "noisy" if you listen to multiple songs in a row, but I find that this is the case for a lot of artists, yet they don't get nearly the same amount of hate Nickelback does.
@@jgShadow Honestly, same. I never knew that hating on Nickelback was even a thing. I mean, I knew of some people who didn't like their music but it wasn't in such an extreme way as this.
Listen to any imagine dragons song and they all have almost exactly the same chord progression- I don't know if this is the same type of thing you're saying nickleback is doing (I've only listened to one of their songs before this- I'll definetly listen to more later) but for some reason I never see anyone speaking about it With Imagine Dragons it just kind of became their "brand" I suppose thats the difference- maybe their songs are too similar to eachother but also not different enough? Honestly don't know
I’ve been a PROUD nickelback groupie for two decades! I’ve flown around the nation on 7 different occasions to catch them in concert. Hate on me, but LOVE them! If you haven’t checked out the Hardy/Nickelback cmt concert with Hardy’s new Rockstar song, definitely check it out!! Freaking epic!!
Honestly it's kinda amazing how that of the "wrong" things that Nickleback did, it isn't any worse or any more wrong than what other celebs and bands have done themselves. Drinking and driving is clearly bad but also so many singers have a DUI on their record at some point. Some singers/bands have liscenced music to bad commericals because all they're doing is giving permission to use the music, they don't have any control over how good or bad the commercial or what their music is put in is. Ya know how many shitty, terrible commericals and movies exist that use popular songs? Is Rihanna suddenly a sell out because she lisenced "Shut up and drive" to a disney movie? a lot of it really comes down to taking a meme or a joke too seriously and too far.
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I'm really saddened by this phenomenon of bandwagon hatred. How it becomes "fashionable" to hate a certain music group, an actor, a movie, a singer, or even an entire religion. And, as you said, people come up with or readily buy into conspiracy theories just to make it okay for them to continue hating on someone without ever trying to find out for themselves. I feel terrible for Nickelback.
@@ray_x6959 my family and I were driving when the latest single of Prince came on the radio. My sister and mother loved it. Kept talking about it. I liked it but thought it was 'more of the same' and wasn't as excited as them about the song(it was his first release in years so it was a big deal, just not for me.) For the next hour, I was told how bad my taste is, how stupid my opinion was, why I ALWAYS ruin everything. When we arrived at our destination it had been decided: Prince's latest single was a gem and I was an idiot but had no right to be upset for being berrated over an opinion for an hour. That's how I grew up. I have learned that it is best to just lay down and take it when ganged up on. You might lose an eye an be blamed for everything if you do.
Nickelback's artistic style and lyrical content were more pop-like and mainstream, which might have made many perceive them as unoriginal. "How You Remind Me" might have felt repetitive for someone who wasn't a kid in the early 2000s and used to "rock" being more edgy during the grunge era and before. But for a younger millennial like me, "How you remind me" screams childhood nostalgia, and I'll never get bored! Thanks, Nickelback!
For years I honestly thought Nickelback did something really bad to earn the hate, like run over a kid or something, just something generally bad and I stopped listening to them for awhile because of it. Hearing that alot of their hatred just came from some crap comedian making a crap joke on some random show in the early 2000s just kind of pisses me off.
Always wondered why so many people hated them and now that I know, the hate seems unjustified to me. It wasn't their fault that radio stations overplayed their music. Even though they're not my favorite band, I do like a few of their songs.
To be fair a big part of why they are hated is because they requested a live charity show shut down their feed while they were preforming because they werent getting paid it didnt mention it in the video but it happaned
@@oliveryt7168 well, no it isnt. there is legit hate against them that is unjustified to the extreme. you saying that hate is an exaggaration shows how little you either know OR care.
The argument they are hated because they were popular holds well. I was following Game Theory since the early days, I never had an issue talking about Game Theory when Matpat was a small youtuber. But the moment he went big, holy crap one time in a did you know gaming video they stated the barrel roll in Star Fox is not the barrel roll. I write a comment "The barrel roll thing we Game Theory fans know that already", I got such hate from people attacking me just because I stated something positive about Game Theory
When I was a kid, my love for the band Nickelback started when I listened the song called Hero after watching Sam Raimi's Spiderman end credit scene, after a few years I became a fan of it. But when I heard the hate on internet, I was genuinely confused. After watching this video, I begin to understand why. I don't care if they criticize the band, I'll still be a fan of them.
My one gripe about the use of that song is the reference to super man as in DC when the songs music video was used to promote spider man a Marvel comic. But yeah, i still like that song 😭😭😭
@@cholesterolkilla I mean clearly this is an invitation for Marvel and DC to collab and make a crossover one-shot short with Clark Kent and Peter Parker meeting. Like, I feel that they'd click, two wholesome heroes with a sense of responsibility.
My father told me when I was younger about how the band Journey had this kind of hate that Nickelback did during it's peak fame. It was seen as shameful and tacky to listen to them. While a friend driving who said he hated Journey, asked my dad to grab a certain cassette tape to play in the car and when my dad opened the glove compartment he said a Journey cassette fell out.
I was working at McDonald's, and me and my coworker began singing nickleback songs with an exaggerated Chad Kroeger voice... Turns out, we knew like 20 nickleback songs word-for-word. It felt like bonding with a fellow nickleback fan while remaining undercover.
I never understood why people started to hate on them, I find their music ok, nothing amazing but likable. Truly a clear example of how people can be easily convinced to hate something because someone tell them that they deserve to be hated.
it's actually similar with the Twilight books. It's okay, nothing special, very average YA book series which didn't deserve the absolute hate it got, and a lot of the people bashing the series haven't read any of the books.
They used to be everywhere and it gets real annoying fast. Especially when almost all of their songs are sounds the same. They're way too aggresively bland, if that makes sense
Fun fact regarding radio stations overplaying songs, Gnarls Barkley actually requested radio stations stopped playing Crazy because they were worried it would get worn out and people would start to hate it. Given how well it's aged and how beloved the song still is I'd say they made a good call tbh. Wish CeeLo and Danger Mouse would link up again
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I appreciate the history as I could never understand why my friends in highschool all hated Nickleback. I was never aware of trends and just enjoyed music that came my way. I love their music and my first concert was a Nickleback concert. It sits very uncomfortably with me that people (musicians, creators, community members) can be hated just because it’s trendy to hate them. People follow others and don’t do their own research. Crazy.
@@anndheir Justin Bieber was just very unlikable as a person and then there were people who were jealous of girls talking about him all the time . Its like why now people hate Jake Paul.(take out the girls) Its because he is a dick. One direction was disliked because jealousy again and their fans because they would push their music down people's throats . Something similar of what kpop fans are doing now.
Absolutely true. This feels like some people are trying to justify their hate somehow, but that's not really the source, because whatever you can say about Nickelback you can say about hundreds of bands or artists that aren't getting a tenth of the hate Nickelback is getting.
They have no clue why they hate, but they're told to hate- over & over again .. Mindless, programed zombies.. Reminds me of something else that happened a few years ago
Artists should just create their own platforms and people can download the albums themselves. Much like publishers, record labels aren't really needed anymore.
I don't blame the artist, I blame the damn radio station for killing a song. Few years ago I was working in a shop where the station was the latest hip hop sorta what they would play at a night club. I remember this station would cycle the same damn song every 10th song so you'd end up hearing it like 3 or 4 times an hour. I was about to end up talking to myself by the end of the day.
@IHGNFY! Back in the 90's I was member of BMG music club (like Columbia House) there you'd buy 3 CD's for like a buck but your 4th CD would be like $25 or something that would cost something stupid.
thats crazy that they were banned from writing good things about them. now i wonder how many other artists they did this to and if theyre still doing it to this day.
I remembered asking on a forum if people liked Nickelback (it was my favorite band for a while - i rotate through fave bands) and someone who responded told me they were a horrible band and sucked, I asked why and had a conversation with the person, turned out they never even listened to Nickelback.
That's a really good point, Adrian...people spout off and say that they hate an artist or band, but when you press them...they either so silent or admit that they've never listened to them. I grew up in Michigan on the Canadian border, still have friends there, and have had a longstanding respect for the bands up there...you know the usuals...Rush, Neil Young, Bryan Adams, The Band, Guess Who, Mahogany Rush, Pat Travers, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell and many more....and although I'm not a diehard Nickelback listener, I give my respect to them as well. So thank you Canada, for turning out some top level musicians and bands over the years!
They're songs sounded the same and the radio loved playing them over and over. I only liked the leader of men and breath the rest never sounded good to me but I didn't go out of my way to hate on them.
I've never disliked them. They are a good band. They play really well, they sound good, and have consistently written catchy songs. Their success is well deserved in my opinion.
@Maria Harrison the people who like Nickelback have kept them from needing money, the guys in the band are doing fine, I'd rather hear Nickelback than some artsy fartsy pretentious band, I like the song "If Today Was Your Last Day"
Nickelback was, and still is, one of my guilty pleasures. I never understood the hate, and didn't get caught up in it. Musically, to me, they are like your favourite blanket. you can wrap yourself up in it an feel safe and warm, and they can help chase the blues away, and to me that's a good thing.
I hear on on this, while for me, it's because I remember Curb blowing my mind and then watching them play the Pit Pub at UBC for 30 people with the same energy as if it was 20000 people. Eventually, my tastes evolved and they did not. This is noted in the video, they become a producer's band, not artists.
"Photograph" made my cry the first time I heard it 14 years after it was released. I only knew the meme around the first frame of the video by cultural osmosis and I google the song out for pure curiosity. It somehow pulled my emotional strings so hard that it made me cry legitimate tears for the first time in decades. I don't know if Nickelback is still active, but I have nothing but respect for them just for that song ever since.
It became sort of a trend to hate nickelback and people jumped on the bandwagon completely ignoring the fact that they were behaving like sheep following a new cool thing. Nickelback did get out of their comfort zone with an acoustic version of lullaby and more. But i guess once it's determined that a trend is cool, everyone's going to do it.
There was a lot of that in the late 2000s and early 2010s. People hating on celebs because everyone else is. Justin Bieber, Britney Spears just to name a few. I'm not even saying they all don't deserve it, but hating someone for the sole reason that everyone else did it is the worst reason to do it.
Sheep listen to nickelback. I imagine faded jeans, "cool" sunglasses, a button up plaid shirt done 2/3 of the way up, frosted tips, divorced, new v6 mustang.
@@sheend I think your the sheep, considering your going through every comment finding ways to hate on Nickelback as soon as someone says something positive about them
I have to absolutely agree as someone who was a teen in the 2000's and doesn't particularly like Nickelback that there's nothing particular horrible about Nickelback, it was just fustratingly overplayed if you casually enjoyed a song by them you ended up hearing it enough for a lifetime.
I remember being shamed for genuinely liking Nickelback and I never understood the hate train for them. I still have my copy of "All The Right Reasons" and I used to play it on repeat while in middle school until it was pretty scratched up. I'm so glad they're still making music and I would love to see them in concert someday.
I remember having one of their songs on my phone way back in the day (before smartphones and large storage so you had to be picky) and someone making fun of it and I was so confused as to why she was mocking my having one of their songs lol. I do have to admit though that after that and a few other peoples comments I felt a little ashamed of thinking they were a perfectly fine band just as good as anything else out there and kind of just hid listening to them for many years. Now I just tell people to f@#k off LOL and if they double down just talk about how terrible what they listen to these days is. XD
There called Music Nazis they belive in a superior genre of music and that everyone who doesn't conform to their taste is inferior ..who wants to live in a world where everyone has the same taste and your judged by your taste in art ..what next people thinking they better cause they think there taste in food makes them better and make fun of people for eating certain foods they dont like? if it makes u happy and u aint hurting anyone who cares its called diversity if you take away the basic human right to enjoy what u enjoy or make art without hurting other people and been shammed for it then well........
I feel the same, I've always liked Nickelback and never knew why everybody hated them so much and growing up I heard a few playground rumors that they did something terrible but those rumors were nothing more than that so I went with it for most of my life only recently learning the truth. I understand that there is gonna be haters towards just about anything but I've never seen a band be as hated as Nickelback is and honestly for a dumb reason. IDK I personally just don't get it.
Its a simple situation of repetitive information being broadcasted only the weak minded fall for it. I guess thats a good thing that repetitive information (propaganda) can get people to agree. I like Nickleback aswell and for some reason i look down on those who fell for it..malcontent degenerative bags of trash.
I never listened to Nickelback, so I really have no opinion on whether they are good or bad. But the mentioning of oversaturation of a song maybe being the culprit reminded me of pretty much the entire 90s. If a song was a hit with the masses or perceived as a hit, you'd hear the song pretty much anywhere or the music video in constant rotation on music channels on tv. You'd have people gradually go from "hey! I love this song!" and gradually turn to "Uh, not again...". Funny thing is I never heard so much hatred as I did for them as Nickelback received. I was actually kind of shocked. I was wondering: 'what did these guys do that pissed so many people off?' So, just to find out it was one guy saying something on tv and people just jumping on the bandwagon truthfully doesn't surprise me. Back in the late 70's one guy who didn't like playing disco on his radio show wanted to kill it by having a bonfire of disco records and offering people to throw their own records into the fire at some sports stadium (I don't know the full details). Of course, several people being the easily led sheep that they are just went "Oh wait! I hate disco too!!!" This kind of reminds me of that. Actually, I'm surprised I didn't hear about bonfires of Nickelback CDs the way this story was going.
The band is talented but it just seemed to me that they were trying too hard to be "edgy" and "alternative" when they were really not. They were trying to be something that they weren't.
I agree 100% @Patrick-kt5mc. The music is good, the band is talented (to a point), but I just think they just try to hard to make themselves something they just are not. Anyone could see this clearly with how far there music has strayed away from what they did originally (ex How You Remind Me) to some of their more modern stuff (ex San Quentin).@@Patrick-kt5mc
I never knew why Nickelback was hated so much. I really liked their songs and Photograph was played in almost every graduation. Thanks for letting us know.
@@eskomoWon I'm a fan of Nickelback but Rockstar and Photograph just ain't it lol. The rest of that album is dope but those songs specifically are laughably trash.
I have always hated Nickelback because their music was cringe inducing. The most normie of normie tunes. It screams "I don't have taste in music so I just listen to what's on the radio"
I never understood the hate they got. They have some actually really good songs. I don't love them, I don't hate them. They are the kind of band where I don't purposefully go looking for their music but if I come across their music by chance I will listen to it.
And you know what? "I don't hate them , I don't love them" isn't anything unique to them either. Infact there were/are probably dozens of bands who are bigger culprits of that. But they never got targeted like Nickelback was. Really feels it was just internet meme that went on too long to become horde mentality.
As a young teen when Nickelback grew to popularity, and living through the rise of the hatred, what i observed was this: 1. They were massively overplayed; mtv, fuse, the rock radio stations, it was just everywhere all the time 2. Young people need something to hate on, and that became the easy target because it was so abundant 3. Their popular songs were nothing special compared to what else was popular at the time, and the indie scene was only just starting to get attention. People wanted indie music to matter more but had to deal with all these bands like Nickelback, Papa Roach, Three Doors Down, etc. being shoved down our throats across all the different media outlets. That era just had a bad trend of popularizing the same sounds for too long, and Nickelback was the easiest target to make fun of because their popularity was so immense. My personal opinion? I liked 2 of their songs, but grew tired of the sound real quick. I thought the jokes were funny but grew tired of that too. In the end, i think it’s a lesson about overconsumption and media homogenizing the content we are expected to consume. People didn’t want to be consumers of the same stuff over and over again.
@@xtiphuny89 Well said. I would also add that their lyrics are really trashy for many of their singles after Silver Side Up. Some great guitar riffs, but the lyrics are all perv. On top of that Photograph was SUPER overplayed.
I never knew they were hated so much! 😅 I grew up listening to them. They remind me of my teen years and I still really like them until this day! They won best selling Rock Artist in 2006 and they rank 11th best selling music act in the 2000’s. They were obviously liked by many.
Because most people are sheep, who are incapable of forming their own thoughts. Even if it were true that they actually were a generic band, that's no reason to hate them.
Thanks for this, I literally never understood why people didn’t like nickelback, I literally only knew one song and I loved that song and always wondered if maybe they did something controversial lol
@@mromatic17 So? As generic as they sounded (i'll give it to you), you have to also put in motion how people receive that repetition. While it is true how repetition can be a bane of anyone's existence (just look what happened to James Blunt and "You're beautiful"). That repetition for some is a sign of comfortability, not out of seldom and lack of taste, just a shove down the throat done and made by the media for a certain demography. Sure, boring rock has become the stagnant death of the genre, but Nick are not the most egregeous sinners tbh.
I met Chad Kroeger one time outside a bar and said hi. I was surprised how cool and down to earth he was. Totally cool guy. He hung out with everyone and was totally friendly and approachable. He is much cooler than half of the sell outs who openly diss him.
@@timothyhumphreys8361 lol. You probably listen to that joke of music called Rap. So your opinion is irrelevant. Besides, I saw them twice and they put on a great show.
I originally think the hate started with the constant airplay of "How you Remind me". I was 14 years old when that song debuted and it was well received at first, but over-exposure turned everyone against it, though that happens with many big hits. It just became trendy to say you "hated Nicklelback" and my little conspiracy theory is that the music industry was really trying to sway people into more rap, hip/hop, R&B type music and the media helped facilitate it by labeling new rock bands as "uncool"
@Can Be Fit A part of me wants to think that's why Nickleback got so much hate. I can't tell you how many times "This is how you remind me" or "Hero" got stuck in my head during my teen years. And while I like those songs, I'm sure people who didn't would get those songs stuck in their heads, and it'd be like an annoying itch that wouldn't go away.
In my country, there was never some kind of "bandwagon hatred" on a band. They didn't play Nickelback songs on repeat on the radio, never were some adverts, including hate comments. I loved Nickelback when I was little, especially their albums "black horse" and "fighting for all the right reasons". Then I moved past them and just recently was coming back to them again. I was shocked the people in the world could be hating them, they are doing things all sorts of bands and artists do...
@@FoxDie77777 limp biscuit was hated because they were blending to different styles of music and one of those styles was already not very appreciated. hip-hop and mainstream metal, mainstream metal being the style people already didn't like very much. Making things worse lots of limp biscuit fans were "poser's" or fakers that only liked it because it was cool to like them. I personally didn't feel one way or another about them but as an adult I have no problem saying they are not very good lol
Nickelback was a decent band no matter what people say. Even if you didn't like them, you have to admit that this whole band wagon hate is terrible. I mean imagine you lose your career just because some guy on a chair had a fixed opinion on your work.
They lost they carrier? They would disappear into oblivion as many similar post-grunge bands from the late 2000's. That joke held them relevant. You do realize how many people checked their music because of that?
This video fails to address the poor music...I remember these guys...instantly looked at them as a manufactured unit, one dimensional, low quality, corny....their constant airplay was not worthy of their music....this is why ppl turned, not some stupid comedian....I never heard of loser comedian...this video kind of sucks in its analysis
As much as you think being a band wagon hater is your thoughts of being the answer to why people don't like the band. It may be true to some but not true to us all. Some of us naturally do not like the band. Just like some people do not like other bands. Just make sure you actually like the band instead of getting on this trend of being on their bandwagon of no haters just to prove a meaningless point.
I can't say enough how talented this band is! I never, not ever, said anything derogatory about them! What I do know is while the haters were hating, they were making cash deposits! I am fan now and always will be! Thanks guys!
Having to explain how in the 2000s we didn't get to choose what we listened to unless we had CDs made me feel old and I'm only 30. When I was 13, I used to record songs off the radio onto cassettes using my stereo. These cassettes were what _we_ called Mix Tapes.
Im 30 too, but I just used limewire to download songs and burned them onto cds using windows Media player. Eventually I got my first ipod video. Even downloaded porn onto it so I didn't have to sneak at night to the computer area. 😂
I Never thought Nickelback would be featured on this channel, in all honesty I thought Nickelback was forgotten to history like some fossil ... Thanks Sunny, keep up the great work.
Just proves to me, yet again, what sheep we can be. Its baffling that there are people out there who don't like them and they don't even know why. Makes me happy I'm me, as I never understood anyone who said they hated Nickelback, no did I partake in the hatred of them. Thanks for the clarification.
I can explain why I despise them, if not actually hate them. They are a product of their musical generation. I would categorize them as late 90's/early 2000's nu-metal. This very minor movement in music is a result of the plummeting creative drive in the music industry. Its fans consider it creative and hard driving. I consider it to be highly derivative and musically empty. Nickelback is much like Linkin Park, Staind, and other groups of that ilk. The songs aren't terribly original, the musicians are sorely lacking any kind of standout talents, and everyone who listened to it ate it right up simply because there was so little else! Any decent band in any genre from grunge on back to the very birth of rock could bury these guys musically, and with ease. Somehow, I can't see Nickelback even remotely in the neighborhood of bands like the Who, Rush, Aerosmith, Robin Trower, Van Halen, AC/DC, the list goes on and on. So if you wonder how Nickelback has managed to garner so much hatred and contempt, here's an answer for you: It's old guys like me, and fans of vintage rock. We've all just heard much better, and without the ridiculous egos.
"I like the white stains on your dress And I love your lack of self-respect While you're passed out on the deck I love my hands around your neck" If someone starts singing any of their lyrics, u know ur gonna get the "Nickleback special" LMAO! I guess ur "asking for it" at that point. If u like Nickleback, u like gRAPE or getting gRAPED. I GUESS ITS TRUE, SOME WOMEN WANT TO BE gRAPED.
@@rocketman63 that's on you but you can't deny the most and popular songs of Nickelback does have great lyrics theses are Lullaby, Never gonna be alone, When we stand together, if today is your last day and other songs with great meanings and messages. Plus Chad voice carries these songs because of his distinct voice that when you hear that the first thing comes to your mind is Nickelback band. And what I like about the band is that they just create their music as what they like and don't give a fuck about forcefully hate of others or people like you who are purist. Their just kids who likes to make songs and share them with us wether we like it or not, just like any musician.
@viciouslyeatingaburger Of course I can deny it. There's nothing about Nickelback that stands out. You can like them. It's your time, spend it listening to whomever you wish. The issue I have with you and all Nickelback fans is you are convinced they're great, and I'm just missing out because I "don't get them", or I'm somehow ignorant. Not so. I've heard them, they don't appeal to me, and I will continue to prefer bands with some actual musical depth.
My sister had a few of their songs growing up, I mostly heard her play Photograph. They were good songs but I never asked her for copies just because she played them so much. Their "never going to be alone" song is one of my favorites. My sister discovered it, with the music video, a few weeks after our father unexpectedly passed away. It cemented itself in my media list and I've had it for years. I never understood the hate they got, so I am so happy you made this video.
@Karl with a K I think your numbers are too high. Very few bands in the world have 10 legendary songs let alone 20 superb ones. Either that or your "superb" ain't like mine.
I've never understood the hatred for Nickelback and have always been confused by it. I heard several unverifiable stories as to why the hatred existed, but never bothered looking into it and just moved on. I'm glad I saw this video. This cleared up a ton.
For most genre songs that dont like them its just that the lyrics are pretty substanceless and the band makes radio targeted music its just kind of fake and the vocals are meh. Atleast for my friends and me it was always a poor linkin park copy
@@IzayaTijisPrincess The only thing that connects Nickelback and Linkin Park is the fact that their music genres cross-over one another. That's all it ever was. Just because two things look or sound similar does not mean they're the same or a copy. It's simple "I don't like" and you don't have to explain yourself to anyone why. You simply stick to what you like and let others stick to what they like. We don't have to stay in the same box, yet for some reason there are people out there who think we should.
@@IzayaTijisPrincess kind of crazy how nickelback gets all this hate for "subtanceless" music when you got famous rappers like travis scott and kanye west which are much worse
@@andreamaral9725 Kanye West is unhinged but he's a master at production and he's got legendary bars. Even a "popular" song like Power includes gems like "Reality is catching up with me/taken my inner child I am fighting for her custody". Try to find that in the average rap about percs and xans.
There’s always some idiot saying this. Just listen to the video and read other comments. The reasons are incredibly simple. You can’t say you don’t get them. Just say you disagree. The problem is you people can’t just say you’re a Nickelback fan and leave it at that. You have to pretend like we can’t dislike mediocre radio rock. Just be quiet
I was in a rock bar a couple months back when 'Rockstar' came on-a large part of the bar broke out in an impromptu and enthusiastic sing-along. I saw Nickleback live a good few years ago, and they were particularly 'meh' but I like 'How You Remind Me' and 'Hero'.
I worked as a Stage Technician for many many years, and I worked on one of their Concerts in Zürich. Hands down Nickelback is one of the most sincere Bands when it comes to music. All they brought was their instruments, their sound system and a video screen that was just a simply a live feed from different angles. No costumes, no weird acting, no playback(!), no weird effects. And while this might sound BORING to some people, this was the most entertaining concert Ive ever watched. And Ive seen hundreds due to my job.
Good opinion from a person who is involved 100% on concerts and music ..... This is an honest band .... own sound and original music .... Fuck haters ! (i´m not a real fan of the band ... but total respect for them and their career >! )
The reason why many Americans dislike Nickelback is because they are Canadian. You should change your title. It should be "WHY ARE AMERICANS ANGRY WITH NICKELBACK," while in Asia, they are fine.
So let me get this straight from an audiovisual event technician to another, they brought their own P.A System? And they brought an LED wall kit? For a live feed from multiple angles? But with no live cameras or PTZ cameras? How long ago was this, how big a venue was this and how popular were they? Because unless you're referring to a basement show with a fastfold screen, because you just said a "video screen"(??) OR a stadium arena show on tour with a 20 or so tech crew and multiple trucks for a line array P.A system and delay towers maybe, and a LED wall kit (with no cameras despite it being a live feed from multiple angles??) then it sounds like you're lying, if your story dates after their claim to fame then no one would think bringing a whole P.A System on tour is an easy and boring task, otherwise, if this would date back to around where they would be playing in theatres more than arenas, no way they would have brought a P.A System, theatres have their own and they won't move around that stuff for a specific band, and lastly, for some small underground basement show, they could have brought like 2 electrovoice P.A's or any other cheaper entry level brands like that and put em on tripods on some mackie analog console but then no way they would have had enough space and gear to put a livefeed on a fastfold screen because 1. that would be a few cameras to put in a small space, and that could become a bit too expensive, 2. Were Blackmagic ATEM/Roland Switchers even a thing back then to have a feed with multiple angles? So either you're lying about your job or you're actually really bad at it and you've done it for around 10 years and you're still stuck doing only setups/teardowns because your story doesn't add up and so you don't know what you're talking about Nickelback is pretty good though, wouldn't say they're too original or authentic but they're simple guys that make the simple music they feel like making so, it's genuine to a point
I'm from Poland. I started to listen Nickleback as a teenager. It really made my day a lot of times when I was stragling with all that teenagers stuff. I'm 30 now and I still listen to Nickleback sometimes. I really like this band and don't give a sh*t what others think.
Even though I was not a fan back in the day of their initial rise, without any love for them I could still tell the hate was stupid. I remember thinking "Gee they aren't my style so I don't even care, but dang!? They aren't that bad. They aren't bad AT ALL. Ya'll be trippin." As the hatred went on I listened to them more, just to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I didn't want to be an out of touch looser who was out of the loop or on on the wrong side of history or anything. But I couldn't find anything wrong. Their style grew on me and I became a fan so suck on that haters! 😁
It's funny how blissfully unaware of something you can be when you ignore media and Internet. Was never a "fan" of nickelback but I like many of their songs and I've only found out about this global hatred for them in recent years...
Meanwhile, I'm still gonna wear my Nickelback shirt and blast their Dark Horse album during my day 😎 because... Screw other people's bandwagon opinions.
Yeah. Had no idea people dislike them so much. I don’t think they were the best of bands but, I don’t think they were that bad. As a guitarist, I kind of like some of their riffs.
I was in middle school when Nickelback become big and remember hearing that song everywhere. I never was a big fan of their music but definitely thought it was odd that they were so hated.
Same. I'm like a diehard rock and metal fan, and although personally I don't like Nickleback, they never deserved all that hate. When I say I hate on Nickleback, I do it because I think it's silly to hate on Nickleback, but I don't genuinely hate Nickleback.
It is really sad... In middle school I had one nickleback song I really liked and always wondered why people hate this band, since it sounds really similar to some bands really popular and considered good at the time. And all of this sounds like hate campaign winded up for no reason. What is scary is media can pull the same thing on some politics, activists etc if they become a threat to them.
Hero, Somebody That I Used To Know, Dance Monkey.... people hating on what they love the most! smh... I love them all and welcome, smile and sing along any time, anywhere, however many times it plays ♥️
I remember friends of mine listening constantly to Nickelback, suddenly claiming they always hated Nickelback. This was the biggest bandwagon in history.
i liked a few of their songs, then they kept playing their songs... kroq.. kiss fm... and it was a time I just kept them behind my head until this joke came around and I was like " huh?...... well that's something. " Then after some time I forgot they even existed haha. tl;dr I didn't really like them, became a meme, totally forgot them after.
Nickleback like Creed, and Imagine Dragons, and the such had way tooooo many hits on one CD which caused them to be WAYYYYY overplayed. Every new CD had like 4 or 5 radio hits plus used in film and TV. Lincoln Park almost got the same bad rap.
Being someone who learned about them in the late 2010s, I never understood what was bad about them, I still like their music today, and listen to some of their old albums from time to time. They're just a band, in my opinion nothing they did, said or made, is worse than anything done by any other bands or artists.
The fact that Creed doesn't get the same hate is all you need to know. They're practically the same = "Pearl Jamish" bands. I really don't get all the hate.
@@marioncobretti5970 Creed got a ton of hate I still remember jokes about them but to me it was catchy garbage I couldn't relate to the music at that time I listened to Mars Volta and Thursday
@F.I. Lewis well all famous bands get some hate, but the thing with Nickelback is exaggerated. Creed has some awesome songs like "Torn". But of course they're nowhere near Mars Volta, one of the best bands ever in my opinion.
Thats the thing though, the best thing you can say about them is that they are indeed a band. That in itself isnt a problem, but at the time they were played nonstop and you couldn't get away from it. Nothing will make you hate mediocrity more than having it crammed down your throat for years. Ex:Maroon 5
I listened to All the Wrong Reasons as a kid and loved it, I never knew why they were hated, until I relistened to the album, the childhood memories song is followed immediately by the car sex song, and yeah, that's some topical whiplash.
For me growing up I'm one of those people that didn't mind Nickelback. You can't deny that they have come out with some really good hits over the years. There are other worst artists out there for me like Phish that I can't stand.
A lot of their songs are very enjoyable and I always thought the hate fake and unnecessary. The band did, however, start to get a little tiresome to listen to when their songs were always on the radio and all very similar.
That clown that sings guci gang guci gang where's his hate least nickelback made songs that had meaning behind it I've always liked their music and never understood the hatred
I always had a feeling in the back of my mind that the hate Nickelback gets was just because of bandwagoning. one person shits on them, so other people do it too. what I find remarkable is that the band is taking that hate and using it to propel their career and they're afraid of what will happen when people stop hating them. I've never seen any band do that before me personally, I've always liked Nickelback. my standards for music have never been the highest so Nickelback is good enough for me
@@angel_existential music doesn’t have to be “complex” to be good for example look at old punk musicians from the 70’s they only play 3 or 4 chords in a song and most of the guitar playing isn’t really that great because they just want to write a simple driving song, a song doesn’t need to be complex to be good, you could write and play something with a simple formulaic structure and it could still be a good song
Even if you're not into Nickelback or the type of music they play, there is no denying how great they are live. They are one of those few bands that sound almost identical to the studio recording. Truly talented musicians.
I've seen ALOT of concerts in my life and this singer has one of the strongest voices I've ever heard. Nickleback is an Increditable band with good lyrics.
A guy at my local comic story said it best: Outside of Chat Kroeger, Nickelback got famous at the worst time: When the internet first began to pick up speed. If they broke out before or after that 01-04 gap, they would not be as hated. To a similar effect but smaller impact, 5 Finger Death Punch is also a victim of this
Idk for me 5FDP just was a let down. I’m a huge death-metal fan, and a lot of my buddies were super into 5FDP so when I heard about them I had high expectations. They’re not nearly as heavy and badass as I had built them up to be, so I brushed them off as mediocre. Especially with a name like that 😂 but that isn’t their fault
I just grew out of that sorta music. I used to love staind but now I can't listen to them anymore its the lyrics and the feelings they elicit just reminds me of being a moody teenager and not really understanding music that well
I grew up not listening to any mainstream music, found Nickelback completely by accident without knowing about the hate train. Honestly? I fell in love with them. It's a good band.
I agree! I found Nickelback by accident too and I had no idea about the hate. I just don’t get it!! They are a great band and Chad is a great singer! This stupid thing apparently started as a joke in a talk show?? The bad power of media ☹️
@@MajasMusicMine There's a certain group that hate them, and they think they know why, but they really don't. They're easy to identify. Just tell them they hate Nickelback because they just follow what others do, and when they get angry, that will be your confirmation.
I'm from the UK, I love Nickelback! Have done for 20 years, I went to see them in concert in Liverpool, it was a double whammy as Daughtry were their support act ❤❤🔥🔥❤❤
The whole reason behind them being mistreated at the Portugal concert was in my opinion the organization's fault. They were there at a music festival replacing the metal band Coal Chamber and most of the metal fans did not hear about the change. So you have a bunch of drunk metal fans expecting metal and you give them nickelback. Not saying their actions were justified but I felt like you could have talked about the context of the event since in Portugal we didn't get as much exposure to the radio constantly playing it, the promo for the comedy show and that one advertisement, and alot of people dont know english to understand the memes.
I honestly think they’re actions were justified in that scenario. People were throwing shit at them while they were trying to do their job. There’s videos of GNR and Metallica calling out the crowd for throwing stuff at them, and they threatened to walk, too. Chad even gave them a chance, and still got shit thrown at them. The language barrier thing sucks, but still sucks more for the band in that scenario. Also, people have been spreading misinformation about that particular show for years. Folks have claimed that the reason the crowd were so angry was because they weren’t actually in Portugal, but some other country. I haven’t found a shred of evidence to prove that to be true, but people keep parroting it every time someone shares this clip.
Nickelback honestly go just as hard as coal chamber in their album tracks, they managed to get a Dimebag Darrel solo on a song ffs, people just think of Nickelback as the Photograph band and thats the issue. The problem is not that the band is a bad substitute, it's they're perceived as a bad substitute that's the problem
@@blueorpheus5693 I think he was saying that the actions of the audience at the Portugal concert wasn't justified but that this context shows a different explanation of why they reacted compared to the reasoning that could be inferred from the video.
@@ClikcerProductions It wasnt just that they were perceived as a bad substitute, the issue went deeper than that. The festival tickets were, and still are today, expensive in Portugal and most people need to wait, take days off to go and work hard for the money to be able to attend and see the bands they want to see. People have to plan to go to these concerts sometimes For Nickelback to be put on stage without previous warning when people had already passed the gates to watch another band, only to be confused when faced with a completely different band instead was highly disrespectful for the paying costumer. Even if the style of music isnt that different since it was a rock/metal event, the people who were there paid money to go see Coal Chamber, not any other band. Nickelback didnt deserve the stuff thrown at them, absolutely not, but I understand why the audience was displeased and at the end of the day and I blame the organization for mishandling the whole situation They didnt warn their costumers of the change, they didnt offer any options of a refund or changing the ticket for another day, they did the switch quietly and they put Nickelback on stage letting them take the blame for it all. It was disrespectful all around
As a Canadian (Nickelback is Canadian but somehow this was never mentioned) I can say for sure that the majority of people here still love Nickelback. People like to meme on them (and for good reason) but they are very popular still and most people don't understand the hate. I'm not a fan but they do have some legit good songs and they don't all sound the same. Hero by Chad Kroeger from the Spiderman soundtrack is a banger
@@sawaremigiusz2182 I guess so. and then, fast forward until today, and it's just popular to hate Nickelback and unpopular to admit that there are 5 songs by Nickelback in my rock playlist.
I played _Hero_ in the 4th of July Parade in Chester, California, as I threw candy to kids in the crowd. (The theme was Firefighters & Citizens who helped them/the public during the Dixie Wildfire of 2021.) It was a hit with the crowd.
Cool, that you stood up and spoke for the majority. Now personally I don’t think I could ever be this arrogant or narcissistic, but I suppose someone has to be?
Curious how one single person making a very short off-hand joke about some random music band completely unintentionally made millions of people detest that music band, even though most of those people had never even heard of said band before, and without said band having said or done anything to objectively deserve it.
Everyone's forgetting the infamous "Ugliest man in rock" thing. The singer officially held that title for a few years, even though I'm pretty sure there were plenty of uglier dudes singing in bands out there lol.
Have you seen the interview where Jim Carrey jokes about Napalm Death? I've never saw anything bad about them even if Jim Carrey is a worldwide known person unlike that nobody who made the joke about Nickelback.
I actually still love some of their songs. Never stopped even though it became "cool" to hate them. "How you remind me", "Someday", "Photograph" is still songs I listen to.
If they can stand up to all the hatred and keep writing, keep recording, keep performing, then maybe, just maybe... they are more ROCK than many give them credit for.
I'm sure money doesn't have anything to do with that. It's almost like the bassist himself didn't say in this video that he fears the day people stop hating on them. But sure, there is nothing more "rocknroll" than to do whatever mediocre thing for money
@@miguelnascimento2847 There are many many mediocre rock bands who aren't hated. At this point Nickleback would have enough wealth to retire so they don't have to deal with people who can't form an original opinion but they are dealing with hate and doing what they want to.
@@akshitapradeep7115 what do they have to do in order to deal with the hate? It's just a bunch of strangers poking fun at them. I don't think any big name has made fun of them in over a decade and even then what is there to deal with? You make it sound like it's such a hard sacrifice that they are making in order to continue because some people "hate" them when that hate has actually helped them. And yes there are many mediocre rock bands that aren't hated I fail to see how that is relevant
Nickelback was the first concert I ever saw. Witnessed a woman throw her bra on stage, felt pyro heat that felt like my eyebrows were singed off, and first saw Seether play hey man nice shot. All in all awesome concert. Always liked Nickelback. Not my favorite band, but they don't deserve the negativity that has been spread about them.
I totally relate with this video. Growing up, I actually enjoyed a decent amount of Nickelback songs (hearing Hero for the first time in Spiderman and listening to the lyrics of Rockstar). Then at some point during high school/university, mentioning Nickelback would always elicit negative reactions. It felt like I totally missed something, since I didn't know how the hate actually spread. I was really surprised that it was so wildly hated, when there were many more artists/bands that I would consider much worse sounding. They definitely aren't my favourite band, but I'm surprised how much hatred a mildly pleasant sounding band can garner.
Something I think you missed but made related points on is the track selection for radio and the single release selection. Nickleback was actually on roadrunner which is a heavy metal, hardcore label. 75% of their tracks on an album are in line with this. But the tracks that got released and radio time were always their most vanilla 1 dimensional/bland stuff and I guess were put on them to just give broader appeal/as album filler, so typically did suck anyway. Which made the audience see them only through the lens of these album padding tracks.
Yep. It also made it very difficult for the band to hold its own in metal festivals, where the band was often booked. This happened in a festival in my country, Portugal, in which the band was booked along with Dimmu Borgir and others along the line. It ended with some fans attacking the band, from what I recall.
Yeah it's this, they're perceived as not taking any risks and just being the most generic band ever because of the singles, not the band as a whole. At the end of the day both Nickelback and the label want money, and using those cookie cutter tracks as singles got them that while allowing them to still make stuff like side of a bullet which features a god damn Dimebag Darrel solo
Im 26, for years I skipped Nickelback songs knowing the stigma surrounding the band. In the past few months iv listened to several songs off the “All the right reasons” album and truly I dont understand the hate. They carry a unique sound and I do like them. Never let someone shame your taste in music.
It just shows in how scary world we live in. A few comments on the internet can ruin a band, imagine what it could do to an individual? Feels like a Black Mirror episode. Imagine hating something or someone because someone else is hating too? What happened to us?
That's not why people hate them, you just let this single video convince you of that with the first half. Next time someone tells you they don't like Nickelback, ask them why and I'm sure they'll list reasons. Personally, I don't like them for the same reason I don't like modern country music: The vocals are like nails on a chalkboard and the songs seem to just drone on and "exist". It makes it hard to judge whether or not the lyrics have decent writing and the nature of the music means the riffs/all instruments will mesh together instead of standing out and be memorable for the moment instead of long lasting. Now if that's too in depth an analysis, you might think "I only listen to it for the sound" Well if you only listen to it for the sound and that's enough reason to like it, it's certainly enough reason to hate it. tl;dr They're very boring, there are tons of bands that try harder at what they claim to be. They are not very unique or memorable.
@@SamaelVR great, good for you. Everyone's entitled to their opinion. But that's not the reason for the disproportionate amount of hate and if you think that's the only reason you're deluded. What happened to NIckelback was unjustified and just an early example of the modern-day "cancel culture" that has contributed to a sick and twisted society.
@@bogotabro but Nickelback is one of the highest selling bands ever.... How were they "canceled"? I think people take this NIckelback thing way too far lmao, the "hate" they get is majority memes and jokes from people who don't listen to them or their type of music. It's quite literally impossible for a band that's according to this video "universally hated" to sell as much as they do.
Same thing kinda happened to the Bee Gees, supposedly everyone hated them for their Disco sound, but to this day their music is still relevant. I have and still do like both bands.
Our loss... a great band can't continue to write great music under that kind of stress. Nickelback wrote amazingly catchy songs both lyrically and musically.
I hope they don't stop writing music. They did something right to sell millions of records. I personally don't like their music one bit, but they should keep doing what they love.
@@viciouslyeatingaburger yeah, I like thier newest album but nothing they have done since being scrutinized has compared to what they were writing when they were a popular band. Imo
It's so sad that a band that produces so good qualtiy music gets dragged through the dirt for just a buch of haters who need to put people below them to feel better. Noice music Nickelback👍
I can 100% tell you that I never liked "How you remind me" at any point. Then they played it constantly, as stated in the video, and that did not help at all. The rest of their music couldn't unf*ck the band by itself, so I decided I hated them too. But I hated them because I hated them, not because other people did. I'll admit to having fun with the Nickelback hate meme for a spell, but I hated them from the first time I ever heard them--before it was ever 'cool' to hate them. That beind said, now that I am much older, I can actually listen to them because of the nostalgia. Without the nostalgia I wouldn't even bother though. And I only listen when I'm drinking lol, but to be fair that's the only time I can stand any music now--not just Nickelback. Peace and quiet is the greatest sound in the world, or the laughter of good company on a peaceful day. But some people really do just hate Nickelback because they hate Nickelback lol. If they didn't overplay "How you remind me" back in the day, it might have played out differently though, I can admit.
It hurts my heart to hear how the band members were hurt. They helped me thru some really hard times and I hope they still play for the love of it. If that is ruined, I hope they still have a shit ton of money.
My favorite memes about Nickelback are that one where the dad is checking his kid's Halloween candy, sees knives and drugs but is worried because he saw a Nickelback CD and the "Look at this Graph" one.
The overplaying part immediately made me think back to 2015 with "Happy" by Pharrell Williams. The song was a bop when it first came out, and looking back now it's a good song to walk or dance to, but after a month or two on it being on the radio, you couldn't go for a 20 minute car ride without hearing AT LEAST 2 of your pop radio stations playing it, not to mention other forms of media. I wanted to like it, but because of how much I heard it I had to hate it.
It's also because the song feels like it's forcing you to feel a certain way, with the song's overly saccharine tone and the repetition of the phrase "happy, happy, happy" is very irritating.
growing up for me it was Hotel California and Sweet Child O' Mine. So overplayed it drives you nuts. Hotel California is masterful (duellling guitar solos!?!?), but god I just couldn't listen to it for about 20 years. I agree, I've made nickleback jokes over the years, and I can barely recognise two of their songs. They are an easy target, and I think they are the epitome of safe Dadrock, so they get all the hatred that every other band like them deserves instead.
You're so right. I felt the same way when the whole "Despacito" craze was going on. I wanted to like it but it played so much on the radio and elsewhere that I ended up hating it instead.
i grew up in a middle eastern country and i absolutely loved nickelback then a few years ago i heard everyone hated them and how bad they were and i was very shocked , i still love their music
Indian 🖐. Same. Some of my friends in India who liked to think they have better taste in music told me the band was terrible & liking them was a joke. I now see that they probably read some American articles :)
Bulgarian here, same ! Im shocked to hear so many people ' hated " them when couple of their songs will be a classic forever, but seems like brainwashed sheep were just fed an opinion, real people will appreciate hte talent htey have.....
I feel like most people who say Nickelback is a bad band hasn't really listened to nickelback.. sadly it is a thing but I defend them all the time. Then again they probably could have done without the photograph song. But Metallica has songs that sucks too. Every band does
I'm from the US, and I never understood the hatred either. I love the ways music can unite people from different places. I'm a major fan of Bloodywood (like a metal version of Bollywood; they play Indian folk metal) and it's a really diverse fan base, much like Nickelback's. You know someone's playing good music when it brings a wide range of people together.
I can take or leave Nickelback, frankly. But one thing I've always felt is that Brian Posehn really isn't all that funny. If it was Posehn who decided the world should hate Nickelback, they probably ought to be given another chance. Besides, how much faith can you put in a public that hates Nickelback but let Maroon 5 and Train be huge successes. As for radio being to blame, I think "Sweet Home Alabama" disproves this theory.
Maroon 5 really broke my heart. I liked their first album so much and then they became something completely different. Same thing kinda with Nickelback. Their first albums are quite different from their later stuff. But it's not even as bad as with Maroon 5 in my opinion.
Nickelback even for all the memes they've gotten were allowed to be huge successes too, they've sold over 50 million albums Honestly I never even knew Posehn said this about Nickelback, I just assumed people got sick of them like that South Park episode where Stan started getting older and the music he liked before started to literally sound like s%#@. I can understand you being annoyed about Maroon 5, they and especially Adam Levine have been just as memeworthy if not more so but why bring up Train? I haven't really heard anything about them since like Hey Soul Sister, I didn't even know they were still around.
To be fair Pat Monahan has a pretty good voice I loved their led zeppelin tribute album. Nickleback performing sharp dressed man is one of my favourite covers. Maroon 5 is awful but they have some catchy lyrics.
Nickelback also played Flood Aid & didn't get broadcast & got blamed for the planned non broadcast of their set. They also got sent to some metal fest (10:40) & got booed & pelted off stage. The question is why they would be featured with bands like Slayer & Pantera? Sounds like their booking agent said yes when no was the correct answer.
I feel like hatred for this band is one of the best evidences for how powerful bandwagon hate truly is. It can escalate to the point where so many people literally come up with extremely detailed conspiracy theories to justify and explain why the world hates the band so much. If you like a certain band, then like that certain band, people tend to rely on other people’s opinions too much.
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Lol no it’s because Niclleback was horrible and was just trying to copy the sound of Creed like most rock bands in the early 2000s and they did a horrible job at it. Nickleback was the bandwagon.
They got so much because of their place in time and their platform. They existed right before everyone who really cares about music stopped listening to the radio because they could use the internet but also at the time all radio stations were basically own by 3 companies. This time period was also when they were very few music labels and no way to make it on your own.
They are commercial rock for 35-60 year old white parents who liked listening to rock music when they were younger but don't want music to have any edge to it. 35-60 year old white people are a very profitable demographic, especially during the early 2000's when everyone 25 and under is downloading music for free. The radio labels then shoved them down everyone's throats, which I am guessing helped lead to the major decline of radio and transition to Pandora and Spotify.
Their music is average and overplayed.
Here’s the best way to describe Nickelback. Everybody says they hate Nickelback. Then they hear a Nickelback song in their shuffle, and start singing the lyrics word for word.
people are sheep unable to think for themselves... I never hated nickleback, not the best, but decent enough songs, but there was no way I was going to be caught dead listening to nickleback, what would people think of me. We are sheep, afraid to have our own opinions, we must bow before the herd.
what? their songs are just not good.
No they don't, unless they have it in their shuffle, and they won't unless they like them. Check and mate
@@realChewky "check and mate"🤓
@@captaincavemonkey or some people overthink everything in life and can't accept when a band just sucks on every level
It's so strange to hear people say Nickleback is "so generic", yet if you heard a Nickleback song for the first time, you would instantly identify it as Nickleback.
That is a really good point, there are however lots of legendary rock bands that I listen to all the time that I will mistake for another. Personally I find the Nickelback hate to be one of the biggest mysteries in modern pop culture.
The pinnacle of mediocrity
Do you like AC/DC? Do you think they play good music? I sure think so. If I accidentally catch their song somewhere, I would listen. But I don't stream them, I don't have CD's.
Because every song regardless of the decade sounds the same. I don't want to listen to 100 variations of one song, I want to listen to 100 different songs.
Imagine Dragons are even worst
Timbre is a thing. Of course you can easily identify it - by the voice alone. Doesn't mean the song writing isn't generic. Quite the opposite. ACDC - already mentioned here - isn't generic blues rock. The sound totally differs from Canned Heat, Free and the likes, but their own songs mostly are generic ACDC songs. They wouldn't be if it came up and until 1 minute into the song you couldn't guess that it's ACDC.
I remember that for a chunk of my high school years I was ashamed to tell anyone I listened to Nickelback, even though they had so many really heart felt songs, including songs my dad had used to help get him through tough times. I then had a breakdown and sat with my dad talking about how I didn’t feel like being alive anymore. My dad just sat with me listening to music he grew up loving, and whilst listening to “If Today Was Your Last Day” I realised just what my dad meant when saying Nickelback had helped him through tough times.
I always hated the hate they received, it was uncalled for and to this day any hate I see thrown towards them I’m immediately, “yeah whatever” to it.
"A Finnish academic study on the hatred of Nickelback" was not a phrase I was expecting to hear today.
Fact: The Finnish leftists overtook the academia which is state funded - and then they ruined it. The amount of trash produced and on tax money is unbeliavable.
Or ever XD
what times to live in. studies about the hate towards nicklback.
Most importantly, the results of this study were confirmed by a reddit user.. xD
Nickelback was actually creed with a different singer.
They were creed until 2000, once the singer left, they got a new singer and changed their name.
Ppl need to study their pop history before commenting y’all
The fact that there are studies done on the hatred of Nickleback is a testament to how crazy the whole thing is
We live in a society. Humans have always understood that it makes more sense to agree with your tribe right or wrong because being an independent thinker leaves you alienated and probably dead. Studies show people are stupid and don't deserve to have civilization.
There must not be much going on in Finland...
I think most of the hate comes from the music and people not liking it and it getting played on the radio here a lot over and over
@@AspireGMD usually not. The most recent supid article was about "now its studied. people slip more when its slippey" something around those lines
It’s an interesting study because it sort of feels like how propaganda can start and effect everyone.
My friends got me into them in middle school. Then a year later the same friends kept saying over and over that they were the worst. But never were able to explain to me why.
I never stopped listening to them. Screw bandwagon opinions.
i can explain to you why. its because they were always a watered down, generic, and uninspired copy of first wave grunge bands like STP, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, ect. they got way to much air play for their mediocre songs, which all sound the same, and so people got tired of them quickly.
@@michaelfarkas2257 Blah blah bandwagon.
@@michaelfarkas2257 I've been saying the same thing about them for years
@@michaelfarkas2257 or, they're just really good, seems like the simplest answer :)
its not a bandwagon if theyre actually just bad. People only liked them because corporate media said to.
All the hate for Nickelback only brought them more fame. Truthfully, I never knew of this band til my friend said something like "god I hate this band" and I became curious to what he was on about, bought their album, listened to all their songs and I became a hardcore fan ever since. Til this very day, I still can't figure out why the hate for this band.
It was trendy to to say ”I hate nickelback” 😂 I have no idea why
Yeah, but haven't we just reached a cultural moment where it's cool to say "eh, everybody hates on Nickelback for no reason, but not ME. I liked them all along..."
They aren't spectacular, they aren't awful, just listen to whatever you personally enjoy.
I’m so sorry that you entered your dad rock phase early
@@Mike-pb7jm facts my guy
"All thier songs sound the same"
Ever heard bands like zztop or acdc?
"They are poor musicians"
I'll say, go see nickelback perform live.
I was always confused by the hate. People told me they were a bad band and I asked for specific examples in their music, and they have a VERY hard time explaining it to me.
Shitty chudding guitar, terrible hacky lyrics, literally the worst voice in rock history. What's the mystery?
They were average, I really didn't get the hate in my county, but it was third world at that time, so no internet telling us what to think
@@maras3naraz I live in Sweden and we had internet but this is the first time i heard of the "hate"..
i listened to a few of the songs in the early 2000.
To be fair i stopped watching tv around the same time so it might have been that nobody clued me in on what we are supposed to think about them
I don't hate them but I was really disappointed by them. They had this real banger of a song "how you remind me" so 10 year old me went out with my pocket money and bought that dang expensive cd.... which was soooooo laaaaaame.
I've always thought all of the individual parts of the band are great, I think there's a lot of talent there, especially Chad Kroeger as a singer/songwriter (I really like the collaborations he's done with other artists). I think they're just artistically kneecapped by the massive massive early commercial success they found in making "radio rock", because that's why people like them and that's what people want to hear.
For me, it wasn’t the radio; my mom was obsessed with them and would play their Silver Side Up album EVERY TIME we were in the car for years. Granted, it didn’t make me hate them, but it was definitely annoying.
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My dad had a nickelback cd he put on a lot. This is how you remind became old very fast to me. All nickelback songs sound the same imo.
And for me I like corn
@Some guy who is a degenerate for fun [Mayk Felix] it's corn a big lump with knobs it's got the juice
Back in high school, my friends and I knew Nickelback and some of us loved them. I was never a fan but I thought the hatred of Nickelback was really bizarre. I tried asking people around sincerely why they didn't like Nickelback but most couldn't give a straight answer. Only a handful out rightly said they didn't like their music and they considered it bad.
Are you an XQC fan?
@@MrNuts70 who?
@@MrNuts70 who?
The lead singer's voice makes my throat hurt.
They had bad luck becoming an internet meme. Nothing more to it. People are awful and that's it :)
I'm glad you posted this. I never really understood the hate. They were a little popish for my taste but I didn't think they had a bad sound at all. Its incredible how easily led the average person is. I can understand the school kids referenced in the video, but it is more than school kids who jumped on the "hate Nickleback" bandwagon. It's a shame that one person can have this sort of influence.
ALSO, on the accusations of generic sound and the band not evolving...AC?DC hasn't altered their sound in a half century and they are one of the most loved bands of all times. Conversely, Van Halen greatly altered theirs when they started using more keyboards and switched lead singers and half of their original fan based still hasn't forgiven them. The accusation is baseless.
Metallica has had the same sound since the 80's.... It's their musical identity. That's how people know it's a Metallica song.
@@aaronthomas6155 I would sort of agree. Starting with the black album, their sound moved a little more toward mainstream. Sure, you could still tell it was Metallica, but it was softer and (frankly) starting especially with Load, not very deep. Long time fans hated the newish sound.
Then Death Magnetic took them back to their original sound.
@@aaronthomas6155 Also, to be clear, I'm not criticizing a band for "not evolving." I 100% prefer the old Metallica and the pre-Hagar years Van Halen. I was just making a point on how fickle people are.
It's ironic that people say they're unoriginal, yet so many people just follow the "it's cool to hate Nickelback" trend.
Bruh good point!
But in the words of another over-spammed and commercialised song; they didn't want to be American Idiots, one nation controlled by the media, information age of hysteria, the subliminal mindf#ck America. - Billy Joel... (Who also helped Martha Stewart bake cookies along with Snoop Dog for daytime TV)...
Yeah f#ck "the system"! Free thinkers and breaking the mold!
You have to wonder; who profited the most from 9/11, the US military industrial contract, or Greenday? 🤣😂🤣
@@angryherbalgerbil Billie Joe Armstrong, not Billy Joel
Because most ppl are lobotomized followers who need to be told how to thimk.
I mean Nickelback is still unoriginal. It's not always just about following a trend, sometimes a band is just painfully generic like Nickelback, which is almost worse that just being bad.
The hate for Nickelback has always been uncalled for. They are FAR from the worst band. As someone who enjoyed their hit songs in elementary school, I admittedly felt a bit embarrassed when I learned in highschool that everyone was hating on them for no reason. But every time one of their songs comes up, I genuinely enjoy it. You gotta admit they're pretty iconic. "Hero" from Spiderman? That song fucking slaps. Sure, they start to sound very familiar and even "noisy" if you listen to multiple songs in a row, but I find that this is the case for a lot of artists, yet they don't get nearly the same amount of hate Nickelback does.
I loved Hero. I actually didn't know people "hated" Nickelback so watching this video was a surprise to me.
@@jgShadow Honestly, same. I never knew that hating on Nickelback was even a thing. I mean, I knew of some people who didn't like their music but it wasn't in such an extreme way as this.
Also, I think only English speaking countries hate them, tbh. By the way, I LOVE Hero. That soundtrack is one of my favorite rock albums ever.
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Listen to any imagine dragons song and they all have almost exactly the same chord progression- I don't know if this is the same type of thing you're saying nickleback is doing (I've only listened to one of their songs before this- I'll definetly listen to more later) but for some reason I never see anyone speaking about it
With Imagine Dragons it just kind of became their "brand"
I suppose thats the difference- maybe their songs are too similar to eachother but also not different enough?
Honestly don't know
What a random, interesting topic to explore lol. Great video
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I’ve been a PROUD nickelback groupie for two decades! I’ve flown around the nation on 7 different occasions to catch them in concert. Hate on me, but LOVE them!
If you haven’t checked out the Hardy/Nickelback cmt concert with Hardy’s new Rockstar song, definitely check it out!! Freaking epic!!
They put on an amazing experience of a concert. People missing out for no good reason.
I've seen them 14 times in Canada, 26 times across the States & followed their European Tour....
#1NICKELBACKFOREVER
how many times did Nickle back take you backstage and umm you know...?
This video just teaches me that no matter what you do, there will always be someone to hate you.
Drake is also a good example for that
now, on to Kanye West . . .
Are you a hitler fan?
@@zimriel Yes but kanye really does say some fucked up things sometimes
@@florian3298 and drake allegedly groomed young girls so the hate doesn’t come from nowhere
Honestly it's kinda amazing how that of the "wrong" things that Nickleback did, it isn't any worse or any more wrong than what other celebs and bands have done themselves. Drinking and driving is clearly bad but also so many singers have a DUI on their record at some point. Some singers/bands have liscenced music to bad commericals because all they're doing is giving permission to use the music, they don't have any control over how good or bad the commercial or what their music is put in is. Ya know how many shitty, terrible commericals and movies exist that use popular songs? Is Rihanna suddenly a sell out because she lisenced "Shut up and drive" to a disney movie?
a lot of it really comes down to taking a meme or a joke too seriously and too far.
That is also true.
Most bands don't even get a say what there music is licensed to. The record label does that, and don't have to have a bands input or agreement.
yes she is, correct, well done.
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I'm really saddened by this phenomenon of bandwagon hatred. How it becomes "fashionable" to hate a certain music group, an actor, a movie, a singer, or even an entire religion. And, as you said, people come up with or readily buy into conspiracy theories just to make it okay for them to continue hating on someone without ever trying to find out for themselves. I feel terrible for Nickelback.
Nothing new under the sun. It is in human nature to unite over something they choose to dislike.
No way, they deserve it.
This is a classic of example of ads being targeted to the subconscious!
also this is a good example of how powerfull Group psychology is
@@ray_x6959 my family and I were driving when the latest single of Prince came on the radio. My sister and mother loved it. Kept talking about it. I liked it but thought it was 'more of the same' and wasn't as excited as them about the song(it was his first release in years so it was a big deal, just not for me.) For the next hour, I was told how bad my taste is, how stupid my opinion was, why I ALWAYS ruin everything. When we arrived at our destination it had been decided: Prince's latest single was a gem and I was an idiot but had no right to be upset for being berrated over an opinion for an hour. That's how I grew up. I have learned that it is best to just lay down and take it when ganged up on. You might lose an eye an be blamed for everything if you do.
Nickelback's artistic style and lyrical content were more pop-like and mainstream, which might have made many perceive them as unoriginal. "How You Remind Me" might have felt repetitive for someone who wasn't a kid in the early 2000s and used to "rock" being more edgy during the grunge era and before. But for a younger millennial like me, "How you remind me" screams childhood nostalgia, and I'll never get bored! Thanks, Nickelback!
For years I honestly thought Nickelback did something really bad to earn the hate, like run over a kid or something, just something generally bad and I stopped listening to them for awhile because of it.
Hearing that alot of their hatred just came from some crap comedian making a crap joke on some random show in the early 2000s just kind of pisses me off.
Their music sounds like they are running over kids.
It's definitely infuriating. Nickelback has quite some amazing songs
Well, the comedian had a point tho. It's basically muzak with lyrics.
I hate that comedian now
Their music was really bad, the voice was unbearable.
Always wondered why so many people hated them and now that I know, the hate seems unjustified to me. It wasn't their fault that radio stations overplayed their music. Even though they're not my favorite band, I do like a few of their songs.
I think "hate" is an exaggeration..
To be fair a big part of why they are hated is because they requested a live charity show shut down their feed while they were preforming because they werent getting paid it didnt mention it in the video but it happaned
@@oliveryt7168 well, no it isnt. there is legit hate against them that is unjustified to the extreme. you saying that hate is an exaggaration shows how little you either know OR care.
This right here
The argument they are hated because they were popular holds well.
I was following Game Theory since the early days, I never had an issue talking about Game Theory when Matpat was a small youtuber.
But the moment he went big, holy crap one time in a did you know gaming video they stated the barrel roll in Star Fox is not the barrel roll.
I write a comment "The barrel roll thing we Game Theory fans know that already", I got such hate from people attacking me just because I stated something positive about Game Theory
When I was a kid, my love for the band Nickelback started when I listened the song called Hero after watching Sam Raimi's Spiderman end credit scene, after a few years I became a fan of it.
But when I heard the hate on internet, I was genuinely confused. After watching this video, I begin to understand why. I don't care if they criticize the band, I'll still be a fan of them.
Song is still a banger
People have forgotten about "Hero"
My one gripe about the use of that song is the reference to super man as in DC when the songs music video was used to promote spider man a Marvel comic. But yeah, i still like that song 😭😭😭
@@cholesterolkilla I mean clearly this is an invitation for Marvel and DC to collab and make a crossover one-shot short with Clark Kent and Peter Parker meeting. Like, I feel that they'd click, two wholesome heroes with a sense of responsibility.
What the hell ever happened to Saliva?
My father told me when I was younger about how the band Journey had this kind of hate that Nickelback did during it's peak fame. It was seen as shameful and tacky to listen to them.
While a friend driving who said he hated Journey, asked my dad to grab a certain cassette tape to play in the car and when my dad opened the glove compartment he said a Journey cassette fell out.
That's what being a hypocrite means.
I was working at McDonald's, and me and my coworker began singing nickleback songs with an exaggerated Chad Kroeger voice... Turns out, we knew like 20 nickleback songs word-for-word. It felt like bonding with a fellow nickleback fan while remaining undercover.
@jabron destoroyah That's how I know most of the music I know. I have never purposely listened to Rush but I can sing all their radio friendly songs.
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I never understood why people started to hate on them, I find their music ok, nothing amazing but likable. Truly a clear example of how people can be easily convinced to hate something because someone tell them that they deserve to be hated.
it's actually similar with the Twilight books. It's okay, nothing special, very average YA book series which didn't deserve the absolute hate it got, and a lot of the people bashing the series haven't read any of the books.
Like NPC'S??
alot of their songs are pretty shitty. Have you ever heard Rockstar before? It's so cringe.
I agree their music isn’t amazing but they have some bangers
They used to be everywhere and it gets real annoying fast. Especially when almost all of their songs are sounds the same.
They're way too aggresively bland, if that makes sense
Fun fact regarding radio stations overplaying songs, Gnarls Barkley actually requested radio stations stopped playing Crazy because they were worried it would get worn out and people would start to hate it. Given how well it's aged and how beloved the song still is I'd say they made a good call tbh. Wish CeeLo and Danger Mouse would link up again
wish that would have happened for the song Moves Like Jagger. it Literally played on the radio every other song 🤮😭
@@TayyaMarie I swear I hear that song every time I get in the car
One could say the same thing about the use of the words fun fact. Just a fun thought.
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That’s interesting
Spiderman launched their career, Deadpool resurrected their career.
I appreciate the history as I could never understand why my friends in highschool all hated Nickleback. I was never aware of trends and just enjoyed music that came my way.
I love their music and my first concert was a Nickleback concert.
It sits very uncomfortably with me that people (musicians, creators, community members) can be hated just because it’s trendy to hate them. People follow others and don’t do their own research. Crazy.
This is one evidence how meme influence people's perception.
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It was the humble beginnings of what was to become cancel culture, look how they come after certain actors just cos they feel like it, Chris Pratt.
I used to hate Justin Bieber and One Direction but could never explain why, everybody just did
@@anndheir Justin Bieber was just very unlikable as a person and then there were people who were jealous of girls talking about him all the time . Its like why now people hate Jake Paul.(take out the girls) Its because he is a dick. One direction was disliked because jealousy again and their fans because they would push their music down people's throats . Something similar of what kpop fans are doing now.
If people really cared about “musical growth” and record labels exploiting mediocre bands, they wouldn’t listen to half the music they do.
Amen!
Absolutely true. This feels like some people are trying to justify their hate somehow, but that's not really the source, because whatever you can say about Nickelback you can say about hundreds of bands or artists that aren't getting a tenth of the hate Nickelback is getting.
They have no clue why they hate, but they're told to hate- over & over again .. Mindless, programed zombies.. Reminds me of something else that happened a few years ago
@@byzel that is true but you also arnt asking them about all those other bands and how they feel about them. 🤷
Artists should just create their own platforms and people can download the albums themselves. Much like publishers, record labels aren't really needed anymore.
I don't blame the artist, I blame the damn radio station for killing a song. Few years ago I was working in a shop where the station was the latest hip hop sorta what they would play at a night club.
I remember this station would cycle the same damn song every 10th song so you'd end up hearing it like 3 or 4 times an hour.
I was about to end up talking to myself by the end of the day.
I’ve listened to a car radio station in utah or something and it looped closer like every 2 songs.
@IHGNFY!
Back in the 90's I was member of BMG music club (like Columbia House) there you'd buy 3 CD's for like a buck but your 4th CD would be like $25 or something that would cost something stupid.
@@rythic.
I think I watched an old episode of WKRP in Cincinnati and they explained they do that so the DJ can go to the bathroom.
That’s why I stopped listening to radio music. Same list over and over again.
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thats crazy that they were banned from writing good things about them. now i wonder how many other artists they did this to and if theyre still doing it to this day.
I remembered asking on a forum if people liked Nickelback (it was my favorite band for a while - i rotate through fave bands) and someone who responded told me they were a horrible band and sucked, I asked why and had a conversation with the person, turned out they never even listened to Nickelback.
Yeah, I don't get the hate. I mean they're not my favorite band, but they've got a few decent songs that I like to listen to from time to time.
Yep. That’s the typical hater. They simply hate something because someone else told them to hate it, and they don’t actually know why.
That's a really good point, Adrian...people spout off and say that they hate an artist or band, but when you press them...they either so silent or admit that they've never listened to them. I grew up in Michigan on the Canadian border, still have friends there, and have had a longstanding respect for the bands up there...you know the usuals...Rush, Neil Young, Bryan Adams, The Band, Guess Who, Mahogany Rush, Pat Travers, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell and many more....and although I'm not a diehard Nickelback listener, I give my respect to them as well. So thank you Canada, for turning out some top level musicians and bands over the years!
This hate plague is plain stupid..and I think it shows the stupidity of people of this era.
They're songs sounded the same and the radio loved playing them over and over. I only liked the leader of men and breath the rest never sounded good to me but I didn't go out of my way to hate on them.
I've never disliked them. They are a good band. They play really well, they sound good, and have consistently written catchy songs. Their success is well deserved in my opinion.
No, they really are trash. Try listening to any of their songs, bet you can't make it halfway.
It's criminal, literally, what was done to this band, the money they have lost should be paid to them by everyone who started all the hate.
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@Maria Harrison the people who like Nickelback have kept them from needing money, the guys in the band are doing fine, I'd rather hear Nickelback than some artsy fartsy pretentious band, I like the song "If Today Was Your Last Day"
Yes they are a pretty decent band
Nickelback was, and still is, one of my guilty pleasures. I never understood the hate, and didn't get caught up in it. Musically, to me, they are like your favourite blanket. you can wrap yourself up in it an feel safe and warm, and they can help chase the blues away, and to me that's a good thing.
Same
Lame
I hear on on this, while for me, it's because I remember Curb blowing my mind and then watching them play the Pit Pub at UBC for 30 people with the same energy as if it was 20000 people. Eventually, my tastes evolved and they did not. This is noted in the video, they become a producer's band, not artists.
It's not a guilty pleasure. It's a pleasure. Nickleback is a great band and always has been. No shame on loving them
"if today was your last day" is a banger
"Photograph" made my cry the first time I heard it 14 years after it was released. I only knew the meme around the first frame of the video by cultural osmosis and I google the song out for pure curiosity. It somehow pulled my emotional strings so hard that it made me cry legitimate tears for the first time in decades. I don't know if Nickelback is still active, but I have nothing but respect for them just for that song ever since.
Same
It became sort of a trend to hate nickelback and people jumped on the bandwagon completely ignoring the fact that they were behaving like sheep following a new cool thing.
Nickelback did get out of their comfort zone with an acoustic version of lullaby and more. But i guess once it's determined that a trend is cool, everyone's going to do it.
There was a lot of that in the late 2000s and early 2010s. People hating on celebs because everyone else is. Justin Bieber, Britney Spears just to name a few. I'm not even saying they all don't deserve it, but hating someone for the sole reason that everyone else did it is the worst reason to do it.
Sheep listen to nickelback. I imagine faded jeans, "cool" sunglasses, a button up plaid shirt done 2/3 of the way up, frosted tips, divorced, new v6 mustang.
@@nocturn333 exactly, it bad collective mob mentality.
@@sheend I think your the sheep, considering your going through every comment finding ways to hate on Nickelback as soon as someone says something positive about them
They have won 27 awards and been nominated 67 times. They’ve had a #1 top 100 song for multiple weeks. It really is just a mindless trend.
I have to absolutely agree as someone who was a teen in the 2000's and doesn't particularly like Nickelback that there's nothing particular horrible about Nickelback, it was just fustratingly overplayed if you casually enjoyed a song by them you ended up hearing it enough for a lifetime.
Trendy chit always sucks
Trends are for the 🐑
"Frustratingly overplayed" is the best description of Nickelback I've ever read. XD
I've always felt they were to generic sounding for the level of popularity they achieved in the late 90s early 2000s.
You can also blame the radio company for playing it a million times a day. I mean they do control the songs being put on
Growing up and being forced to listen to nothing but the radio. There were alot of songs being played over and over again.
I remember being shamed for genuinely liking Nickelback and I never understood the hate train for them. I still have my copy of "All The Right Reasons" and I used to play it on repeat while in middle school until it was pretty scratched up. I'm so glad they're still making music and I would love to see them in concert someday.
I remember having one of their songs on my phone way back in the day (before smartphones and large storage so you had to be picky) and someone making fun of it and I was so confused as to why she was mocking my having one of their songs lol. I do have to admit though that after that and a few other peoples comments I felt a little ashamed of thinking they were a perfectly fine band just as good as anything else out there and kind of just hid listening to them for many years. Now I just tell people to f@#k off LOL and if they double down just talk about how terrible what they listen to these days is. XD
There called Music Nazis they belive in a superior genre of music and that everyone who doesn't conform to their taste is inferior ..who wants to live in a world where everyone has the same taste and your judged by your taste in art ..what next people thinking they better cause they think there taste in food makes them better and make fun of people for eating certain foods they dont like? if it makes u happy and u aint hurting anyone who cares its called diversity if you take away the basic human right to enjoy what u enjoy or make art without hurting other people and been shammed for it then well........
I feel the same, I've always liked Nickelback and never knew why everybody hated them so much and growing up I heard a few playground rumors that they did something terrible but those rumors were nothing more than that so I went with it for most of my life only recently learning the truth. I understand that there is gonna be haters towards just about anything but I've never seen a band be as hated as Nickelback is and honestly for a dumb reason. IDK I personally just don't get it.
Its a simple situation of repetitive information being broadcasted only the weak minded fall for it. I guess thats a good thing that repetitive information (propaganda) can get people to agree. I like Nickleback aswell and for some reason i look down on those who fell for it..malcontent degenerative bags of trash.
Fuck that...Im going to put on some nickelback now...
I never listened to Nickelback, so I really have no opinion on whether they are good or bad. But the mentioning of oversaturation of a song maybe being the culprit reminded me of pretty much the entire 90s. If a song was a hit with the masses or perceived as a hit, you'd hear the song pretty much anywhere or the music video in constant rotation on music channels on tv. You'd have people gradually go from "hey! I love this song!" and gradually turn to "Uh, not again...".
Funny thing is I never heard so much hatred as I did for them as Nickelback received. I was actually kind of shocked. I was wondering: 'what did these guys do that pissed so many people off?'
So, just to find out it was one guy saying something on tv and people just jumping on the bandwagon truthfully doesn't surprise me. Back in the late 70's one guy who didn't like playing disco on his radio show wanted to kill it by having a bonfire of disco records and offering people to throw their own records into the fire at some sports stadium (I don't know the full details). Of course, several people being the easily led sheep that they are just went "Oh wait! I hate disco too!!!"
This kind of reminds me of that. Actually, I'm surprised I didn't hear about bonfires of Nickelback CDs the way this story was going.
I never understood why people hated the band. I think they’re great. Always liked their music.
I like nickleback its a lot of my childhood memories but mostly my teens
Totally agree with you. I think their great
The band is talented but it just seemed to me that they were trying too hard to be "edgy" and "alternative" when they were really not. They were trying to be something that they weren't.
the guy that did this video must have some personal reasons to hate them. Some major loser I guess
I agree 100% @Patrick-kt5mc. The music is good, the band is talented (to a point), but I just think they just try to hard to make themselves something they just are not. Anyone could see this clearly with how far there music has strayed away from what they did originally (ex How You Remind Me) to some of their more modern stuff (ex San Quentin).@@Patrick-kt5mc
I never knew why Nickelback was hated so much. I really liked their songs and Photograph was played in almost every graduation. Thanks for letting us know.
Photograph also turned into a meme itself with people taking shots at the lyrics and using the beginning to mock absurd photos.
It's because you have bad taste music. It's all good. Like what you like.
@@eskomoWon I'm a fan of Nickelback but Rockstar and Photograph just ain't it lol. The rest of that album is dope but those songs specifically are laughably trash.
i still remember that vine that went "Look at this GRAPH" and the singer pulls up a photo frame with a bar graph on it lmao
I have always hated Nickelback because their music was cringe inducing. The most normie of normie tunes. It screams "I don't have taste in music so I just listen to what's on the radio"
I never understood the hate they got. They have some actually really good songs. I don't love them, I don't hate them. They are the kind of band where I don't purposefully go looking for their music but if I come across their music by chance I will listen to it.
Feed the Machine is proof there was real potential
And you know what? "I don't hate them , I don't love them" isn't anything unique to them either. Infact there were/are probably dozens of bands who are bigger culprits of that. But they never got targeted like Nickelback was. Really feels it was just internet meme that went on too long to become horde mentality.
fucking love nickelback.
As a young teen when Nickelback grew to popularity, and living through the rise of the hatred, what i observed was this: 1. They were massively overplayed; mtv, fuse, the rock radio stations, it was just everywhere all the time 2. Young people need something to hate on, and that became the easy target because it was so abundant 3. Their popular songs were nothing special compared to what else was popular at the time, and the indie scene was only just starting to get attention. People wanted indie music to matter more but had to deal with all these bands like Nickelback, Papa Roach, Three Doors Down, etc. being shoved down our throats across all the different media outlets. That era just had a bad trend of popularizing the same sounds for too long, and Nickelback was the easiest target to make fun of because their popularity was so immense.
My personal opinion? I liked 2 of their songs, but grew tired of the sound real quick. I thought the jokes were funny but grew tired of that too. In the end, i think it’s a lesson about overconsumption and media homogenizing the content we are expected to consume. People didn’t want to be consumers of the same stuff over and over again.
@@xtiphuny89 Well said. I would also add that their lyrics are really trashy for many of their singles after Silver Side Up. Some great guitar riffs, but the lyrics are all perv. On top of that Photograph was SUPER overplayed.
I never knew they were hated so much! 😅 I grew up listening to them. They remind me of my teen years and I still really like them until this day! They won best selling Rock Artist in 2006 and they rank 11th best selling music act in the 2000’s. They were obviously liked by many.
I loved Nickelback when I was a kid, still don’t get how all this brainless hate is still a thing.
Because most people are sheep, who are incapable of forming their own thoughts.
Even if it were true that they actually were a generic band, that's no reason to hate them.
I still like hero
mob mentality on the internet is a powerful thing
I'm not a Nickelback fan but I don't get the hatred.
Lol
Thanks for this, I literally never understood why people didn’t like nickelback, I literally only knew one song and I loved that song and always wondered if maybe they did something controversial lol
Same here, when I was in highschool I would listen to Lullaby whenever I was feeling sad, and it always cheered me up.
you really had to have this explained to you? generic bullshit is generic bullshit!
@im calling saul better call saul
@@mromatic17 What are you? 12?
@@mromatic17 So? As generic as they sounded (i'll give it to you), you have to also put in motion how people receive that repetition. While it is true how repetition can be a bane of anyone's existence (just look what happened to James Blunt and "You're beautiful"). That repetition for some is a sign of comfortability, not out of seldom and lack of taste, just a shove down the throat done and made by the media for a certain demography. Sure, boring rock has become the stagnant death of the genre, but Nick are not the most egregeous sinners tbh.
I met Chad Kroeger one time outside a bar and said hi. I was surprised how cool and down to earth he was. Totally cool guy. He hung out with everyone and was totally friendly and approachable. He is much cooler than half of the sell outs who openly diss him.
cool story. i'm not buying bad music just because some random dude has a man crush
Kenny G is super nice, down to earth person; his music still sucks. But credit to Chad Kroeger.
Chad is the OG Chad. And they never forgot where they came from.
@@timothyhumphreys8361 Actually good music. You just climbed on the hatred bandwagon until you believed it yourself. Have your own opinion..
@@timothyhumphreys8361 lol. You probably listen to that joke of music called Rap. So your opinion is irrelevant. Besides, I saw them twice and they put on a great show.
I originally think the hate started with the constant airplay of "How you Remind me". I was 14 years old when that song debuted and it was well received at first, but over-exposure turned everyone against it, though that happens with many big hits. It just became trendy to say you "hated Nicklelback" and my little conspiracy theory is that the music industry was really trying to sway people into more rap, hip/hop, R&B type music and the media helped facilitate it by labeling new rock bands as "uncool"
Darn it now I want to listen some Nickleback and they're darn songs are going to be stuck in my head like a photograph.
And every time you look at it it will make you laugh
@@Manfred_Danfred what the hell is on Joe's head
@@Manfred_Danfred I laughed :'c
And this is where I grew up
I think the present owner fixed it up
I never knew we'd ever went without
The second floor is hard for sneaking out
@Can Be Fit
A part of me wants to think that's why Nickleback got so much hate.
I can't tell you how many times "This is how you remind me" or "Hero" got stuck in my head during my teen years.
And while I like those songs, I'm sure people who didn't would get those songs stuck in their heads, and it'd be like an annoying itch that wouldn't go away.
In my country, there was never some kind of "bandwagon hatred" on a band. They didn't play Nickelback songs on repeat on the radio, never were some adverts, including hate comments. I loved Nickelback when I was little, especially their albums "black horse" and "fighting for all the right reasons". Then I moved past them and just recently was coming back to them again. I was shocked the people in the world could be hating them, they are doing things all sorts of bands and artists do...
thus very true, the media is really toxic and people now days don't have what to do
Americans are dumb, and we live to hate things.
Lots of braindead sheep in the world man. Most people love to jump on bandwagons to feel included and liked by society, at the expense of others.
I don't know if people are ok with this, but that happened to me with Limp Biskit too. Recently i discovered they were so hated
@@FoxDie77777 limp biscuit was hated because they were blending to different styles of music and one of those styles was already not very appreciated. hip-hop and mainstream metal, mainstream metal being the style people already didn't like very much. Making things worse lots of limp biscuit fans were "poser's" or fakers that only liked it because it was cool to like them. I personally didn't feel one way or another about them but as an adult I have no problem saying they are not very good lol
Nickelback was a decent band no matter what people say. Even if you didn't like them, you have to admit that this whole band wagon hate is terrible. I mean imagine you lose your career just because some guy on a chair had a fixed opinion on your work.
They lost they carrier? They would disappear into oblivion as many similar post-grunge bands from the late 2000's. That joke held them relevant. You do realize how many people checked their music because of that?
This video fails to address the poor music...I remember these guys...instantly looked at them as a manufactured unit, one dimensional, low quality, corny....their constant airplay was not worthy of their music....this is why ppl turned, not some stupid comedian....I never heard of loser comedian...this video kind of sucks in its analysis
I don’t hate them. I just don’t care enough about them to listen to them regularly. Only whenever someone else puts them on
Still a band with 11 million monthly on spoitify🔥
As much as you think being a band wagon hater is your thoughts of being the answer to why people don't like the band. It may be true to some but not true to us all.
Some of us naturally do not like the band. Just like some people do not like other bands.
Just make sure you actually like the band instead of getting on this trend of being on their bandwagon of no haters just to prove a meaningless point.
I can't say enough how talented this band is! I never, not ever, said anything derogatory about them! What I do know is while the haters were hating, they were making cash deposits! I am fan now and always will be! Thanks guys!
Having to explain how in the 2000s we didn't get to choose what we listened to unless we had CDs made me feel old and I'm only 30.
When I was 13, I used to record songs off the radio onto cassettes using my stereo.
These cassettes were what _we_ called Mix Tapes.
Im 30 too, but I just used limewire to download songs and burned them onto cds using windows Media player. Eventually I got my first ipod video. Even downloaded porn onto it so I didn't have to sneak at night to the computer area. 😂
I’m 40 don’t feel that old
As I understand, these "mix tapes" were also part of an antiquated courting ritual.
I remember recording music from TH-cam on my flip phone if I wanted music lol
1992 gang out here yall feel as old as i do?
I Never thought Nickelback would be featured on this channel, in all honesty I thought Nickelback was forgotten to history like some fossil ...
Thanks Sunny, keep up the great work.
Funny Footage of JAKE räping his dog
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Ghe boys are already here
Well that’s kind of what this channel blew up on, remembering those who faded away
Gave them new legs
Are any of these replys human??
Just proves to me, yet again, what sheep we can be. Its baffling that there are people out there who don't like them and they don't even know why. Makes me happy I'm me, as I never understood anyone who said they hated Nickelback, no did I partake in the hatred of them. Thanks for the clarification.
I can explain why I despise them, if not actually hate them.
They are a product of their musical generation. I would categorize them as late 90's/early 2000's nu-metal.
This very minor movement in music is a result of the plummeting creative drive in the music industry. Its fans consider it creative and hard driving. I consider it to be highly derivative and musically empty.
Nickelback is much like Linkin Park, Staind, and other groups of that ilk. The songs aren't terribly original, the musicians are sorely lacking any kind of standout talents, and everyone who listened to it ate it right up simply because there was so little else! Any decent band in any genre from grunge on back to the very birth of rock could bury these guys musically, and with ease.
Somehow, I can't see Nickelback even remotely in the neighborhood of bands like the Who, Rush, Aerosmith, Robin Trower, Van Halen, AC/DC, the list goes on and on.
So if you wonder how Nickelback has managed to garner so much hatred and contempt, here's an answer for you: It's old guys like me, and fans of vintage rock. We've all just heard much better, and without the ridiculous egos.
ppl hate them cuz of their gRAPE lyrics.:
"I like the white stains on your dress
And I love your lack of self-respect
While you're passed out on the deck
I love my hands around your neck"
If someone starts singing any of their lyrics, u know ur gonna get the "Nickleback special" LMAO! I guess ur "asking for it" at that point. If u like Nickleback, u like gRAPE or getting gRAPED. I GUESS ITS TRUE, SOME WOMEN WANT TO BE gRAPED.
@@rocketman63 that's on you but you can't deny the most and popular songs of Nickelback does have great lyrics theses are Lullaby, Never gonna be alone, When we stand together, if today is your last day and other songs with great meanings and messages. Plus Chad voice carries these songs because of his distinct voice that when you hear that the first thing comes to your mind is Nickelback band.
And what I like about the band is that they just create their music as what they like and don't give a fuck about forcefully hate of others or people like you who are purist. Their just kids who likes to make songs and share them with us wether we like it or not, just like any musician.
@viciouslyeatingaburger Of course I can deny it. There's nothing about Nickelback that stands out.
You can like them. It's your time, spend it listening to whomever you wish.
The issue I have with you and all Nickelback fans is you are convinced they're great, and I'm just missing out because I "don't get them", or I'm somehow ignorant.
Not so. I've heard them, they don't appeal to me, and I will continue to prefer bands with some actual musical depth.
@@rocketman63 "they don't appeal to me" I respect that opinion. Each on their own
I seriously don’t understand how people hate them. They have so many great songs that make you feel 🥺
My sister had a few of their songs growing up, I mostly heard her play Photograph. They were good songs but I never asked her for copies just because she played them so much.
Their "never going to be alone" song is one of my favorites. My sister discovered it, with the music video, a few weeks after our father unexpectedly passed away. It cemented itself in my media list and I've had it for years.
I never understood the hate they got, so I am so happy you made this video.
@Karl with a K I think your numbers are too high. Very few bands in the world have 10 legendary songs let alone 20 superb ones. Either that or your "superb" ain't like mine.
Nickelback was such a big part of my childhood and I never understood the hate the band got. Continue to love them to this day
I miss Nickelback lmao
"Side of a Bullet" is my favorite of their songs. I never understood the hate either.
I mean, most people have shitty taste, so you aren't alone.
@@McShag420 just like all of you😂
@@McShag420 cough up some of that saltiness while you're at it
I've never understood the hatred for Nickelback and have always been confused by it. I heard several unverifiable stories as to why the hatred existed, but never bothered looking into it and just moved on. I'm glad I saw this video. This cleared up a ton.
For most genre songs that dont like them its just that the lyrics are pretty substanceless and the band makes radio targeted music its just kind of fake and the vocals are meh. Atleast for my friends and me it was always a poor linkin park copy
@@IzayaTijisPrincess The only thing that connects Nickelback and Linkin Park is the fact that their music genres cross-over one another. That's all it ever was. Just because two things look or sound similar does not mean they're the same or a copy. It's simple "I don't like" and you don't have to explain yourself to anyone why. You simply stick to what you like and let others stick to what they like. We don't have to stay in the same box, yet for some reason there are people out there who think we should.
@@IzayaTijisPrincess kind of crazy how nickelback gets all this hate for "subtanceless" music when you got famous rappers like travis scott and kanye west which are much worse
@@andreamaral9725 Kanye West is unhinged but he's a master at production and he's got legendary bars. Even a "popular" song like Power includes gems like "Reality is catching up with me/taken my inner child I am fighting for her custody". Try to find that in the average rap about percs and xans.
There’s always some idiot saying this. Just listen to the video and read other comments. The reasons are incredibly simple. You can’t say you don’t get them. Just say you disagree. The problem is you people can’t just say you’re a Nickelback fan and leave it at that. You have to pretend like we can’t dislike mediocre radio rock. Just be quiet
I was in a rock bar a couple months back when 'Rockstar' came on-a large part of the bar broke out in an impromptu and enthusiastic sing-along. I saw Nickleback live a good few years ago, and they were particularly 'meh' but I like 'How You Remind Me' and 'Hero'.
I worked as a Stage Technician for many many years, and I worked on one of their Concerts in Zürich.
Hands down Nickelback is one of the most sincere Bands when it comes to music.
All they brought was their instruments, their sound system and a video screen that was just a simply a live feed from different angles.
No costumes, no weird acting, no playback(!), no weird effects.
And while this might sound BORING to some people, this was the most entertaining concert Ive ever watched. And Ive seen hundreds due to my job.
Good opinion from a person who is involved 100% on concerts and music ..... This is an honest band .... own sound and original music .... Fuck haters !
(i´m not a real fan of the band ... but total respect for them and their career >! )
The haters can put a helmet on man. They don't have the fame, success and money. They are jealous.
@CanadianEbikeoutlet No but I still want 10 children!
The reason why many Americans dislike Nickelback is because they are Canadian. You should change your title. It should be "WHY ARE AMERICANS ANGRY WITH NICKELBACK," while in Asia, they are fine.
So let me get this straight from an audiovisual event technician to another, they brought their own P.A System? And they brought an LED wall kit? For a live feed from multiple angles? But with no live cameras or PTZ cameras? How long ago was this, how big a venue was this and how popular were they? Because unless you're referring to a basement show with a fastfold screen, because you just said a "video screen"(??) OR a stadium arena show on tour with a 20 or so tech crew and multiple trucks for a line array P.A system and delay towers maybe, and a LED wall kit (with no cameras despite it being a live feed from multiple angles??) then it sounds like you're lying, if your story dates after their claim to fame then no one would think bringing a whole P.A System on tour is an easy and boring task, otherwise, if this would date back to around where they would be playing in theatres more than arenas, no way they would have brought a P.A System, theatres have their own and they won't move around that stuff for a specific band, and lastly, for some small underground basement show, they could have brought like 2 electrovoice P.A's or any other cheaper entry level brands like that and put em on tripods on some mackie analog console but then no way they would have had enough space and gear to put a livefeed on a fastfold screen because 1. that would be a few cameras to put in a small space, and that could become a bit too expensive, 2. Were Blackmagic ATEM/Roland Switchers even a thing back then to have a feed with multiple angles?
So either you're lying about your job or you're actually really bad at it and you've done it for around 10 years and you're still stuck doing only setups/teardowns because your story doesn't add up and so you don't know what you're talking about
Nickelback is pretty good though, wouldn't say they're too original or authentic but they're simple guys that make the simple music they feel like making so, it's genuine to a point
I'm from Poland. I started to listen Nickleback as a teenager. It really made my day a lot of times when I was stragling with all that teenagers stuff. I'm 30 now and I still listen to Nickleback sometimes. I really like this band and don't give a sh*t what others think.
Jak z Myslovitz.
I'm 46 and they're still part of my daily Pandora playlist. 😁😍
Samey homegirl, although I'm more of a headbanger, for me Nickelback rocks it.
Same thing. As a mexican never knew about all the hate trend, an grew up liking their music, I still have them in my playlist
Even though I was not a fan back in the day of their initial rise, without any love for them I could still tell the hate was stupid. I remember thinking "Gee they aren't my style so I don't even care, but dang!? They aren't that bad. They aren't bad AT ALL. Ya'll be trippin."
As the hatred went on I listened to them more, just to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I didn't want to be an out of touch looser who was out of the loop or on on the wrong side of history or anything. But I couldn't find anything wrong. Their style grew on me and I became a fan so suck on that haters! 😁
"Expose someone to anger long enough, they will learn to hate."
Monsoon really was right after all
Now replace Nickelback with Trump.
@@boulderdashman7912 does everything have to have Trump involved? Jesus, he's been out of office for 2 years now shut up about it
I disliked them immediately with no outside influence.
@@boulderdashman7912 I guess TDS is really a thing after all.. jeez
@@boulderdashman7912 wow Trump got you that bad eh, still lol
5:19 “A Finnish academic study on the hatred on Nickelback” is not a phrase I expected to ever hear.
It's funny how blissfully unaware of something you can be when you ignore media and Internet. Was never a "fan" of nickelback but I like many of their songs and I've only found out about this global hatred for them in recent years...
Meanwhile, I'm still gonna wear my Nickelback shirt and blast their Dark Horse album during my day 😎 because... Screw other people's bandwagon opinions.
just goes to show ppl cant and refuse to think for themselves.
Yeah. Had no idea people dislike them so much. I don’t think they were the best of bands but, I don’t think they were that bad. As a guitarist, I kind of like some of their riffs.
Yeah this is the first I’ve heard of this, I don’t waste my time watching tv
It really unfair. Their not my favorite but I can name a lot of bands that are far worse.
I was in middle school when Nickelback become big and remember hearing that song everywhere. I never was a big fan of their music but definitely thought it was odd that they were so hated.
Same. I'm like a diehard rock and metal fan, and although personally I don't like Nickleback, they never deserved all that hate. When I say I hate on Nickleback, I do it because I think it's silly to hate on Nickleback, but I don't genuinely hate Nickleback.
It is really sad... In middle school I had one nickleback song I really liked and always wondered why people hate this band, since it sounds really similar to some bands really popular and considered good at the time.
And all of this sounds like hate campaign winded up for no reason. What is scary is media can pull the same thing on some politics, activists etc if they become a threat to them.
Ya.. but Nickelback sucks tho
@@wewillwin24 that bias is why America is so divided in its politics
@@hexogramd8430 that's Nickelback's fault too!!
Hate Nickleback jokes are like Chuck Norris jokes.
Again because they suck
Hero, Somebody That I Used To Know, Dance Monkey.... people hating on what they love the most! smh... I love them all and welcome, smile and sing along any time, anywhere, however many times it plays ♥️
I remember friends of mine listening constantly to Nickelback, suddenly claiming they always hated Nickelback. This was the biggest bandwagon in history.
They are probably up to date on their boosters as well
They were probably afraid to admit they still enjoyed listening to them like I was.
i liked a few of their songs, then they kept playing their songs... kroq.. kiss fm... and it was a time I just kept them behind my head until this joke came around and I was like " huh?...... well that's something. " Then after some time I forgot they even existed haha.
tl;dr I didn't really like them, became a meme, totally forgot them after.
Nickleback like Creed, and Imagine Dragons, and the such had way tooooo many hits on one CD which caused them to be WAYYYYY overplayed.
Every new CD had like 4 or 5 radio hits plus used in film and TV. Lincoln Park almost got the same bad rap.
@@bakdpotato143 You make it sound like having too many hits is a bad thing
I will never understand the hatred.
You know how everyone jokingly hated on Twilight back in the day? It was a lot like that.
@@mapleflag6518 Jokingly? Haha :P I guess I get your point - though I actually don't like Twilight.
Its played a lot, and people who didn't like the band that much were tired of seeing them. Its not that complicated and they say so in the video.
When were you born?
It is understandable when you look at fabricated manufactured product like Bts
Being someone who learned about them in the late 2010s, I never understood what was bad about them, I still like their music today, and listen to some of their old albums from time to time. They're just a band, in my opinion nothing they did, said or made, is worse than anything done by any other bands or artists.
Me either. Their songs sound normal, and OK-ish, I often wonder, did they do something horrible?
The fact that Creed doesn't get the same hate is all you need to know. They're practically the same = "Pearl Jamish" bands. I really don't get all the hate.
@@marioncobretti5970 Creed got a ton of hate I still remember jokes about them but to me it was catchy garbage I couldn't relate to the music at that time I listened to Mars Volta and Thursday
@F.I. Lewis well all famous bands get some hate, but the thing with Nickelback is exaggerated. Creed has some awesome songs like "Torn". But of course they're nowhere near Mars Volta, one of the best bands ever in my opinion.
Thats the thing though, the best thing you can say about them is that they are indeed a band. That in itself isnt a problem, but at the time they were played nonstop and you couldn't get away from it. Nothing will make you hate mediocrity more than having it crammed down your throat for years. Ex:Maroon 5
I listened to All the Wrong Reasons as a kid and loved it, I never knew why they were hated, until I relistened to the album, the childhood memories song is followed immediately by the car sex song, and yeah, that's some topical whiplash.
For me growing up I'm one of those people that didn't mind Nickelback. You can't deny that they have come out with some really good hits over the years. There are other worst artists out there for me like Phish that I can't stand.
I used to listen to Phish but they gotten stale. At least the Dead changed up there sound through out the decades
Side of a Bullet made my childhood.
A lot of their songs are very enjoyable and I always thought the hate fake and unnecessary. The band did, however, start to get a little tiresome to listen to when their songs were always on the radio and all very similar.
Justin Bieber deserves this level of hatred. So does Nikkey Minaj. Nickleback really didn't deserve it, even though I hate the music they make.
That clown that sings guci gang guci gang where's his hate least nickelback made songs that had meaning behind it I've always liked their music and never understood the hatred
I always had a feeling in the back of my mind that the hate Nickelback gets was just because of bandwagoning. one person shits on them, so other people do it too. what I find remarkable is that the band is taking that hate and using it to propel their career and they're afraid of what will happen when people stop hating them. I've never seen any band do that before
me personally, I've always liked Nickelback. my standards for music have never been the highest so Nickelback is good enough for me
That's mob mentality for ya.
Sheep...
If you listen to their music you'll see why they were disliked. It's not complex.
@@angel_existential Exactly! It's bland. Nothing that hits.
@@angel_existential music doesn’t have to be “complex” to be good for example look at old punk musicians from the 70’s they only play 3 or 4 chords in a song and most of the guitar playing isn’t really that great because they just want to write a simple driving song, a song doesn’t need to be complex to be good, you could write and play something with a simple formulaic structure and it could still be a good song
Even if you're not into Nickelback or the type of music they play, there is no denying how great they are live. They are one of those few bands that sound almost identical to the studio recording. Truly talented musicians.
That's probably because of Chad's voice.
🎶 lip sync 'em every night so I don't get 'em wrong 🎶
Idk I really do think they suck
Agree. I've seen them a few times.
@@R4G4M3MN0N your right to think this way. Only christians like this horse shit
Nickelback: 🎶🎸 _How the hell'd we wind up like this?_ 🎵🎶
I've seen ALOT of concerts in my life and this singer has one of the strongest voices I've ever heard. Nickleback is an Increditable band with good lyrics.
I agree 100%
Ok bro
Agreed. His voice is one of the best there are
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A guy at my local comic story said it best: Outside of Chat Kroeger, Nickelback got famous at the worst time: When the internet first began to pick up speed. If they broke out before or after that 01-04 gap, they would not be as hated. To a similar effect but smaller impact, 5 Finger Death Punch is also a victim of this
@Emotional D man that shit changed my views on alot of things ...
Idk for me 5FDP just was a let down. I’m a huge death-metal fan, and a lot of my buddies were super into 5FDP so when I heard about them I had high expectations. They’re not nearly as heavy and badass as I had built them up to be, so I brushed them off as mediocre. Especially with a name like that 😂 but that isn’t their fault
I just grew out of that sorta music. I used to love staind but now I can't listen to them anymore its the lyrics and the feelings they elicit just reminds me of being a moody teenager and not really understanding music that well
FFDP is corny as hell but I liked their music in highschool
Five Finger just actually sucks
I grew up not listening to any mainstream music, found Nickelback completely by accident without knowing about the hate train.
Honestly? I fell in love with them. It's a good band.
Nickleback and Breaking Benjamin were all over my playlist in the early 2010s
I agree! I found Nickelback by accident too and I had no idea about the hate. I just don’t get it!! They are a great band and Chad is a great singer! This stupid thing apparently started as a joke in a talk show?? The bad power of media ☹️
@@MajasMusicMine There's a certain group that hate them, and they think they know why, but they really don't. They're easy to identify. Just tell them they hate Nickelback because they just follow what others do, and when they get angry, that will be your confirmation.
@@sudonymh Of course they would, explaining bad music and awfull lyrics is thought
@@TYR1139 Um...okaaaaay.
I'm from the UK, I love Nickelback! Have done for 20 years, I went to see them in concert in Liverpool, it was a double whammy as Daughtry were their support act ❤❤🔥🔥❤❤
The whole reason behind them being mistreated at the Portugal concert was in my opinion the organization's fault. They were there at a music festival replacing the metal band Coal Chamber and most of the metal fans did not hear about the change. So you have a bunch of drunk metal fans expecting metal and you give them nickelback. Not saying their actions were justified but I felt like you could have talked about the context of the event since in Portugal we didn't get as much exposure to the radio constantly playing it, the promo for the comedy show and that one advertisement, and alot of people dont know english to understand the memes.
I honestly think they’re actions were justified in that scenario. People were throwing shit at them while they were trying to do their job. There’s videos of GNR and Metallica calling out the crowd for throwing stuff at them, and they threatened to walk, too. Chad even gave them a chance, and still got shit thrown at them. The language barrier thing sucks, but still sucks more for the band in that scenario.
Also, people have been spreading misinformation about that particular show for years. Folks have claimed that the reason the crowd were so angry was because they weren’t actually in Portugal, but some other country. I haven’t found a shred of evidence to prove that to be true, but people keep parroting it every time someone shares this clip.
Nickelback honestly go just as hard as coal chamber in their album tracks, they managed to get a Dimebag Darrel solo on a song ffs, people just think of Nickelback as the Photograph band and thats the issue. The problem is not that the band is a bad substitute, it's they're perceived as a bad substitute that's the problem
@@blueorpheus5693 I think he was saying that the actions of the audience at the Portugal concert wasn't justified but that this context shows a different explanation of why they reacted compared to the reasoning that could be inferred from the video.
@@ClikcerProductions It wasnt just that they were perceived as a bad substitute, the issue went deeper than that. The festival tickets were, and still are today, expensive in Portugal and most people need to wait, take days off to go and work hard for the money to be able to attend and see the bands they want to see. People have to plan to go to these concerts sometimes
For Nickelback to be put on stage without previous warning when people had already passed the gates to watch another band, only to be confused when faced with a completely different band instead was highly disrespectful for the paying costumer. Even if the style of music isnt that different since it was a rock/metal event, the people who were there paid money to go see Coal Chamber, not any other band.
Nickelback didnt deserve the stuff thrown at them, absolutely not, but I understand why the audience was displeased and at the end of the day and I blame the organization for mishandling the whole situation
They didnt warn their costumers of the change, they didnt offer any options of a refund or changing the ticket for another day, they did the switch quietly and they put Nickelback on stage letting them take the blame for it all. It was disrespectful all around
To put it simple to the portuguese metal fan they weren't metal enough. Weren't they playing at the same day as Slipknot?
As a Canadian (Nickelback is Canadian but somehow this was never mentioned) I can say for sure that the majority of people here still love Nickelback. People like to meme on them (and for good reason) but they are very popular still and most people don't understand the hate. I'm not a fan but they do have some legit good songs and they don't all sound the same. Hero by Chad Kroeger from the Spiderman soundtrack is a banger
I'm so high, I can hear heaveeeeeen
I heared sth last few years about hating Nickelback, but I never understood why? So it was just a stupid joke...
@@sawaremigiusz2182 I guess so. and then, fast forward until today, and it's just popular to hate Nickelback and unpopular to admit that there are 5 songs by Nickelback in my rock playlist.
I played _Hero_ in the 4th of July Parade in Chester, California, as I threw candy to kids in the crowd. (The theme was Firefighters & Citizens who helped them/the public during the Dixie Wildfire of 2021.)
It was a hit with the crowd.
Cool, that you stood up and spoke for the majority. Now personally I don’t think I could ever be this arrogant or narcissistic, but I suppose someone has to be?
Curious how one single person making a very short off-hand joke about some random music band completely unintentionally made millions of people detest that music band, even though most of those people had never even heard of said band before, and without said band having said or done anything to objectively deserve it.
The power of suggestion pulls a large bandwagon
You just described cancel culture, I saw one tweet from a small twitter user destroying a big twitter account with just one lie.
Everyone's forgetting the infamous "Ugliest man in rock" thing. The singer officially held that title for a few years, even though I'm pretty sure there were plenty of uglier dudes singing in bands out there lol.
conspiracy, it had to be.
Have you seen the interview where Jim Carrey jokes about Napalm Death? I've never saw anything bad about them even if Jim Carrey is a worldwide known person unlike that nobody who made the joke about Nickelback.
I actually still love some of their songs. Never stopped even though it became "cool" to hate them. "How you remind me", "Someday", "Photograph" is still songs I listen to.
If they can stand up to all the hatred and keep writing, keep recording, keep performing, then maybe, just maybe... they are more ROCK than many give them credit for.
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Exactly
I'm sure money doesn't have anything to do with that. It's almost like the bassist himself didn't say in this video that he fears the day people stop hating on them. But sure, there is nothing more "rocknroll" than to do whatever mediocre thing for money
@@miguelnascimento2847 There are many many mediocre rock bands who aren't hated. At this point Nickleback would have enough wealth to retire so they don't have to deal with people who can't form an original opinion but they are dealing with hate and doing what they want to.
@@akshitapradeep7115 what do they have to do in order to deal with the hate? It's just a bunch of strangers poking fun at them. I don't think any big name has made fun of them in over a decade and even then what is there to deal with? You make it sound like it's such a hard sacrifice that they are making in order to continue because some people "hate" them when that hate has actually helped them. And yes there are many mediocre rock bands that aren't hated I fail to see how that is relevant
Nickelback was the first concert I ever saw. Witnessed a woman throw her bra on stage, felt pyro heat that felt like my eyebrows were singed off, and first saw Seether play hey man nice shot. All in all awesome concert. Always liked Nickelback. Not my favorite band, but they don't deserve the negativity that has been spread about them.
Yeah they do. They are fake, made up by a record company.
just for those wondering, the clip aint in these replies. its all bots
@@McShag420 dude who isnt these days what
@@McShag420 ok here's an honest question from someone who dosnt buy that. Is there any evidence to that other then the music is too safe?
Nickelback was my first concert too and I didn’t like it lmao
I totally relate with this video. Growing up, I actually enjoyed a decent amount of Nickelback songs (hearing Hero for the first time in Spiderman and listening to the lyrics of Rockstar). Then at some point during high school/university, mentioning Nickelback would always elicit negative reactions. It felt like I totally missed something, since I didn't know how the hate actually spread. I was really surprised that it was so wildly hated, when there were many more artists/bands that I would consider much worse sounding.
They definitely aren't my favourite band, but I'm surprised how much hatred a mildly pleasant sounding band can garner.
6:53 Nickelback is so real for that
Something I think you missed but made related points on is the track selection for radio and the single release selection. Nickleback was actually on roadrunner which is a heavy metal, hardcore label. 75% of their tracks on an album are in line with this. But the tracks that got released and radio time were always their most vanilla 1 dimensional/bland stuff and I guess were put on them to just give broader appeal/as album filler, so typically did suck anyway. Which made the audience see them only through the lens of these album padding tracks.
Yep. It also made it very difficult for the band to hold its own in metal festivals, where the band was often booked.
This happened in a festival in my country, Portugal, in which the band was booked along with Dimmu Borgir and others along the line.
It ended with some fans attacking the band, from what I recall.
Yeah it's this, they're perceived as not taking any risks and just being the most generic band ever because of the singles, not the band as a whole. At the end of the day both Nickelback and the label want money, and using those cookie cutter tracks as singles got them that while allowing them to still make stuff like side of a bullet which features a god damn Dimebag Darrel solo
Im 26, for years I skipped Nickelback songs knowing the stigma surrounding the band. In the past few months iv listened to several songs off the “All the right reasons” album and truly I dont understand the hate. They carry a unique sound and I do like them. Never let someone shame your taste in music.
Listen to San Quentin, it blows everything out of the water.
….. and Figured You Out
Unless youre into mumble rap. That genre SHOULD br shamed. 😂😂😂😂❤
Glad you changed your thoughts about them.
And how much money have you made? This was their dream and they ran with it. They made mega bucks. Narrow minded people like you need therapy!!
It just shows in how scary world we live in. A few comments on the internet can ruin a band, imagine what it could do to an individual? Feels like a Black Mirror episode. Imagine hating something or someone because someone else is hating too? What happened to us?
That's not why people hate them, you just let this single video convince you of that with the first half.
Next time someone tells you they don't like Nickelback, ask them why and I'm sure they'll list reasons. Personally, I don't like them for the same reason I don't like modern country music: The vocals are like nails on a chalkboard and the songs seem to just drone on and "exist". It makes it hard to judge whether or not the lyrics have decent writing and the nature of the music means the riffs/all instruments will mesh together instead of standing out and be memorable for the moment instead of long lasting.
Now if that's too in depth an analysis, you might think "I only listen to it for the sound"
Well if you only listen to it for the sound and that's enough reason to like it, it's certainly enough reason to hate it.
tl;dr They're very boring, there are tons of bands that try harder at what they claim to be. They are not very unique or memorable.
@@SamaelVR great, good for you. Everyone's entitled to their opinion. But that's not the reason for the disproportionate amount of hate and if you think that's the only reason you're deluded. What happened to NIckelback was unjustified and just an early example of the modern-day "cancel culture" that has contributed to a sick and twisted society.
@@bogotabroIt was tho the band was always mediocre
We don't want the hatred to spill onto us. That's what happened. People like being part of group because humans naturally don't like being alone.
@@bogotabro but Nickelback is one of the highest selling bands ever.... How were they "canceled"? I think people take this NIckelback thing way too far lmao, the "hate" they get is majority memes and jokes from people who don't listen to them or their type of music. It's quite literally impossible for a band that's according to this video "universally hated" to sell as much as they do.
Same thing kinda happened to the Bee Gees, supposedly everyone hated them for their Disco sound, but to this day their music is still relevant. I have and still do like both bands.
Our loss... a great band can't continue to write great music under that kind of stress. Nickelback wrote amazingly catchy songs both lyrically and musically.
I hope they don't stop writing music. They did something right to sell millions of records. I personally don't like their music one bit, but they should keep doing what they love.
they have new album this year! And the past decade '2010s they released new album every 3 years man so they didn't stop writing songs
@@viciouslyeatingaburger yeah, I like thier newest album but nothing they have done since being scrutinized has compared to what they were writing when they were a popular band. Imo
Trash
Hate the radio stations.
It's so sad that a band that produces so good qualtiy music gets dragged through the dirt for just a buch of haters who need to put people below them to feel better. Noice music Nickelback👍
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I always liked them. They had some great songs.
nickelback is the band equivalent of james cameron's avatar
They do have some cringe songs but every band and artist does
I can 100% tell you that I never liked "How you remind me" at any point. Then they played it constantly, as stated in the video, and that did not help at all. The rest of their music couldn't unf*ck the band by itself, so I decided I hated them too. But I hated them because I hated them, not because other people did. I'll admit to having fun with the Nickelback hate meme for a spell, but I hated them from the first time I ever heard them--before it was ever 'cool' to hate them.
That beind said, now that I am much older, I can actually listen to them because of the nostalgia. Without the nostalgia I wouldn't even bother though. And I only listen when I'm drinking lol, but to be fair that's the only time I can stand any music now--not just Nickelback. Peace and quiet is the greatest sound in the world, or the laughter of good company on a peaceful day.
But some people really do just hate Nickelback because they hate Nickelback lol. If they didn't overplay "How you remind me" back in the day, it might have played out differently though, I can admit.
It hurts my heart to hear how the band members were hurt. They helped me thru some really hard times and I hope they still play for the love of it. If that is ruined, I hope they still have a shit ton of money.
No, they had to give each and every Nickel back.
You don't believe that? Just look at this graph!
@@stefankrause5138 THIS IS SO FUNNY HELP
I listened to "San Quentin", which was released 2 weeks ago. It's my favorite song of them for now. If you haven't listened to it yet, I recommend it.
the singer has 80 millions. Apparently he is doing other stuffs than singing.
@@fredmesley3051 I hope that the "other stuffs" is not some illegal thing.
My favorite memes about Nickelback are that one where the dad is checking his kid's Halloween candy, sees knives and drugs but is worried because he saw a Nickelback CD and the "Look at this Graph" one.
The overplaying part immediately made me think back to 2015 with "Happy" by Pharrell Williams. The song was a bop when it first came out, and looking back now it's a good song to walk or dance to, but after a month or two on it being on the radio, you couldn't go for a 20 minute car ride without hearing AT LEAST 2 of your pop radio stations playing it, not to mention other forms of media. I wanted to like it, but because of how much I heard it I had to hate it.
It's also because the song feels like it's forcing you to feel a certain way, with the song's overly saccharine tone and the repetition of the phrase "happy, happy, happy" is very irritating.
"Torn" by Natalie Imbruglia 😵💫
Beautiful song soooooo overplayed
I thought I was the only one- i felt like tearing my hair out every time that overly-positive song came on the radio. I didn't want to be happy
growing up for me it was Hotel California and Sweet Child O' Mine. So overplayed it drives you nuts. Hotel California is masterful (duellling guitar solos!?!?), but god I just couldn't listen to it for about 20 years. I agree, I've made nickleback jokes over the years, and I can barely recognise two of their songs. They are an easy target, and I think they are the epitome of safe Dadrock, so they get all the hatred that every other band like them deserves instead.
You're so right. I felt the same way when the whole "Despacito" craze was going on. I wanted to like it but it played so much on the radio and elsewhere that I ended up hating it instead.
i grew up in a middle eastern country and i absolutely loved nickelback then a few years ago i heard everyone hated them and how bad they were and i was very shocked , i still love their music
Lithuanian here (Eastern Europe) - Exact same story.
Indian 🖐. Same. Some of my friends in India who liked to think they have better taste in music told me the band was terrible & liking them was a joke. I now see that they probably read some American articles :)
Bulgarian here, same ! Im shocked to hear so many people ' hated " them when couple of their songs will be a classic forever, but seems like brainwashed sheep were just fed an opinion, real people will appreciate hte talent htey have.....
I feel like most people who say Nickelback is a bad band hasn't really listened to nickelback.. sadly it is a thing but I defend them all the time. Then again they probably could have done without the photograph song. But Metallica has songs that sucks too. Every band does
I'm from the US, and I never understood the hatred either. I love the ways music can unite people from different places. I'm a major fan of Bloodywood (like a metal version of Bollywood; they play Indian folk metal) and it's a really diverse fan base, much like Nickelback's. You know someone's playing good music when it brings a wide range of people together.
I can take or leave Nickelback, frankly. But one thing I've always felt is that Brian Posehn really isn't all that funny. If it was Posehn who decided the world should hate Nickelback, they probably ought to be given another chance.
Besides, how much faith can you put in a public that hates Nickelback but let Maroon 5 and Train be huge successes.
As for radio being to blame, I think "Sweet Home Alabama" disproves this theory.
Maroon 5 really broke my heart. I liked their first album so much and then they became something completely different.
Same thing kinda with Nickelback. Their first albums are quite different from their later stuff. But it's not even as bad as with Maroon 5 in my opinion.
Nickelback even for all the memes they've gotten were allowed to be huge successes too, they've sold over 50 million albums
Honestly I never even knew Posehn said this about Nickelback, I just assumed people got sick of them like that South Park episode where Stan started getting older and the music he liked before started to literally sound like s%#@.
I can understand you being annoyed about Maroon 5, they and especially Adam Levine have been just as memeworthy if not more so but why bring up Train? I haven't really heard anything about them since like Hey Soul Sister, I didn't even know they were still around.
hate on Train all you want, their Led Zeppelin cover album still slaps
To be fair Pat Monahan has a pretty good voice I loved their led zeppelin tribute album. Nickleback performing sharp dressed man is one of my favourite covers. Maroon 5 is awful but they have some catchy lyrics.
Idk, Sweet Home Alabama is only popular because people use it to describe Incest…😅
Nickelback also played Flood Aid & didn't get broadcast & got blamed for the planned non broadcast of their set. They also got sent to some metal fest (10:40) & got booed & pelted off stage. The question is why they would be featured with bands like Slayer & Pantera? Sounds like their booking agent said yes when no was the correct answer.