Why DO people hate Nickelback?

[repeating integers]

...Wait, how can you hate something for being average? Seriously, how is that even possible?

That's what a lot of this thread's replies seem to be adding up to. Isn't it a contradiction to hate something for being inoffensive?

 

[TheDooD]

I used to like them but after Far away they turned country and of course country is awful
but at least we have
How you remind me
Far away
Savin Me
Someday

I have to agree with ya there and those are like the only 3 songs I like from them.

 

[crudus]

I actually like some songs Nickelback does. They aren't songs I would listen to as often as other artists, but they aren't bad. Overall I think they are mediocre, and undeserving of the level of ire they get.

Worse than freakin' Linkin Park, and that's something.

I always say "I like Hybrid Theory, not Linkin' Park".

 

[RaikuFA]

I think its the fact that they're so popular yet they're mediocre.

 

[Nieroshai]

It's because they are Canadian, people have an irrational fear of Canadians. They are too quiet and generally don't cause a lot of trouble.

I raise you a Shatner and a Jim Carrey. I'll wait on your ante before dumping the next 100 of the list on you. But yes, we get the joke.

 

[The Funslinger]

I never really cared about them until all their latest songs started coming out on the radio, the last 2 or whatever have both been about getting black out drunk, stupid stupid stupid stupid etc

This is what I mean lyrically.
Nickelback has lyrics about equal with Kesha's "I brush my teeth with a bottle of jack" or whatever.
And their music is the same quality.

I'll just leave this here:

 

[dickywebster]

As far as im aware its cause their kinda safe and samey, they dont really stick out with their own thing in the slightest, but thats jsut what ive heard from friends as i have no real problem with them.

 

[PipPup]

I used to like them but after Far away they turned country and of course country is awful
but at least we have
How you remind me
Far away
Savin Me
Someday

I agree. I really enjoy these songs, but any other Nickleback song turns me off. I'm not big on songs that hold a lack of substance based on sex,drugs, and anything of that sort. Also, the country twang just isn't my things.

 

[Something Amyss]

It's because they are Canadian, people have an irrational fear of Canadians. They are too quiet and generally don't cause a lot of trouble.

I raise you a Shatner and a Jim Carrey. I'll wait on your ante before dumping the next 100 of the list on you. But yes, we get the joke.

Denny Crane!


I hear he was in some other show in the 60s....It didn't last long, though, so it probably wasn't any good.

Man, I'm gonna get it.

 

[Gustavo S. Buschle]

I don't really understand it myself, the "their songs sound the same" just isn't really a valid argument for me, also, no one has ever given me an example of how they sound bad people just say things like "His singing is bad" but don't specify. The worst part in my in my opinion is how the ratio of how bad they are to how much hate they get is so huge compared to most mainstream bands/singers.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

Basically, everything else everybody else said, but my hatred runs deeper as my mom loves this crap. So, I have to hear it at times, these times make me want to murder someone...

 

[TJC]

Oh that's easy:

Nickelback is repetitive, boring, repetivitive, uncreative, repetitive, shallow and really pretty repetitive.

Every song sound exactly the same, the lyrics are pretty uninspiring as well and artistically, they haven't evolved one bit in the umpteen years they're making music which is a damn good reason for hate.

seriously, Nickelback is to music what C-A-D is to webcomics.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

I personally like Nickelback, but that has nothing to do with why I don't get all the hate. My question is, why do people hate Nickelback so much when the Black Eyed Peas still insist on existing?

Because they are good honest trashy pop. There not some trash masquerading under the cover of being a half-hearted rock band?

Why listen to Nickelback when you could just listen to the infinitely better 3 Doors Down?

Spoiler

Oh yes I did

THIS MAN WILL LEAD US TO A FUTURE OF MUSICAL HOPE!

No seriously three doors down are awesome.

That song they did was good. You know. The one thats all of them with different names. Its a nice song. Well two songs. Slow song (how you remind me) and fast song. I think slow song has some deep feelings while fast song has some nice beats. But other than that i get a bit bored of slow and fast song. Maybe they should make more han two.

 

[Smeggs]

Probably becuase they're a rock band with no distinguishable sound, whose songs all sound the same and appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Worse than freakin' Linkin Park, and that's something.

So they're like Owl City or pretty much any other "band" that's been popular in the last few years?

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

I'll just go with the whole massively succesful while been massively mediocre reasoning! Actually reading that nickleback are the musical equivelant of CoD spooky.

 

[BrionJames]

I just don't know where to begin, so many people have already said what I would like to say, so in short Nickelback makes Bryan Adams look good...or bad depending on how you look at it considering they both come from the same place.

 

[Tonimata]

I think Nickelback are great-- and they'll be even more great once they learn ALL the possible chords!! (please note sarcasm as I violently hate their music)

Learning all the possible chords kind of sounds like an impossible task, seeing as how the combinations are endless.

SO WONDERFULLY ENDLESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

 

[DMShade]

I was inundated out of ever liking them at a particular job where the radio was only allowed to be on one station. Said station played Nickelback 5 times in 4 hours, and only 3 songs. Worse than that, their playlist seldom changed, to the point where I knew the time by what was playing. The point of something like the radio is to help you LOSE track of time as you work by having something pleasant about, but not in this case..."Savin' Me is playing, it must be...yep, 10:15. This day is never going to end."

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Personally, I like them. They do wild-nonsense songs, AND meaningful sounding songs pretty well.

I don't really follow the band, but I like a lot of their songs.

 

[RoevsangerBoerge]

...Wait, how can you hate something for being average? Seriously, how is that even possible?

That's what a lot of this thread's replies seem to be adding up to. Isn't it a contradiction to hate something for being inoffensive?

Indeed, Blame it on verbal inflation.
I don't hate Nickelback, I just dislike them