Why does Nickelback warrant such hate?
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Wait till this girlfriend then buys you their albums for your birthday despite hints you dont like them and then are forced to put them on your phone and actively listen to them in front of her so as to not hurt her feelings. I feel your pain acutely.snowfox said:
Hahahahahaha. You win.Nihilism_Is_Bliss said:
I am indeed of the vocal minority that has a special, magical hatred for Nickelback. The lead singer has a voice not even a mother could love. It's like hearing man run his dirty, scraggly nails slowly across a chalkboard, and seeing that man surrounded by people pointing with their mouths agape, throwing money at him and calling him full of talent. Also, dude's like forty years old and writing songs about high school, which makes him either a sell out or wildly immature.
Oh, and how they got the band name is just so... so... so stupid! He got a coffee one day and for his change... HE GOT A NICKEL BACK. WOAH. DEEP. akdjgasdlkgjhksdjga
My life would feel so complete if I could just punch that man in the jeans. Just once. I'm not asking for much.
Because I am not into Grunge music... I am more into classical rock and Psychedelic (Even though I am not a Druggie or a Hippie) Rock.
Their first album was okay, every other song I've heard from them (or almost every one) sounds the same. It's just repetitive and that's not good. I couldn't care less about them, though.
One of the reasons for the hate up here in the Great White North is because they're Canadian. We have CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission) regulations that stipulate a certain amount of Canadian content per hour on the radio, which basically means you're going to be hearing a lot of Nickelback and RUSH, and, as they say, familiarity breeds contempt. (Except for RUSH. RUSH is awesome.)
As far as them being sellouts, well that's really not much of an argument. Nickelback has always said that they're in it to make money and get chicks. You can only be a sellout if you started with some pretension about it "being just about expressing ourselves" and then decided that the money was more important than the music. Nickelback went into things with the attitude that it was about the money, and they happened to make it big. That's another reason for the hate; the pretentious indie fans can't abide the fact that a band that has never released a protest song or railed against the government or the music label system can be popular. Or, they're the most pretentious of all, the person who automatically hates everything that's successful. (Such a person really hates it when you point out that their taste in music is driven by exactly the same thing as all the teeny-bop pop fans. Had a friend who thought Evanescence was one of the greatest bands ever ... until "Fallen" started to do well in stores, at which point they magically became terrible.)
As far as I'm concerned, they're ... ok. They got some good tunes, they've got some that are less good. Let me put it this way: they rarely make it onto my mp3 playlist, but if I hear them on the radio I don't change the station.
As far as them being sellouts, well that's really not much of an argument. Nickelback has always said that they're in it to make money and get chicks. You can only be a sellout if you started with some pretension about it "being just about expressing ourselves" and then decided that the money was more important than the music. Nickelback went into things with the attitude that it was about the money, and they happened to make it big. That's another reason for the hate; the pretentious indie fans can't abide the fact that a band that has never released a protest song or railed against the government or the music label system can be popular. Or, they're the most pretentious of all, the person who automatically hates everything that's successful. (Such a person really hates it when you point out that their taste in music is driven by exactly the same thing as all the teeny-bop pop fans. Had a friend who thought Evanescence was one of the greatest bands ever ... until "Fallen" started to do well in stores, at which point they magically became terrible.)
As far as I'm concerned, they're ... ok. They got some good tunes, they've got some that are less good. Let me put it this way: they rarely make it onto my mp3 playlist, but if I hear them on the radio I don't change the station.
If that's what happened to you, then I can't help but say that's your fault. Never hint! I've threatened to throw my gf's I-pod out the car window if she wouldn't put on something that sounded good in the ear area. Of course I would never do that though because I bought that for her and it was kind of expensive.. >.> But she listened!BiscuitTrouser said:
Damn, I mean, they've always sounded very bland and same-y to me, but the song dynamics there are EXACTLY THE SAME. They go loud at THE SAME TIME. They quiet down at the SAME TIME. AHHH!!!Daipire said:
I hate Nickelback because the lead singer is the single most pretentious and annoying person on this planet. He seriously gave a lecture to a crowd and refused to play after someone threw a pebble at him during a show. Plus the lyrics make me want to punch a baby.
Rather than just parrot something everyone else has said over and over, I'll mention that I don't particularly like Nickelback because their tunes are not very good. I don't actually mind Kroeger's voice, and the instrumentals are neither terrible or exceptional, but the actual melody lines for many of their songs are quite simply rubbish. By rubbish I mean that if you were to play the lines Chad is singing on the piano, an uninformed observer would be hard pressed to guess that you are in fact playing a song and not just semi-random bashing of the keys - the melody just isn't there at all.
When you combine that with their usually banal lyrics and their inexplicable popularity, you have a recipe that breeds resentment in those with more sophisticated musical tastes - we tend to see the dominance of Nickelback and point to it as the embodiment of all that is wrong with modern pop-rock. Really though, there are far more offensively awful bands out there, in the grand spectrum of things Nickelback is pretty benign - there are certainly worse things to be than aggressively mediocre. But popularity breeds resentment, and undeserved popularity even more so, so the hate will continue.
When you combine that with their usually banal lyrics and their inexplicable popularity, you have a recipe that breeds resentment in those with more sophisticated musical tastes - we tend to see the dominance of Nickelback and point to it as the embodiment of all that is wrong with modern pop-rock. Really though, there are far more offensively awful bands out there, in the grand spectrum of things Nickelback is pretty benign - there are certainly worse things to be than aggressively mediocre. But popularity breeds resentment, and undeserved popularity even more so, so the hate will continue.
Because they have one or two decent songs and a bunch of horrible ones on every album. People hear the shit one (Rockstar) and run screaming before they can look for the good one. Also, the singer sucks.