![]() ![]() Every song is like one garbage guitar riff played 100 times in a row. The Black Keys have every bit of Nickelback’s cynicism and lack of originality while sounding even worse. You can hear the superiority and condescension coming from this guy whose band is a fourth-rate White Stripes knockoff. When people start lumping us into that kind of shit, it’s like, ‘Fuck you,’ honestly. Fuck that! Rock & roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don’t like to see it fucking ruined and spoon-fed down our throats in this watered-down, post-grunge crap, horrendous shit. Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world… So they became OK with the idea that the biggest rock band in the world is always going to be shit – therefore you should never try to be the biggest rock band in the world. It’s easy for me to just not pay attention to Nickelback, but there are bands who I don’t think are much better who are often shoved in my face as an example of “real music.” One of these is The Black Keys, and their drummer Patrick Carney went off on Nickelback in a Rolling Stone story a couple years ago: The way I see it, there are a lot of awful bands deserving of mockery out there, and Nickelback’s crimes against music don’t really rate to me. On the other hand, I started to almost feel bad for Chad Kroeger and co., who have never really professed to being more than a dumb rock band that makes big loud noises for people who don’t really want to engage with music on a deeply intellectual level. Part of this makes sense: Nickelback are a very bad band who make atrocious music that deserves to be mocked at every turn, yet are irritatingly popular, making them an easy target and emblematic of Everything That is Wrong With Music. This scene looks a bit like a really well-shot version of the bit in every episode of Homes Under The Hammer where the estate agents wander around looking at very similar rooms as though they’ve never been in a building before.For as long as I’ve been interested in music, Nickelback have been a punching bag for people who want to feel superior in their taste to others. ![]() It could almost certainly have been thought through a bit more. In an unnecessarily complicated bit of business, it turns out that during the 'wandering around Vancouver being sad' scenes, Chad has been playing a character, and in this sequence, his character is in the audience at a Nickelback show. There’s that thing again, where it’s all bright when he’s having nice memories of having his shoulder touched a bit (more like Glad Kroeger!), then all dark when he realises she isn’t willing to touch his shoulder a bit anymore. It all ended happily, though – he was pleased with the video in the end. When the video was being made, Chad had reservations about the size of the show – the band were playing arena gigs by this point, and the relatively intimate scale in the video concerned him. Visiting it on Google Streetview, it appears to now be either a branch of Scotia Bank or a 7-11. The shop Henley is exiting before disappearing behind a car is called Green City Sandwich & Soupery at 1107 Homer Street, Vancouver, Canada. It’s complicated (which is another song by Avril Lavigne). Also Avril Lavigne was once married to the guy from Sum 41 and later married to the guy from Nickelback. You might have heard it in Once Upon A Deadpool 2, or encountered cover versions by Canadian music royalty including Sum 41 and Avril Lavigne. Rolling Stone named Nickelback the second-worst band of the decade (after Creed) and called the album this song came from, Silver Side Up, “the sonic equivalent of too many goatees”. It’s a massively successful hit, yet a lot of people hate it with a passion. It holds the Number One spot on the Billboard decade-end chart for the 2000s, and was the second-ever song by a Canadian band to top the Billboard charts (following American Woman by The Guess Who). radio, spun over 1.2 million times, and was equally inescapable across the pond for years. How You Remind Me by Nickelback is one of those, a song which is probably quite good but can’t be heard on its own terms – the 2001 single was the most-played song of the first decade of this century on U.S. There are good songs, and bad songs, and songs which are neither yet both. ![]()
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