![]() I mean, literally, they don’t really care about music. Nickelback is music for people who don’t really care about musicįirst, understand that when I say “don’t care about music,” I’m not trying to snidely suggest that they’re a bunch of philistines who lack the taste to appreciate REAL music. The people who are scooping up the albums and concert tickets, conversely, are down-to-earth, honest types who would never get caught up in such self-satisfied pompousness. Saying you hate Nickelback is like instant cred: it marks you as someone whose tastes are too refined to be sucked in by this obviously crappy band. Ergo, at least if you cop to liking those other bands, you’re just hating so you can fit in. ![]() People who claim to dislike Nickelback are snobs/poseurs who only hate them because it’s cool to do soĪlbum opener This Means War is built off a chord progression and song structure that could well have been painted on the cave of forgotten dreams: maybe its message of fightin’ and scrappin’ won’t speak to everyone, but if you like your guitars loud and fast, there’s no apparent reason why you would hate this and like, say, Load-era Metallica or AC/DC or basically any other band that could broadly be defined as classic rock. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. So, in the spirit of our dearly departed, inclusive, loving former NDP leader: seven attempts to explain why Nickelback are the most-hated insanely popular band of now and possibly all time. I don’t know that there’s even been a band as widespread divisive as Nickelback, and I think it’s time to try to figure out why. And yet they still engender enough hatred that Detroit Lions fans - who, if I can make a bit of a generalization based on the music typically played in sports stadiums, are hardly wine-level snobs about what goes in their ear holes - started a petition to get them booted from a half-time show. Nickelback has sold almost 50 MILLION albums in the previous decade, the only non-American band to sell more than them was The Beatles, who at this point pretty much have the universal acclaim of breathing. ![]() What I can’t really tell you definitively is why it’s so obvious that I and everyone like me should hate this stuff, possibly more than any other music being made, but it still sells like a cure for cancer. Fish swim, birds fly, up is up, and I don’t like Nickelback. I could tell you that I think Here and Now, the new Nickelback album, is bad - gratingly bad - but given that this is a piece about a Nickelback album, and I’m a downtown-Toronto-living, cardigan-wearing, bespectacled, bookish album reviewer, you probably figured out that I thought it was bad before you even clicked on the link. ![]()
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