Why is nickelback worst band ever

Meanwhile, Nickelback endures as do their legions of fans. Alan Cross is a broadcaster with Q and World Canada Local. Alan Cross has an anthropological question: Why do so many say they hate Nickelback? Full Menu Search Menu. Close Local your local region National. Search Submit search Quick Search. Comments Close comments menu. Video link. Close X. Click to scroll back to top of the page Back to top.

By Alan Cross Global News. Posted October 11, am. Updated October 8, pm. Overall, the descriptions imply that the songs are not genuine self-expression written willingly, but instead forced and made for commercial reasons. We might accept the mass appeal in a Katy Perry song, but people expect more artistic purity from non-mainstream genres like metal. The similarities between Nickelback and older bands makes their music predictable, and as such, bland.

No one feels like Nickelback—or its members—are dangerous. After years of this, Nickelback simply caved and began embracing their role as a meme. In January , the band started posting sarcastic responses to insults they received on Twitter. The band has embraced this as well, most recently during the Presidential race.

Kroeger told Blabbermouth in And we are harsh. We are really harsh. We make up the best alternate lines to our own songs.

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Nickelback is arguably the most hated band in America, and its detractors are very vocal about their distaste. The most common complaint about the band is their formulaic approach to songwriting, which often results in several songs sounding suspiciously similar.

You could spend days listening to Nickelback albums without hearing an interesting song structure or chord progression. It sounds like the band is using a pop formula to make rock music, which is a recipe for critical failure. Another area in which Nickelback critically fails is its lyrics. Every time I do it makes me laugh.

How did our eyes get so red? For all their musical shortcomings, they have one major redeeming quality: their music is genuinely catchy. If you listen up and down their discography, you will hear catchy chorus after catchy chorus.

This is how they became radio mainstays in the first place. But there are dozens of radio mainstays who make low-quality catchy music, like Maroon 5, for example. And unlike Nickelback, people love Maroon 5. Why is Nickelback so hated compared to similarly shallow groups? This is where several non-musical factors come in to conspire against the band. Unfortunately for Nickelback, many people view Kroeger as weird-looking rather than unique. And it has been proven that appearances play a large role in public identity, even in the music industry.

There is also the unfortunate inclusion of an anti-Nickelback joke in an often-aired Comedy Central commercial. Then came the memes. As with most memes, the origin of Nickelback memes is unclear and probably somewhat random. But once the memes started, they spread like wildfire.

Rather than taking offense, band members took their meme-fame in stride. They sarcastically responded to critics on Twitter.