How Nickelback Became The Most Hated Band Ever
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- Опубліковано 31 сер 2022
- Everyone has different tastes and preferences, however, one thing that the entire world seems to universally agree upon, is that Nickelback is the worst band of all time. But why? What's the actual reason for it? How did they manage to become more hated than Creed, Insane Clown Posse, and Limp Bizkit all put together? Are they bland and completely unoriginal? Does it have something to do with the frontman Chad Kroeger's behaviour?
This video will explore - How Nickelback Became The Most Hated Band Ever.
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Also, the idea for this video was partially inspired by "Grunge" who posted a video on a similar topic in February 2018 titled "How Nickelback Became The Most Hated Band In History" You can watch their version here - • How Nickelback Became ... - Розваги
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Here’s the best way to describe Nickelback. Everybody says they hate Nickelback. Then they hear a Nickelback song in their shuffle, and start singing the lyrics word for word.
people are sheep unable to think for themselves... I never hated nickleback, not the best, but decent enough songs, but there was no way I was going to be caught dead listening to nickleback, what would people think of me. We are sheep, afraid to have our own opinions, we must bow before the herd.
what? their songs are just not good.
No they don't, unless they have it in their shuffle, and they won't unless they like them. Check and mate
@@realChewky "check and mate"🤓
@@jeremiahsherrill or some people overthink everything in life and can't accept when a band just sucks on every level
It's so strange to hear people say Nickleback is "so generic", yet if you heard a Nickleback song for the first time, you would instantly identify it as Nickleback.
That is a really good point, there are however lots of legendary rock bands that I listen to all the time that I will mistake for another. Personally I find the Nickelback hate to be one of the biggest mysteries in modern pop culture.
The pinnacle of mediocrity
Do you like AC/DC? Do you think they play good music? I sure think so. If I accidentally catch their song somewhere, I would listen. But I don't stream them, I don't have CD's.
Because every song regardless of the decade sounds the same. I don't want to listen to 100 variations of one song, I want to listen to 100 different songs.
Imagine Dragons are even worst
Timbre is a thing. Of course you can easily identify it - by the voice alone. Doesn't mean the song writing isn't generic. Quite the opposite. ACDC - already mentioned here - isn't generic blues rock. The sound totally differs from Canned Heat, Free and the likes, but their own songs mostly are generic ACDC songs. They wouldn't be if it came up and until 1 minute into the song you couldn't guess that it's ACDC.
I never understood why people hated the band. I think they’re great. Always liked their music.
I like nickleback its a lot of my childhood memories but mostly my teens
Totally agree with you. I think their great
The band is talented but it just seemed to me that they were trying too hard to be "edgy" and "alternative" when they were really not. They were trying to be something that they weren't.
the guy that did this video must have some personal reasons to hate them. Some major loser I guess
I agree 100% @Patrick-kt5mc. The music is good, the band is talented (to a point), but I just think they just try to hard to make themselves something they just are not. Anyone could see this clearly with how far there music has strayed away from what they did originally (ex How You Remind Me) to some of their more modern stuff (ex San Quentin).@@Patrick-kt5mc
I've met these guys and they are some of the sweetest cats on earth. Now, as for being horrible, I will tell you that they are ALL actually extremely good musicians, amazing chops. Hatred of Nickelback came from the fact that they are formulaic in albums. As a business it was an enormous success. That doesn't in any way reflect on their musical abilities, nor creativity. Those guys can absolutely rip it.
I absolutely love Nickelback, because their 1st album was one of the absolute best debut albums of ALL TIME.
I didn't buy subsequent albums because I didn't hear anything new, HOWEVER, I openly admit that in my opinion,they did sell out.
And as a musician, I promise you I would do the same thing. Try making a living as a musician. To me, these guys are fantastic musicians, massively talented, and smart because they can do what they want now without worrying about where the next box of KD and can of tuna is coming from.
Thumbs up to the 604, Nickelback and the legacy , because in 10 years, you are going to hear some truely magical songs come from the art.
This. Artists cannot make enough money off of albums and concerts anymore. Every true musician I know doesn’t actually earn a living from performing. Yeah, they may’ve “sold out” but very few musicians can afford not to “sell out”.
I'm guessing you haven't heard the new album or seen them live... your loss
@natewolfe2564 wrong. I met them, and don't really care. Not saying people can't change, certainly they can. I have seen them live. Not saying you don't have a point, I am saying all of us will sacrifice food instead of losing high speed internet.
@natewolfe2564 my question is, when you saw them play live, were they using pitch corrector or just playing live? I am assuming you are old enough to understand what I am talking about, and mean absolutely no offense at all if you don't. It's a fair and respectful question.
This sounds completely unoriginal and like something you heard someone say and now want to repeat, same old, same old. By your criteria the Rolling Stones and AC/DC are formulaic and "sell outs". Once again someone wanting to impress people with their "musical" knowledge (especially as a musician - ya had to throw that in there) and look like they know what they are talking about when they really don't, tho you did throw some accolades in there just to be magnanimous. Music is about what you like, what gets you grooving, what evokes a mood in you, good or bad, not the circumstances of a band, you really should have learned that by now.
They get hate because a comedian in the 2000’s made a joke about them and it stuck. Simple as.
Then others wanted to seem "cool" and like they actually knew what they were talking about in music and perpetuated, so many sheep followed and apparently still are.
There's a comment here by @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache that says: "I feel like hatred for this band is one of the best evidences for how powerful bandwagon hate truly is. It can escalate to the point where so many people literally come up with extremely detailed conspiracy theories to justify and explain why the world hates the band so much. If you like a certain band, then like that certain band, people tend to rely on other people’s opinions too much." and he is bang on, learn to think for yourself.
It's ironic that people say they're unoriginal, yet so many people just follow the "it's cool to hate Nickelback" trend.
Bruh good point!
But in the words of another over-spammed and commercialised song; they didn't want to be American Idiots, one nation controlled by the media, information age of hysteria, the subliminal mindf#ck America. - Billy Joel... (Who also helped Martha Stewart bake cookies along with Snoop Dog for daytime TV)...
Yeah f#ck "the system"! Free thinkers and breaking the mold!
You have to wonder; who profited the most from 9/11, the US military industrial contract, or Greenday? 🤣😂🤣
@@angryherbalgerbil Billie Joe Armstrong, not Billy Joel
Because most ppl are lobotomized followers who need to be told how to thimk.
I mean Nickelback is still unoriginal. It's not always just about following a trend, sometimes a band is just painfully generic like Nickelback, which is almost worse that just being bad.
I feel like hatred for this band is one of the best evidences for how powerful bandwagon hate truly is. It can escalate to the point where so many people literally come up with extremely detailed conspiracy theories to justify and explain why the world hates the band so much. If you like a certain band, then like that certain band, people tend to rely on other people’s opinions too much.
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Lol no it’s because Niclleback was horrible and was just trying to copy the sound of Creed like most rock bands in the early 2000s and they did a horrible job at it. Nickleback was the bandwagon.
They got so much because of their place in time and their platform. They existed right before everyone who really cares about music stopped listening to the radio because they could use the internet but also at the time all radio stations were basically own by 3 companies. This time period was also when they were very few music labels and no way to make it on your own.
They are commercial rock for 35-60 year old white parents who liked listening to rock music when they were younger but don't want music to have any edge to it. 35-60 year old white people are a very profitable demographic, especially during the early 2000's when everyone 25 and under is downloading music for free. The radio labels then shoved them down everyone's throats, which I am guessing helped lead to the major decline of radio and transition to Pandora and Spotify.
Their music is average and overplayed.
I liked Nickleback when I was younger and now over 20 years later I still like them a lot. Fortunately I wasn't subject to them on the radio more times a day than I can blink. Not like "Ultranumb" "Bring Me To Life" and "Requiem for a Dream" during the days of AMV's on UA-cam circa 2007 - 2009
When they were going through that phase of being so intensely hated I never understood it. No matter how much I searched it up on the internet I could never find a concrete answer. For years I thought it was some kind of troll or meme just to hate them. I genuinely thought I'd missed something important, like I'd skipped a period of time and all of a sudden nobody liked them. Fortunately I think thats mostly passed over and fans aren't hesitant to mention them anymore.
If the biggest complaint was that they were considered "substanceless" then who cares really, I liked to hear them and I STILL love to sing the lyrics to Rockstar because it's just so dam singable....which is more than I can say for 99% of music I've heard in the last decade.
Substance should matter to everyone. Nickleback doesn't have it. They are sellouts, hand puppets for the industry to put out mindless boring Beiber type crap that unfortunately appeals to some people.
They took some creative risks with their “Feed the Machine” album in 2017, and it became their album I listened to the most. It also has a really positive message with “Silent Majority”. “What if we all stand up? What if we don’t give in ?” Rock with positive messages can be beautiful and rare. In the early 2000s pre streaming, albums were a luxury. It feels premium I can listen to them all on subscription now.
I do like No Fixed Address. I can collect from For the Right Reasons to Feed the Machine since I already have Get Rollin'. I do like their songs, especially with their more risqué songs like Midnight Queen and S.E.X. There was a short I saw that compared Timbaland songs with one song and why that one new song blew up because of that and TikTok, so I went in with the whole, "If someone made something like "How You Remind Me," have that song promoted like the Nickelback song on radio and social media, are they going to be hated for that?" I haven't got a reply for that comment because it makes their argument mute to a point where these new modern songs are being overplayed and copying older songs to get popular and it was never a good thing. I don't think How You Remind Me their best song because there are better songs you can put over it. For Silver Side Up, I would have promoted heavily Too Bad or Never Again because they have a better story to tell. There's a video claiming they went pop due to how "No Fixed Address" is set up. I don't think it's any worse than Machine Gun Kelly going from rap to whatever the hell he's doing now because that album has a great diverse selection of different styles of rock put together. You have Punk with Edge of A Revolution. They have Funk Rock with She Keeps Me Up. They have country rock with Sister Sin. They have even Tropical Rock with She's Got Me Runnin Round because anytime I hear the song, I get the Miami or LA vibe. The album is also a mystery today 10 years later because I found out 2 nights ago that Apple Music doesn't have it in their catalog. So for Apple Music, you get Here and Now and then Feed the Machine. I believe "No Fixed Address" is very creative and risky for the whole change from fratboy rock to what many would call dad rock.
The fact that there are studies done on the hatred of Nickleback is a testament to how crazy the whole thing is
We live in a society. Humans have always understood that it makes more sense to agree with your tribe right or wrong because being an independent thinker leaves you alienated and probably dead. Studies show people are stupid and don't deserve to have civilization.
There must not be much going on in Finland...
I think most of the hate comes from the music and people not liking it and it getting played on the radio here a lot over and over
@@AspireGMD usually not. The most recent supid article was about "now its studied. people slip more when its slippey" something around those lines
It’s an interesting study because it sort of feels like how propaganda can start and effect everyone.
My friends got me into them in middle school. Then a year later the same friends kept saying over and over that they were the worst. But never were able to explain to me why.
I never stopped listening to them. Screw bandwagon opinions.
i can explain to you why. its because they were always a watered down, generic, and uninspired copy of first wave grunge bands like STP, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, ect. they got way to much air play for their mediocre songs, which all sound the same, and so people got tired of them quickly.
@@michaelfarkas2257 Blah blah bandwagon.
@@michaelfarkas2257 I've been saying the same thing about them for years
@@michaelfarkas2257 or, they're just really good, seems like the simplest answer :)
its not a bandwagon if theyre actually just bad. People only liked them because corporate media said to.
I love Nickelback so much! Here in Brazil their songs "How you remind me", "Hero" and "Photograph" (along with many songs off of the 'All the right reasons' album) were very popular. Thank you so much for such detailed research!
I love there music and never understood why people started to dislike them. Poor guys there so dam talented!
"A Finnish academic study on the hatred of Nickelback" was not a phrase I was expecting to hear today.
Fact: The Finnish leftists overtook the academia which is state funded - and then they ruined it. The amount of trash produced and on tax money is unbeliavable.
Or ever XD
what times to live in. studies about the hate towards nicklback.
Most importantly, the results of this study were confirmed by a reddit user.. xD
Nickelback was actually creed with a different singer.
They were creed until 2000, once the singer left, they got a new singer and changed their name.
Ppl need to study their pop history before commenting y’all
I was always confused by the hate. People told me they were a bad band and I asked for specific examples in their music, and they have a VERY hard time explaining it to me.
Shitty chudding guitar, terrible hacky lyrics, literally the worst voice in rock history. What's the mystery?
They were average, I really didn't get the hate in my county, but it was third world at that time, so no internet telling us what to think
@@maras3naraz I live in Sweden and we had internet but this is the first time i heard of the "hate"..
i listened to a few of the songs in the early 2000.
To be fair i stopped watching tv around the same time so it might have been that nobody clued me in on what we are supposed to think about them
I don't hate them but I was really disappointed by them. They had this real banger of a song "how you remind me" so 10 year old me went out with my pocket money and bought that dang expensive cd.... which was soooooo laaaaaame.
I've always thought all of the individual parts of the band are great, I think there's a lot of talent there, especially Chad Kroeger as a singer/songwriter (I really like the collaborations he's done with other artists). I think they're just artistically kneecapped by the massive massive early commercial success they found in making "radio rock", because that's why people like them and that's what people want to hear.
Ngl I actually grew up really liking the band because it was what my relatives listened to, as well as it being part of the soundtrack for MX vs. ATV: Unleashed on the original xbox. Eventually drifted from the band and started looking for something different, but I was pretty shocked that Nickelback was outright hated. There's still a couple songs I even listen to still, but to hear the hate is just baffling.
I've never been on this hate trend. Always loved them, and never understood why everyone hated them so much.
For me, it wasn’t the radio; my mom was obsessed with them and would play their Silver Side Up album EVERY TIME we were in the car for years. Granted, it didn’t make me hate them, but it was definitely annoying.
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My dad had a nickelback cd he put on a lot. This is how you remind became old very fast to me. All nickelback songs sound the same imo.
And for me I like corn
@Some guy who is a degenerate for fun [Mayk Felix] it's corn a big lump with knobs it's got the juice
I was working at McDonald's, and me and my coworker began singing nickleback songs with an exaggerated Chad Kroeger voice... Turns out, we knew like 20 nickleback songs word-for-word. It felt like bonding with a fellow nickleback fan while remaining undercover.
@jabron destoroyah That's how I know most of the music I know. I have never purposely listened to Rush but I can sing all their radio friendly songs.
What's the piano track in the background around the middle of the video ?
I love nickelback. I do not know why people hate nickelback they have beautiful music. I have found good decent people are the center of hate by millions.
Back in high school, my friends and I knew Nickelback and some of us loved them. I was never a fan but I thought the hatred of Nickelback was really bizarre. I tried asking people around sincerely why they didn't like Nickelback but most couldn't give a straight answer. Only a handful out rightly said they didn't like their music and they considered it bad.
Are you an XQC fan?
@@MrNuts70 who?
@@MrNuts70 who?
The lead singer's voice makes my throat hurt.
They had bad luck becoming an internet meme. Nothing more to it. People are awful and that's it :)
I'm really saddened by this phenomenon of bandwagon hatred. How it becomes "fashionable" to hate a certain music group, an actor, a movie, a singer, or even an entire religion. And, as you said, people come up with or readily buy into conspiracy theories just to make it okay for them to continue hating on someone without ever trying to find out for themselves. I feel terrible for Nickelback.
Nothing new under the sun. It is in human nature to unite over something they choose to dislike.
No way, they deserve it.
This is a classic of example of ads being targeted to the subconscious!
also this is a good example of how powerfull Group psychology is
@@ray_x6959 my family and I were driving when the latest single of Prince came on the radio. My sister and mother loved it. Kept talking about it. I liked it but thought it was 'more of the same' and wasn't as excited as them about the song(it was his first release in years so it was a big deal, just not for me.) For the next hour, I was told how bad my taste is, how stupid my opinion was, why I ALWAYS ruin everything. When we arrived at our destination it had been decided: Prince's latest single was a gem and I was an idiot but had no right to be upset for being berrated over an opinion for an hour. That's how I grew up. I have learned that it is best to just lay down and take it when ganged up on. You might lose an eye an be blamed for everything if you do.
I remember hanging out with my room mates round about '98/'99 somewhere, listening to music. We only had a playstation to play CDs. Someone popped in a nickleback CD and it was playing, then someone accidentally bumped the controller, which caused the CD to skip to the next track in the middle of a song. Only two of us even noticed what happened, the two songs were almost indistinguishable.
The next time I heard nickleback was Photograph. And not even because I avoided them, I just never heard them anywhere. It was a video about someone's kid dying that I heard Photograph.
*Takes brave pill* The first time I heard Nickelback it was How You Remind Me, I know you're shocked. I was 13 in 2001 and getting more and more into rock/metal, something that gen Z won't get is that on the move people didn't exactly have much choice of what they listened to unless you made a mix CD, not many people carried more than the CD in the player for the day. I loved Silver Side Up (I still like the majority of it), but me carrying it around/forgetting to change it and how often How You Remind Me was played naturally it that song was something to be avoided. Not only that, but Photograph was the same (I'm sure there was an advert that used it) and it didn't end there... I live in the UK so that fucking DFS advert was on all the time on every channel! I don't think it was the fact that they seemed to sell out, it's that the advert was played all the time, no really, all the damn time. The only saving grace was that DFS made the sofa's look bigger and the advert was banned, thank you!
At the end of the day I wouldn't go to see them, but I'm a fan of the 2nd to 5th albums sans the extremely overplayed songs... although I've not heard them for long enough that... nah, it's not worth it! I don't bring this up in front of many humans, but it's true and I'm not sorry.
Edit: Listening to some highlights while I wrote this I just noticed YT music now has play stats, How You Remind Me has been played 1.1 billion times just on YT, holy shit!!!
I bought Daugtry and Nickelback for my 13 year old that’s 28 now. I’m listening now because I just left Sonic and heard Home by Daughtry
How young do you think Gen Z are?? The eldest of Gen Z WOULD know exactly what you’re talking about - they are in their mid to late 20s.
Speaking of bandwagons - it just sounds like you got on the Gen Z hate bandwagon and just copied Gen X with the whole “everyone younger than me knows nothing and none of you have experienced what I have” opinion, but who you’re describing is Gen Alpha, not Gen Z.
I’m a young Gen Y (30) and I know what you’re talking about with not having a choice of what you listened to unless you bought a cassette, CD or made your own mix on one. I know Gen Z’s that I grew up with who obviously were also around to see what I saw. Gen Y AND Z’s entire childhood was like this.
For years I honestly thought Nickelback did something really bad to earn the hate, like run over a kid or something, just something generally bad and I stopped listening to them for awhile because of it.
Hearing that alot of their hatred just came from some crap comedian making a crap joke on some random show in the early 2000s just kind of pisses me off.
Their music sounds like they are running over kids.
It's definitely infuriating. Nickelback has quite some amazing songs
Well, the comedian had a point tho. It's basically muzak with lyrics.
I hate that comedian now
Their music was really bad, the voice was unbearable.
Honestly it's kinda amazing how that of the "wrong" things that Nickleback did, it isn't any worse or any more wrong than what other celebs and bands have done themselves. Drinking and driving is clearly bad but also so many singers have a DUI on their record at some point. Some singers/bands have liscenced music to bad commericals because all they're doing is giving permission to use the music, they don't have any control over how good or bad the commercial or what their music is put in is. Ya know how many shitty, terrible commericals and movies exist that use popular songs? Is Rihanna suddenly a sell out because she lisenced "Shut up and drive" to a disney movie?
a lot of it really comes down to taking a meme or a joke too seriously and too far.
That is also true.
Most bands don't even get a say what there music is licensed to. The record label does that, and don't have to have a bands input or agreement.
yes she is, correct, well done.
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They were not backlashed for sucking they were backlashed for being too good. They were a hit machine album after album. Had they broke up after 3 albums they would not have been so hated. Truth.
Nickleback and post grunge bands like it are the sound of the mid 2000’s. Takes me back to 2004-2007 times and it’s why I love it
I'd prefer Daughtry or Puddle of Mudd personally.
This video just teaches me that no matter what you do, there will always be someone to hate you.
Drake is also a good example for that
now, on to Kanye West . . .
Are you a hitler fan?
@@zimriel Yes but kanye really does say some fucked up things sometimes
@@florian3298 and drake allegedly groomed young girls so the hate doesn’t come from nowhere
If people really cared about “musical growth” and record labels exploiting mediocre bands, they wouldn’t listen to half the music they do.
Amen!
Absolutely true. This feels like some people are trying to justify their hate somehow, but that's not really the source, because whatever you can say about Nickelback you can say about hundreds of bands or artists that aren't getting a tenth of the hate Nickelback is getting.
They have no clue why they hate, but they're told to hate- over & over again .. Mindless, programed zombies.. Reminds me of something else that happened a few years ago
@@byzel that is true but you also arnt asking them about all those other bands and how they feel about them. 🤷
Artists should just create their own platforms and people can download the albums themselves. Much like publishers, record labels aren't really needed anymore.
I wish I had a band that was hated this much, 7 Much Music awards, 13 Juno awards, 2 MTV awards, 1 Peoples choice award, and a pile of nominations, plus 10 studio albums of which 7 went platinum. And finally they've had 5 top 10 singles. Ya they blow.
They were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as well.
I mean I really really really dislike judging fellow humans, but barely a minute into the video and saw that guy.. yes, that guy talking that kind of shit.. Clearly out of pure jealousy.
Here in the Philippines, we love nickelback❤
I never understood why people started to hate on them, I find their music ok, nothing amazing but likable. Truly a clear example of how people can be easily convinced to hate something because someone tell them that they deserve to be hated.
it's actually similar with the Twilight books. It's okay, nothing special, very average YA book series which didn't deserve the absolute hate it got, and a lot of the people bashing the series haven't read any of the books.
Like NPC'S??
alot of their songs are pretty shitty. Have you ever heard Rockstar before? It's so cringe.
I agree their music isn’t amazing but they have some bangers
They used to be everywhere and it gets real annoying fast. Especially when almost all of their songs are sounds the same.
They're way too aggresively bland, if that makes sense
Always wondered why so many people hated them and now that I know, the hate seems unjustified to me. It wasn't their fault that radio stations overplayed their music. Even though they're not my favorite band, I do like a few of their songs.
I think "hate" is an exaggeration..
To be fair a big part of why they are hated is because they requested a live charity show shut down their feed while they were preforming because they werent getting paid it didnt mention it in the video but it happaned
@@oliveryt7168 well, no it isnt. there is legit hate against them that is unjustified to the extreme. you saying that hate is an exaggaration shows how little you either know OR care.
This right here
The argument they are hated because they were popular holds well.
I was following Game Theory since the early days, I never had an issue talking about Game Theory when Matpat was a small youtuber.
But the moment he went big, holy crap one time in a did you know gaming video they stated the barrel roll in Star Fox is not the barrel roll.
I write a comment "The barrel roll thing we Game Theory fans know that already", I got such hate from people attacking me just because I stated something positive about Game Theory
RE: the Portugal event. They were booked to play an underground heavy metal show, alongside slipknot and Dimmu borgir. they didnt fit the style of the festival (despite the more punk/rock date on the 19Aug2002) and some drunk fans threw stones. the rest felt it was a meme in the making. would it have happened if it werent Nickelback? less likely, but if you had Taylor Swift or Justin Bieber in their place, the fans wouldnt have liked it either
What makes that worse is Nickelback's album "The State" was heavy and came out on Roadrunner Records, who Slipknow was signed to.
I never heard the song How You Remind Me so I went to check it out. It sounds essentially the same as a Nickelback song I played all the time -- Someday. And while I haven't listened to the band for many many years and I liked "Someday" a lot, I do remember that the album it was on sounded an pretty similar all the way through and the fact this "How You Remind Me" sounds basically like it as well makes me think the band had basically one song/one sound and people got tired of it. Maybe even dismissive.
Though in fairness one could say that about Nirvana and they didn't suffer from that sort of backlash.
The hate for Nickelback has always been uncalled for. They are FAR from the worst band. As someone who enjoyed their hit songs in elementary school, I admittedly felt a bit embarrassed when I learned in highschool that everyone was hating on them for no reason. But every time one of their songs comes up, I genuinely enjoy it. You gotta admit they're pretty iconic. "Hero" from Spiderman? That song fucking slaps. Sure, they start to sound very familiar and even "noisy" if you listen to multiple songs in a row, but I find that this is the case for a lot of artists, yet they don't get nearly the same amount of hate Nickelback does.
I loved Hero. I actually didn't know people "hated" Nickelback so watching this video was a surprise to me.
@@jgShadow Honestly, same. I never knew that hating on Nickelback was even a thing. I mean, I knew of some people who didn't like their music but it wasn't in such an extreme way as this.
Also, I think only English speaking countries hate them, tbh. By the way, I LOVE Hero. That soundtrack is one of my favorite rock albums ever.
i only liked animals
Listen to any imagine dragons song and they all have almost exactly the same chord progression- I don't know if this is the same type of thing you're saying nickleback is doing (I've only listened to one of their songs before this- I'll definetly listen to more later) but for some reason I never see anyone speaking about it
With Imagine Dragons it just kind of became their "brand"
I suppose thats the difference- maybe their songs are too similar to eachother but also not different enough?
Honestly don't know
I've never disliked them. They are a good band. They play really well, they sound good, and have consistently written catchy songs. Their success is well deserved in my opinion.
No, they really are trash. Try listening to any of their songs, bet you can't make it halfway.
It's criminal, literally, what was done to this band, the money they have lost should be paid to them by everyone who started all the hate.
me nether my fellow Patrick
@Maria Harrison the people who like Nickelback have kept them from needing money, the guys in the band are doing fine, I'd rather hear Nickelback than some artsy fartsy pretentious band, I like the song "If Today Was Your Last Day"
Yes they are a pretty decent band
Most of the hate stems from that Brian Posehn joke. That's all there is to it. I can guarantee you that if you ask any Nickelback hater why they hate them, they'll either not know why or they'll regurgitate all the same criticisms that mainstream media outlets have made towards them. Besides if most of the hate we see online was genuine then they wouldn't have sold more than 50 million albums worldwide making them one of the most successful rock bands of the 2000s.
All the criticisms people have made towards this band can be applied to dozens of other bands that don't even get a fraction of the hate Nickelback gets. Sure they can come off as formulaic and repetitive, but so do bands like AC/DC, Motorhead, Ramones, Rolling Stones, and many more. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. They know what they're good at and they know what their fans want from them. Trying to experiment and take risks doesn't always work out well. Just take a look at St. Anger for Metallica as an example. For many bands it's just better they stick to what they're good at.
Thanks for this, I literally never understood why people didn’t like nickelback, I literally only knew one song and I loved that song and always wondered if maybe they did something controversial lol
Same here, when I was in highschool I would listen to Lullaby whenever I was feeling sad, and it always cheered me up.
you really had to have this explained to you? generic bullshit is generic bullshit!
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@@mromatic17 What are you? 12?
@@mromatic17 So? As generic as they sounded (i'll give it to you), you have to also put in motion how people receive that repetition. While it is true how repetition can be a bane of anyone's existence (just look what happened to James Blunt and "You're beautiful"). That repetition for some is a sign of comfortability, not out of seldom and lack of taste, just a shove down the throat done and made by the media for a certain demography. Sure, boring rock has become the stagnant death of the genre, but Nick are not the most egregeous sinners tbh.
When I was a kid, my love for the band Nickelback started when I listened the song called Hero after watching Sam Raimi's Spiderman end credit scene, after a few years I became a fan of it.
But when I heard the hate on internet, I was genuinely confused. After watching this video, I begin to understand why. I don't care if they criticize the band, I'll still be a fan of them.
Song is still a banger
People have forgotten about "Hero"
My one gripe about the use of that song is the reference to super man as in DC when the songs music video was used to promote spider man a Marvel comic. But yeah, i still like that song 😭😭😭
@@cholesterolkilla I mean clearly this is an invitation for Marvel and DC to collab and make a crossover one-shot short with Clark Kent and Peter Parker meeting. Like, I feel that they'd click, two wholesome heroes with a sense of responsibility.
What the hell ever happened to Saliva?
I dont know, i used to watch Forever Wild hosted by Sébastien Bach on Vh1 every week, and I loved everything on that show. They played This is How You Remind Me, and I tried to convince my self to like it cause I thought I shohld, but I just didnt. The song is a little better now cause of nostalgia.
Photograph is still a pretty good song if im being honest.
Never understood the hate... nor did i do after watching this video. They made catchy songs for sure, but never did i was force to listen to them on the radio. We had cd/dvd radios back in those days so i was listening to what ever i liked.
I appreciate the history as I could never understand why my friends in highschool all hated Nickleback. I was never aware of trends and just enjoyed music that came my way.
I love their music and my first concert was a Nickleback concert.
It sits very uncomfortably with me that people (musicians, creators, community members) can be hated just because it’s trendy to hate them. People follow others and don’t do their own research. Crazy.
This is one evidence how meme influence people's perception.
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It was the humble beginnings of what was to become cancel culture, look how they come after certain actors just cos they feel like it, Chris Pratt.
I used to hate Justin Bieber and One Direction but could never explain why, everybody just did
@@anndheir Justin Bieber was just very unlikable as a person and then there were people who were jealous of girls talking about him all the time . Its like why now people hate Jake Paul.(take out the girls) Its because he is a dick. One direction was disliked because jealousy again and their fans because they would push their music down people's throats . Something similar of what kpop fans are doing now.
I worked as a Stage Technician for many many years, and I worked on one of their Concerts in Zürich.
Hands down Nickelback is one of the most sincere Bands when it comes to music.
All they brought was their instruments, their sound system and a video screen that was just a simply a live feed from different angles.
No costumes, no weird acting, no playback(!), no weird effects.
And while this might sound BORING to some people, this was the most entertaining concert Ive ever watched. And Ive seen hundreds due to my job.
Good opinion from a person who is involved 100% on concerts and music ..... This is an honest band .... own sound and original music .... Fuck haters !
(i´m not a real fan of the band ... but total respect for them and their career >! )
The haters can put a helmet on man. They don't have the fame, success and money. They are jealous.
@@CanadianEbikeoutlet No but I still want 10 children!
The reason why many Americans dislike Nickelback is because they are Canadian. You should change your title. It should be "WHY ARE AMERICANS ANGRY WITH NICKELBACK," while in Asia, they are fine.
So let me get this straight from an audiovisual event technician to another, they brought their own P.A System? And they brought an LED wall kit? For a live feed from multiple angles? But with no live cameras or PTZ cameras? How long ago was this, how big a venue was this and how popular were they? Because unless you're referring to a basement show with a fastfold screen, because you just said a "video screen"(??) OR a stadium arena show on tour with a 20 or so tech crew and multiple trucks for a line array P.A system and delay towers maybe, and a LED wall kit (with no cameras despite it being a live feed from multiple angles??) then it sounds like you're lying, if your story dates after their claim to fame then no one would think bringing a whole P.A System on tour is an easy and boring task, otherwise, if this would date back to around where they would be playing in theatres more than arenas, no way they would have brought a P.A System, theatres have their own and they won't move around that stuff for a specific band, and lastly, for some small underground basement show, they could have brought like 2 electrovoice P.A's or any other cheaper entry level brands like that and put em on tripods on some mackie analog console but then no way they would have had enough space and gear to put a livefeed on a fastfold screen because 1. that would be a few cameras to put in a small space, and that could become a bit too expensive, 2. Were Blackmagic ATEM/Roland Switchers even a thing back then to have a feed with multiple angles?
So either you're lying about your job or you're actually really bad at it and you've done it for around 10 years and you're still stuck doing only setups/teardowns because your story doesn't add up and so you don't know what you're talking about
Nickelback is pretty good though, wouldn't say they're too original or authentic but they're simple guys that make the simple music they feel like making so, it's genuine to a point
Only have the Silverside Up album personally, I like every song on the Album. Also noticed shortly after they became huge that there were several bands that came out later that sounded a lot like them. For at least a hit or two. So chalked up the hatred to misidentification. Ten again I tend enjoy music without needing to know everything about the artist. 😂😂😂
When people complain about something being overplayed. Yet seem to not be able to figure out how to change the station or do like I do. DON'T LISTEN TO THE RADIO! YOU CHOOSE TO KEEP LISTENING! I haven't listened to the radio significantly for about 30 years. There is always an solution to listening to your own music.
The problem is if you hear it in every shop you go into, or if you work somewhere that plays the radio in the background (shop or worksite). Or if you are on hold on the phone for ages and they play a radio station. Or if the builders next door have a rock station blaring all day. It becomes unavoidable. Not just Nickelback but any popular band of the time.
Fun fact regarding radio stations overplaying songs, Gnarls Barkley actually requested radio stations stopped playing Crazy because they were worried it would get worn out and people would start to hate it. Given how well it's aged and how beloved the song still is I'd say they made a good call tbh. Wish CeeLo and Danger Mouse would link up again
wish that would have happened for the song Moves Like Jagger. it Literally played on the radio every other song 🤮😭
@@TayyaMarie I swear I hear that song every time I get in the car
One could say the same thing about the use of the words fun fact. Just a fun thought.
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What a random, interesting topic to explore lol. Great video
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I can tell you that they were also big in Italy, I think probably more due to the success of Spider-Man and the video of Hero which contained some scenes from the film, since it was on the soundtrack of the film.
But personally my intolerance came with Photograph being played literally everywhere, like every 4 or 5 songs… boom, you get Photograph.
I hated it. Just like I still hate any kind of mainstream music I hear in the car or anywhere else.
I was in a rock bar a couple months back when 'Rockstar' came on-a large part of the bar broke out in an impromptu and enthusiastic sing-along. I saw Nickleback live a good few years ago, and they were particularly 'meh' but I like 'How You Remind Me' and 'Hero'.
I remember being shamed for genuinely liking Nickelback and I never understood the hate train for them. I still have my copy of "All The Right Reasons" and I used to play it on repeat while in middle school until it was pretty scratched up. I'm so glad they're still making music and I would love to see them in concert someday.
I remember having one of their songs on my phone way back in the day (before smartphones and large storage so you had to be picky) and someone making fun of it and I was so confused as to why she was mocking my having one of their songs lol. I do have to admit though that after that and a few other peoples comments I felt a little ashamed of thinking they were a perfectly fine band just as good as anything else out there and kind of just hid listening to them for many years. Now I just tell people to f@#k off LOL and if they double down just talk about how terrible what they listen to these days is. XD
There called Music Nazis they belive in a superior genre of music and that everyone who doesn't conform to their taste is inferior ..who wants to live in a world where everyone has the same taste and your judged by your taste in art ..what next people thinking they better cause they think there taste in food makes them better and make fun of people for eating certain foods they dont like? if it makes u happy and u aint hurting anyone who cares its called diversity if you take away the basic human right to enjoy what u enjoy or make art without hurting other people and been shammed for it then well........
I feel the same, I've always liked Nickelback and never knew why everybody hated them so much and growing up I heard a few playground rumors that they did something terrible but those rumors were nothing more than that so I went with it for most of my life only recently learning the truth. I understand that there is gonna be haters towards just about anything but I've never seen a band be as hated as Nickelback is and honestly for a dumb reason. IDK I personally just don't get it.
Its a simple situation of repetitive information being broadcasted only the weak minded fall for it. I guess thats a good thing that repetitive information (propaganda) can get people to agree. I like Nickleback aswell and for some reason i look down on those who fell for it..malcontent degenerative bags of trash.
Fuck that...Im going to put on some nickelback now...
It became sort of a trend to hate nickelback and people jumped on the bandwagon completely ignoring the fact that they were behaving like sheep following a new cool thing.
Nickelback did get out of their comfort zone with an acoustic version of lullaby and more. But i guess once it's determined that a trend is cool, everyone's going to do it.
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There was a lot of that in the late 2000s and early 2010s. People hating on celebs because everyone else is. Justin Bieber, Britney Spears just to name a few. I'm not even saying they all don't deserve it, but hating someone for the sole reason that everyone else did it is the worst reason to do it.
Sheep listen to nickelback. I imagine faded jeans, "cool" sunglasses, a button up plaid shirt done 2/3 of the way up, frosted tips, divorced, new v6 mustang.
@@nocturn333 exactly, it bad collective mob mentality.
@@sheend I think your the sheep, considering your going through every comment finding ways to hate on Nickelback as soon as someone says something positive about them
For me, it’s because of insecurity.
As a musician in my teens, I loved all forms of guitar-based music; *including* bands like Nickelback and Creed. I remember expressing this one day, and got low key made fun of. I asked why they hated them, and all I got in return was “THEY SUCK, HAHA!”
And as someone who was beginning to write my own music, the fact that a band I thoroughly enjoyed was so thoroughly hated scared me of allowing a tainted influence “ruining” my own music’s potential and spoiling its likability.
I decided to hop on the train because, obviously, everyone else hates them and the fact that I can’t automatically see that makes me “stupid” or something, so I repressed and hid my liking for them and pretended to hate them so I could fall into the “smart” crowd.
Fast-forward to my late twenties and I start giving less of a shit about what people think and surprisingly, this coincided with a wave of Nickelback and Creed being loved by the masses.
Now, there are things about Nickelback that I’m not the craziest about. Chad’s voice can be grating sometimes, the lyrics can come off kinda douchey at times, and the compositions themselves can sometimes be a bit stale and unoriginal, but that’s about it.
But if I can withstand “bad” singers (Tom Delonge, Stephan Jenkins, Dave Mustaine, etc.), there’s no reason I can’t look past Chad’s voice.
If I can listen to songs with stupid lyrics (I.e. “I get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightening bugs” or any DGD song), why can’t I get past Chad’s lyrics?
And what’s wrong with unoriginal sounding music if I listen to the songs by older bands that sound that way with joy when that sound was fresh?
The fact is I can look past all of those things and enjoy it all. Granted, they’re not mind-blowing, but they’re decent; and some of their songs are even BANGERS.
People were socially intimidated away from liking them because they were a relatively unoriginal, non-boundary-pushing band that got INSANELY massive and overplayed by the radio, which turned into “it’s objectively bad music that lucked its way to the top bc of stupid people.”
No. It’s likable music. I would question someone saying their favorite band ever is Nickelback or Creed, since there are far more interesting bands out there. But to say Nickelback “sucks” or “writes objectively bad music” or “only stupid people like their songs” is just flat out untrue.
It’s funny how people say they hate them for being “sellouts” but when other bands actually sellout these same people will be like “they’re not selling out, you just hate change”.
Nickelback was, and still is, one of my guilty pleasures. I never understood the hate, and didn't get caught up in it. Musically, to me, they are like your favourite blanket. you can wrap yourself up in it an feel safe and warm, and they can help chase the blues away, and to me that's a good thing.
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I hear on on this, while for me, it's because I remember Curb blowing my mind and then watching them play the Pit Pub at UBC for 30 people with the same energy as if it was 20000 people. Eventually, my tastes evolved and they did not. This is noted in the video, they become a producer's band, not artists.
It's not a guilty pleasure. It's a pleasure. Nickleback is a great band and always has been. No shame on loving them
"if today was your last day" is a banger
I met Chad Kroeger one time outside a bar and said hi. I was surprised how cool and down to earth he was. Totally cool guy. He hung out with everyone and was totally friendly and approachable. He is much cooler than half of the sell outs who openly diss him.
cool story. i'm not buying bad music just because some random dude has a man crush
Kenny G is super nice, down to earth person; his music still sucks. But credit to Chad Kroeger.
Chad is the OG Chad. And they never forgot where they came from.
@@timothyhumphreys8361 Actually good music. You just climbed on the hatred bandwagon until you believed it yourself. Have your own opinion..
@@timothyhumphreys8361 lol. You probably listen to that joke of music called Rap. So your opinion is irrelevant. Besides, I saw them twice and they put on a great show.
"They knew they were a mediocre band, didn't care about musical growth" That.... describes a lot of bands and pop artists. So I never took any of those try-hard explanations seriously because people would quote that reason but then listen to other artists that could easily be described as "generic" or "formulated for mass consumption". I don't think there is any other legit reason other than they were just unlucky to be targeted by the internet meme culture, and of course, being played non-stop on the radio. When I worked at GC years back Linkin Park had just released a new album and the GC radio would repeat the title track endlessly for months and it really left a bad taste in my mouth for Linkin Park lol
It was saturation
A few bands had the same kinda sound
Arms wide open
3 doors down
All very different but just kinda have the same tempo and the singer sings with just a acoustic then boom the band kicks in the a ripping guitar solo then like a bridge of the song then back to the singer and the end 😊
I never knew why Nickelback was hated so much. I really liked their songs and Photograph was played in almost every graduation. Thanks for letting us know.
Photograph also turned into a meme itself with people taking shots at the lyrics and using the beginning to mock absurd photos.
It's because you have bad taste music. It's all good. Like what you like.
@@eskomoWon I'm a fan of Nickelback but Rockstar and Photograph just ain't it lol. The rest of that album is dope but those songs specifically are laughably trash.
i still remember that vine that went "Look at this GRAPH" and the singer pulls up a photo frame with a bar graph on it lmao
I have always hated Nickelback because their music was cringe inducing. The most normie of normie tunes. It screams "I don't have taste in music so I just listen to what's on the radio"
Having to explain how in the 2000s we didn't get to choose what we listened to unless we had CDs made me feel old and I'm only 30.
When I was 13, I used to record songs off the radio onto cassettes using my stereo.
These cassettes were what _we_ called Mix Tapes.
Im 30 too, but I just used limewire to download songs and burned them onto cds using windows Media player. Eventually I got my first ipod video. Even downloaded porn onto it so I didn't have to sneak at night to the computer area. 😂
I’m 40 don’t feel that old
As I understand, these "mix tapes" were also part of an antiquated courting ritual.
I remember recording music from UA-cam on my flip phone if I wanted music lol
1992 gang out here yall feel as old as i do?
Their music has gotten me through hard times I love them
I’ve been a PROUD nickelback groupie for two decades! I’ve flown around the nation on 7 different occasions to catch them in concert. Hate on me, but LOVE them!
If you haven’t checked out the Hardy/Nickelback cmt concert with Hardy’s new Rockstar song, definitely check it out!! Freaking epic!!
Nickelback was a decent band no matter what people say. Even if you didn't like them, you have to admit that this whole band wagon hate is terrible. I mean imagine you lose your career just because some guy on a chair had a fixed opinion on your work.
They lost they carrier? They would disappear into oblivion as many similar post-grunge bands from the late 2000's. That joke held them relevant. You do realize how many people checked their music because of that?
This video fails to address the poor music...I remember these guys...instantly looked at them as a manufactured unit, one dimensional, low quality, corny....their constant airplay was not worthy of their music....this is why ppl turned, not some stupid comedian....I never heard of loser comedian...this video kind of sucks in its analysis
I don’t hate them. I just don’t care enough about them to listen to them regularly. Only whenever someone else puts them on
Still a band with 11 million monthly on spoitify🔥
As much as you think being a band wagon hater is your thoughts of being the answer to why people don't like the band. It may be true to some but not true to us all.
Some of us naturally do not like the band. Just like some people do not like other bands.
Just make sure you actually like the band instead of getting on this trend of being on their bandwagon of no haters just to prove a meaningless point.
I don't blame the artist, I blame the damn radio station for killing a song. Few years ago I was working in a shop where the station was the latest hip hop sorta what they would play at a night club.
I remember this station would cycle the same damn song every 10th song so you'd end up hearing it like 3 or 4 times an hour.
I was about to end up talking to myself by the end of the day.
I’ve listened to a car radio station in utah or something and it looped closer like every 2 songs.
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Back in the 90's I was member of BMG music club (like Columbia House) there you'd buy 3 CD's for like a buck but your 4th CD would be like $25 or something that would cost something stupid.
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I think I watched an old episode of WKRP in Cincinnati and they explained they do that so the DJ can go to the bathroom.
That’s why I stopped listening to radio music. Same list over and over again.
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This is how i feel. If people can hate this band for not taking risks, for playing generic "radio rock". Why aren't people hating Foo Fighters?
I'm 67 years of age and love their music.
I never understood the hate they got. They have some actually really good songs. I don't love them, I don't hate them. They are the kind of band where I don't purposefully go looking for their music but if I come across their music by chance I will listen to it.
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And you know what? "I don't hate them , I don't love them" isn't anything unique to them either. Infact there were/are probably dozens of bands who are bigger culprits of that. But they never got targeted like Nickelback was. Really feels it was just internet meme that went on too long to become horde mentality.
fucking love nickelback.
As a young teen when Nickelback grew to popularity, and living through the rise of the hatred, what i observed was this: 1. They were massively overplayed; mtv, fuse, the rock radio stations, it was just everywhere all the time 2. Young people need something to hate on, and that became the easy target because it was so abundant 3. Their popular songs were nothing special compared to what else was popular at the time, and the indie scene was only just starting to get attention. People wanted indie music to matter more but had to deal with all these bands like Nickelback, Papa Roach, Three Doors Down, etc. being shoved down our throats across all the different media outlets. That era just had a bad trend of popularizing the same sounds for too long, and Nickelback was the easiest target to make fun of because their popularity was so immense.
My personal opinion? I liked 2 of their songs, but grew tired of the sound real quick. I thought the jokes were funny but grew tired of that too. In the end, i think it’s a lesson about overconsumption and media homogenizing the content we are expected to consume. People didn’t want to be consumers of the same stuff over and over again.
@@xtiphuny89 Well said. I would also add that their lyrics are really trashy for many of their singles after Silver Side Up. Some great guitar riffs, but the lyrics are all perv. On top of that Photograph was SUPER overplayed.
I Never thought Nickelback would be featured on this channel, in all honesty I thought Nickelback was forgotten to history like some fossil ...
Thanks Sunny, keep up the great work.
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First off, just want to say the music video was filmeda few blocks from where i used to live.
But hating on Nickelback quickly just became a meme. Even by 2012, the Adam Sandler tweet was dated and not funny. I think "the internet told me to hate them" really speaks for most people. People wanted to seem cool and with it, so they hated them too. Better hate on someone everyone else seemingly doesn't like than voice my own opinion and be told i have bad taste.
Agreed... It's very sickening to know that an overwhelming amount of people function and think this way. Oh...the world we live in...
I was introduced to Nickelback through Silver Side Up and I latched onto that album. I was going through some pretty difficult and painful things in those years and I needed music I could relate to the frustration and pain I was going through. Then they started releasing softer music I couldn't relate with but were still played often on radios. Finally, when they released Photograph and Rockstar I wrote them off entirely due to that direction they were going. I'm sad to say that yes, by this time I was one of the people who openly disliked them. While I still wouldn't want to listen to them, I'm in a much better place thanks to finding Christ and now I wish I had never been so arrogant, rude, and disgusting in my attitude to things I couldn't relate with.
I remembered asking on a forum if people liked Nickelback (it was my favorite band for a while - i rotate through fave bands) and someone who responded told me they were a horrible band and sucked, I asked why and had a conversation with the person, turned out they never even listened to Nickelback.
Yeah, I don't get the hate. I mean they're not my favorite band, but they've got a few decent songs that I like to listen to from time to time.
Yep. That’s the typical hater. They simply hate something because someone else told them to hate it, and they don’t actually know why.
That's a really good point, Adrian...people spout off and say that they hate an artist or band, but when you press them...they either so silent or admit that they've never listened to them. I grew up in Michigan on the Canadian border, still have friends there, and have had a longstanding respect for the bands up there...you know the usuals...Rush, Neil Young, Bryan Adams, The Band, Guess Who, Mahogany Rush, Pat Travers, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell and many more....and although I'm not a diehard Nickelback listener, I give my respect to them as well. So thank you Canada, for turning out some top level musicians and bands over the years!
This hate plague is plain stupid..and I think it shows the stupidity of people of this era.
They're songs sounded the same and the radio loved playing them over and over. I only liked the leader of men and breath the rest never sounded good to me but I didn't go out of my way to hate on them.
Nickelback was such a big part of my childhood and I never understood the hate the band got. Continue to love them to this day
I miss Nickelback lmao
"Side of a Bullet" is my favorite of their songs. I never understood the hate either.
I mean, most people have shitty taste, so you aren't alone.
@@McShag420 just like all of you😂
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Most people don’t hate them. They just follow the perceived popular opinion.
Why is it that Nickelback get so much hate, but Foo Fighets are loved and adored. They came aroudn the same time, make the same music. Nickelback has sold 50million albums worldwide. Foo fighters have sold 30 million albums worldwide. Yet nobody claims to be a Nickelback fan. I reckon what has happened is all the people listening to Nickelback think they are listening to Foo Fighters. So when people ask them if they listen to Nickelback, they have plausible deniability. They genuinely don't know they know and love Nickelback.
I feel the tide turning though. Nickelback and Creed are being accepted. Prominent artists are coming out in support. I reckon in 5 years time Nickelback and Creed will be loved and adorted. And Foo Fighters will be hated. Its my dream. And I dont even like Nickelback or Creed, I just believe in justice. And the Foo FIghters have it coming.
I've never understood the hatred for Nickelback and have always been confused by it. I heard several unverifiable stories as to why the hatred existed, but never bothered looking into it and just moved on. I'm glad I saw this video. This cleared up a ton.
For most genre songs that dont like them its just that the lyrics are pretty substanceless and the band makes radio targeted music its just kind of fake and the vocals are meh. Atleast for my friends and me it was always a poor linkin park copy
@@IzayaTijisPrincess The only thing that connects Nickelback and Linkin Park is the fact that their music genres cross-over one another. That's all it ever was. Just because two things look or sound similar does not mean they're the same or a copy. It's simple "I don't like" and you don't have to explain yourself to anyone why. You simply stick to what you like and let others stick to what they like. We don't have to stay in the same box, yet for some reason there are people out there who think we should.
@@IzayaTijisPrincess kind of crazy how nickelback gets all this hate for "subtanceless" music when you got famous rappers like travis scott and kanye west which are much worse
@@andreamaral9725 Kanye West is unhinged but he's a master at production and he's got legendary bars. Even a "popular" song like Power includes gems like "Reality is catching up with me/taken my inner child I am fighting for her custody". Try to find that in the average rap about percs and xans.
There’s always some idiot saying this. Just listen to the video and read other comments. The reasons are incredibly simple. You can’t say you don’t get them. Just say you disagree. The problem is you people can’t just say you’re a Nickelback fan and leave it at that. You have to pretend like we can’t dislike mediocre radio rock. Just be quiet
I remember friends of mine listening constantly to Nickelback, suddenly claiming they always hated Nickelback. This was the biggest bandwagon in history.
They are probably up to date on their boosters as well
They were probably afraid to admit they still enjoyed listening to them like I was.
i liked a few of their songs, then they kept playing their songs... kroq.. kiss fm... and it was a time I just kept them behind my head until this joke came around and I was like " huh?...... well that's something. " Then after some time I forgot they even existed haha.
tl;dr I didn't really like them, became a meme, totally forgot them after.
Nickleback like Creed, and Imagine Dragons, and the such had way tooooo many hits on one CD which caused them to be WAYYYYY overplayed.
Every new CD had like 4 or 5 radio hits plus used in film and TV. Lincoln Park almost got the same bad rap.
@@bakdpotato143 You make it sound like having too many hits is a bad thing
when they used the song in the furnature ad in the uk it became one of the biggest selling song of the year.....
Wrongfully accusing somebody on crimes they didn’t commit, like Amber Heard and countless others in the MeToo movement or purposely killing someone’s reputation, should be charged and handled as a crime. Nickelback's - Hero was even played in Spiderman movie. How dare you call his music bad.
I'm from Poland. I started to listen Nickleback as a teenager. It really made my day a lot of times when I was stragling with all that teenagers stuff. I'm 30 now and I still listen to Nickleback sometimes. I really like this band and don't give a sh*t what others think.
Jak z Myslovitz.
I'm 46 and they're still part of my daily Pandora playlist. 😁😍
Samey homegirl, although I'm more of a headbanger, for me Nickelback rocks it.
Same thing. As a mexican never knew about all the hate trend, an grew up liking their music, I still have them in my playlist
Even though I was not a fan back in the day of their initial rise, without any love for them I could still tell the hate was stupid. I remember thinking "Gee they aren't my style so I don't even care, but dang!? They aren't that bad. They aren't bad AT ALL. Ya'll be trippin."
As the hatred went on I listened to them more, just to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I didn't want to be an out of touch looser who was out of the loop or on on the wrong side of history or anything. But I couldn't find anything wrong. Their style grew on me and I became a fan so suck on that haters! 😁
In my country, there was never some kind of "bandwagon hatred" on a band. They didn't play Nickelback songs on repeat on the radio, never were some adverts, including hate comments. I loved Nickelback when I was little, especially their albums "black horse" and "fighting for all the right reasons". Then I moved past them and just recently was coming back to them again. I was shocked the people in the world could be hating them, they are doing things all sorts of bands and artists do...
thus very true, the media is really toxic and people now days don't have what to do
Americans are dumb, and we live to hate things.
Lots of braindead sheep in the world man. Most people love to jump on bandwagons to feel included and liked by society, at the expense of others.
I don't know if people are ok with this, but that happened to me with Limp Biskit too. Recently i discovered they were so hated
@@FoxDie77777 limp biscuit was hated because they were blending to different styles of music and one of those styles was already not very appreciated. hip-hop and mainstream metal, mainstream metal being the style people already didn't like very much. Making things worse lots of limp biscuit fans were "poser's" or fakers that only liked it because it was cool to like them. I personally didn't feel one way or another about them but as an adult I have no problem saying they are not very good lol
I remember when Nickelback songs played on the radio everyday on the bus home from school for all of 2003. It was inescapable. The same songs played more than once sometimes.
Nobody wants to admit they hate Nickelback these days because they don't want to admit they bandwagoned. I remember me and my friends dragging Nickelback back in the day, especially when we got into much heavier music. We didn't hate Nickelback, but the trend was admittedly pretty funny. It was a band you listened to alone, not around your friends.
It definitely was caused by being overplayed on the radio.
When Hero dropped, I flipped through the 3 radio stations I listened to and it was playing on all three.
From that moment I stopped listening to them. I really felt like the music industry was forcing them down our throats. It's not that they were bad, I was just tired of hearing them.
It is really sad... In middle school I had one nickleback song I really liked and always wondered why people hate this band, since it sounds really similar to some bands really popular and considered good at the time.
And all of this sounds like hate campaign winded up for no reason. What is scary is media can pull the same thing on some politics, activists etc if they become a threat to them.
Ya.. but Nickelback sucks tho
@@wewillwin24 that bias is why America is so divided in its politics
@@hexogramd8430 that's Nickelback's fault too!!
Hate Nickleback jokes are like Chuck Norris jokes.
Again because they suck
I loved Nickelback when I was a kid, still don’t get how all this brainless hate is still a thing.
Because most people are sheep, who are incapable of forming their own thoughts.
Even if it were true that they actually were a generic band, that's no reason to hate them.
I still like hero
mob mentality on the internet is a powerful thing
I'm not a Nickelback fan but I don't get the hatred.
Lol
good thing I didn't grew up hearing American radio because I like Nickleback's music, because I heard it from my older cousins back in the Philippines
Probably the best rock band of an era ,wish they were still throwing out albums. Every album they put out was iconic. The media and other bands were just jealous because other bands couldn't put out perfect albums every time. My favorite rock of all time. And yes im the ex drummer of a somewhat famous rockband. So nickel haters can suck it. You just wish you were them
I have to absolutely agree as someone who was a teen in the 2000's and doesn't particularly like Nickelback that there's nothing particular horrible about Nickelback, it was just fustratingly overplayed if you casually enjoyed a song by them you ended up hearing it enough for a lifetime.
Trendy chit always sucks
Trends are for the 🐑
"Frustratingly overplayed" is the best description of Nickelback I've ever read. XD
I've always felt they were to generic sounding for the level of popularity they achieved in the late 90s early 2000s.
You can also blame the radio company for playing it a million times a day. I mean they do control the songs being put on
Growing up and being forced to listen to nothing but the radio. There were alot of songs being played over and over again.
I will never understand the hatred.
You know how everyone jokingly hated on Twilight back in the day? It was a lot like that.
@@mapleflag6518 Jokingly? Haha :P I guess I get your point - though I actually don't like Twilight.
Its played a lot, and people who didn't like the band that much were tired of seeing them. Its not that complicated and they say so in the video.
When were you born?
It is understandable when you look at fabricated manufactured product like Bts
People say that Nickelback are unoriginal and mimic the style of other bands such as Creed, Seether, Three Days Grace… but Nickelback started it years before those bands
It's funny how blissfully unaware of something you can be when you ignore media and Internet. Was never a "fan" of nickelback but I like many of their songs and I've only found out about this global hatred for them in recent years...
Meanwhile, I'm still gonna wear my Nickelback shirt and blast their Dark Horse album during my day 😎 because... Screw other people's bandwagon opinions.
just goes to show ppl cant and refuse to think for themselves.
Yeah. Had no idea people dislike them so much. I don’t think they were the best of bands but, I don’t think they were that bad. As a guitarist, I kind of like some of their riffs.
Yeah this is the first I’ve heard of this, I don’t waste my time watching tv
It really unfair. Their not my favorite but I can name a lot of bands that are far worse.
I've seen ALOT of concerts in my life and this singer has one of the strongest voices I've ever heard. Nickleback is an Increditable band with good lyrics.
I agree 100%
Ok bro
Agreed. His voice is one of the best there are
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I've always liked them and enjoyed their music! ❤😊
One unknown didn't "make" people hate Nickelback with an obscure comment. The content of their lyrics morphed into the real estate of lounge lizards. They did it to themselves, SunnyV2.
"Expose someone to anger long enough, they will learn to hate."
Monsoon really was right after all
Now replace Nickelback with Trump.
@@boulderdashman7912 does everything have to have Trump involved? Jesus, he's been out of office for 2 years now shut up about it
I disliked them immediately with no outside influence.
@@boulderdashman7912 I guess TDS is really a thing after all.. jeez
@@boulderdashman7912 wow Trump got you that bad eh, still lol
It's so sad that a band that produces so good qualtiy music gets dragged through the dirt for just a buch of haters who need to put people below them to feel better. Noice music Nickelback👍
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I always liked them. They had some great songs.
nickelback is the band equivalent of james cameron's avatar
They do have some cringe songs but every band and artist does
I can 100% tell you that I never liked "How you remind me" at any point. Then they played it constantly, as stated in the video, and that did not help at all. The rest of their music couldn't unf*ck the band by itself, so I decided I hated them too. But I hated them because I hated them, not because other people did. I'll admit to having fun with the Nickelback hate meme for a spell, but I hated them from the first time I ever heard them--before it was ever 'cool' to hate them.
That beind said, now that I am much older, I can actually listen to them because of the nostalgia. Without the nostalgia I wouldn't even bother though. And I only listen when I'm drinking lol, but to be fair that's the only time I can stand any music now--not just Nickelback. Peace and quiet is the greatest sound in the world, or the laughter of good company on a peaceful day.
But some people really do just hate Nickelback because they hate Nickelback lol. If they didn't overplay "How you remind me" back in the day, it might have played out differently though, I can admit.
Thankfully I dont get influenced by people or trends. one of my teachers said I was the only student he couldnt change and I was actually proud of it...😅. Anyways I love nickleback. They were introduce by my husband before even we dated. Loved them from the first moment I heard them
I enjoy Nickle Back an still do till this day but i do not give into social media.
Even if you're not into Nickelback or the type of music they play, there is no denying how great they are live. They are one of those few bands that sound almost identical to the studio recording. Truly talented musicians.
That's probably because of Chad's voice.
🎶 lip sync 'em every night so I don't get 'em wrong 🎶
Idk I really do think they suck
Agree. I've seen them a few times.
@@awoman3 your right to think this way. Only christians like this horse shit
I always had a feeling in the back of my mind that the hate Nickelback gets was just because of bandwagoning. one person shits on them, so other people do it too. what I find remarkable is that the band is taking that hate and using it to propel their career and they're afraid of what will happen when people stop hating them. I've never seen any band do that before
me personally, I've always liked Nickelback. my standards for music have never been the highest so Nickelback is good enough for me
That's mob mentality for ya.
Sheep...
If you listen to their music you'll see why they were disliked. It's not complex.
@@angel_existential Exactly! It's bland. Nothing that hits.
@@angel_existential music doesn’t have to be “complex” to be good for example look at old punk musicians from the 70’s they only play 3 or 4 chords in a song and most of the guitar playing isn’t really that great because they just want to write a simple driving song, a song doesn’t need to be complex to be good, you could write and play something with a simple formulaic structure and it could still be a good song