I'm not a fan of Nickelback and have made fun of the faux alternative rock singer voice that came up in last 10 years. I think they suck but I think a lot of music sucks. With hating them though, it's like a movement. I'm kind of fascinated by it.
What is the deep seeded reason that people hate the band? Why are they even famous? What do they represent in pop culture?
Posted Feb 25, 2010, 10:22 AM UTC
You can actually work this out mathematically:
(L + S + A) x P = X
Where
L is the bands lack of talent.
S is the level of seriousness with which they take themselves
A is the annoyance level of their fans
P is their popularity and
X is the amount of hatred.
Nickleback are talentless and take themselves very seriously and their fans are really irritating. Multiply this by their popularity and you have the level of hatred they deserve.
Bravo good sir. Bravo.
It turns out people don't hate Nickleback. They sold the 2nd most albums of any band the last decade, beaten only by the beatles. Everyone here hates them, because they're fucking elitist, in denial hipsters.
But yeah, listening to them both musically and lyrically makes me want to punch myself in the dick.
they didn't crack top 5. it went eminem, the beatles and 3 country singers.
Thank you. May I have another?
Second only to the Beatles? When you consider that the Beatles broke up in 1970, let's see how Nickleback is selling 40 years after they break up.
I like their song 'Breathe'. Yeah bitches, it's true.
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They're hated because they are rock, just homogenized, pasteurized, soulless corporate mainstream shite. They're the microwave mac and cheese of the rock world.
LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH...
Seriously, though, it's partly to do with stupid fucking lyrics like this.
Also, it's deep-seated.
You want stupid lyrics? That insipid fucking "I'm Yours" tripe:
And It's our God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love loved
I don't think 'God forsaken' means what he thinks it means. I think, in fact, some dipshit no-name songwriter just liked the way the words fit the banal, bubblegum melody that someone else pulled out of the Big Book Of Pop Cliches.
I don't know, but I like 'Burn it to the Ground' that the local rock radio station has been playing.
Chad Kroeger drank the blood of a newborn baby so the devil would give him the secret four chords that make up every Nickelback song
He got ripped off.
Probably because of the cognitive dissonance between how insipid their music is and how successful they are.
Because their music is too awesome, and conformists don't like that.
I.... I..... Never mind.
You a 12yr old girl?
They're the living embodiment of the reason Kurt Cobain shot himself.
They are the end of the line; the logical conclusion of a process that started when the sound of Nevermind et al. was captured, processed, analysed, marketed and produced for mindless masses who wanted to feel like they were listening to something earthy without all the yicky dirt.
Basically: Fuck them, that's why.
People hate nickelback because it became cool to, an the Reddit hive mind tells them to.
I don't think it's deep-seated. I think people either like them or hate them. Mostly because they are self-centered and full of themselves.
EDIT. I'd rather have a pickle.
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You need to discover the English language.
They've become the poster child for the mainstream pop industry which churns out bland average artists with average musical ability, but high marketability.
This image is hated by any number of different groups - those with different musical genre tastes, those who have more complex or sophisticated taste in music and those who are just on the bandwagon.
They are a strawman, held up to be ridiculed, attacked and hated, as the most average of all the average.
To add, hating Nickelback in itself has become mainstream, I've met people who say it and don't even know why.