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Post by degen on May 2, 2021 16:25:20 GMT -5
I honestly think it’s hilarious how dramatic people are when it comes to Nickelback. I remember not too long ago i played “How You Remind Me” on a jukebox at a bar just to troll and the reactions were so over the top. Covering their ears and talking s**t about who chose this song?
How did they sustain such an infamous reputation for being the worst soccer mom band of all time? I always thought a lot of their music in their prime was catchy and no different than other 90s/00s soft rock bands. Maroon 5 is a distant second when it comes music snobs hating on them, but nowhere near the level of Nickelback.
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Post by jenglisbe on May 2, 2021 17:25:21 GMT -5
I love "How You Remind Me," but that's the only one. To me their songs all sound alike, and the lead singer's voice is grating. But "HYRM" is a jam. They basically had a killer single and then copied it. It reminds me of Everclear because I love "Santa Monica," but then a lot of their other singles feel like a copy of it to me.
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Post by Groovy on May 3, 2021 8:03:07 GMT -5
Probably because Chad Kroeger’s voice is so grating.
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Post by Ling-Ling on May 3, 2021 9:00:31 GMT -5
They're just so generic sounding, I think it makes them an easy whipping-boy. And Chad's voice and singing style is ripe for parody IMO. I don't find them highly offensive or anything, just over-the-top cookie-cutter. They're no worse than Creed, Matchbox 20, etc.
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Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on May 3, 2021 9:31:53 GMT -5
I’d say Chad’s voice and their occasionally repetitive sound are only part of it. Most artists have a style that could be deemed repetitive or copying themselves that makes for an easy criticism if you don’t like them. I’d say what made Nickelback the targets the became was their ability to get success for quite a while. Creed’s popularity was fairly limited time-wise, for example, while Nickelback were getting hits on pop for nearly a decade, which meant Hot AC and probably AC by association. The Rock formats also kept them despite their pop attention, which doesn’t always happen. I also think their brand of rock made them a target. Cock rock or corporate rock isn’t something music snobs look kindly on. Really, I’d say they became a target of a small vocal few and that kind of became part of their brand. Most people don’t care about any of that which was probably how their success continued for so long.
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Post by Jay D83 on May 3, 2021 13:09:29 GMT -5
I’d say Chad’s voice and their occasionally repetitive sound are only part of it. Most artists have a style that could be deemed repetitive or copying themselves that makes for an easy criticism if you don’t like them. I’d say what made Nickelback the targets the became was their ability to get success for quite a while. Creed’s popularity was fairly limited time-wise, for example, while Nickelback were getting hits on pop for nearly a decade, which meant Hot AC and probably AC by association. The Rock formats also kept them despite their pop attention, which doesn’t always happen. I also think their brand of rock made them a target. Cock rock or corporate rock isn’t something music snobs look kindly on. Really, I’d say they became a target of a small vocal few and that kind of became part of their brand. Most people don’t care about any of that which was probably how their success continued for so long. Cock rock? Go on....
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Post by The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 on May 3, 2021 14:04:27 GMT -5
I think a lot of people just didn't like their material, but for the most part, I've always felt It was more like a “herd mentality” situation. At one point it just became "cool" to actively dislike Nickelback... it sorta became a meme and people wanted to be "in" on it
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Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on May 3, 2021 14:31:41 GMT -5
I’d say Chad’s voice and their occasionally repetitive sound are only part of it. Most artists have a style that could be deemed repetitive or copying themselves that makes for an easy criticism if you don’t like them. I’d say what made Nickelback the targets the became was their ability to get success for quite a while. Creed’s popularity was fairly limited time-wise, for example, while Nickelback were getting hits on pop for nearly a decade, which meant Hot AC and probably AC by association. The Rock formats also kept them despite their pop attention, which doesn’t always happen. I also think their brand of rock made them a target. Cock rock or corporate rock isn’t something music snobs look kindly on. Really, I’d say they became a target of a small vocal few and that kind of became part of their brand. Most people don’t care about any of that which was probably how their success continued for so long. Cock rock? Go on.... Oh wait - maybe that was just Rockstar - or maybe not at all applies to Nickelback. Maybe I just misinterpreted it as a particular genre or style of rock 😂😣
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Post by mrmike855 on May 3, 2021 14:37:31 GMT -5
Probably a combination of Chad Kroeger's voice, the fact that a lot of their songs sound similar (if not the same) and the fact that they were so popular for so long. There are plenty of other post-grunge bands that are worse (Creed, Hinder, Buckcherry) but none of them were constant hitmakers for almost a decade. Personally, with the exception of Rockstar, I never thought they were that bad, just lousy and forgettable for the most part (and Creed and Hinder have worse singers) but dealing with their music from 2001-2011 must've been exhausting.
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Post by tekkenguy on May 3, 2021 14:45:33 GMT -5
I agree that it’s because it’s become a meme to hate Nickelback. Just like the Bieber hate early last decade.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2021 16:43:30 GMT -5
The backlash is similar to a lot of other rock bands that went on to major pop success (Styx, Creed, etc.).. what made the Nickelback backlash especially bad was that their career decline came at the same time that social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram (where memes are easily and widely distributed) really took off, so they themselves basically became a meme.
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Post by gikem on May 3, 2021 21:46:32 GMT -5
I'll admit to being in a weird place with Nickelback. On the one hand, I'm with everyone who says that they were nowhere near the worst rock or post-grunge band to become a thing in the 2000s (*cough* Hinder *cough*), and I think Chad Kroeger's voice can be rather tolerable when given upbeat instrumentation like on She Keeps Me Up or Into The Night (the latter being his solo collab with Santana). But at the same time, when you look at the songs Nickelback had that made YEs between 2002 and 2009, many of them are actually quite bad. The big problem I have with all those singles is that they all sound so similar; the band boxed themselves into a formula after How You Remind Me and just didn't diverge from it for an entire decade. Content-wise, while most of their hits don't actively annoy me outside of Rockstar and If Everyone Cared (even Photograph is fine in that respect, don't @ me), they also largely stuck to a formula of writing about generic relationship angst that went nowhere.
That's my 2 cents on the question at hand. For the record, I have almost the inverse problem with Maroon 5 for the past decade (can't stand them/him at all, but most of their singles from this time are middling at worst, with only a few unfortunate exceptions).
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Post by dremolus - solarpunk on May 4, 2021 3:14:16 GMT -5
I definitely do agree with the consensus in that Nickelback isn't the worst band of the 2000s (hell Theory of a Deadman is a worse version of Nickelback) but that's said they were still mediocre and when mediocre music is consistently popular for a long time, the backlash is much more pronounced.
Imagine Dragons are in a similar positions now: they aren't the worst "alt" band right now but because their music is consistently popular while being mediocre (with the occasional disaster like Cutthroat or Thunder), they're much more hated than far worse bands.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on May 4, 2021 3:28:34 GMT -5
Nickelback's music is just so painfully and outrageously generic and represents everything that is wrong in America right now culturally speaking. There is absolutely no redeeming qualities to the work they have done and the hate towards it is completely and totally justified.
I feel like the people who like Nickelback voted for and support Donald Trump, Joshua Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tulsi Gabbard, Lindsey Graham, and Mitch McConnell. They are also the same people who believe Joe Biden didn't win this election legitimately and supported the January 6 insurrection. These people are extremely dangerous and they need to be locked up.
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Post by tekkenguy on May 4, 2021 11:37:34 GMT -5
Nickelback's music is just so painfully and outrageously generic and represents everything that is wrong in America right now culturally speaking. There is absolutely no redeeming qualities to the work they have done and the hate towards it is completely and totally justified. I feel like the people who like Nickelback voted for and support Donald Trump, Joshua Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tulsi Gabbard, Lindsey Graham, and Mitch McConnell. They are also the same people who believe Joe Biden didn't win this election legitimately and supported the January 6 insurrection. These people are extremely dangerous and they need to be locked up. You had to make it political, didn’t you?
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Post by Kris on May 4, 2021 13:02:38 GMT -5
Because people hate other people who are successful.
I love their first few albums, I haven't really paid attention to them since Dark Horse so I'm not sure what direction their music went.
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Post by mkarns on May 4, 2021 13:04:17 GMT -5
Nickelback's music is just so painfully and outrageously generic and represents everything that is wrong in America right now culturally speaking. There is absolutely no redeeming qualities to the work they have done and the hate towards it is completely and totally justified. I feel like the people who like Nickelback voted for and support Donald Trump, Joshua Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tulsi Gabbard, Lindsey Graham, and Mitch McConnell. They are also the same people who believe Joe Biden didn't win this election legitimately and supported the January 6 insurrection. These people are extremely dangerous and they need to be locked up. I kind of like (not love) Nickelback, and never understood the hate. I also think that Trump, MTG, Hawley, etc. are worthless POSs as are their fans with their crybaby refusal to accept an election that didn't go their way. So piss off with the political crap.
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Post by maine on May 4, 2021 14:47:46 GMT -5
Nickelback's music is just so painfully and outrageously generic and represents everything that is wrong in America right now culturally speaking. There is absolutely no redeeming qualities to the work they have done and the hate towards it is completely and totally justified. I feel like the people who like Nickelback voted for and support Donald Trump, Joshua Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tulsi Gabbard, Lindsey Graham, and Mitch McConnell. They are also the same people who believe Joe Biden didn't win this election legitimately and supported the January 6 insurrection. These people are extremely dangerous and they need to be locked up. lol dramatic ass
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Post by leonagwen on May 4, 2021 16:03:52 GMT -5
youtu.be/DmeUuoxyt_E. This is my favorite Nickelback song.Anyway their All the Right Reasons album is a Diamond album , so someone must be buying their music.
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on May 5, 2021 5:08:19 GMT -5
Nickelback's music is just so painfully and outrageously generic and represents everything that is wrong in America right now culturally speaking. There is absolutely no redeeming qualities to the work they have done and the hate towards it is completely and totally justified. I feel like the people who like Nickelback voted for and support Donald Trump, Joshua Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tulsi Gabbard, Lindsey Graham, and Mitch McConnell. They are also the same people who believe Joe Biden didn't win this election legitimately and supported the January 6 insurrection. These people are extremely dangerous and they need to be locked up. You had to make it political, didn’t you? I can make it whatever. Last time I checked this is in the Your Opinion Please section. Unless you are angling for a specific answer that is confirmatory to the question you were asking. I did not realize I needed to ask permission to make it a way that you find acceptable or appropriate. I will make a note of it for next time so I won't make it that way. I also think that Trump, MTG, Hawley, etc. are worthless POSs as are their fans with their crybaby refusal to accept an election that didn't go their way. So piss off with the political crap. The fact that you got all up in your feelings over MY opinion says everything about you and serves to further provide evidence about what I was saying. Nickelback fans = Republicans
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Post by jdanton2 on May 5, 2021 6:50:20 GMT -5
Nickelback and the grunge sound for me was one of the worst trends ever in music . them and Daughtry were the bottom of the barrel of it . Nirvana's Teen Spirit song which started the trend was by far the best song from that genre but it went down hill fast after that.
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Post by dremolus - solarpunk on May 5, 2021 7:09:15 GMT -5
You had to make it political, didn’t you? I can make it whatever. Last time I checked this is in the Your Opinion Please section. Unless you are angling for a specific answer that is confirmatory to the question you were asking. I did not realize I needed to ask permission to make it a way that you find acceptable or appropriate. I will make a note of it for next time so I won't make it that way. I also think that Trump, MTG, Hawley, etc. are worthless POSs as are their fans with their crybaby refusal to accept an election that didn't go their way. So piss off with the political crap. The fact that you got all up in your feelings over MY opinion says everything about you and serves to further provide evidence about what I was saying. Nickelback fans = Republicans This overly aggressive and combative strikes me as exactly the type of person who would listen to Nickelback
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Post by dremolus - solarpunk on May 5, 2021 7:10:07 GMT -5
Nickelback and the grunge sound for me was one of the worst trends ever in music . them and Daughtry were the bottom of the barrel of it . Nirvana's Teen Spirit song which started the trend was by far the best song from that genre but it went down hill fast after that. Also I would highly suggest you listen to other grunge songs and bands because Smells Like Teen Spirit isn't even Top 5 for Nirvana
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Post by Rose "Payola" Nylund on May 5, 2021 8:00:03 GMT -5
You had to make it political, didn’t you? I can make it whatever. Last time I checked this is in the Your Opinion Please section. Unless you are angling for a specific answer that is confirmatory to the question you were asking. I did not realize I needed to ask permission to make it a way that you find acceptable or appropriate. I will make a note of it for next time so I won't make it that way. I also think that Trump, MTG, Hawley, etc. are worthless POSs as are their fans with their crybaby refusal to accept an election that didn't go their way. So piss off with the political crap. The fact that you got all up in your feelings over MY opinion says everything about you and serves to further provide evidence about what I was saying. Nickelback fans = Republicans Okay, but what you said literally makes no sense and was based off nothing except for the fact you hate republicans and you hate nickelback so in your mind they must be the same.
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Post by mkarns on May 5, 2021 10:39:47 GMT -5
You had to make it political, didn’t you? I can make it whatever. Last time I checked this is in the Your Opinion Please section. Unless you are angling for a specific answer that is confirmatory to the question you were asking. I did not realize I needed to ask permission to make it a way that you find acceptable or appropriate. I will make a note of it for next time so I won't make it that way. I also think that Trump, MTG, Hawley, etc. are worthless POSs as are their fans with their crybaby refusal to accept an election that didn't go their way. So piss off with the political crap. The fact that you got all up in your feelings over MY opinion says everything about you and serves to further provide evidence about what I was saying. Nickelback fans = Republicans 1) I never called myself a Nickelback fan. 2) You calling me a Republican? Attachment Deleted
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on May 5, 2021 15:07:15 GMT -5
I can make it whatever. Last time I checked this is in the Your Opinion Please section. Unless you are angling for a specific answer that is confirmatory to the question you were asking. I did not realize I needed to ask permission to make it a way that you find acceptable or appropriate. I will make a note of it for next time so I won't make it that way. The fact that you got all up in your feelings over MY opinion says everything about you and serves to further provide evidence about what I was saying. Nickelback fans = Republicans This overly aggressive and combative strikes me as exactly the type of person who would listen to Nickelback I do not listen to them.
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Post by irice22 on May 6, 2021 18:59:44 GMT -5
Probably because Chad Kroeger’s voice is so grating. Honestly this. And their songs sound really similar. I don't think people just "deicded" to hate them in the way I think people decided to hate 21 Pilots and Imagine Dragons.
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Post by maine on May 6, 2021 19:07:07 GMT -5
"All their songs sound the same" is such a cop out. Listen to these back to back and please enlighten me on how similar they sound to one another.
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Post by bigd79 on May 6, 2021 20:05:11 GMT -5
I love Nickelback and i don’t care who knows it. Fight me😝
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Post by narp on May 6, 2021 21:40:31 GMT -5
I’m not even remotely a Nickelback fan but I can tell you that most (not all because there is valid criticism to give them) people do it to seem cool, or like they have “better taste” as if that’s a thing. I can guarantee most of this site has at least one Nickelback song they like. I can admit most of their music is generic radio rock but they still have a couple good songs. There are songs and artists from the 2000s that don’t get as much hate as Nickelback and their songs get, especially in the post-grunge genre. That was the decade that gave Creed, Hinder, and Saving Abel Year-End hits, that are imo far worse than most Nickelback hits.
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