I once read something that hypothesized the hate came from a joke from Colin Quinn’s Comedy Central panel show: “I think music can make people violent. Like, Nickelback makes me want to kill Nickelback.”
It ran on promos when CC was at its peak popularity, and it spread like a proto-meme when online culture was just getting started. I used to jam to butt rock like them all the time back then and thought the hate was both hilarious and justified.
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Two things:
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their breakout record is Silver Side Up, that came out in Sept 11, 2001 :thonk:
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that song chad did with that greasy guy from saliva for the spiderman movie was actually a really good summwr blockbuster superhero movie song.
Both being said, nah, it’s not that good. If it suites your tastes that’s fine, but there’s nothing ground breaking a canadian power-pop ballad band.
Nickelback is terrible. They have half of a good song and they were so glad they had it that they literally looped it twice, presumably because people would be like “wtf this isn’t even two minutes”.
