Nickelback get's hate not because they have made some good music because yeah they actually did make (a few) that I have heard, but it's very specifically due to them being the bubble gum band of the 'Post Alternative' music progression AND because the band is played so many times over and over it's akin to Mariah Carey (yeah I know... She is well on her way to thawing). For the youngin's out there, when I say 'bubble gum' it means it's generic everyday crap. Same sounds, same boring things over and over spoon fed to the masses because it sells, not because it's innovative, heart felt, or otherwise.
Some of their biggest hits are just generic themes regurgitated. 'Rockstar' is the most disingenuine version of the 'sellout' to corporate music song ever. I think it was supposed to be pitched as 'I want the lifestyle so of course I'm going to sell my soul to do it'. Wow... Great.. We already know they did. On top of that it was almost like a slap in the face of a song compared to the classics on the matter such as 'devil went down to Georgia', The Rolling Stones - 'Sympathy for the Devil', etc.
'Photograph' wasn't THAT bad of a song? I dunno just wasn't my cup of tea.
'How you Remind Me' was a descent song. I feel like that's the only song I care to listen to by them.
And I am sure there are 'better' (hopefully) songs deep into their records, but... None of their airplay songs make me want to dig deeper.
That doesn't mean Nickelback deserves all the hate they have received, it means they need to innovate.. But also it means that it worked, because well... For a band that should have dropped off the face of the earth in 2010, they didn't. Here we are today talking about them. Hate sells too and this is a good example of it.
I mean.. Let's give a different example. Green Day's Dookie.. Great album. Even if you go back today, everyone knows Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, and When I come around, but you start listening to this album, and if you already liked these three songs, stuff like 'She', and 'Pulling Teeth' alone could have been their own huge songs for different reasons.
But I think as ages have came before, the masses get sick and tired of hearing the sale old crap regurgitated over and over. That doesn't mean it's bad music, it means we have heard it too many times before and we get the 'uncanny valley' effect of realizing.. It's intentional for sale not because it's great music..
Even now with Rap that has had what... An almost 30+ year domination on the music industry in general is starting to collapse. Nobody cares about the 100000000th song about 'f&&kin' hoes', 'shootin' thugs', showing off money, and people having your back... If I want to listen to that, I'm listening to Nate Dogg & Warren G., Old school Snoop, or Dr Dre, Ice Cube, etc. Who didn't sound like someone who can't rap or sing having a seizure on a microphone that bought a 5 pad Casio drum kit at walmart and now they think they sound good with autotune doing most of the heavy lifting in any chorus situation.
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u/Hrmerder 12h ago edited 12h ago
Nickelback get's hate not because they have made some good music because yeah they actually did make (a few) that I have heard, but it's very specifically due to them being the bubble gum band of the 'Post Alternative' music progression AND because the band is played so many times over and over it's akin to Mariah Carey (yeah I know... She is well on her way to thawing). For the youngin's out there, when I say 'bubble gum' it means it's generic everyday crap. Same sounds, same boring things over and over spoon fed to the masses because it sells, not because it's innovative, heart felt, or otherwise.
Some of their biggest hits are just generic themes regurgitated. 'Rockstar' is the most disingenuine version of the 'sellout' to corporate music song ever. I think it was supposed to be pitched as 'I want the lifestyle so of course I'm going to sell my soul to do it'. Wow... Great.. We already know they did. On top of that it was almost like a slap in the face of a song compared to the classics on the matter such as 'devil went down to Georgia', The Rolling Stones - 'Sympathy for the Devil', etc.
'Photograph' wasn't THAT bad of a song? I dunno just wasn't my cup of tea.
'How you Remind Me' was a descent song. I feel like that's the only song I care to listen to by them.
And I am sure there are 'better' (hopefully) songs deep into their records, but... None of their airplay songs make me want to dig deeper.
That doesn't mean Nickelback deserves all the hate they have received, it means they need to innovate.. But also it means that it worked, because well... For a band that should have dropped off the face of the earth in 2010, they didn't. Here we are today talking about them. Hate sells too and this is a good example of it.
I mean.. Let's give a different example. Green Day's Dookie.. Great album. Even if you go back today, everyone knows Welcome to Paradise, Basket Case, and When I come around, but you start listening to this album, and if you already liked these three songs, stuff like 'She', and 'Pulling Teeth' alone could have been their own huge songs for different reasons.
But I think as ages have came before, the masses get sick and tired of hearing the sale old crap regurgitated over and over. That doesn't mean it's bad music, it means we have heard it too many times before and we get the 'uncanny valley' effect of realizing.. It's intentional for sale not because it's great music..
Even now with Rap that has had what... An almost 30+ year domination on the music industry in general is starting to collapse. Nobody cares about the 100000000th song about 'f&&kin' hoes', 'shootin' thugs', showing off money, and people having your back... If I want to listen to that, I'm listening to Nate Dogg & Warren G., Old school Snoop, or Dr Dre, Ice Cube, etc. Who didn't sound like someone who can't rap or sing having a seizure on a microphone that bought a 5 pad Casio drum kit at walmart and now they think they sound good with autotune doing most of the heavy lifting in any chorus situation.