Seether, Staind, Puddle of Mud, Nickleback (and many more (like Hinder, eugh)) were all basically the same band. A bunch of pretty popular bands all around the same time, but Nickleback was the biggest.
Then there were a bunch of other bands that sounded pretty similar. Foo Fighters, Fuel, Breaking Benjamin, etc. Not Creed-likes but similar enough that it oversaturated the genre.
And since Nickleback was the most overplayed, they got the most hate.
It helps that the "Look at this photograph." got memed on so hard.
It isn't. I had a whole conversation of this at work with some coworkers younger and older than myself and we figured out that everyone's definition of buttrock was vastly different. It was fun.
I would put every band mentioned in the comment I replied to except Foo Fighters firmly in the butt rock category. (Foo Fighters are as quintessentially just “alternative rock” as anyone I can think of atm, gun to my head I guess they’re sort of a flavor of pop punk but that doesn’t feel right to say lol).
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u/Simba7 10h ago
I called that genre "Creed-likes" in high school.
Seether, Staind, Puddle of Mud, Nickleback (and many more (like Hinder, eugh)) were all basically the same band. A bunch of pretty popular bands all around the same time, but Nickleback was the biggest.
Then there were a bunch of other bands that sounded pretty similar. Foo Fighters, Fuel, Breaking Benjamin, etc. Not Creed-likes but similar enough that it oversaturated the genre.
And since Nickleback was the most overplayed, they got the most hate.
It helps that the "Look at this photograph." got memed on so hard.