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Nickelback

LittleLemon

LittleLemon

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Why do people hate Nickelback? I see the band mentioned and there's a sudden onslaught of people making what appears to be inside jokes about how awful they are. The most recent joke I saw was a youtube video someone shared showing a guy blowing up his guitar after pretending to teach the song Photograph. He then picks up another guitar and plays some Skynard. There are a variety of jokes specifically about this band. I feel like there's some pop culture thing I'm missing.

They're not my cup of tea, but neither is Beyonce. I guess I just don't get it.
 
LittleLemon said:
Why do people hate Nickelback? I see the band mentioned and there's a sudden onslaught of people making what appears to be inside jokes about how awful they are. The most recent joke I saw was a youtube video someone shared showing a guy blowing up his guitar after pretending to teach the song Photograph. He then picks up another guitar and plays some Skynard. There are a variety of jokes specifically about this band. I feel like there's some pop culture thing I'm missing.

They're not my cup of tea, but neither is Beyonce. I guess I just don't get it.
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People hate Nickelback because they are the very embodiment of the idea that a record label can take any old band, and no matter how bad they are...they can make them popular. The record label will use clever PR techniques and some good advertising so they can make loads and loads of money off the back of a band that is just...mediocre.

People don't hate the actual band anywhere near as much as they just hate the idea that the band (in this case Nickelback) represents.
 
I think that they just got "lucky": they became something that a vocal minority loves to hate. xudo 's explanation for it all sounds as good as any. I don't feel that badly for NB, they, like Liberace, are crying all the way to the bank.

Maybe it's really a strange anti-Canadian bias...? :mapleleaf:
 
Alcyon said:
I think that they just got "lucky": they became something that a vocal minority loves to hate. xudo 's explanation for it all sounds as good as any. I don't feel that badly for NB, they, like Liberace, are crying all the way to the bank.

Maybe it's really a strange anti-Canadian bias...? :mapleleaf:
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Could be the Canadian angle, I've heard many jokes about Bryan Adams and Celine Dion :p Avril Lavigne too, but then her music was bloody terrible.
 
I had no idea they were Canadian!

Xudo, that makes sense. To me, they always sounded like a generic rock band. Then again, I feel much the same way about most Top 40 songs. Is the animosity similar when you have marketed boy/girl bands that are manufactured by a record company or one of those reality shows?
 
LittleLemon said:
I had no idea they were Canadian!

Xudo, that makes sense. To me, they always sounded like a generic rock band. Then again, I feel much the same way about most Top 40 songs. Is the animosity similar when you have marketed boy/girl bands that are manufactured by a record company or one of those reality shows?
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I think a lot of people certainly feel the same animosity towards groups/solo artists from shows like X Factor and the like, unless they are in the target market group. I'm not into the majority of pop music, or anything in the charts. I find say..Little Mix to be putting out inane crap time after time and all of their songs sound very similar. My 7 year old niece however, is very much their target audience, and she LOVES them. Obviously, she is 7...but shes totally bought into "this is what you should like", in the same way that if she was totally honest, she would still like to watch Peppa Pig, but her friends and her peer group say it's a show for younger kids and only "babies" watch it, so she tells us all the time how much she HATES Peppa Pig :rolleyes:
 
xudo said:
Could be the Canadian angle, I've heard many jokes about Bryan Adams and Celine Dion :p Avril Lavigne too, but then her music was bloody terrible.
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Hey, hey, you, you...let's not get personal now! ;)

Actually, of the six artists/groups named so far, I don't care for any of them, Not even *gasp* Skynyrd. But they all have their rabid fans so...whatever, eh. I personally take pleasure in schlubs winning the lottery of life.

No accounting for taste. And, as long as our maple syrup holds out, the world might hate us Canadians, but they'll need us! Bwa,hah,hah,hah!
 
Alcyon said:
Hey, hey, you, you...let's not get personal now! ;)

Actually, of the six artists/groups named so far, I don't care for any of them, Not even *gasp* Skynyrd. But they all have their rabid fans so...whatever, eh. I personally take pleasure in schlubs winning the lottery of life.

No accounting for taste. And, as long as our maple syrup holds out, the world might hate us Canadians, but they'll need us! Bwa,hah,hah,hah!
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I could never hate Canadians! You're like our twin...both the British and Canadians are supposedly "too polite"...like it's even possible to be too polite.
 
I make the distinction between artistic endeavor and entertainment product. One of the most common types of entertainment product is where you copy a sound done by someone else to make money because the sound is popular. Nickelback falls into this category.

I try to avoid entertainment product as much as possible, which isn't always easy.
 
Alcyon said:
Hey, hey, you, you...let's not get personal now! ;)

Actually, of the six artists/groups named so far, I don't care for any of them, Not even *gasp* Skynyrd. But they all have their rabid fans so...whatever, eh. I personally take pleasure in schlubs winning the lottery of life.

No accounting for taste. And, as long as our maple syrup holds out, the world might hate us Canadians, but they'll need us! Bwa,hah,hah,hah!
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Sadly most Americans use table syrup. Stores will carry 15 types of table syrup and have only 3 brands of maple syrup way up on the top shelf that short people can't reach.

Oil is Canada's most valuable resource. Americans can't get enough of it.
 
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