In my many blogs, i have constantly put down a little known band that goes by the name Nickelback. Recently, many people have come to me asking me just why i have such hatred for them (side note: mostly women take up for them, which i guess means they look cute but don’t have to actually have any ability). well today i reveal it. The main reason why i have such contempt for Nickelback. why just hearing a song by them makes my ears bleed inside. Each time i hear a nickelback song, a year is taken off my life. Im now down to 41 years old. And that’s if i dont hear another nickelback song.
but why exactly do i have a problem with them? is it because their songs all now sound the same? is it because that since they got popular they apparently feel its ok just to coast on through now (guess it does work tho, look at the Eagles). Is it due to the fact that they’re canadian (possibly)? Well, here’s the real reason….
They had potential. There. I used to like them. I bought one of their first cd’s and liked it a lot. Leader of Men was a particulary good song. So, what im about to do is to show you to sets of lyrics. One from one of their first songs (aka a song that shows they have potential) and one from one of their latest songs (aka horse dung). That’s all im going to do. Im not even going to say anything afterwards since i believe it speaks for itself.
Here’s A sample of lyrics from Nickelback – Leader of Men (older song)
Tell your friends not to think out loud until they swallow.
Whisper things into my brain, your voice sounds so hollow.
I am not a leader of men since I prefer to follow.
Do you think I could have a drink since it’s so hard to swallow.
Yeah, so hard to swallow.
See? while that isnt by any means amazing, it’s at least decent and shows promise. But alas, promise was all they showed. Here are some lyrics to a newer song.
We were parked out by the tracks
We’re sitting in the back
And we just started getting busy
When she whispered “what was that?”
The wind, I think ’cause no one else knows where we are
And that was when she started screamin’
“That’s my dad outside the car!”
and, just so im proving my point, ill leave you with one more lyric part from a new nickelback song. ill edit it just in case people below legal age see it.
I wanna be great like Elvis without the tassels
Hire eight body guards that love to beat up BEEP holes
Sign a couple autographs
So I can eat my meals for free
(I’ll have the quesadilla, on the house)
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May 31, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Blackhole Traveller
Hello Johnny!
Very interesting, what you find, when you simply type “I hate Nickelback” into a search engine!
I also deeply hate Nickelback, from the bottom of my heart. Everytime they get played on the radio, I get very angry and want to throw the radio against the wall (or out ot the window but my colleagues wouldn’t like that). Luckily I’m from an not englisch speaking country (sometimes that is bliss, not always, I wish I was a native speaker, so I could perfectly understand all the music and movies), so I don’t really get the awful lyrics of Diablo Chad Krueger, at least not If I didn’t take a close look at them – what I try to avoid. On their latest CD “Dark Horse” (since I read that it means that they are kind of unknown or something similiar – that can just be an ugly joke), they put some ugly Songnames. I wish they were a Dark Horse, they have ugly songs like “Something In Your Mouth” (“misogynistic”, awful!), S.E.X. (= Self Expression! WTF!) and just listen to the above mentioned song “Animals” – oh my gosh that’s exactly the reason why I hate them so much! “Rock Star” as well – “I wanna be a Rock Star” Chad explains all his haters: “Yes, I want to be rockstar.” Why? “Because I am NO Rock Star yet, and I’ll never become one, so I write an horrible Song about it, that is so annoying that I couldn’t stand it for more than 1 minute = torture!”
But the radio doesn’t care for lyrics, or why is it that they play “The Bad Touch” by Bloodhound Gang during the day? Lack of knowing the english language I tell you. Unfortunately Nickelback get played at least 5 times a day with 5 different songs – as if there was no good music. And the absolutely worst fact about them is: How can they release 4 Pop-Ballads from their album and the rest is really rocking (and I hate these songs even more!) and still are successfull? I mean, If a band releases 2 or 3 singles, I buy the album, and it sounds totally different to the singles, then I wouldn’t really like the album or had a totally wrong impression before I knew it.
My last line: Quote from “Savin’ me”: “Heaven’s Gates won’t open up for me” (I really hope that GOD prevents that the gates open for Chad.)
Greetinx from Austria
Matthew
August 2, 2009 at 10:16 am
cuppincakes
I completely agree with everything you said!
I’d like to point out that I’m a girl who doesn’t judge music entirely by the hotness of the lead singer. Even if I did, I think Chad is disgusting.