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
June 6, 2010 at 4:50 am
Johanna
i did the same exat thing hahaha. i googled ‘I hate nickleback’
and this blog came up
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.
June 6, 2010 at 4:33 am
Johanna
THANK YOU.
jeez,
also a girl, also hate nickleback, and also find chad completly revolting.
December 8, 2009 at 6:20 am
Some Guy
I think it is true that Nickelback isn’t the greatest band ever (neither is the Beatles or Stones for that matter. All they did as take drugs and write whatever spilt out of their head. [was catchy though]). But to completely ignore everything that has to do with them because they don’t have as many good songs isn’t right (I also don’t like a lot of their music, but at least they wrote a few great songs and I still listen to those). What if they make a good song that actually has real meaning? Just because they “don’t write good songs anymore” you will say it’s crap and not even listen to it.
November 11, 2010 at 7:14 am
Unknown
You cannot compare rolling stones, and the beatles to nickle back that is the worst comparison, compare shinedown to nickleback or even papa roach. Plus rolling stones, and beatles were great bands.
January 9, 2010 at 1:22 am
Katie
you’re soooooooooo!! sexist I hate you!
retard! I’m a girl and I completely agree with cuppincakes.
you’re very stupid and I hope you die really soon.
bye!
March 2, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Diamond
Their simply shit
March 13, 2010 at 3:59 am
Anne Onymous
I still don’t get it.
I mean look at some songs like ‘If Everyone Cared’ of ‘Savin me’ : they have much deeper lyrics than many other rock songs !
At least you could understand some lyrics as ‘second degree’ (for example ‘Rock Star’).
Anyway, even if you still think their lyrics are not good, why do you hate them so much ? I mean, come on, there are MILLIONS other bands far worse then Nickelback ! Even after reading your post, I don’t see much real explanations apart from ‘it’s a band I don’t really like’ : I respect that, you can dislike a band, but why would you HATE IT like that ?
To finish YES, I’m a girl but I have to say I actually think Chad Kroeger is really not attractive so your comment was either stupid or not funny…
May 2, 2010 at 7:27 am
phattmann88
There is no worse band than Nickelback..they are the absolute worst thing to ever happen to rock, closely followed by kid rock. This in not an opinion, its a fact.
June 22, 2011 at 6:53 am
tyler henderson
dont know ya music very well then do ya mate
May 4, 2010 at 8:15 pm
yomon
Nickelback do have good songs with great lyrics, like “Never Gonna be Alone”, “Someday” and “Gotta be Somebody” but I agree that they do have some really weird songs like “S.E.X” and “Something in your mouth” But why do you hate Nickelback so much? Why?! If anyone can hate somthing from the bottom of their heart, it would be the movie “Twilight”.
May 22, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Blackhole Traveller
Yeah, Twilight sucks as well, rated it zero out of ten stars.
I hate them because they only release pop songs that always sound nearly the same, they always are played everywhere on the radio. And by the way: I also really dislike Green Day, also a fucking radio pop band that calls themself punk – and though I like(d) Linkin Park, I went nuts, when they were on the radio, that didn’t even know they existed for the first 2 albums, sad but true…
Back to the Nickelback: The worst bout that is, they have some real rock songs on their albums (though I only know the “all the wrong reasons” album and those songs are even worse). They are pure evil, totally mainstream, they sold their souls, they’re only in it for the money, they’re ugly, Chad Krüger is a monster and is ugly. I even hate them more than every boyband or casting star or even Lady Gaga and Ke$ha combined – cos these so called musicans don’t hide that they’re only products of their labels, you know that from the first time you see them. But Nickelback only tries to veil (hope you understand) what they are really are: Greedy bastards, that don’t give a shit about music, they combine everything that’s wrong with music today in one fucking band. And even though they’re from Canada – they are a shame, send ‘em to Alaska, or the North Pole, that’d be perfect…
And you are right: Not every freaking song is bad, but they’re still boring! Good music combines decent/good lyrics with good music, and not either bad music and decent lyrics or horrible music with crappy lyrics. And for “Rock Star” they have to get stoned, if they make rock music, why’d they sing a song like that? And by the way: If I read through the lyrics, I KNOW why I don’t wanna be a rockstar, such an empty shallow life is not for me!
Nuff said – 1 year later – and still hate them!
May 25, 2010 at 7:02 am
JAD
Isn’t the band just a bunch of lip-syncing mutant androids controlled by a record company? Like Milli Vanilli were in the ’90′s – awful music that sounded like broken records? (At least, that’s what I’d like to believe.)
White noise makes for infinitely better music.
June 17, 2010 at 10:39 am
Munchkin
I wish that Chad Kroeger would take a flying leap off that “ledge of the 18th Story”, take all his crappy music with him, & rid the world once & for all of both his ugly fking face & his terrible, lame songs…
And yes Blackhole Traveller that’s all that those 4 men who comprise the band Nickelback are: Greedy bastards who write & sing sappy, lame, love ballads ONLY to put more money into their overflowing pockets!
August 15, 2010 at 2:02 am
Bassie
Driven by curiosity for this hatred against Nickelback I don’t really understand, I just googled “I hate Nickelback”.
Let’s be honest here – the songs they bring out on single and/or are played on the radio simply suck – I’ll give you that.
But honesty also tells me to explain you this: their songs are about the same things as all the good ol’ rock songs from, let’s say: Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple etc. Before you start flaming: I DO NOT compare the skills/talents of Nickelback to the Gods of Rock. They all would eat Chad for breakfast.
However – Nickelback, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, AC/DC all sing songs about the main things Rock is about: Sex, Drugs, Alcohol, Cash etc.. Combine that with a catchy guitar riff and you get “Nickelback – Animals (sex on the backseat)” “Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze (drugs)” “Deep Purple – Woman from Tokyo (sex with a woman from Tokyo)” “AC/DC – Whole lotta Rosie (sex with a fat chick)”
Their guitar/drum work isn’t spectacular, but solid, catchy and nice to listen to (not counting radio songs/ballads), in their lyrics they aren’t shy about their ambition to become wealthy and have a good life (something we all aspire to)
So what fuels this hatred towards Nickelback? I’d say it’s popular to hate them in America and so the rage spreads on to the rest of the world
I’d like to see some other arguments made here other then “OMG them SUX” “They’re Canadian!” “Chad Kroeger is the Devil incarnate”
September 24, 2010 at 2:53 am
Just curious why?
I think everyone is missing the main idea here. The reason why people hate nickleback so much is simple. They are FORMULATED rock. Yeah sure they are catchy but its all a science. There is no emotion, just a fake front..
And to the guy who said the beatles just took drugs and wrote whatever. You should check your history some more. The beatles have written songs that you probably love and dont even know they wrote it.
September 27, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Reasonable Person
Lets be honest. Sex, Drugs, and Rock and roll are a given for 90% of most current rock songs. But holy shit do we have to think that Nickleback is the greatest band ever? Basically zeplin and the stones had enough balls to make something that makes sense. They challenged a generation by saying shit that no one else would. We live in an era that tell us to live free and enjoy life. However if you have kids do you really want then listening to such shit????
Wake up
June 22, 2011 at 6:49 am
tyler henderson
why do so many of u nob heads hate nickelback they are a massive massive metal band and its kinnda clear how good they just have a look at how many albums they have sold you lot are just jealous that they gett loads off pussy and you dont makes me laugh :L
August 13, 2011 at 4:47 am
Blackhole Traveller
Since when is Nickelback a Metal band? I admit I’m not much into rock music, but I’m pretty sure metal is different than what Nickelback does. Yeah, and if you really honestly think that success equals quality, then I tell you: No, it doesn’t! There are good bands that sell a lot, but bands like Radiohead don’t get played on the radio, Nickelback on the other hand gets airplay for every freaking of their boring pop songs (and then they put hard rocking songs on their albums, how obvious is what they are doing?). Believe me, the last thing I would be is to be jealous of people who make music simply to earn money, more money and much more money. I LOVE music, it’s a very important part of my life (without music I wouldn’t be here), so that’s one more reason I hate artists and bands who release radiofriendly crap without message and innovation.