people are sheep unable to think for themselves... I never hated nickleback, not the best, but decent enough songs, but there was no way I was going to be caught dead listening to nickleback, what would people think of me. We are sheep, afraid to have our own opinions, we must bow before the herd.

what? their songs are just not good.

No they don't, unless they have it in their shuffle, and they won't unless they like them. Check and mate

@@realChewky "check and mate"🤓

@@jeremiahsherrill or some people overthink everything in life and can't accept when a band just sucks on every level

Bruh good point!

But in the words of another over-spammed and commercialised song; they didn't want to be American Idiots, one nation controlled by the media, information age of hysteria, the subliminal mindf#ck America. - Billy Joel... (Who also helped Martha Stewart bake cookies along with Snoop Dog for daytime TV)... Yeah f#ck "the system"! Free thinkers and breaking the mold! You have to wonder; who profited the most from 9/11, the US military industrial contract, or Greenday? 🤣😂🤣

@@angryherbalgerbil Billie Joe Armstrong, not Billy Joel

Because most ppl are lobotomized followers who need to be told how to thimk.

I mean Nickelback is still unoriginal. It's not always just about following a trend, sometimes a band is just painfully generic like Nickelback, which is almost worse that just being bad.

Everybody knows Brazil is behind the times like 25 years so get with the program

@@mikebb1000 ha ha ha, very funny. I meant the songs were popular when "they were" released

Is Brazil even real

Can we talk about the best line ever in any song “what the hell is on joeys head” from photograph

​@@mikebb1000 yeah because people from the US don't know where Africa is. Their education is 20 years behind.

Substance should matter to everyone. Nickleback doesn't have it. They are sellouts, hand puppets for the industry to put out mindless boring Beiber type crap that unfortunately appeals to some people.

Dude, basically every song that came out after 2020 has been bland and just plainly disgustingly unsingable, we got to return to the 2000s and 90s era of music at this point, if we can't have good music then dear god are we screwed

@@pwnanubasaurus2950this is the absolute worst music take ive ever seen

@@genericusername147 Have you heard any before 2020 music? Cause if you have, then you’ll realize why you have no good music taste

I like Nickelback…

Found ya frist

Ayyy, found ya

Lol no it’s because Niclleback was horrible and was just trying to copy the sound of Creed like most rock bands in the early 2000s and they did a horrible job at it. Nickleback was the bandwagon.

They got so much because of their place in time and their platform. They existed right before everyone who really cares about music stopped listening to the radio because they could use the internet but also at the time all radio stations were basically own by 3 companies. This time period was also when they were very few music labels and no way to make it on your own. They are commercial rock for 35-60 year old white parents who liked listening to rock music when they were younger but don't want music to have any edge to it. 35-60 year old white people are a very profitable demographic, especially during the early 2000's when everyone 25 and under is downloading music for free. The radio labels then shoved them down everyone's throats, which I am guessing helped lead to the major decline of radio and transition to Pandora and Spotify.

Their music is average and overplayed.

That is a really good point, there are however lots of legendary rock bands that I listen to all the time that I will mistake for another. Personally I find the Nickelback hate to be one of the biggest mysteries in modern pop culture.

The pinnacle of mediocrity

Do you like AC/DC? Do you think they play good music? I sure think so. If I accidentally catch their song somewhere, I would listen. But I don't stream them, I don't have CD's. Because every song regardless of the decade sounds the same. I don't want to listen to 100 variations of one song, I want to listen to 100 different songs.

Imagine Dragons are even worst

Timbre is a thing. Of course you can easily identify it - by the voice alone. Doesn't mean the song writing isn't generic. Quite the opposite. ACDC - already mentioned here - isn't generic blues rock. The sound totally differs from Canned Heat, Free and the likes, but their own songs mostly are generic ACDC songs. They wouldn't be if it came up and until 1 minute into the song you couldn't guess that it's ACDC.

What makes that worse is Nickelback's album "The State" was heavy and came out on Roadrunner Records, who Slipknot was signed to.

​@@area.man.I just watched the documentary and it was said that RoadRunner signing Nickelback saved the company.

Fact: The Finnish leftists overtook the academia which is state funded - and then they ruined it. The amount of trash produced and on tax money is unbeliavable.

Or ever XD

what times to live in. studies about the hate towards nicklback.

Most importantly, the results of this study were confirmed by a reddit user.. xD

Nickelback was actually creed with a different singer. They were creed until 2000, once the singer left, they got a new singer and changed their name. Ppl need to study their pop history before commenting y’all

We live in a society. Humans have always understood that it makes more sense to agree with your tribe right or wrong because being an independent thinker leaves you alienated and probably dead. Studies show people are stupid and don't deserve to have civilization.

There must not be much going on in Finland...

I think most of the hate comes from the music and people not liking it and it getting played on the radio here a lot over and over

@@AspireGMD usually not. The most recent supid article was about "now its studied. people slip more when its slippey" something around those lines

It’s an interesting study because it sort of feels like how propaganda can start and effect everyone.

@jabron destoroyah That's how I know most of the music I know. I have never purposely listened to Rush but I can sing all their radio friendly songs.

i can explain to you why. its because they were always a watered down, generic, and uninspired copy of first wave grunge bands like STP, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, ect. they got way to much air play for their mediocre songs, which all sound the same, and so people got tired of them quickly.

@@michaelfarkas2257 Blah blah bandwagon.

@@michaelfarkas2257 I've been saying the same thing about them for years

@@michaelfarkas2257 or, they're just really good, seems like the simplest answer :)

its not a bandwagon if theyre actually just bad. People only liked them because corporate media said to.

I bought Daugtry and Nickelback for my 13 year old that’s 28 now. I’m listening now because I just left Sonic and heard Home by Daughtry

How young do you think Gen Z are?? The eldest of Gen Z WOULD know exactly what you’re talking about - they are in their mid to late 20s. Speaking of bandwagons - it just sounds like you got on the Gen Z hate bandwagon and just copied Gen X with the whole “everyone younger than me knows nothing and none of you have experienced what I have” opinion, but who you’re describing is Gen Alpha, not Gen Z. I’m a young Gen Y (30) and I know what you’re talking about with not having a choice of what you listened to unless you bought a cassette, CD or made your own mix on one. I know Gen Z’s that I grew up with who obviously were also around to see what I saw. Gen Y AND Z’s entire childhood was like this.

Shitty chudding guitar, terrible hacky lyrics, literally the worst voice in rock history. What's the mystery?

They were average, I really didn't get the hate in my county, but it was third world at that time, so no internet telling us what to think

@@maras3naraz I live in Sweden and we had internet but this is the first time i heard of the "hate".. i listened to a few of the songs in the early 2000. To be fair i stopped watching tv around the same time so it might have been that nobody clued me in on what we are supposed to think about them

I don't hate them but I was really disappointed by them. They had this real banger of a song "how you remind me" so 10 year old me went out with my pocket money and bought that dang expensive cd.... which was soooooo laaaaaame.

I've always thought all of the individual parts of the band are great, I think there's a lot of talent there, especially Chad Kroeger as a singer/songwriter (I really like the collaborations he's done with other artists). I think they're just artistically kneecapped by the massive massive early commercial success they found in making "radio rock", because that's why people like them and that's what people want to hear.

Drake is also a good example for that

now, on to Kanye West . . .

Are you a hitler fan?

@@zimriel Yes but kanye really does say some fucked up things sometimes

@@florian3298 and drake allegedly groomed young girls so the hate doesn’t come from nowhere

Amen!

Absolutely true. This feels like some people are trying to justify their hate somehow, but that's not really the source, because whatever you can say about Nickelback you can say about hundreds of bands or artists that aren't getting a tenth of the hate Nickelback is getting.

They have no clue why they hate, but they're told to hate- over & over again .. Mindless, programed zombies.. Reminds me of something else that happened a few years ago

@@byzel that is true but you also arnt asking them about all those other bands and how they feel about them. 🤷

Artists should just create their own platforms and people can download the albums themselves. Much like publishers, record labels aren't really needed anymore.

Are you an XQC fan?

@@MrNuts70 who?

@@MrNuts70 who?

The lead singer's voice makes my throat hurt.

They had bad luck becoming an internet meme. Nothing more to it. People are awful and that's it :)

Idk why, but seeing you here made me smile

Woah it’s Chia’s husband! He’s just like a regular dude! 😂 love you bro

something trump supporters just quite cant understand

@@EyeOfThePhi rent free

Right? This is why I love this channel, its like a box of chocolates, you never know what you'll get

That is also true.

Most bands don't even get a say what there music is licensed to. The record label does that, and don't have to have a bands input or agreement.

yes she is, correct, well done.

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Nothing new under the sun. It is in human nature to unite over something they choose to dislike.

No way, they deserve it.

This is a classic of example of ads being targeted to the subconscious!

also this is a good example of how powerfull Group psychology is

@@ray_x6959 my family and I were driving when the latest single of Prince came on the radio. My sister and mother loved it. Kept talking about it. I liked it but thought it was 'more of the same' and wasn't as excited as them about the song(it was his first release in years so it was a big deal, just not for me.) For the next hour, I was told how bad my taste is, how stupid my opinion was, why I ALWAYS ruin everything. When we arrived at our destination it had been decided: Prince's latest single was a gem and I was an idiot but had no right to be upset for being berrated over an opinion for an hour. That's how I grew up. I have learned that it is best to just lay down and take it when ganged up on. You might lose an eye an be blamed for everything if you do.

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My dad had a nickelback cd he put on a lot. This is how you remind became old very fast to me. All nickelback songs sound the same imo.

And for me I like corn

@Some guy who is a degenerate for fun [Mayk Felix] it's corn a big lump with knobs it's got the juice

I like nickleback its a lot of my childhood memories but mostly my teens

Totally agree with you. I think their great

The band is talented but it just seemed to me that they were trying too hard to be "edgy" and "alternative" when they were really not. They were trying to be something that they weren't.

the guy that did this video must have some personal reasons to hate them. Some major loser I guess

I agree 100% @Patrick-kt5mc. The music is good, the band is talented (to a point), but I just think they just try to hard to make themselves something they just are not. Anyone could see this clearly with how far there music has strayed away from what they did originally (ex How You Remind Me) to some of their more modern stuff (ex San Quentin).@@Patrick-kt5mc

I loved Hero. I actually didn't know people "hated" Nickelback so watching this video was a surprise to me.

@@jgShadow Honestly, same. I never knew that hating on Nickelback was even a thing. I mean, I knew of some people who didn't like their music but it wasn't in such an extreme way as this.

Also, I think only English speaking countries hate them, tbh. By the way, I LOVE Hero. That soundtrack is one of my favorite rock albums ever.

i only liked animals

Listen to any imagine dragons song and they all have almost exactly the same chord progression- I don't know if this is the same type of thing you're saying nickleback is doing (I've only listened to one of their songs before this- I'll definetly listen to more later) but for some reason I never see anyone speaking about it With Imagine Dragons it just kind of became their "brand" I suppose thats the difference- maybe their songs are too similar to eachother but also not different enough? Honestly don't know

it's actually similar with the Twilight books. It's okay, nothing special, very average YA book series which didn't deserve the absolute hate it got, and a lot of the people bashing the series haven't read any of the books.

Like NPC'S??

alot of their songs are pretty shitty. Have you ever heard Rockstar before? It's so cringe.

I agree their music isn’t amazing but they have some bangers

They used to be everywhere and it gets real annoying fast. Especially when almost all of their songs are sounds the same. They're way too aggresively bland, if that makes sense

Song is still a banger

People have forgotten about "Hero"

My one gripe about the use of that song is the reference to super man as in DC when the songs music video was used to promote spider man a Marvel comic. But yeah, i still like that song 😭😭😭

@@cholesterolkilla I mean clearly this is an invitation for Marvel and DC to collab and make a crossover one-shot short with Clark Kent and Peter Parker meeting. Like, I feel that they'd click, two wholesome heroes with a sense of responsibility.

What the hell ever happened to Saliva?

You know how everyone jokingly hated on Twilight back in the day? It was a lot like that.

@@mapleflag6518 Jokingly? Haha :P I guess I get your point - though I actually don't like Twilight.

Its played a lot, and people who didn't like the band that much were tired of seeing them. Its not that complicated and they say so in the video.

When were you born?

It is understandable when you look at fabricated manufactured product like Bts

No, they really are trash. Try listening to any of their songs, bet you can't make it halfway.

It's criminal, literally, what was done to this band, the money they have lost should be paid to them by everyone who started all the hate.

me nether my fellow Patrick

@Maria Harrison the people who like Nickelback have kept them from needing money, the guys in the band are doing fine, I'd rather hear Nickelback than some artsy fartsy pretentious band, I like the song "If Today Was Your Last Day"

Yes they are a pretty decent band

I think "hate" is an exaggeration..

To be fair a big part of why they are hated is because they requested a live charity show shut down their feed while they were preforming because they werent getting paid it didnt mention it in the video but it happaned

@@oliveryt7168 well, no it isnt. there is legit hate against them that is unjustified to the extreme. you saying that hate is an exaggaration shows how little you either know OR care.

This right here

The argument they are hated because they were popular holds well. I was following Game Theory since the early days, I never had an issue talking about Game Theory when Matpat was a small youtuber. But the moment he went big, holy crap one time in a did you know gaming video they stated the barrel roll in Star Fox is not the barrel roll. I write a comment "The barrel roll thing we Game Theory fans know that already", I got such hate from people attacking me just because I stated something positive about Game Theory

Even if certain artist(s) are pieces of crap, I can separate that from enjoying their music. I mentioned online once that Kid Rock was "a guilty pleasure" and got ripped- "Why should you feel guilty?"

I’ve never heard anything so stupid - why on earth would you hate a band purely because someone else told you to? Whether it’s someone on the radio or someone you actually know? Talk about being a sheep! I used to get bullied in high school for liking the Backstreet Boys, but people telling me I should hate them because they say so didn’t convince me to hate them! I had a poster on my school folder and I didn’t take if off. Changing your mind about liking or not liking something just because other people told you to is just ridiculous! 🤷‍♀️

Sheep will follow other sheep

wish that would have happened for the song Moves Like Jagger. it Literally played on the radio every other song 🤮😭

@@TayyaMarie I swear I hear that song every time I get in the car

One could say the same thing about the use of the words fun fact. Just a fun thought.

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That’s interesting

Trendy chit always sucks Trends are for the 🐑

"Frustratingly overplayed" is the best description of Nickelback I've ever read. XD

I've always felt they were to generic sounding for the level of popularity they achieved in the late 90s early 2000s.

You can also blame the radio company for playing it a million times a day. I mean they do control the songs being put on

Growing up and being forced to listen to nothing but the radio. There were alot of songs being played over and over again.

The problem is if you hear it in every shop you go into, or if you work somewhere that plays the radio in the background (shop or worksite). Or if you are on hold on the phone for ages and they play a radio station. Or if the builders next door have a rock station blaring all day. It becomes unavoidable. Not just Nickelback but any popular band of the time.

This is one evidence how meme influence people's perception.

@@r3dr4te963 immmmmmmmmmck 00 11-2

It was the humble beginnings of what was to become cancel culture, look how they come after certain actors just cos they feel like it, Chris Pratt.

I used to hate Justin Bieber and One Direction but could never explain why, everybody just did

@@anndheir Justin Bieber was just very unlikable as a person and then there were people who were jealous of girls talking about him all the time . Its like why now people hate Jake Paul.(take out the girls) Its because he is a dick. One direction was disliked because jealousy again and their fans because they would push their music down people's throats . Something similar of what kpop fans are doing now.

Yeah, I don't get the hate. I mean they're not my favorite band, but they've got a few decent songs that I like to listen to from time to time.

Yep. That’s the typical hater. They simply hate something because someone else told them to hate it, and they don’t actually know why.

That's a really good point, Adrian...people spout off and say that they hate an artist or band, but when you press them...they either so silent or admit that they've never listened to them. I grew up in Michigan on the Canadian border, still have friends there, and have had a longstanding respect for the bands up there...you know the usuals...Rush, Neil Young, Bryan Adams, The Band, Guess Who, Mahogany Rush, Pat Travers, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell and many more....and although I'm not a diehard Nickelback listener, I give my respect to them as well. So thank you Canada, for turning out some top level musicians and bands over the years!

This hate plague is plain stupid..and I think it shows the stupidity of people of this era.

They're songs sounded the same and the radio loved playing them over and over. I only liked the leader of men and breath the rest never sounded good to me but I didn't go out of my way to hate on them.

The fact I know about that now fills with very real hatred, and the reasoning behind it even more so.

Now replace Nickelback with Trump.

@@boulderdashman7912 does everything have to have Trump involved? Jesus, he's been out of office for 2 years now shut up about it

I disliked them immediately with no outside influence.

@@boulderdashman7912 I guess TDS is really a thing after all.. jeez

@@boulderdashman7912 wow Trump got you that bad eh, still lol

I’ve listened to a car radio station in utah or something and it looped closer like every 2 songs.

@IHGNFY! Back in the 90's I was member of BMG music club (like Columbia House) there you'd buy 3 CD's for like a buck but your 4th CD would be like $25 or something that would cost something stupid.

@@rythic. I think I watched an old episode of WKRP in Cincinnati and they explained they do that so the DJ can go to the bathroom.

That’s why I stopped listening to radio music. Same list over and over again.

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I remember having one of their songs on my phone way back in the day (before smartphones and large storage so you had to be picky) and someone making fun of it and I was so confused as to why she was mocking my having one of their songs lol. I do have to admit though that after that and a few other peoples comments I felt a little ashamed of thinking they were a perfectly fine band just as good as anything else out there and kind of just hid listening to them for many years. Now I just tell people to f@#k off LOL and if they double down just talk about how terrible what they listen to these days is. XD

There called Music Nazis they belive in a superior genre of music and that everyone who doesn't conform to their taste is inferior ..who wants to live in a world where everyone has the same taste and your judged by your taste in art ..what next people thinking they better cause they think there taste in food makes them better and make fun of people for eating certain foods they dont like? if it makes u happy and u aint hurting anyone who cares its called diversity if you take away the basic human right to enjoy what u enjoy or make art without hurting other people and been shammed for it then well........

I feel the same, I've always liked Nickelback and never knew why everybody hated them so much and growing up I heard a few playground rumors that they did something terrible but those rumors were nothing more than that so I went with it for most of my life only recently learning the truth. I understand that there is gonna be haters towards just about anything but I've never seen a band be as hated as Nickelback is and honestly for a dumb reason. IDK I personally just don't get it.

Its a simple situation of repetitive information being broadcasted only the weak minded fall for it. I guess thats a good thing that repetitive information (propaganda) can get people to agree. I like Nickleback aswell and for some reason i look down on those who fell for it..malcontent degenerative bags of trash.

Fuck that...Im going to put on some nickelback now...

There was a lot of that in the late 2000s and early 2010s. People hating on celebs because everyone else is. Justin Bieber, Britney Spears just to name a few. I'm not even saying they all don't deserve it, but hating someone for the sole reason that everyone else did it is the worst reason to do it.

Sheep listen to nickelback. I imagine faded jeans, "cool" sunglasses, a button up plaid shirt done 2/3 of the way up, frosted tips, divorced, new v6 mustang.

@@nocturn333 exactly, it bad collective mob mentality.

@@sheend I think your the sheep, considering your going through every comment finding ways to hate on Nickelback as soon as someone says something positive about them

They have won 27 awards and been nominated 67 times. They’ve had a #1 top 100 song for multiple weeks. It really is just a mindless trend.

Their music sounds like they are running over kids.

It's definitely infuriating. Nickelback has quite some amazing songs

Well, the comedian had a point tho. It's basically muzak with lyrics.

I hate that comedian now

Their music was really bad, the voice was unbearable.

cool story. i'm not buying bad music just because some random dude has a man crush

Kenny G is super nice, down to earth person; his music still sucks. But credit to Chad Kroeger.

Chad is the OG Chad. And they never forgot where they came from.

@@timothyhumphreys8361 Actually good music. You just climbed on the hatred bandwagon until you believed it yourself. Have your own opinion..

@@timothyhumphreys8361 lol. You probably listen to that joke of music called Rap. So your opinion is irrelevant. Besides, I saw them twice and they put on a great show.

Because most people are sheep, who are incapable of forming their own thoughts. Even if it were true that they actually were a generic band, that's no reason to hate them.

I still like hero

mob mentality on the internet is a powerful thing

I'm not a Nickelback fan but I don't get the hatred.

Lol

They lost they carrier? They would disappear into oblivion as many similar post-grunge bands from the late 2000's. That joke held them relevant. You do realize how many people checked their music because of that?

This video fails to address the poor music...I remember these guys...instantly looked at them as a manufactured unit, one dimensional, low quality, corny....their constant airplay was not worthy of their music....this is why ppl turned, not some stupid comedian....I never heard of loser comedian...this video kind of sucks in its analysis

I don’t hate them. I just don’t care enough about them to listen to them regularly. Only whenever someone else puts them on

Still a band with 11 million monthly on spoitify🔥

As much as you think being a band wagon hater is your thoughts of being the answer to why people don't like the band. It may be true to some but not true to us all. Some of us naturally do not like the band. Just like some people do not like other bands. Just make sure you actually like the band instead of getting on this trend of being on their bandwagon of no haters just to prove a meaningless point.

Same

Lame

I hear on on this, while for me, it's because I remember Curb blowing my mind and then watching them play the Pit Pub at UBC for 30 people with the same energy as if it was 20000 people. Eventually, my tastes evolved and they did not. This is noted in the video, they become a producer's band, not artists.

It's not a guilty pleasure. It's a pleasure. Nickleback is a great band and always has been. No shame on loving them

"if today was your last day" is a banger

Good opinion from a person who is involved 100% on concerts and music ..... This is an honest band .... own sound and original music .... Fuck haters ! (i´m not a real fan of the band ... but total respect for them and their career >! )

The haters can put a helmet on man. They don't have the fame, success and money. They are jealous.

@CanadianEbikeoutlet No but I still want 10 children!

The reason why many Americans dislike Nickelback is because they are Canadian. You should change your title. It should be "WHY ARE AMERICANS ANGRY WITH NICKELBACK," while in Asia, they are fine.

So let me get this straight from an audiovisual event technician to another, they brought their own P.A System? And they brought an LED wall kit? For a live feed from multiple angles? But with no live cameras or PTZ cameras? How long ago was this, how big a venue was this and how popular were they? Because unless you're referring to a basement show with a fastfold screen, because you just said a "video screen"(??) OR a stadium arena show on tour with a 20 or so tech crew and multiple trucks for a line array P.A system and delay towers maybe, and a LED wall kit (with no cameras despite it being a live feed from multiple angles??) then it sounds like you're lying, if your story dates after their claim to fame then no one would think bringing a whole P.A System on tour is an easy and boring task, otherwise, if this would date back to around where they would be playing in theatres more than arenas, no way they would have brought a P.A System, theatres have their own and they won't move around that stuff for a specific band, and lastly, for some small underground basement show, they could have brought like 2 electrovoice P.A's or any other cheaper entry level brands like that and put em on tripods on some mackie analog console but then no way they would have had enough space and gear to put a livefeed on a fastfold screen because 1. that would be a few cameras to put in a small space, and that could become a bit too expensive, 2. Were Blackmagic ATEM/Roland Switchers even a thing back then to have a feed with multiple angles? So either you're lying about your job or you're actually really bad at it and you've done it for around 10 years and you're still stuck doing only setups/teardowns because your story doesn't add up and so you don't know what you're talking about Nickelback is pretty good though, wouldn't say they're too original or authentic but they're simple guys that make the simple music they feel like making so, it's genuine to a point

Feed the Machine is proof there was real potential

And you know what? "I don't hate them , I don't love them" isn't anything unique to them either. Infact there were/are probably dozens of bands who are bigger culprits of that. But they never got targeted like Nickelback was. Really feels it was just internet meme that went on too long to become horde mentality.

fucking love nickelback.

As a young teen when Nickelback grew to popularity, and living through the rise of the hatred, what i observed was this: 1. They were massively overplayed; mtv, fuse, the rock radio stations, it was just everywhere all the time 2. Young people need something to hate on, and that became the easy target because it was so abundant 3. Their popular songs were nothing special compared to what else was popular at the time, and the indie scene was only just starting to get attention. People wanted indie music to matter more but had to deal with all these bands like Nickelback, Papa Roach, Three Doors Down, etc. being shoved down our throats across all the different media outlets. That era just had a bad trend of popularizing the same sounds for too long, and Nickelback was the easiest target to make fun of because their popularity was so immense. My personal opinion? I liked 2 of their songs, but grew tired of the sound real quick. I thought the jokes were funny but grew tired of that too. In the end, i think it’s a lesson about overconsumption and media homogenizing the content we are expected to consume. People didn’t want to be consumers of the same stuff over and over again.

@@xtiphuny89 Well said. I would also add that their lyrics are really trashy for many of their singles after Silver Side Up. Some great guitar riffs, but the lyrics are all perv. On top of that Photograph was SUPER overplayed.

They are probably up to date on their boosters as well

They were probably afraid to admit they still enjoyed listening to them like I was.

i liked a few of their songs, then they kept playing their songs... kroq.. kiss fm... and it was a time I just kept them behind my head until this joke came around and I was like " huh?...... well that's something. " Then after some time I forgot they even existed haha. tl;dr I didn't really like them, became a meme, totally forgot them after.

Nickleback like Creed, and Imagine Dragons, and the such had way tooooo many hits on one CD which caused them to be WAYYYYY overplayed. Every new CD had like 4 or 5 radio hits plus used in film and TV. Lincoln Park almost got the same bad rap.

@@bakdpotato143 You make it sound like having too many hits is a bad thing

Photograph also turned into a meme itself with people taking shots at the lyrics and using the beginning to mock absurd photos.

It's because you have bad taste music. It's all good. Like what you like.

@@eskomoWon I'm a fan of Nickelback but Rockstar and Photograph just ain't it lol. The rest of that album is dope but those songs specifically are laughably trash.

i still remember that vine that went "Look at this GRAPH" and the singer pulls up a photo frame with a bar graph on it lmao

I have always hated Nickelback because their music was cringe inducing. The most normie of normie tunes. It screams "I don't have taste in music so I just listen to what's on the radio"

I miss Nickelback lmao

"Side of a Bullet" is my favorite of their songs. I never understood the hate either.

I mean, most people have shitty taste, so you aren't alone.

@@McShag420 just like all of you😂

@@McShag420 cough up some of that saltiness while you're at it

Jak z Myslovitz.

I'm 46 and they're still part of my daily Pandora playlist. 😁😍

Samey homegirl, although I'm more of a headbanger, for me Nickelback rocks it.

Same thing. As a mexican never knew about all the hate trend, an grew up liking their music, I still have them in my playlist

Even though I was not a fan back in the day of their initial rise, without any love for them I could still tell the hate was stupid. I remember thinking "Gee they aren't my style so I don't even care, but dang!? They aren't that bad. They aren't bad AT ALL. Ya'll be trippin." As the hatred went on I listened to them more, just to make sure I wasn't missing anything. I didn't want to be an out of touch looser who was out of the loop or on on the wrong side of history or anything. But I couldn't find anything wrong. Their style grew on me and I became a fan so suck on that haters! 😁

Im 30 too, but I just used limewire to download songs and burned them onto cds using windows Media player. Eventually I got my first ipod video. Even downloaded porn onto it so I didn't have to sneak at night to the computer area. 😂

I’m 40 don’t feel that old

As I understand, these "mix tapes" were also part of an antiquated courting ritual.

I remember recording music from KZfaq on my flip phone if I wanted music lol

1992 gang out here yall feel as old as i do?

Same here, when I was in highschool I would listen to Lullaby whenever I was feeling sad, and it always cheered me up.

you really had to have this explained to you? generic bullshit is generic bullshit!

@im calling saul better call saul

@@mromatic17 What are you? 12?

@@mromatic17 So? As generic as they sounded (i'll give it to you), you have to also put in motion how people receive that repetition. While it is true how repetition can be a bane of anyone's existence (just look what happened to James Blunt and "You're beautiful"). That repetition for some is a sign of comfortability, not out of seldom and lack of taste, just a shove down the throat done and made by the media for a certain demography. Sure, boring rock has become the stagnant death of the genre, but Nick are not the most egregeous sinners tbh.

And every time you look at it it will make you laugh

​@@Manfred_Danfred what the hell is on Joe's head

@@Manfred_Danfred I laughed :'c

And this is where I grew up I think the present owner fixed it up I never knew we'd ever went without The second floor is hard for sneaking out

@Can Be Fit A part of me wants to think that's why Nickleback got so much hate. I can't tell you how many times "This is how you remind me" or "Hero" got stuck in my head during my teen years. And while I like those songs, I'm sure people who didn't would get those songs stuck in their heads, and it'd be like an annoying itch that wouldn't go away.

I can explain why I despise them, if not actually hate them. They are a product of their musical generation. I would categorize them as late 90's/early 2000's nu-metal. This very minor movement in music is a result of the plummeting creative drive in the music industry. Its fans consider it creative and hard driving. I consider it to be highly derivative and musically empty. Nickelback is much like Linkin Park, Staind, and other groups of that ilk. The songs aren't terribly original, the musicians are sorely lacking any kind of standout talents, and everyone who listened to it ate it right up simply because there was so little else! Any decent band in any genre from grunge on back to the very birth of rock could bury these guys musically, and with ease. Somehow, I can't see Nickelback even remotely in the neighborhood of bands like the Who, Rush, Aerosmith, Robin Trower, Van Halen, AC/DC, the list goes on and on. So if you wonder how Nickelback has managed to garner so much hatred and contempt, here's an answer for you: It's old guys like me, and fans of vintage rock. We've all just heard much better, and without the ridiculous egos.

ppl hate them cuz of their gRAPE lyrics.: "I like the white stains on your dress And I love your lack of self-respect While you're passed out on the deck I love my hands around your neck" If someone starts singing any of their lyrics, u know ur gonna get the "Nickleback special" LMAO! I guess ur "asking for it" at that point. If u like Nickleback, u like gRAPE or getting gRAPED. I GUESS ITS TRUE, SOME WOMEN WANT TO BE gRAPED.

@@rocketman63 that's on you but you can't deny the most and popular songs of Nickelback does have great lyrics theses are Lullaby, Never gonna be alone, When we stand together, if today is your last day and other songs with great meanings and messages. Plus Chad voice carries these songs because of his distinct voice that when you hear that the first thing comes to your mind is Nickelback band. And what I like about the band is that they just create their music as what they like and don't give a fuck about forcefully hate of others or people like you who are purist. Their just kids who likes to make songs and share them with us wether we like it or not, just like any musician.

@viciouslyeatingaburger Of course I can deny it. There's nothing about Nickelback that stands out. You can like them. It's your time, spend it listening to whomever you wish. The issue I have with you and all Nickelback fans is you are convinced they're great, and I'm just missing out because I "don't get them", or I'm somehow ignorant. Not so. I've heard them, they don't appeal to me, and I will continue to prefer bands with some actual musical depth.

@@rocketman63 "they don't appeal to me" I respect that opinion. Each on their own

thus very true, the media is really toxic and people now days don't have what to do

Americans are dumb, and we live to hate things.

Lots of braindead sheep in the world man. Most people love to jump on bandwagons to feel included and liked by society, at the expense of others.

I don't know if people are ok with this, but that happened to me with Limp Biskit too. Recently i discovered they were so hated

@@FoxDie77777 limp biscuit was hated because they were blending to different styles of music and one of those styles was already not very appreciated. hip-hop and mainstream metal, mainstream metal being the style people already didn't like very much. Making things worse lots of limp biscuit fans were "poser's" or fakers that only liked it because it was cool to like them. I personally didn't feel one way or another about them but as an adult I have no problem saying they are not very good lol

For most genre songs that dont like them its just that the lyrics are pretty substanceless and the band makes radio targeted music its just kind of fake and the vocals are meh. Atleast for my friends and me it was always a poor linkin park copy

@@IzayaTijisPrincess The only thing that connects Nickelback and Linkin Park is the fact that their music genres cross-over one another. That's all it ever was. Just because two things look or sound similar does not mean they're the same or a copy. It's simple "I don't like" and you don't have to explain yourself to anyone why. You simply stick to what you like and let others stick to what they like. We don't have to stay in the same box, yet for some reason there are people out there who think we should.

@@IzayaTijisPrincess kind of crazy how nickelback gets all this hate for "subtanceless" music when you got famous rappers like travis scott and kanye west which are much worse

​@@andreamaral9725 Kanye West is unhinged but he's a master at production and he's got legendary bars. Even a "popular" song like Power includes gems like "Reality is catching up with me/taken my inner child I am fighting for her custody". Try to find that in the average rap about percs and xans.

There’s always some idiot saying this. Just listen to the video and read other comments. The reasons are incredibly simple. You can’t say you don’t get them. Just say you disagree. The problem is you people can’t just say you’re a Nickelback fan and leave it at that. You have to pretend like we can’t dislike mediocre radio rock. Just be quiet

Nickleback and Breaking Benjamin were all over my playlist in the early 2010s

I agree! I found Nickelback by accident too and I had no idea about the hate. I just don’t get it!! They are a great band and Chad is a great singer! This stupid thing apparently started as a joke in a talk show?? The bad power of media ☹️

@@MajasMusicMine There's a certain group that hate them, and they think they know why, but they really don't. They're easy to identify. Just tell them they hate Nickelback because they just follow what others do, and when they get angry, that will be your confirmation.

@@sudonymh Of course they would, explaining bad music and awfull lyrics is thought

@@TYR1139 Um...okaaaaay.

@Emotional D man that shit changed my views on alot of things ...

Idk for me 5FDP just was a let down. I’m a huge death-metal fan, and a lot of my buddies were super into 5FDP so when I heard about them I had high expectations. They’re not nearly as heavy and badass as I had built them up to be, so I brushed them off as mediocre. Especially with a name like that 😂 but that isn’t their fault

I just grew out of that sorta music. I used to love staind but now I can't listen to them anymore its the lyrics and the feelings they elicit just reminds me of being a moody teenager and not really understanding music that well

FFDP is corny as hell but I liked their music in highschool

Five Finger just actually sucks

I agree 100%

Ok bro

Agreed. His voice is one of the best there are

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