Nickelback wasn’t as bad as people made them out to be

OP listens to Nickelback.

why are people trying to convince the internet that nickelback was good in 2022?

I have yet to see a Nickelback hater that wasn't jumping on the bandwagon, envious, simply a bitter person in general, or all of the above.

Meanwhile, I just Googled "how many records has Nickelback sold" and the answer that came back is "50 million."

I wish I sucked like that.

The only people I know who would say this actually liked their terrible music, at some point.

They are only "not that bad" when you compare them to another shitty band from the 21st century.

Don’t be ashamed of what you like. Besides, the whole hating Nickelback meme took off on the internet mostly because a bunch of teenage girls blamed Chad (singer of Nickelback) for breaking up Avril Lavigne and Derek (front man of Sum 41). That was the seed from which the hate meme spread. Internet “cool to hate” memes surrounding certain bands are fascinating to me. Just look at how that one line in the movie “The 40 Year-Old Virgin” popularized hating Coldplay, or how “The Big Lebowski” made it cool to hate The Eagles among people born after they broke up.

Also, don’t act like you’ve never had a good time when “Break Stuff” by Limp Bizkit came on.

I didn't need the internet to tell me that they sucked. Back in the late 90s, my brother knew that Pearl Jam was my favorite band(at the time) and told me that there was this new band that sounded like them and that he really thought that I'd like them. It was Nickelback and I hated them instantly.

It's like all of the Creed fans that claimed that their music sounded like Pearl Jam. Neither sounds anything like Pearl Jam...not that Pearl Jam is anything amazing. Just don't hear any similarities in their music...at all.

They do get a bad rap. They’re really no worse than a lot of those post-grunge bands in the 90s. Many of them could be the punchline that Nickelback is today.

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80 million and 40 million in sales respectively, Google says. And thanks for helping me make my point.

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If your point was that there are a lot of people out there that have bad taste in music and are easily influenced by whatever is being pushed as trendy at the time, "no problem".

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They wrote a couple good songs and then copied the same formula over and over until people were sick of it.

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Can you elaborate? there's a lot of music that goes that route.

I'll admit, I don't know anything about them. I'm being dead serious. I probably could recognize some songs but I can't name one. I feel like they're in the cool to hate group like The Eagles.