Nickelback, the band, in which all songs sound the same (also known as “The band with one song”), are probably the most unpopular chapel of the planet.
Avril Lavigne was supposedly divorced by nickelback front man Chad Kroeger because she just doesn’t find him sexy enough. Nickelback haters can certainly understand that.
But where does the resentment against the Canadian quartet come from? A student from Finland reveals.
Nickelback: an “empty imitation”
You have to hate yourself a little to voluntarily deal with nickelback. But what do you not do for science? Salli Anttonen, a doctoral student at the University of East Finland, has rummaged and tortured through nickelback reviews of the past 14 years to work with the sonorous title “By crunching teeth practiced hypocritical bullshit: authenticity treatise from nickelback album reviews in Finnish media” to create. There she came to the realization:
“Nickelback are too much of everything to be enough of something. They follow genre expectations too well, which is considered empty imitation, but not too well, which in turn is interpreted as a commercial tactic and the lack of a stable and honest identity. “
So: So the band lacks a clear identity. Her music sounds too interchangeable and commercial to be taken seriously. But Salli Anttonen still found that the more popular nickelback became a band. It became a kind of popular sport to hate the band and to beat themselves on bad reviews:
“It was a phenomenon that journalists used the same reasons to discredit the band. It almost became a kind of art form. “
Nickelback Live 2024
But nickelback seem to be unimpressed by all of this. Work on the ninth studio album has long started.
Nickelback have announced tour dates for 2024: With their “Get Rollin ‘Tour 2024”, the Canadians come to Europe, where they want to introduce their “Get Rollin” album live. Twelve concerts in eight countries are on the plan. The British indie rock band Lottery Winners makes support. According to the organizer, the band around Chad Kroeger, or Chaddie, as nobody calls him, wants to perform a mixture of greatest hits and album material. There are three concerts for Germany, and a concert for Austria and Switzerland each.
In fact, nickelback still celebrates remarkable success, even if Chad Kroeger has become a star of countless memes in the past decades, not only through his relationship with Avril Lavigne. In the meantime, nickelback is considered a “cult” and as a band that can take itself on the shovel.
Nickelback
Get Rollin ‘2024 European Tour
May 28, 2024 Frankfurt Festhalle
May 30, 2024 Cologne Lanxess Arena
June 01, 2024 Zurich Hallenstadion
June 04, 2024 Vienna Stadthalle D
June 08, 2024 Munich Olympiahalle
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