How Nickelback Became The Most Hated Band Ever

Everyone has different tastes and preferences, however, one thing that the entire world seems to universally agree upon, is that Nickelback is the worst band of all time. But why? What's the actual reason for it? How did they manage to become more hated than Creed, Insane Clown Posse, and Limp Bizkit all put together? Are they bland and completely unoriginal? Does it have something to do with the frontman Chad Kroeger's behaviour?

This video will explore - How Nickelback Became The Most Hated Band Ever.

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[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I feel like hatred for this band is one of the best evidences for how powerful bandwagon hate truly is. It can escalate to the point where so many people literally come up with extremely detailed conspiracy theories to justify and explain why the world hates the band so much. If you like a certain band, then like that certain band, people tend to rely on other people’s opinions too much.

[jakemitchell]

Here’s the best way to describe Nickelback. Everybody says they hate Nickelback. Then they hear a Nickelback song in their shuffle, and start singing the lyrics word for word.

[scribble]

All the hate for Nickelback only brought them more fame. Truthfully, I never knew of this band til my friend said something like "god I hate this band" and I became curious to what he was on about, bought their album, listened to all their songs and I became a hardcore fan ever since. Til this very day, I still can't figure out why the hate for this band.

[rebm]

I love Nickelback so much! Here in Brazil their songs "How you remind me", "Hero" and "Photograph" (along with many songs off of the 'All the right reasons' album) were very popular. Thank you so much for such detailed research!

[jack]

It's ironic that people say they're unoriginal, yet so many people just follow the "it's cool to hate Nickelback" trend.

[kjlovescoffee]

It's so strange to hear people say Nickleback is "so generic", yet if you heard a Nickleback song for the first time, you would instantly identify it as Nickleback.

[AussieAngel]

Their music has gotten me through hard times I love them

[IsiArcadia]

I remember that for a chunk of my high school years I was ashamed to tell anyone I listened to Nickelback, even though they had so many really heart felt songs, including songs my dad had used to help get him through tough times. I then had a breakdown and sat with my dad talking about how I didn’t feel like being alive anymore. My dad just sat with me listening to music he grew up loving, and whilst listening to “If Today Was Your Last Day” I realised just what my dad meant when saying Nickelback had helped him through tough times.

I always hated the hate they received, it was uncalled for and to this day any hate I see thrown towards them I’m immediately, “yeah whatever” to it.

[benjaminturek]

The fact that there are studies done on the hatred of Nickleback is a testament to how crazy the whole thing is

[ChasehaWing]

I was always confused by the hate. People told me they were a bad band and I asked for specific examples in their music, and they have a VERY hard time explaining it to me.

[TheWartHawg]

I'm glad you posted this. I never really understood the hate. They were a little popish for my taste but I didn't think they had a bad sound at all. Its incredible how easily led the average person is. I can understand the school kids referenced in the video, but it is more than school kids who jumped on the "hate Nickleback" bandwagon. It's a shame that one person can have this sort of influence.

ALSO, on the accusations of generic sound and the band not evolving...AC?DC hasn't altered their sound in a half century and they are one of the most loved bands of all times. Conversely, Van Halen greatly altered theirs when they started using more keyboards and switched lead singers and half of their original fan based still hasn't forgiven them. The accusation is baseless.

[amber]

I’ve been a PROUD nickelback groupie for two decades! I’ve flown around the nation on 7 different occasions to catch them in concert. Hate on me, but LOVE them!
If you haven’t checked out the Hardy/Nickelback cmt concert with Hardy’s new Rockstar song, definitely check it out!! Freaking epic!!

[Skyverb]

My friends got me into them in middle school. Then a year later the same friends kept saying over and over that they were the worst. But never were able to explain to me why.
I never stopped listening to them. Screw bandwagon opinions.

[counterfeitsaint]

"A Finnish academic study on the hatred of Nickelback" was not a phrase I was expecting to hear today.

[matd]

thats crazy that they were banned from writing good things about them. now i wonder how many other artists they did this to and if theyre still doing it to this day.

[rahulchakraborty]

Nickelback's artistic style and lyrical content were more pop-like and mainstream, which might have made many perceive them as unoriginal. "How You Remind Me" might have felt repetitive for someone who wasn't a kid in the early 2000s and used to "rock" being more edgy during the grunge era and before. But for a younger millennial like me, "How you remind me" screams childhood nostalgia, and I'll never get bored! Thanks, Nickelback!

[RainTheUpriser]

This video just teaches me that no matter what you do, there will always be someone to hate you.

[tonybippitykaye]

For me, it wasn’t the radio; my mom was obsessed with them and would play their Silver Side Up album EVERY TIME we were in the car for years. Granted, it didn’t make me hate them, but it was definitely annoying.

[crpgdungeonsdragonsnight]

I never listened to Nickelback, so I really have no opinion on whether they are good or bad. But the mentioning of oversaturation of a song maybe being the culprit reminded me of pretty much the entire 90s. If a song was a hit with the masses or perceived as a hit, you'd hear the song pretty much anywhere or the music video in constant rotation on music channels on tv. You'd have people gradually go from "hey! I love this song!" and gradually turn to "Uh, not again...".
Funny thing is I never heard so much hatred as I did for them as Nickelback received. I was actually kind of shocked. I was wondering: 'what did these guys do that pissed so many people off?'
So, just to find out it was one guy saying something on tv and people just jumping on the bandwagon truthfully doesn't surprise me. Back in the late 70's one guy who didn't like playing disco on his radio show wanted to kill it by having a bonfire of disco records and offering people to throw their own records into the fire at some sports stadium (I don't know the full details). Of course, several people being the easily led sheep that they are just went "Oh wait! I hate disco too!!!"
This kind of reminds me of that. Actually, I'm surprised I didn't hear about bonfires of Nickelback CDs the way this story was going.

[jacobmcclure]

i find it funny when they say that nickelback is "just a generic rock band with generic rock sound" but yet before they came out i didnt hear much of that sound. like at all! like yeah you have Staind, Puddle of mudd, etc, but if you sit down, pick a random song from any of those band that tried to take the heat in that time, none of them truly sounded alike