fuck nickelback (subtitle: why nickelback represents all that is wrong with the world)

fuck nickelback!

they're watered down, over produced, plastic rock and roll music without soul. nickelback songs don't have any heart in them. they might as well be the finished products coming off of factory lines. a whole corporation stands behind the product while a marketing campaign convinces you that what you're hearing is the modern sound of rock and roll music.

it isn't and fuck you, it's not up for debate. i was raised on rock and roll. my mom famously will tell the story of how i could spell the words 'led zeppelin' before i could spell my own name. i would trace the letters off of the album cover for 'led zeppelin 2.'

rock and roll's in my blood. i don't need science or numbers or any other sorta math to prove it. rock and roll isn't about numbers, it's about heart and soul. you can't measure that, you can only feel it. you can't fake it and the music either has it or it doesn't.

nickelback lacks heart and soul.

and yet people accept it. they're super famous. they sell out arenas around the world. tons of people actually separate themselves from their money to help make nickelback even more rich and famous.

so i guess the ol' argument goes, if they're popular and they sell tickets and albums then i'm wrong. nickelback is good and i'm the fool. once again you're using math. math and rock and roll are two separate entities (unless you're 'math the band.' check them out if you get a chance). but fine, if you wanna use logic based on numbers, let's go down that road.

the billboard charts will tell you that nickelback is a great rock band. but the billboard charts is part of the problem. it's only based on numbers..... people are tricked into buying certain types of music based on the money, companies, and marketing that backs a band up. nickelback's got it made cuz they have an army behind them bribing them onto radio play lists, commercials, the theme song to monday night raw... etc, etc. if nickelback's music is everywhere, sooner or later the music becomes infectious. you almost become brainwashed by it. it's been repeated so many times, how can you not bop your head and sing along? and this isn't just a nickelback thing. this goes for all popular music. a band's overall success will usually depend on how much a company is willing to invest in them and back them up.

it's like fucking politics. big companies bribe their way into the game. they affect the laws that get passed. most politicians are only as good as the companies that back them. they usually serve the interest of those who invest in them. a lot of people would like to think that all politicians are pure but they're not... the whole system's corrupted... just like popular music.

our politicians are the nickelback of politics. we're stuck with them. they suck but it's all we know because they're crammed down our throats through all sorts of marketing thanks to the never ending money machines that back them up.

liking nickelback is supporting the destruction of an art form that's supposed to be pure (my favorite fucking art form at that). music is supposed to be a pure thing. but it's not. money and companies have fucked it up. if you were forced to find bands on your own by either going to shows or listening to radio hosted by dj's who choose the music they play (good luck, dj's don't call those kinda shots anymore), or word of mouth, you'd put your nickelback shirts to the best use possible as kindling for a bonfire.

any time you see something getting watered down or infiltrated by companies and bribery, all that's taking place is the nickelback effect. fuck these companies. go out and find real bands just like we should go out and find real politicians... and not just settle for the ones they tell us we're supposed to like.