The internet hates Nickelback.
How's that for context?
But I'm not really sure why.
I don't claim to be any sort of Nickelback aficionado. I've heard maybe four of their songs, and they were all perfectly adequate mediocre rock ballads. For all I know the rest of Nickelback's discography is a horrifying encylopaedia of musical sin. But probably not. Or at least no more than a lot of other bands.
But then why all of this internet hatred directed at them? They don't claim to be rock gods. Their music isn't great, sure, but an awful lot of music isn't.
Are Nickelback just an arbitrary victim of the internet's cruelties, a synechdoche of shitty music? Did the internet just kind of get swept up in the whole thing and a bit carried away? That's so like the internet. Or am I missing something? What, did they plagiarise something? Use two different time signatures at once? Someone please explain this to me. The internet is a scary place and I just don't understand it most of the time.
