Why is the band Nickelback unliked so much?
10.06.2025 09:11
This would bring them fame and help them sell records, as they have more than 50 million albums worldwide. And In 2009, Billboard ranked them as the most successful rock group and the seventh-most successful artist of that decade; with "How You Remind Me" was the best-selling rock song and the fourth-best overall.
Catchy, i.e very easy for people to sing.
Because for me, if your music is any of the three listed categories, then music critics are coming for your ass, as they have this idea that music is an art and shouldn't be enjoyed by the Masses. So hence any music enjoyed by the masses is seen as inauthentic, formulaic and repetitive. For me it's starting to seem very simple, once your music is very
But this won't win them any flowers in critics, as their would be a negative reception to their work. As despite their commercial success, Nickelback has been subjected to vocal negative response for some from rock music fans, and on May 2013, the readers of Rolling Stone magazine named Nickelback the second-worst band of the 1990s, behind only Creed. Wow, that speaks volumes that they are very unliked. But why
Popular, i.e has a lot people who listen to it.
Canadian rock band Nickelback is one of my post grunge acts, especially when I consider their work in the early 2000s, their lyrics about relationships, heartbreak, were theme’s that weren't considered in grunge or if they were considered weren't mainstream, until Nickelback came around.
Theodor Adorno, a German philosopher and musicologist, in the early 20th century was critical of popular music, arguing that it is formulaic, superficial, and lacks the depth and complexity of serious art music. He believed that popular music is designed to manipulate and control the masses, rather than challenging them to think critically, and This is similar to what music critics. As they argue that popular music is overly commercialized, prioritizing profit over artistic expression.
Formulaic, i.e being to predictable, lacking complexity.
If your music is falls into any of the three listed categories, then music critics are coming for your ass, as they have this idea that music is an art and shouldn't be enjoyed by the Masses. So hence any music enjoyed by the masses is seen as inauthentic, formulaic and repetitive. This was idea by German philosopher Theodor Adorno.
This has been said by music critics everytime a very popular artist release's new music and it's successful, that's why critic's hate Drake and imagine dragons.