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= Nickelback (meme) = Nickelback is a Canadian alternative rock band from Hanna, Alberta. The band’s success came after their third album release, Silver Side Up in 2000, and then again with their fourth album, The Long Road, released in 2003 which sold over two-million copies worldwide and was certified 3X Platinum . Shortly after the success of their fourth album, the band slowly became one of the most hated bands around the world and are commonly used as a meme across the internet. A lot of their commercial success came from sticking to their song writing recipe in that all of their music sounds the same. It is a trend to hate Nickelback, and because of that, they are the most hated and successful band in the world, and with that, they are the easiest to make fun of despite having enormous commercial success.

Song Repetition
Nickelback began as a ‘90s cover band. Frontman Chad Kroeger’s low raspy growl, and the band's metal influence stood out at the time, but rather than evolving their sound, Nickelback kept replaying essentially the same song over and over. In 1999, the band signed with Roadrunner Records, a label that signed on predominantly heavy-metal bands, bands that wouldn't normally be played on FM Radio. Nickelback stood out immediately from the other bands in that their music was a lot softer than these other bands and that they would be labelled as "posers" and "wannabes".

The band later went on to create copies of themselves. Kroeger pulled some strings to get Vancouver-based band, Theory of a Deadman signed to his own record label, 604 Records, and onto the 2002 Spider-Man album. Theory of a Deadman has the same raspy sound as Nickelback and is essentially the same band but with a different name.

Comedy Central
Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn aired from 2002 to 2004, where comedians discussed topical news stories. Comedy Central used clips from the show to advertise itself and one of these clips included Brian Posehn responding to a 2003 study that linked violent lyrics to violent behaviour. Posehn said, “No one talks about the studies that show that bad music makes people violent, but listening to Nickelback makes me want to kill Nickelback.” Though not many people remember this quote, the sentiment still remained even after the promotional video aired. With thousands of viewers and this advertisement constantly running, the hatred towards Nickelback grew organically from there, with no sign of a downward trend and the band certainly did not do anything to try to curb this.

Chad Kroeger
Chad Kroeger is the frontman, or lead vocalist, for Nickelback. The frontman is often the face of the band since this is the face that people attribute to the band. Kroeger never handles the limelight with grace or with dignity. In a candid interview with Playboy, published by an internet fan account, Kroeger stated that he put his own genitals in his mouth for a case of beer. In a 2012 interview with Men’s Health magazine, he paid a drum technician 600 Deutsche Marks to stick his genitalia in a fan with metal blades. Kroeger described the aftermath saying, “It was fantastic. Somebody has video footage of this somewhere that needs to be resurrected and shown at the guy's next birthday party.”

Kroeger writes most of the lyrics for Nickelback. The lyrics and the subject matter of the songs are misogynistic and crude. In the song, “Something In Your Mouth”, the lyrics of the chorus are as follows: “You’re so much cooler when you never pull it out / ‘Cause you look so much cuter with something in your mouth.”

The band does not take themselves seriously and a large part of why they are the most hated band is because of their lack of seriousness to their own music.

Furniture Incident
Nickelback wrote the song “Rockstar” in 2005 and debuted on their fifth album, All The Right Reasons. The song is about stereotypes in the music industry. In 2008, the band then licensed the song to a UK furniture store, DFS Furniture, to use in their commercial. After this, it was clear that the band had no standards and record sales dropped significantly and concert attendance was at an all-time low. At a show in Portugal, Kroeger asked the crowd, “have we got any fans in Portugal?” and as a response, a crowd member threw rocks at the performers, and one hit Kroeger in the back of the head.

In signing over the rights to a generic furniture company, the band essentially wrote that the don’t hold their music to any standards and it is meant to be made a mockery of. It certainly did not help that the song remained in the Top 40 for 58 weeks, cementing themselves as a group of grunge posers and sellouts