Why is Nickelback so Terrible?

[GrandmaFunk]

The best lyrics in the world...

...are the best lyrics in the world no matter who sings them.

delivery/presentation simply doesn't impact the worth of the lyrics themselves.

the lyrics are the same whether being screamed out by a tone deaf metal singer or by the world best opera singer.

 

[omega 616]

If you listen to their songs one after the other they blend into this mulchy hum of sameness.

I don't really get that, like I used to listen to them a lot and never got that feeling. The band that does that to me is disturbed.

I like disturbed but after listening to an entire album it's like "well that was one long ass song". I think the same might be happening to soil.

I hate the band for a rather unique reason, I had a friend who decided the lead singer was cool, so he became him but had black hair. Seriously, he had the same douchey hairstyle (tried to grow the goatee multiple times), started smoking and joined in on the "zomg Jack is teh bestest drink evar!" ... He put up 4 posters, 3 Chad and 1 Jack Daniels, he started to collect Jack Daniels crap (serious sized bottles, shot glasses etc), started wearing the same style of clothes as him ... he even bought cowboy boots in tan leather.

Yeah, that shit got old ... quick!

I listen to them occasionally but I am not a die hard fan.

It's all about taste, I still cannot believe people like dubstep, gabba (look it up on youtube) and what ever this is ...


What did they say?

 

[Axolotl]

Those lyrics are not cringe worthy at all.

Please tell me you're being sarcastic.

To the OP, how should we know why Nickelback is awful? They're the only ones who'd know why they make such rubbish music. If I had to geuss I'd say it's because they've got no talent, skill or ambition, but for all I know they could be purposefull making bad music as an ironic statement.

 

[appleblush]

Didn't manage to get the quote in this post - read below.

 

[appleblush]

Completely generic rock with cringeworthy lyrics, and somehow became massively popular from it.

You, my friend, have just described almost every band and products in general for the last sixty years. minus the words rock, lyrics... and that's it. no offense.

....?

what the hell have YOU been listening too?

What I'm saying is that EVERY band has cringeworthy lyrics, and people these days just hate everything generic. find me ONE song that doesn't have lyrics that you can't help but laugh at if you heard them outside of the music.

Those lyrics are not cringe worthy at all.

ahh, you're one of those. no offense, but anytime the voice goes higher pitch then the instruments, I just have to either mark them off as angsty, ergo pre-puberty, laryngitis, therefore why the hell do they keep singing, or they have been using their scratchy,pitched voice too much, which goes back to the last thing, on a tour is one thing, in a recording booth or similar place is too much. another thing is that anytime you cry that long in real life, people will start to look at you funny. Music is decent, but again, becomes background to nails on a chalkboard, which completely destroys the point of having anything in the background but gunfire and a chainsaw. Anytime the "Cryer" sings I just want to reach through the screen and strangle him. Now when the normal voices are singing, sure they're then telling a story, singing, etc., but the Cryer just throws the whole thing off. You may complain about Nickelodeon being generic rock with cringeworthy lyrics, but this is just generic screemo.

Not screamo genius, metalcore, huuuge difference, and these guys put more emotion and work into their songs than most bands. Also they are fucking amazing live, it's almost like a religious experience (hehe it's funny because they're a Christian band). This song is based off a true story too. Do some research and you'll see how powerful the song is.

If I have to do research to be moved by a song, then the song isn't doing its job right.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Eh, I found them to be like a much less niche-Dragonforce (who effectively has one song that they mutate into slightly different sounding songs).

They have like three models for a song, and they mutate them. It's not that they're bad (well, ok, the lyrics are retarded, but I can ignore those if the instrumentation is good enough), but they're just so...bland.

On the other hand, I can thank Nickelback for being so bland as to force me to branch out a bit and eventually trip over a couple of my favorite groups ever.

 

[tomtom94]

It's kinda strange that I think Nickelback have become so "cool to hate" it has now looped and they might actually somehow have become cool to like again.

 

[Chalacachaca]

The people who find Nickelback terrible are the same people who haven't use public transportation in South America (with a few exceptions). Why I don't mind Nickelback music at all? because I have to deal up with this
I remember once driving around with a friend, and she was listening to a mix tape, funny enough I though it was just one band playing those tracks until I started hearing "Rockstar" by Nickelback.

 

[repeating integers]

I'm confused...you asked for lyrics that ppl didn't consider "cringeworthy", especially when viewed outside of the music they're usually associated with, but then you discount one example based on the singer's voice/vocal style.

how does the voice of the singer impact the worth of the lyrics?

the lyrics are either good or they aren't

Presentation, presentation, presentation. The best lyrics in the world can be completely destroyed should the background music be nothing but sirens,horns, and gunshots. same concept here, the screaming negates the music for me. And what I said was lyrics in general being used in everyday conversations, not just outside of the music they're associated with.

...Why do you want lyrics to be usable in real-life conversations in the first place?

That's like complaining that you can't use lines from most poetry in (anything but the most pretentious of) conversation. In fact, it's almost exactly the same thing.

And you're kind of contradicting yourself in the argument anyway - you said "find me ONE song that doesn't have lyrics that you can't help but laugh at if you heard them outside of the music", and then when the other guy provided a song, you couldn't get past the music, and thus ignored the lyrics. Also, out of interest; you clearly don't like screaming, but what's your stance on falsetto?

Also, here's a song which I think has very good lyrics - I'd be interested to hear if you agree.

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[SpartakRB]

As plenty above me have said, it suddenly seems to be 'cool' to go on about how bad Nickelback are. Thing is, despite considering myself a fan of Nickelback, I find it hard to defend them nowadays! Their last few albums have been pretty awful, the downward slope into near-self-parody starting with 'All The Right Reasons' in my opinion.

However, I still find myself listening to plenty of tracks from their earlier albums. 'The State' is vastly underrated with some cracking songs like 'Leader of Men', 'Breathe' and 'One Last Run', and Silver Side Up still stands up well.

It disappoints me where they've gone musically in recent years, but I'm just glad I got to see them live twice in some smaller venues while they were still good!

 

[Redryhno]

You really aren't getting what i'm saying, are you?First of all, I really don't care about lyrics, second of all, this whole thing was just a joke to see how far you would go. congratulations, you've proved to my entire soc/phil class that people on the internet either take everything too seriously, and the few times they don't they don't get the joke. And by the way, I lost five bucks because of you,my prof said you would pull Pink Floyd out of your ass eventually, I actually expected more songs then those two though. People just can't let anything go anymore can they?

 

[repeating integers]

You really aren't getting what i'm saying, are you?First of all, I really don't care about lyrics, second of all, this whole thing was just a joke to see how far you would go. congratulations, you've proved to my entire soc/phil class that people on the internet either take everything too seriously, and the few times they don't they don't get the joke. And by the way, I lost five bucks because of you,my prof said you would pull Pink Floyd out of your ass eventually, I actually expected more songs then those two though. People just can't let anything go anymore can they?

Well first of all, I'm not the guy you were originally conversing with, I just decided to join in due to boredom. Apparently you haven't realised this.

Secondly, while I'm no expert on comedy, it's my understanding that jokes generally need humour. You need to get some of that.

Thirdly, well done to your prof, I guess. Now he has an extra 5 bucks. Woo?

And finally, you started a discussion on a thread. What did you expect to happen? Somebody responded to you, he was perfectly civil, and you were having a perfectly nice conversation. What exactly do you mean by "people can't let anything go anymore can they?" Was it another "joke"?

 

[soren7550]

One good reason I've heard is because they sound like a swarm of bees.

But then again, that was in relation to this:

 

[KingOfGreyfell]

The lead singer makes me think of a current day Axl Rose. He has a short temper and seems like a guy I wouldn't want to spend more than 5 minutes with.

Speaking of Rose, why isn't he the target of hatred and rage? The guy's a rage-filled man-animal.

 

[Redryhno]

Hey, the joke made me laugh,doesn't matter if you think it is or not, but nobody else noticed I changed people either. Everyone here looks about the same.

 

[General Ken8]

Basically every single song sounds very similar. You got the two base songs of fast and slow/sad and if you play any from that category over the top of one another it sounds pretty similar.


I think their two songs are good, but this shouldnt be possible to do with any bands songs... not to mention the 100% generic "Lets party and have a lot of sex while dabbling in drugs because we are ultra baddassitude" lyrics which serve only to irk me.

That video is pretty great, and yeah, that's why I don't listen to Nickelback, or Theory of a Dead Man, etc.
All of their songs are one of a small amount of themes, an attempt at something philosophical, saying how much your ex or girlfriend or significant other sucks, or partying and doing drugs and whatnot.
It just gets annoying hearing people completely buy into this kind of music, but I'm pretty neutral about it. There's just a lot better music out there

 

[Lunar Templar]

i donno, i don't really have a problem with em, but not about to go out of my way to pick up one of their CDs ether