• Psythik@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    Joking aside, we don’t actually still hate Nickelback, right?

    Not gonna lie; I jumped on the bandwagon too, but I don’t believe that they actually deserve the hate.

    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      If I remember correctly it largely started because of some joking comment by some famous person decades ago. And because of early internet it was a early form of meme. It was something you repeated, it was the cool funny thing to say. And then I think people started to forget that they weren’t to take it seriously. So they start saying they hated a band and had absolutely no idea why other than ‘that’s just what you say’

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      It’s weird, I hated them the very first time I saw their first video in MTV (just as mtv was about to finish killing off the music in their channel).

      I think it was the combination of complete gener-rock, d-bag lead singer, and stupidly over dramatic nothing lyrics. All I know is it was instant that I know I didn’t like them.

      Has a similar response to Bush (the soap ballad band) in the 90s.