A civil discussion about Nickelback

bartosso wrote: IMPF2112 wrote: bartosso wrote: Not much to discuss - metal community hates sell outs. >implying they were ever good to begin with I don't know, I actually meant that they're just making music for money and nothing else, probably misused the word "sell out" here (?)

Yeah, selling out means that a band or artist changes their style of music to fit the current trend in order to make more money.  See Metallica's Black Album, the latest Korn album, etc.

To me, Nickelback is just another radio rock band spearheading the post-grunge movement that was really popular at the start of the 2000s.  I don't really pay attention to that sort of thing because I don't listen to the radio at all, but I just thought it was funny how much they were being promoted last year after being basically irrelevant for the previous 3.  If anything, they stand out just because they're a bunch of douchebags, and not for any musical reasons.

bartosso wrote: Not much to discuss - metal community hates sell outs.

Not much to discuss - metal community hates sell outs.

Edited by bartosso - 09 Sep 2012 at 11:14am

IMPF2112 wrote:

It�s also too clean and polished for my tastes, lacking bite and aggression.

I think it's probably the lack of ambition that I find boring, and that'd be in the song structure department most prominently. It definitely seems to lack substance.

Though I do not personally enjoy Nickelbacks music I am well aware that they are oft well hated on in the metal community, and indeed just as much so, if not more outside. What I am curious of, is what they have done to deserve this criticism.

Edited by renkls - 09 Sep 2012 at 2:08am