By LUCY GRANSBURY
I often have to consult the cool kids.
‘Hey popular people, which milk is in fashion for my latte these days? Almond? Coconut? Breast?’
‘Which jeans am I supposed to be wearing again? Ripped? Skinny? Boyfriend? Skinny-with-slight-beer-gut boyfriend?’
But there is one commandment that I continue to come across from ‘Those Kids Cooler Than Me’ (i.e. Everyone) that I’m just not sure about.
Thou Shalt Despise Nickelback.
WANKERS! Ok, am I cool yet?
Some dude in London has started a kick-starter campaign asking people to donate to the cause: NEVER LETTING NICKELBACK PERFORM IN LONDON AGAIN.
Depending on the donation, he will do anything from send an email in the donator’s name with a kind request to the band to stay away, to sending Nickelback’s music back to Nickelback.
I want to say to this young whippersnapper:
a) calm down and
b) get a life.
They are just a band. Surely, the much less strenuous solution is this: If you don’t like them… Don’t listen to them. I don’t really like listening to the bagpipes, so I don’t buy Greatest Bagpipin’ Hits. I don’t particularly like Avicii, so I don’t buy his albums*.
I did some research (it’s rare, I had to lie down afterwards) and came across some reasons why more people hate Nickelback than drinking orange juice after brushing their teeth.
1. WE HATE NICKELBACK BECAUSE…. Their songs are kind of offensive.
But… so is Eddie McGuire. Okay, that Nickelback song that starts with “I like your pants around your feet” has some pretty naughty connotations. But so does “The Thong Song”. And Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”. And Spice Girls “2 Become 1”.
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I thought Avicil was a medicine...
I don't get the nickelback hate either. I actually really quite like them. I suspect that I like them mostly though because as much as you call them a poor imitation, I would prefer to listen to a poor imitation of real music than the completely-not-real-music that seems to be cramming the airwaves today!
It has been a long time between drinks for real rock bands! I cringe every time I am listening to a '50 greatest rock bands' on a music channel and they play bands who do not play anything that even resembles real rock!