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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I made this comment already but as a Flames fan, I'm guessing you've had some irrational, unjustifiable hate for Oiler and Canucks players. No difference whatsoever in hating musicians you do not like. So either don't ever have a problem with it, or always have a problem with it. Or, as you've mentioned, ignore it. Freedom to do as we please means some of us can hate Nickelback and some can defend them. And we're all entitled to our thoughts. Don't like them? Don't comment on them.
I know it was a typo but I had to laugh at the first point.
Going from a sound that got them little to no popularity (their first two CDs), to a sound that makes the multi-platinum....not sure what other word you could use. It's all about how you get there. The White Stripes and Black Keys are examples in this thread. They continued to have the same approach to making music even as they got more popular. Nickelback though, look at the 3 album run of Silver Side, Long Road and Right Reasons. Silver Side, filled with big time radio ready hits, sells huge. Long Road lacks those same radio ready hits, sells much worse than Silver Side. So with Right Reasons, there they go again, lots of radio ready hits, massive seller.
Nickelback's goal is to sell records. First and foremost. It isn't to create music as art, its to be rich. As such, congratulations to them on achieving their goals. But their goals are what quantifies as selling out within music. Artistic ambitions are irrelavent to them. Making money is whats relevant. If they were driven by art and happened to become very succesful, then you couldn't call them sellouts. But if you told Chad that auto-tuning their next album would ensure 10X platinum sales, I'd betcha we'll be hearing some auto-tuned Nickelback.
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Fair enough.. I know nothing of their music, certainly could not name any albums and only a handful of songs.
You obviously have followed the band for some time and noticed changes, whereas I only know a few songs.
I guess it's this intense hatred of the band that makes zero sense to me. Like that yahoo who did the concert review in a paper, without even going to the show.