So it’s not a huge surprise that in 2013, readers of Rolling Stone voted Nickelback the second worst band of the ’90s in an online poll, sandwiched right between Creed and Limp Bizkit. If UrbanDictionary is to be believed, there’s even a prank (“Nickelbacking”) in which teens force their friends to listen to Nickelback over the phone. Last week another poll unfavorably compared the likely Republican presidential nominee to the band, drawing the attention of Stephen Colbert. This sentiment has also been following Cruz cc /i9K72ihRqC "Trump Likes Nickelback" sign appears at Trump rally.
Spotted outside stop this hour in Webster City, Iowa - the Nickelback protester: /5sW5cUh6E2 (That sounds brutal, but at least the band won the poll.) Meanwhile, accusing unpopular political figures such as Ted Cruz or Rahm Emmanual of liking Nickelback is a growing trend.Ĭivility has disappeared in Chicago Teachers Union protests /H6sq3ZL7
In 2013, Public Policy Polling famously asked people what they liked more: Congress or Nickelback. In 2011 fans of the Detroit Lions, a sporting team of some renown, started a petition to have Nickelback stripped of their Thanksgiving Day halftime duties and replaced by a more reputable musical act. Oh, how we love to mock the proud and mighty Nickelback. One of these days I might wear it to SXSW.) But even the most casual, one-album-a-year music fan knew that there was no band more embarrassing to be caught liking in public than Nickelback. Some of those friends are huge music fans that are up on the latest microtrends and spent most of that evening talking about Channel Orange. One such bartender replied: “Oh yeah, we were making fun of you.” They smiled with demonic pride every time I told a sneering and/or bewildered bartender that I was wearing this all against my will. “We couldn’t think of anything that would make you angrier,” one of my friends said, accurately. As part of my bachelor party, my kind and thoughtful friends paraded me around the Williamsburg, Brooklyn area - where at the time I lived, and which since 2000 has had the reputation of being the epicenter of the American hipster - while wearing the following lovingly assembled uniform that my friends had gone to great length to purchase from eBay: camouflage parachute pants with tiny America flags emblazoned upon them a baseball cap sporting the Black Eyed Peas logo and, the piece de resistance, a 2009 Nickelback tour T-shirt. All week long we’re looking at the strangest musical moments and trends of the decade.