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it's time we, as a people, face up to Nickelback
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So their a less commercially successful Imagine Dragons then
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They make shitty, dude-bro, "I'm a badass!" type rock where they bitch about how much they hate their girlfriends most of the time
I observed no good parts of her personality, but one of her least endearing traits was her belief that she could seem interesting and knowledgeable by just being aggressively contrarian about everything. Every media opinion she had could be summarized as "Actualy, [thing that you like] is bad, and [thing that you hate] is good, and holy crap do I want to argue about it!" She was reliable enough in adopting this position that sometimes we'd make a game of bad-mouthing films we knew for a fact she'd never seen, just to bait her into an impassioned defense of plot points that we were inventing as we fed them to her.
Anyway, one time I was helping the landlord repair some fences behind the apartment complex. We had the radio on, some shitty music was playing, and it got us talking about other shitty music that had gained widespread public exposure despite no one admitting to liking it, and how weird it must be to be one of the secret fans who unironically loved Aqua's "Barbie Girl" or whatever enough to keep requesting it and sustaining it on the airwaves for months. She overheard us and came outside to deliver an impassioned defense of Nickelback, and how it was at a Nickelback concert that her husband proposed to her, while they performed the exact same song that was on the radio right now, that we were so callously mocking.
And my landlord was like "This is 'With Arms Wide Open' by Creed."
Later my sister-in-law confirmed that actually her sister got engaged at a pizzeria that was infamous locally for having given the Chaos Shits to a bunch of European reporters during the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics.
One time I saw her get in a half hour argument with her other siblings about memories of seeing a sequel to Mary Poppins, which at the time definitely did not exist yet, and I was like "Oh shit, somebody else has been playing the Fake Movie game with Autumn!"
Random anecdote: For the longest time I thought Bedknobs and Broomsticks was related to Mary Poppins.
That's fair, they both star David Tomlinson, and have Milt Kahl's fingerprints all over the animated parts.
I'm the one who unironically has 3-4 Nickelback songs in my general playlist and will ironically make a Paladin of Nickelback for a game just to see how fast they get gibbed
bedknobs and broomsticks rules
I don't think it has the emotional impact that Mary Poppins can hit me with on the right day though.
Edit: in the same vein, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has one of the most disturbing sequences I watched as a child with the child snatcher.
they're not for me but I do think the notion that they represent some uniquely egregious musical crime to be a little overstated
dickleback
Awesome
That is like the most 2000s music thing I've read today.
Good job, thread.
wait.
is nickelback a play on quarterback
no it is literally about the lead singer giving people change back
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Barbie Girl kicks ass!
Nah, need Don Henly there to trigger critical mass.
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