The trouble with Nickelback is that they’re too apprehensive and catering. You want a preachy ballad? No problem. You want a more teary-eyed ballad meant to be played at high school graduations? Nickelback delivers that too. A standard hard rock track? They have that as well, they just colored it as a Dimebag tribute. “Rockstar” unpredictably satirizes the “rockstar mentality.” You know, as opposed to Nickelback actually being rich rock stars. Nickelback is spoon-fed emotion, and they represent a gaping void in radio rock where there used to be a soul.
- Thus says the Pellington