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Remind me who i am album12/15/2023 The target is too easy.Įvery other halfway prominent rock band should fall to their knees and thank the universe that Nickelback continue to exist. Joking about Nickelback is like joking about airplane food. At some point, hatred of Nickelback went from a hacky joke to a tired meme, and nobody even seems to bother with it anymore. I have a halfassed theory that this pervading facial mundanity is the reason that Nickelback are the most widely disrespected rock band of the 21st century, the one band that virtually everyone is happy to mock relentlessly. It feels wrong, the same way it would feel wrong to see Tommy Lee buying a big bag of kitty litter at Target. There’s something vaguely perverse about watching wildly normal guys in rock-out mode. Guitarist Ryan Peake, in particular, scrunches and screws all his nondescript features up with intense hard-rockin’ seriousness. And yet those guys, with those faces, are going off so hard. They look like your neighbor whose name you can’t remember even though you’ve had upwards of five conversations. These guys don’t look like rockers they look like pediatricians or IT technicians or barbacks. They’re faces that radiate deep, overwhelming averageness. The other Nickelback guys do not have memorable faces. Those friends of sitcom dads are still television actors, and they still have to pop off the screen a little bit. They’re not even the faces of the friends of the dads in a sitcom. The faces of the other Nickelback guys, as depicted in the “How You Remind Me” video, are almost aggressively normal. I’m talking about the other guys in Nickelback. I’m not talking about the mantis-like face of the scarily skinny model who plays the problematic love-interest antagonist, either. We know that face - the hangdog eyes, the incongruously flowy Jesus hair, the bad-idea goatee, the general Droopy Dog mien. I’m not talking about the face of Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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