Claiming the title of world's most hated band is no mean feat. Consider all the awful bands that are out there, remember that Limp Bizkit are a band, as are Coldplay and how could we forget One Direction? Oh, and U2, fucking U2, who took it upon themselves to spam our phones with their rubbish album back in 2014. Think of all of those and then think 'who is worse?' 'Who is more annoying?' Yes, you know who it is. It's Nickelback. The musical equivalent of stepping on a plug to many, many people.
For a hated band, they get an impressive amount of airtime. Every song they release gets played to death. Although I've never chosen to listen to it, I think I somehow know every single word to 'Rockstar' and it's in my head all the time. It's like the screensaver of my mind and I hate myself. So, surely that means some people must like this? And yet, if you Google 'most hated band', they there are.
Nickelback are so hated that some people don't even believe that they are a real band. They're actually a sort of performance-art pranksterism. Basically, Chad and co. are playing a big joke on us all. Makes sense doesn't it?
But then how did the band end up doing so well? Don't worry about that, the theory has got you here, too. You see, Chad, if that is his real name, uses his 'various connections in the art and music world' to get himself some fame. Obviously.
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The theory goes that front man Chad Kroeger is actually a painter and musician from New York, not Canada like he pretends. He formed an avant-garde noise rock band called Fingerprince in 1991, before splitting up to focus his attentions on the band we all know and hate: Nickelback.
So, what does he want other than fame and notoriety? Well, he originally wanted to use the profits to fund an LSD manufacturing lab in Canada - I think LSD would make his music a lot more bearable, tbh. But he scrapped this plan after underestimating how successful the band would be and decided to stick with music, which is a huge burden for us all.
Now, I'm usually quick to dismiss conspiracy theories, but this all makes much more sense than Nickelback being a real band.
The only bit of the theory that has been disproven thus far is that band planned to stage a plane crash, like Buddy Holly, in 2011 - which hasn't happened. So maybe they are just a shit band after all?
Oh, and happy 41st birthday, Chad Kroeger.
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