I'd take the 50 cents as long as I don't end up with 5 cents. I don't want a Nickelback.
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Joking aside, we don't actually still hate Nickelback, right?
Not gonna lie; I jumped on the bandwagon too, but I don't believe that they actually deserve the hate.
Blame ClearChannel. Nickelback emerged near the peak of one company fucking up commercial radio throughout the US. This new band played inoffensive pop-alternative-country melange, seeming broadly acceptable to everyone without exciting much of anyone. Their image was squeaky-clean while their conventionally attractive frontman looked vaguely rugged. All very saleable, but aggressively generic.
So: take an audience at peak rude irony. (This is the era of Celebrity Deathmatch, "Mike Tyson ate my balls," and Game.com ads calling their customers morons.) Subject them to the same middling singles over and over. Ask how they feel about this merely okay experience taking up air time that could easily be Destiny's Child, Third Eye Blind, or Shania Twain. Try not to act surprised when they smirk and say they hope the entire band dies.
People hate Nickelback because it's fun to hate Nickelback. It is easy and rewarding to hate Nickelback. Everyone knew about them, but nobody was a diehard fan. You could perform ingroup bonding with nearly anyone by saying "Fuck Nickelback, right?" You could privately grumble about hearing "How You Remind Me" for the dozenth time this week, without any baggage like Creed's religion-bait popularity or various artists' public feuds. Hating Nickelback is uncomplicated. To this day, I have no goddamn idea what Chad Kroeger is like, or what he's into, or what he's done. But I still knew his name without checking.
And nobody's replaced them. Rampant piracy deepened people's musical tastes by letting them choose what to listen to, instead of the constant deluge of lowest-common-denominator payola. Streaming later made it polite and acceptable to pay artists nothing. Meanwhile, internet forums and thousand-channel cable packages allowed culture to splinter. I'm not sure I've ever heard a Taylor Swift song. I don't care, and I don't have to. Having any reputation become memetic like this is obscenely unlikely now. To have that reputation be... mediocre? Unthinkable.
I'm fine with Nickelback, but their six or seven nearly identical sounding songs got old and I stopped wanting to listen to them. Never really dove into the "we officially hate Nickelback the same way we officially hate New Jersey" kind of thing.
I don't think we ever actually hated Nickelback. Jury is out on 3 Doors Down, though.
If I remember correctly it largely started because of some joking comment by some famous person decades ago. And because of early internet it was a early form of meme. It was something you repeated, it was the cool funny thing to say. And then I think people started to forget that they weren't to take it seriously. So they start saying they hated a band and had absolutely no idea why other than 'that's just what you say'
It’s weird, I hated them the very first time I saw their first video in MTV (just as mtv was about to finish killing off the music in their channel).
I think it was the combination of complete gener-rock, d-bag lead singer, and stupidly over dramatic nothing lyrics. All I know is it was instant that I know I didn’t like them.
Has a similar response to Bush (the soap ballad band) in the 90s.
Eminem seems like a pretty cool guy. Don't know much about 50 other than that he got shot 9 times and owned vitamin water.
I’d prefer either of these than getting stung by Sting.
What about getting policed by The Police?
Or getting kinky with The Kinks?
M&M's, next question.
I don’t even think I could hold a 30 second conversation with Eminem. I like his music but I feel we’d be like 2 aliens meeting each other. What I do know is that we’d both enjoy the hell out of those M&M’s! Hands down, better choice.
I'd rather be curt with curtis than blather with mathers, that man came up as a battle rapper and i know i can't game
Better than meatloaf with Meatloaf I guess.
Hangout at the club with Seal. Or...
oh my...
Dickin around with lil'dicky
Walk dogs with Snoop Dogg
After the inauguration? No, fuck that guy.
What happened?
He is infact pro orange pissant and his billionaire involent handler.
Not that hard. I don't think You can buy anything for 50c but I do like M&Ms.
Would you rather doom scroll with MF Doom, or get some tuna with Chali2na?
Would you rather doom scroll on a device that can't even run Doom or doom scroll wearing Doctor Doom's mask?
Would you rather play Mario with Mario Lopez, or play Sonic with Sonic Youth?
Would you rather do archery with Archenemy, or masturbate with Mastodon?
Spend 50 cents with 50 cent to buy $1 worth of M&Ms to then eat with Eminem
Get tied to 2chains with two chains.
They are both cool, but I'm originally from Michigan, so I gotta go with Eminem.
Would you rather Jack with Black or Black with Jack?
@ooli2 Why not both? Spend 50 cents to buy M&M’s 😋
"You can have two."
"Snack-sized packs?"
"No."
Have you seen the price of chocolate lately? You'd be happy to get 1 M&M for 50 cents.
I'd spend the evening with ice cube or vanilla ice on a green day.
How about drinking ice tea?
Purchase 50c worth of m&ms from 50s candy shop, then throw them at him if he tries to make me lick the lollipop.
Eat 50 cents?
I would prefer a death next to Chuck Schuldiner from Death.
I dislike both.
Down voting exists for this reason
I upvote that.
I.... upvote you. I'm too kind to downvote.
I don't want to be near either but would watch them sharing these options together.
We can cross off "Ride BMX on DMT with DMX."