Or how Nickelback is the Rob Liefeld of music.
I recently had… the experience of going to a Nickelback
concert. In my defence, I was told it was a Bush concert and only later, after
tickets had been bought, was it revealed that Nickelback was headlining. Also,
I didn’t pay for my ticket. (Please don’t hate me.)
In a moment of profound realization during said concert, it
occurred to me that Nickelback, with its brashness and absurdity, is the musical
equivalent of Rob Liefeld. Also: Bush is a much better band than Nickelback.
I also realized that both The Rob and Nickelback, as
aesthetically unappealing as I find them, deserve to exist because some people seem to really like them and both, occasionally, provide moments of sublime
absurdity that transcend their origins.
An in depth comparison follows after the cut:
