Editing Nickelback (section)

==Reception==
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Despite their commercial success, Nickelback has been subjected to numerous jokes and a vocal negative response for some audiences,<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Crouch|first=Ian|title=Our Hate Has Saved Nickelback|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/hate-saved-nickelback|access-date=2020-11-20|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Why Do People Hate Nickelback So Much?|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/04/25/402026979/the-good-listener-why-do-people-hate-nickelback-so-much|access-date=2020-11-20|publisher=NPR|date=April 25, 2015|language=en|last1=Thompson|first1=Stephen}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|title=How Nickelback became the internet's most-hated band {{!}} CBC Radio|language=en-US|work=CBC|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/belarus-protests-covid-19-and-t-cells-talking-heads-chris-frantz-yo-semite-nickelback-haters-and-more-1.5685001/how-nickelback-became-the-internet-s-most-hated-band-1.5686956|access-date=2020-11-20}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite news|last=Lachno|date=May 30, 2017|title=The Nickelback phenomenon: explaining the world's most hated band|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/nickelback-phenomenon-explaining-worlds-hated-band/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/nickelback-phenomenon-explaining-worlds-hated-band/ |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=2020-11-20|issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref> some of which is attributed to the perceived derivative, repetitive and formulaic nature of their music,<ref>{{cite web|date=September 22, 2003|title=Nickelback: Give the people what they want|url=http://www.evalu8.org/staticpage?page=review&siteid=4578|access-date=September 23, 2010|publisher=Globe and Mail (copy on Evalu8)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122110750/http://www.evalu8.org/staticpage?page=review&siteid=4578 |archive-date=November 22, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Why Nickelback is the world's most hated band|url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Nickelback+world+most+hated+band/2757349/story.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111021850/http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/nickelback+world+most+hated+band/2757349/story.html|archive-date=January 11, 2012|access-date=January 26, 2012|publisher=Postmedia Network Inc|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Curious Case of Nickelback|url=http://pioneers.themarknews.com/articles/7786-the-curious-case-of-nickelback/#.VlBpC7_WWmo|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121230219/http://pioneers.themarknews.com/articles/7786-the-curious-case-of-nickelback/#.VlBpC7_WWmo|archive-date=November 21, 2015|access-date=January 26, 2012|publisher=The Mark|df=mdy-all}}</ref> as well as their over-use of [[Hedonism|hedonistic]] themes involving strippers, sex, prostitutes, drugs, and alcohol consumption.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bimm|first=Jordan|title=NOW Magazine // Music // Nickelback|newspaper=Now Magazine |url=http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/discs.cfm?content=166093|access-date=September 23, 2010|publisher=Nowtoronto.com}}</ref> In the 2010s, Nickelback became the subject of [[internet memes]] that criticized their music, a status that the band came to embrace.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lazzaro |first1=Sage |date=January 26, 2016 |title=Nickelback the Meme: A Complete History of How We Came to Hate a Successful Band |url=https://observer.com/2016/01/nickelback-the-meme-a-complete-history-of-how-we-came-to-hate-a-successful-band/ |access-date=December 16, 2021 |website=Observer}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Feinn |first1=Lily |date=September 20, 2016 |title=A Timeline Explanation of Why You Hate Nickelback |url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/184972-why-do-people-hate-nickelback-a-timeline-of-the-internet-hate |access-date=December 16, 2021 |website=Bustle}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Campbell |first1=Ian Carlos |date=December 22, 2020 |title=Google and Nickelback really want you to look at your photographs |url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/22/22195633/google-photos-nickelback-photograph-ad-chad-kroeger-end-unlimited-storage |access-date=December 16, 2021 |website=The Verge}}</ref> Several sources, including ''[[CBC News]]'' and [[The Daily Telegraph|''The Telegraph'']], named Nickelback the "most hated" band of the internet world.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> ''[[Stereogum]]''<nowiki/>'s Tom Breihan described Nickelback as "the most widely disrespected rock band of the 21st century."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-07 |title=The Number Ones: Nickelback's "How You Remind Me" |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2201620/the-number-ones-nickelbacks-how-you-remind-me/columns/the-number-ones/ |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=Stereogum |language=en}}</ref> In May 2013, the readers of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine named Nickelback the second-worst band of the 1990s, behind only [[Creed (band)|Creed]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Readers' Poll: The Ten Worst Bands of the Nineties |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/readers-poll-the-ten-worst-bands-of-the-nineties-20130509/2-nickelback-0196964 |access-date=September 23, 2012 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> In November 2011, users of the music-oriented dating site [[Tastebuds.fm]] voted Nickelback as the number one "musical turnoff".<ref>{{cite web |date=November 1, 2011 |title=Nickelback named as the Number One musical turnoff |url=https://www.nme.com/news/nickelback/60139 |access-date=November 1, 2011 |work=NME |location=UK}}</ref> However, Chad Kroeger commented in a 2014 interview that the criticism helped him "grow a thick skin", and that without it, they would be "this just whatever band".<ref>{{cite news |date=November 24, 2014 |title=Nickelback doesn't mind being the world's most-hated band: "Without that, we would just be Green Day" |url=https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/music/nickelback-doesnt-mind-being-the-worlds-most-hated-band-without-that-we-would-just-be-green-day |access-date=December 16, 2021 |work=The National Post |agency=The Canadian Press}}</ref>

Various fellow musicians, like [[Chris Martin]] of [[Coldplay]]<ref>{{cite news |date=October 1, 2008 |title=Coldplay's Chris Martin: "Nickelback Are A Great Band" |url=http://www.gigwise.com/news/46479/Coldplays-Chris-Martin-Nickelback-Are-A-Great-Band |access-date=July 29, 2010 |work=Gigwise}}</ref> as well as producer [[Timbaland]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Harper |first=Kate |date=January 26, 2010 |title=Timbaland Hearts Nickelback |url=http://www.chartattack.com/news/78855/timbaland-is-a-nickelback-fan |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124181834/http://www.chartattack.com/news/78855/timbaland-is-a-nickelback-fan |archive-date=November 24, 2010 |access-date=July 29, 2010 |publisher=CHARTattack |df=mdy-all}}</ref> and singer [[Keyshia Cole]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Ziegbe |first=Mawuse |date=January 22, 2011 |title=Keyshia Cole Wants To Record With Nickelback – Music, Celebrity, Artist News |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1656462/keyshia-cole-wants-record-with-nickelback.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124193156/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1656462/keyshia-cole-wants-record-with-nickelback.jhtml |archive-date=January 24, 2011 |access-date=2012-12-20 |publisher=MTV}}</ref> have publicly shown support for the band. Following their 2008 album ''[[Dark Horse (Nickelback album)|Dark Horse]]'', ''[[ChartAttack]]'' credited the band's success to knowing their target audience: "Chad Kroeger is a genius because he knows exactly what people want and precisely how far he can go. He turned out an extremely racy album that's loaded with songs about gettin' drunk and doin' it all without breaking any taboos, and with enough love and [[moral authority]] to grease its passage into the mainstream. Rejoice, North America. This is your world."<ref>{{cite web |date=November 17, 2008 |title=Nickelback's Dark Horse For Dark Times |url=http://www.chartattack.com/reviews/62848/nickelbacks-dark-horse-for-dark-times |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131091236/http://www.chartattack.com/reviews/62848/nickelbacks-dark-horse-for-dark-times |archive-date=January 31, 2010 |access-date=February 14, 2010 |publisher=CHARTattack |df=mdy-all}}</ref> ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' praised the band in a review of ''Dark Horse'' by saying: "The bulletproof Nickelback provides affordable fun that promises good returns in hard times."<ref>{{cite web |title=Dark Horse by Nickelback |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/dark-horse/nickelback/critic-reviews |access-date=January 5, 2018 |publisher=Metacritic}}</ref> In a review for the band's ninth album ''Feed the Machine'', [[AllMusic]] reviewer [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] noted that they had mostly done away with the crude and vulgar lyrical content they had become known for, and praised the band for evolving their sound.<ref>{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|title=Feed the Machine review|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/feed-the-machine-mw0003015911|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=February 7, 2022}}</ref>[[File:Nickelback live at Tiff 2023.jpg|280px|thumb|Nickelback live at [[Toronto International Film Festival|Tiff]] [[2023 Toronto International Film Festival|2023]]]]Journalist Sage Lazzaro claimed that Nickelback's negative reputation began when the band signed to [[Roadrunner Records]] and was disliked by the label's followers, which at the time was known for [[heavy metal music]]. In addition, Lazzaro also cites a frequently-aired 2003 commercial for [[Comedy Central]]'s ''[[Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn]]'' insulting Nickelback which gained mass exposure.<ref name=":2" /> In 2018, the band was defended in a teaser trailer for the film ''[[Once Upon a Deadpool]]'' by the [[Deadpool|title character]]. In response, Nickelback released a video in 2024 defending the sequel ''[[Deadpool & Wolverine]]'' from criticism.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Aniftos |first=Rania |date=2024-07-24 |title=Nickelback Hilariously Defends 'Deadpool & Wolverine' From Hate & Ryan Reynolds Loves It |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/nickelback-defends-deadpool-and-wolverine-ryan-reynolds-video-1235739206/ |access-date=2024-09-07 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}</ref>

The band is profiled in ''[[Hate to Love: Nickelback]]'', a 2023 documentary film by Leigh Brooks which focuses on the band's reputation.<ref name=iheart>[https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/nickelback-documentary-to-debut-at-tiff-1.20024965 "Nickelback Documentary To Debut At TIFF"]. [[iHeartRadio Canada]], July 24, 2023.</ref>