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Perhaps it is, instead, a totally face value account of the fact that Chad's got everything and thinks it's pretty brilliant, actually. Perhaps we're trying too hard and maybe Rockstar is not clever or postmodern or satirical or anything at all like that. Perhaps it is about perception and reality, and Chad thinks he's the first celebrity ever to play a character in public. So is Chad attempting to satirise his peers without realising he's as bad as they are? Or is it self-analytical? Is this a song in which Chad admits he is a pillock? Or, is this self-styled everyman singing a cautionary tale for the kids, and is this 'this is what you'll become' ditty an attempt to put people off stealing Nickelback's crown? (This was before he was charged with drunk driving in 2006.) The character in Rockstar also claims 'I'd even cut my hair and change my name' Chad's real name is Chad Turton. Is this song a satire, and if so, what does it seek to satirise? 'I want a brand new house on an episode of Cribs,' Chad (or Chad's 'character') notes Chad's already been on Cribs, showing off platinum discs around the pool table and a collection of sports cars.

It's a Smack The Pony skit without the laughter track ironic, given that Rockstar is one of the most unintentionally hilarious songs of the last few years. And so it continues, for more than four horrifying minutes. 'The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap, we'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat'. 'Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars, and live in hilltop houses driving 15 cars,' Chad sings. With trademark Nickelback subtlety, Rockstar is about being a rock star.

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The B-52s' Love Shack has a full three seconds before it really gets going even some terrorist organisations offer some sort of tip-off. This sound of hell opening up offers the listener no safety zone in which to leap towards their radio's off switch in a slow-mo 'NOOOOOO!!!!!' fashion. Its most terrifying feature is in its first millisecond, in that Chad's vocals appear completely without warning. So, in case you are not aware of this song's charms, simply imagine a Nickelback song, but worse. The fact that Rockstar has already spent over two months on the chart and is currently at No 3 also cements the theory that the worse a Chad Kroeger single is, the better it performs - this is in line with the Spider-Man soundtrack single Hero (fairly terrible) selling fewer copies than How You Remind Me (very terrible). This cover is one of the great early YouTube videos.The worst Nickelback song of all time is, of course, their current hit, Rockstar. You may also recall that Photograph which was the first single off that album.

Finally, in February 2008 it was named the 100th best song of 2007 by Rolling Stone. It was then re-released a year later on June 6, 2007, and became a hit on adult top 40 and pop radio. It was released as a single in 2006 without a video. Rockstar was the final track on Nickelback’s Septem(exactly six years after Creed's Human Clay) release All the Right Reasons. Here are some things I now know about this song, thanks to Wikipedia. So when I watched the video for Rockstar, it was completely new to me, even if I had seen it one or more times a decade ago. I don’t usually brag about it and most of this knowledge has been locked in the deep, dark recesses of my brain. I was a young adult during the first decade of the millennium, so I know Nickelback well. I may have even come across a burned copy of Silver Side Up during my freshman year of college. I’m not a Nickelback fan, but if I ever did anything where people made signs to disparage me, one would read “Stephen Douglas listens to Nickelback” and I’d just shake my head and say, “That is not entirely inaccurate.” I know the words to a disturbing number of Nickelback songs. I remember the dark days of Nickelback’s popularity. Here's the original text of the article in 2016. The more I revisit this, the more proud and ashamed I am all at once. Four years later I would write about Creed. Then I fell down a Creed YouTube wormhole and eventually stumbled on Nickelback. Incredibly, my original post was inspired by Kirk Cousins making teammates listen to Creed’s Greatest Hits while weightlifting.

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