A bad that fell into formula of all nu-metal bands, with most of their songs sounding the same, kinda like, sadly, Pearl Jam (At least to me). Nickelback is the prime example of record companies overglorifying their product to the point where anything they do, even if it's shit, will be praised by the masses. I don't hate all their songs. I really like songs like "Animals". Regardless, Animals is a diamond in the rough. Another part of their bad reputation come from their place of origin: Canada. Canadian bands and singers tend to be low in quality (Celine Dion, Beiber, Barenaked Ladies, uhh, BEIBER), and I think their music sounds worse by the fact that they have to live on the rep of other shitty bands from Canada. It's not their fault, but considering how mediocre Nickelback is, it's no surprise that Canada's reputation for bad music has only increased since then. Like with any other shit band, Nickelback had potential. They definitely showed they can make a good product on Animals. However, they didn't use said potential. They rode on the wave of overglorification and appealing to the masses with mediocrity to win themselves a heft sum of money.

A terrible band from Alberta, Canada, who did a good job in revolutionizing the already-crappy music scene that exists in this world today. Nickelback invented a new level of SHIT.

What you call a band that you hear on the radio but you aren't sure who they are, but they sound like every other band. So you just call them "Nickelback"

See overrated, fraud, untalented. A fake ass excuse for a so called "Post Grunge" band. But in reality they're not grunge. They're a subgenre of rock known as "Nu-Metal". Usually Loved by pre-teens, they are easily called the "greatest rock band ever", but anyone with a brain and passion for music will know that it's crap. If anyone has actually gone through every song that Nickelback has produced, you'd notice that most of the song melodies in Nickelback's songs sound exactly identical to one another. This PROVES that Nickelback obviously have no talent. And are frauds.

A band whose music is the auditory form of swallowing Satan's semen. Calling this band's music bland and completely mindless would be a compliment. They are consumer artists who lack creativity, but appeal to a shallow vapid audience with lyrics that make them sound "tough" and "racy". Just another neutered capitalist scumbag band. They are the antithesis of alternative music because nothing is alternative about them; they are mainstream garbage and should have choked on their umbilical cords

a band that has strategically attached itself to the easiest fanbase in the world to manipulate... the young American female. Now, they still have their share of tween males, but they own the brain of the young American female. It's why they are allowed to keep pumping out basically the same 2 songs, each with similar musical structures. They have the slow song...which features elementary guitar playing, and Chad Kroeger singing about some type of sadness that doesn't actually exist on Earth or the "remember high school" theme (a la Kenny Chesney). Then they take the slow song principles... speed up the guitar a little... and instead of sadness they go to the other end of the spectrum... and they sing about either a) unattainable fame... b) doing drugs (which they probably know nothing about)... or c) a combination of a + b with some type of sex added to it. By playing BOTH ends of the spectrum... young people (retards) and women go nuts because they think that makes Nickelback "musically diverse".... but in actuality they are very, very limited in what they can do with their instruments.
Just watch a video of them on Youtube. Watch how they make their guitar riffs look extremely hard... They always make that "this part is complicated" face when they are playing. But, if you take the time to actualy listen to the music it's the same basic notes over and over and over again.