Chad Kroeger has mentioned he thinks that Nickelback aren’t as hated these days as they was once.
Kroeger made the revelation on a latest look on Arizona’s KFMA-FM radio station when he was requested why he thinks so many individuals get pleasure from hating on his band.
“That kind of used to be a thing. I shouldn’t say ‘that kind of used to be’ — that was definitely a thing for a long time,” he mentioned [via Blabbermouth].
“And I think there’s been a softening — there really has, thankfully. I’m not sure if it’s because we receive a ton of love on TikTok or whatever the hell it is, but for whatever reason the teeth have kind of been removed. It’s really nice to not be Public Enemy Number One.”
Nickelback’s tune ‘She Keeps Me Up’ went viral on TikTok final 12 months, with 1000’s of followers making ‘thirst traps’ to the tune.
Kroeger additionally instructed he thought among the flak Nickelback has obtained has been as a result of their music has been overplayed.
“I think that with the range of songs that we write — from rock to all the softer, melodic stuff, all the way down to… Well, I know that ‘Far Away’ got played on country stations even and I know that ‘Rockstar’ — the heavily redacted version — got played on CMT,” he mentioned.
“So if you’re going that far and the scope is that huge, it makes it robust to get away from the band when you’re not into the band. And when you’re making an attempt to change the radio station 3 times, and it’s simply, like, ‘Ah, there they are. There’s their rock tune on the rock station. There’s their pop tune on the pop station. And oh my God, I can’t even go to the nation station and get away from these guys.’
“That type of oversaturation could piss people off. But at the end of the day, we’re just a band that makes music.”
He concluded: “I can’t stand a couple of bands, but I don’t go online and turn into a keyboard warrior and just start hating on them. I just change the channel or I put on something that I wanna listen to.”
Despite this, Kroeger has taken the band’s repute in its stride. Last 12 months, simply as they have been about to launch their newest album ‘Get Rollin’, he joked that he was “ready for the world to hate us again”.