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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Hate Nickelback? Watch What You Tweet


If you thought you were quite the jokester making fun of Canadian band Nickelback on your Twitter feed (and really, couldn’t you come up with something more original?), the marketing person manning the band’s own Twitter feed has some jokes on the ready too.
As non-fans from throughout the world have piled on the now-popular act of making fun of the band, Nickelback is doing just fine still, thank you. Detroit Lions football fans made the make-fun-of-Nickelback-at-no-cost attitude popular in November when the band was announced as the halftime entertainment for the team’s nationally televised Thanksgiving Day game. Football fans took to social media—and a petition signed by 50,000—to lay into the band as not good enough and not Detroit enough. Nickelback played the halftime show anyway and is now having a few words to say to haters.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The lead singer is the worst with his fake gravely voice and stupid lyrics. No talent.

Anonymous said...

You know who likes nickelback? 10 year olds who've never tasted real rock n roll. They're a joke. I'd pay NOT to see them.

Anonymous said...

I bet 820 and 906 are neither under 40 years old so of course you would like the OLD stuff. Nickelback is awesome and have been since they came on the scene. By the way, I'm mid 20s

Anonymous said...

912-I'm also in my mid 20's. The only 20 somethings I know that listen to nickelback are tools. They've never been awesome, and neither have you.