I was surprised the other day to hear Nickelback's "Rockstar" at a restaurant. While I always thought it was one of the most clever tracks on that album, I also figured it was the least commercially viable (if you were to ask a record exec, anyway), and put on the album just to keep the band happy. Oh, and did I mention that album is f'ing two years old?
The truth is that I've grown to loath the band and even spent a lot of time questioning the value of their music. I've never been all that much of an alterna-snob, mostly not, but when a band gets that much exposure and that many people are into it, I admit that it makes me feel a little dirty. Not like Britney Spears dirty, but definitely unclean.
This is, in part, because of the assloads of shit that the recording industry has been serving up for the better part of the last six or seven years. Maybe they're not selling as much because they're putting out shit no one wants to pay for. There's a crazy notion... produce things people actually want to buy! Even the American auto industry is starting to catch to that concept.
Anyway, the video makes me laugh.