Okay, I’ll confess: I’m out of touch with what counts for popular music these days. I pretty much gave up on commercial radio in the mid-90′s, so there are tons of recent hit songs that I’ve never heard. Which might explain why I never heard Nickelback’s Top 10 hit “Rockstar” until I was having one of my infrequent sessions behind the wheel of a car this afternoon.
Wow, this song sucks.
The lyrics aren’t even a tenth as clever as they think they are, there’s no melody to speak of, and the production is dull and monotonous. It’s hard for me to believe that a song this bad would make the cut for an album, much less be issued as a single (twice!). No wonder the music industry is dying, if this is the best shit they can come up with.
