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--> --'''Chad Kroeger''' (actually quoting Music/{{Liberace}}, who was similarly bashed by critics)


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--> --'''Chad -->-- '''Chad Kroeger''' (actually quoting Music/{{Liberace}}, who was similarly bashed by critics)

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* LyricalColdOpen: "Figured You Out" opens with Chad singing the opening line by himself:
-->''I like your pants around your feet''

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* BandOfRelatives: Chad Kroeger and half-brother Mike. Cousin Brandon was also in the first incarnation of the band.



%%* GrowingUpSucks: "Photograph".

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%%* * GrowingUpSucks: "Photograph"."Photograph" is a reminiscence on the good moments and how things have gone wrong since.


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* LongRunnerLineUp: They only changed the drummer, and even then it's been the same since 2005.
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* ''Get Rollin''' (2022)
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* SelfDeprecation: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbP1K-bQB6g&ob=av3e Nickelback? You got me]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbP1K-bQB6g&ob=av3e Nickelback?!]]'' ...All right, they'll do."

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* SelfDeprecation: "[[https://www.In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbP1K-bQB6g&ob=av3e Nickelback? video]] for "This Afternoon", the band is brought to a fraternity party while BoundAndGagged. The fraternity leader replies: "Nickelback? You got me]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbP1K-bQB6g&ob=av3e Nickelback?!]]'' ...All right, me Nickelback?! ... Alright, fine, they'll do."
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* BittersweetEnding: A majority of their music videos.
* ButtMonkey: The band is on the wrong end of many jokes.
* CallingTheOldManOut: "Too Bad" and "Never Again" do this.

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* %%* BittersweetEnding: A majority of their music videos.
* %%* ButtMonkey: The band is on the wrong end of many jokes.
* %%* CallingTheOldManOut: "Too Bad" and "Never Again" do this.



* OdeToIntoxication: "Burn It to the Ground" and "Bottoms Up." Subverted in "Home."

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* %%* OdeToIntoxication: "Burn It to the Ground" and "Bottoms Up." Subverted in "Home."



* ParentalAbandonment: A common theme in their lyrics.

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* %%* ParentalAbandonment: A common theme in their lyrics.
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* StupidEvil: "Jim" and his group in the song "Get 'Em Up", who plan to rob a bank together. [[spoiler:The bank is closed because it's Sunday, and there's a cop car parked ''right across the street'']]. Since they had to find parking a block away, ''someone'' should have noticed this.
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* WolverinePublicity: A common complaint amongst the band's critics during the 2000s was that their music was getting a disproportionate amount of radio airplay.
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* PepTalkSong: "What Are You Waiting For?" encourages its listeners to stop dawdling and take the chance to chase their dreams.
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* OutOfGenreExperience: "She Keeps Me Up" is a {{Disco}} song. The track being co-written by [[Music/MarianasTrench Josh Ramsay]] helps explain the sudden experimentation.
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* SelfParody: A 2021 [[https://youtu.be/km3sqKZ7CPE ad for Google Photos]] uses a self-deprecating parody of "Photograph".

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* SelfParody: A 2021 [[https://youtu.be/km3sqKZ7CPE [[https://metro.co.uk/video/nickelback-parody-google-photos-ad-2319260/ ad for Google Photos]] uses a self-deprecating parody of "Photograph".
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* {{Yarling}}: Chad Kroeger's preferred singing style is a throaty snarling tone.
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* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Their early albums usually stayed in the 6-7 range (with songs such as "Little Friend" or "Never Again" hitting hard 9s) and hardly ever going below a 4. However from ''All the Right Reasons'' onwards most of their songs tend to average on the 3-5 range (with songs such as "Far Away", "If Today Was Your Last Day" or "This Afternoon" even going down to 1-2) and rarely going past 7.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: A fairly solid 5, although they can go up and down on occasion. Their ballads like "Far Away" and "Lullaby" go down into the 2-3 range, but then songs like "Because of You" and the aforementioned "Side of a Bullet" can jump up into the 7 range.
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Chad and Mike's last name is pronounced "Kroo-ger" (as in Freddy Krueger), though people constantly pronounce it "Kro-ger" (like the grocery store chain).
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* PapaWolf: The dad in the video for "I'd Come for You."

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* %%* PapaWolf: The dad in the video for "I'd Come for You."



* SanitySlippageSong: ''All the Right Reasons'' has tracks with this under tone.

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* %%* SanitySlippageSong: ''All the Right Reasons'' has tracks with this under tone.
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''How the hell'd we wind up like dis?''

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''How '''''How the hell'd we wind up like dis?''dis?'''''

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It's too bad, TOO LATE! So wrong, SO LOOOOONG!

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It's too bad, TOO LATE! So wrong, SO LOOOOONG!LOOOOONG!\\
''How the hell'd we wind up like dis?''

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* GutturalGrowler: Chad Kroger's signature voice is a combination of this and {{Yarling}}. What's interesting is that this only applies to his singing voice and not his normal talking voice.

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* GutturalGrowler: Chad Kroger's signature voice is a combination of this and {{Yarling}}. What's interesting is that this only applies to his [[SingingVoiceDissonance singing voice and not his normal talking voice.voice]].


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* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Their early albums usually stayed in the 6-7 range (with songs such as "Little Friend" or "Never Again" hitting hard 9s) and hardly ever going below a 4. However from ''All the Right Reasons'' onwards most of their songs tend to average on the 3-5 range (with songs such as "Far Away", "If Today Was Your Last Day" or "This Afternoon" even going down to 1-2) and rarely going past 7.
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* AutoErotica: "Animals" features the speaker and his girlfriend getting busy in his car like "a couple animals".
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Both ''Curb'' and ''The State'' are much heavier and less-commercial sounding than anything the band has recorded since ''Silver Side Up''.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Both ''Curb'' and ''The State'' are much heavier and less-commercial sounding than anything the band has recorded since ''Silver Side Up''.after those albums. They were also more apparently influenced by Music/{{Nirvana}} and Music/AliceInChains than anything else they recorded.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Both ''Curb'' and ''The State'' are much heavier and less-commercial than anything the band has recorded since ''Silver Side Up''.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Both ''Curb'' and ''The State'' are much heavier and less-commercial sounding than anything the band has recorded since ''Silver Side Up''.
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* GutturalGrowler: Chad Kroger's signature voice is a combination of this and {{Yarling}}. What's interesting is that this only applies to his singing voice and not his normal talking voice.
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* GoOutWithASmile: The main character's DisappearedDad in the music video for "Never Gonna Be Alone" before his ghost literally AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.

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%%** "Burn It to the Ground".



%%* PromBaby: "Throw Yourself Away".



* RealSongThemeTune: "Burn It to the Ground" was used for several years as the opening theme for Wrestling/WWERaw.


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* SelfParody: A 2021 [[https://youtu.be/km3sqKZ7CPE ad for Google Photos]] uses a self-deprecating parody of "Photograph".
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* ChekovsGun: Partway into "Saving Me" a statue can be seen in the foreground being lifted through the air, it comes crashing down at the end of the video.

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* ChekovsGun: ChekhovsGun: Partway into "Saving Me" a statue can be seen in the foreground being lifted through the air, it comes crashing down at the end of the video.
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* OrdinaryPeoplesMusicVideo: Zigzagged in the video for "Rockstar" by Music/{{Nickelback}}; the video features a huge montage of celebrities miming the song in various locales (including Gene Simmons, Music/KidRock, Creator/ElizaDushku, Music/Three6Mafia and others), interspersed with everyday people doing the same.
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* ChekovsGun: Partway into "Saving Me" a statue can be seen in the foreground being lifted through the air, it comes crashing down at the end of the video.
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* YourCheatingHeart: The protagonist of "Animals" implies that he's cheating on another girl.
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%%* SmugSuper: "Feeling Way Too Damn Good".

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%%* SmugSuper: "Feeling Way Too Damn Good".* ShoutOut: "This Afternoon" name-drops Music/BobMarley, Cheech and Chong, and Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival.
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* WeddingDay: The music video for "Never Gonna Be Alone".

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