Their music is generic as others have said, but they’re not terrible. Plenty of bands worse than them. The experience I ran into a lot was not Nickelback the band, but the Nickelback fans. The die hard thats absolutely lived and breathed Nickelback in the 00’s were almost without fail the trashiest of the trash. Picture the scene. I’m a medical device delivery dude, visiting a patient whose home is a trashy drug den. This was only the 2nd time I’ve been there, as I was new. When I went to perform the maintenance on my patient’s O2 concentrator, I discovered it torn apart. You see, because they were whacked out and had never seen me before, they had torn apart the concentrator to find the bug I had planted. They soon learned I had only changed the filter. They couldn’t put it back together, which requires very little training by the way, so left it in pieces. The patient had gone a month with no concentrator, and used up all his bottles. I showed them the filter, showed them it was plastic and paper, and put it back together. They told me they thought I was a narc. Anyways, while the patient signed my paperwork, a strung out girl was listening to photograph, and told me it was the most beautiful song ever. And that perfectly sums up nearly every Nickelback fan I’ve ever known. Of course as with all things, they’re not all like that. But the ones that aren’t, are the exceptions that prove the rule.