Every Moment Has A Song

(via msn entertainment)

Allow yourself to be blinded by science.

Finnish student Salli Anttonen has completed a study determining why Canadian pop-grunge combo Nickelback is so universally despised.

The findings: People can’t stand them because there’s not much there. And yet, there’s too much there. (Yes, this is complicated. It’s science, after all.)

After combing through 14 years of Nickelback reviews, Anttonen determined that the group suffers from an authenticity deficit in music journalists’ eyes…

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/nickelback-hatred-finally-explained-by-science/ar-BBrLP88?ocid=spartandhp

(via NPR)

by Sean Cole

Can a band plagiarize itself? One listener in Canada has implied as much by taking two songs by the band Nickelback and superimposing them over one another to emphasize the similarity.

Mikey Smith, a 21-year-old college student and musician in Alberta, Canada, heard two of the band’s songs on the radio and immediately noticed something was strange.

“I kind of noticed, well, you can hum the melody of the other one over this one, and I wondered why this is,” Smith says. “So I tried to put them together, one on the left speaker, one on the right speaker. And it was actually ridiculous how similar they were.”

What Smith noticed was that Nickelback’s earlier hit song, “How You Remind Me,” sounded very similar to one of the band’s newest songs, “Someday.” Once the similarity was discovered, the songs started piggybacking around the Internet with the moniker “How You Remind Me of Someday.”..

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