Never Again Nickelback Is It Based on Real Life
Nickelback recently entered a rarified infinite very few Canadian acts have e'er known. In March, the Hanna, Alta., rock group's 2005 anthology, All the Right Reasons, received diamond condition in the United States, which means it surpassed ten million units in sales — a feat only Céline Dion, Shania Twain and Alanis Morrisette have also accomplished from this land.
"Everything was just really clicking for us at that time, and those songs were all just really stiff songs," says frontman Chad Kroeger of the album that spawned five top 25 singles and became the first stone anthology of the 2000s to contain iii elevation 10 hits — none more popular than "Photo," Kroeger'south ode to hometown nostalgia that is as pop on archetype stone stations as it is on the cyberspace with memes.
And yet, despite that song'southward cultural impact, there are still a lot of unanswered questions surrounding it that even Genius, the song annotation site, doesn't know — "I kinda like that," says Kroeger. "They're like, if you don't know what this song is about, yous're an idiot."
For instance, "What the hell is on Joey'south head?"
Nosotros asked Kroeger to suspension down the songwriting process behind All the Right Reason'south lead single and 1 of the biggest songs of his career. Only first, the video, shot in Hanna, Alta., and which is still to this day Kroeger'south favourite.
"Information technology'due south just nostalgia, growing up in a modest boondocks, and yous can't become back to your childhood," says Kroeger, adding that the song deals with themes that everyone can chronicle to, a primal to its success. "Saying farewell to friends that you've drifted away from, where you grew up, where you went to schoolhouse, who you hung out with and the dumb stuff you lot used to exercise equally a kid, the start dear — all of those things. Everyone has one or two of those memories that they are fond of, and then this song is really merely the bridge for all that."
The first line Kroeger wrote for the song ended upwards beingness song'due south offset line, "Wait at this photo."
"The photograph I'g property in the video is the photo," he says. "I just didn't know where I was going with it, merely spitting stuff out. Side by side thing I know, there was a line, 'What the hell is on Joey's head?'"
The picture in question features Kroeger and the band's friend/producer Joey Moi, who appears to have a silver trophy on his caput.
"It literally looks similar he has the Stanley Loving cup on his head, and it was just a big, very well-polished champagne chiller, and we were but messed i New Year's Eve, out of our minds, and someone took that moving-picture show."
There'southward also i person who should have been in the picture, just through post-editing was denied his place in history.
"It'due south not merely Joey and I," says Kroeger. "Rob Mackie is standing correct beside me and someone cropped him out and and then gave me the moving picture, and one to Joey."
At this point, guitarist Ryan Peake chimes in, singing "Common cold-blooded" in a falsetto, which causes Kroeger to answer back in an fifty-fifty higher falsetto, clearly an inside joke related to the time the photo was taken.
"The champagne chiller is falling off Joe'due south head and you can see Rob's hand is in information technology and he's property information technology on Joe's head for the picture, so for all those pictures he's like, 'Yup, that's my hand,'" says Kroeger.
Lyrically, the rest of the song carries on in a very literal sense, including the lines "Criminal record says I broke in twice/ I must have done it half a dozen times."
The incident in question refers to Kroeger breaking into his high school — it was really xi times, but "one-half a dozen" fit improve rhythmically — in guild to liberate coin from the office rubber. He was never worried about admitting to the incident on song because, every bit he says, "I got charged for it, those are all on my criminal record. I'chiliad not avoiding Alberta waiting for the statute of limitations to run out on any crime I've committed. I've done my time."
Even though the vocal was released in 2005, the theme still weighs on Kroeger, so he revisited information technology on the band's ninth album, Feed the Motorcar, out this week.
"When we went dorsum to shoot the video for 'Photograph,' I was very saddened past the way the town was disappearing, information technology was shrinking, so many places were being torn downward, so many of the shops had airtight and were for lease," he says. "But it didn't matter that some of the landmarks for me were gone, because there were still friends at that place. On the new song, 'Everytime Nosotros're Together,' it's about when we become over to my buddy's house and beginning telling the tales — 'Remember this? Recall this girl? Remember partying on the lake?' and those stories. It'southward only something a lot of people tin identify with. When you only start singing from the heart, it'south amazing how many other people feel similar you're telling their story."
Nickelback'southward Feed the Machine is bachelor June xvi.
— Jesse Kinos-Goodin, q digital staff
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