My last job was t-shirt production and, as with many production jobs, we would listen to the radio while we worked.  My coworkers liked rock music mostly, so all of our ears were subjected to hour after hour of bands like Royal Bliss, Nickelback, Buck Cherry, etc.  Unsurprisingly, most radio stations feature a handful of bands that they play over and over.  One of the most overplayed is Nickelback.

I must have heard songs like Nickelback’s “Hero” hundreds of times a piece.  These songs were all way overplayed, and I never really listened to the lyrics.  I have been at my new job for a while now and for some reason, maybe because the job I am at now requires me to use my brain, or maybe because I sit alone in a cubicle for several hours a day, I really started to contemplate the words to some of the songs that I heard oh so many times at my last job.

The one offending phrase that I can’t get out of my mind comes from Nickelback

“I hold on to the wings of the eagles, watch as they all fly away”

Did they fly away without their wings?  Are my arms stretching to amazing lengths as they go?  Or perchance, I am still with the eagles but I left my eyes on the ground.  What the devil are they talking about?  Maybe I need to be disillusioned, but I like to think that the majority of the world’s English-speaking population aren’t total idiots.  That’s why I don’t understand how a band like Nickelback can popularize such nonsensical sentiments.

This is my plea to you as a citizen of the world, STOP THE MADNESS.  Demand that bands actually think before they perform.

-Andy Morrise

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