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The Black Keys photo by Ros O'Gorman

The Black Keys photo by Ros O'Gorman

Black Keys Say Nickelback Are Proof That Rock Is Dying

by Andrew Tijs on January 5, 2012

in News

Pat Carney of the Black Keys has said that the popularity of Nickelback proves that rock n’ roll is dying.

The Black Keys

The Black Keys

In an interview with Rolling Stone, the Black Keys drummer raged against the current stream of blandness in rock n’ roll.

He claimed in an excerpt from the interview , “Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.”

“So they became OK with the idea that the biggest rock band in the world is always going to be shit,” Carney continued, “therefore you should never try to be the biggest rock band in the world.”

“Fuck that! Rock & roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don’t like to see it fucking ruined and spoon-fed down our throats in this watered-down, post-grunge crap, horrendous shit. When people start lumping us into that kind of shit, it’s like, ‘Fuck you,’ honestly.”

Carney didn’t spare himself from criticism, claiming that he’s ugly, awkward, and sucks at drumming.

 

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