Let me explain it this way:

There are two types of music I like:

• Really really good music, because it's really really good.
• Really really bad music, because it's fucking hilarious to make fun of.

What I DESPISE is mediocre, derivative, same-as-everybody-else music. Nickelback falls exactly into this category. And to top it off, it's played EVERYWHERE here in Canada. At first I was willing to blame it on the CRTC (who promotes mediocre stale sub-par music like Bryan Adams and Matthew Good through Canadian Content laws), but then I went to India, and I swear to his holy noodliness, when I went to my first restaurant in Bangalore, I heard Nickelback three fucking times in one sitting.

Their production value is great, which says to me that they have a lot of professionals working on their music. But it's sad because they just use so many simple power chords and Pachabel's-Canon-inspired progressions, and these become the ambassadors of Canadian music. It's sad when brilliant artists like Death From Above 1979 or Caribou get glossed over so easily internationally, whereas Nickelback and Deadmau5 are considered the best of Canada.