- Hey, we're Nickelback,
and we're gonna be surprising some of our fans today.
I was like yeah! Izzy's my girl, right there!
- (laughs) Don't tell me that! I'm freaking out!
(group laughs)
- ♪ Never made it as a wise man ♪
- Oh! - Oh.
- Oh! (Brian laughs)
- ♪ Tired of living like a blind man ♪
- Oh damn, she knows the lyrics! - ♪ Without a sense of feeling ♪
♪ And this is how you remind me ♪
(Sierra drums on desk)
(group laughs) - ♪ This is how you remind me ♪
- We got a drummer in the midst!
- This was our son's, almost his first concert,
because I had tickets,
and our babysitter dropped out the first time,
and I was like... - Aww!
- I'm taking him!
- This is some major throwbacks man. - Oh yeah.
- (laughs) It's a major throwback.
- ♪ This time I'm mistaken ♪
♪ For handing you ♪ ♪ A heart worth breaking ♪
- ♪ And I've been wrong ♪ ♪ I've been down ♪
That hurt. - (laughs) That hurt.
- This song just brings back.
- Brings back what? - Brings me back to the womb.
(group laughs)
- One of the most meme-able bands of all time.
- ♪ Yeah ♪ - ♪ Yeah ♪
- ♪ No, no ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪ Oh.
(group laughs)
- This just brings back the specific memory
of driving to Home Depot with my dad.
- (laughs) That's so specific!
- Yeah. - Oh, I remember that album.
- Yeah, I mean I was like... - What was it called?
- Oh, Silver Side Up.
- Can ya let me finish a sentence?
- This throws me back to like road trips with my dad
when I was in middle school. - Dads!
- The first big rock group I was ever interested in,
you know, when I was a kid,
How You Remind Me was always on the radio,
when I was like five or six years old,
that was like a big deal.
- He did a song with Santana that I learned way later.
- What? - It is [censored] excellent.
- It is, it's called like You and I or something,
it is a great song. - Damn!
- (React) So we've brought in Nickelback fans
to take a walk down memory lane,
and look at some of the songs that helped make them
one of the most timeless artists of our generation.
- They are so timeless. - You're not wrong.
- They are so timeless! - (laughs) Timeless.
Is that just a really nice way of saying old as dirt?
- Oh Canada, thank you Canada! - Let's do it, oh Canada, yeah.
- Oh. - Oh yeah.
- Yeah, no brainer, again.
- (laughs) Two seconds into Rockstar, they're just like oh yeah, oh yeah!
- ♪ Standing in line ♪ ♪ To clubs I'll never get in ♪
♪ It's like the ♪ - ♪ Bottom of the ninth ♪
♪ And I'm never gonna win ♪
- ♪ This life hasn't turned out ♪
(group laughs) - ♪ Quite the way I want it to be ♪
- This is just fun.
All these people are just singing along to the song.
- Shut up and listen to it, man!
(group laughs)
- ♪ Cut my hair ♪ ♪ And changed my name ♪
♪ 'Cause we all just wanna be ♪ ♪ Big rockstars ♪
♪ And live in hilltop ♪ - I don't know the words.
- ♪ 15 cars ♪
- I think it's amazing that they know.
They just like know all the lyrics like right off the bat.
- This was like all that [censored] music goes down,
and we just get to pour whiskey and listen to some music.
- I wanna drink beer with Sharon!
- It's got that rock feel, but also at the same time,
you can feel like a little hint of like country in it, too.
- It's a very YouTube-like video before that was a whole thing.
- And that was the idea!
- (React) Alright, now obviously, Rockstar is a Nickelback classic,
but they actually recently released a new version of the song.
- What? - Shut up!
- ♪ I'm through with standing ♪ ♪ In line to pubs I'll never get in ♪
♪ It's like the bottom of the ninth ♪ ♪ And I'm never gonna win ♪
- Wow, this is a very different rerelease.
(group laughs)
- ♪ Huge sail that'll ♪ ♪ Hold the squalls ♪
♪ And a big black ship ♪ - I am here for this.
- Is this a sea shanty?
- They made it into a shanty?
- I thought this was Nickelback, I was like what the [censored]?
Wait, they're actually singing it?
- Yeah! - Shut the [censored] up!
- ♪ We all just wanna be ♪ ♪ Big rockstars ♪
♪ Live in hilltop houses ♪ ♪ Driving 15 cars ♪
♪ The girls come easy ♪ ♪ And the drugs come cheap ♪
- Damn it, isn't that the truth. - (Steven) So cruel.
- The girls come easy, and the drugs come cheap.
- (laughs) Sounds like your Friday!
- Sharon can give a lesson on how to do this.
- You just wanna be holding a beer the size of your head.
- I wanna be on a boat.
Everybody, we all need to get on a boat.
- (laughs) We gotta get on a boat!
- I just wanna know like what prompted this?
- ♪ Everybody's got a rum dealer ♪ ♪ On speed dial ♪
- A rum dealer! - Okay!
- Alright, rum dealer, I'll take it.
- Yeah, that hits!
- That has no right hitting as hard as it does.
(group laughs)
- Not only the fact that somebody took that song
and made it into a sea shanty,
but it was Nickelback themselves that did it?
- We played along with it. The Lottery Winners did that.
I gotta say that, those guys are amazing.
- It was awesome to see them
having fun with other people having fun with their song,
you know what I mean?
Like, it's everyone having a good time.
- That was one of the best videos,
'cause we were only in it for about two seconds.
- ♪ Look at this photograph ♪ - Look at this graph!
- Yeah, the meme! (group laughs)
- Just goes straight to graph.
- Number one meme song in history.
- You know what, I always thought he was so cute.
- His 'fit.
- Shout out to the 'fit.
- This is peak mid-2000s.
- How do you say that people your generation hates them?
- A lot of people in middle school, my high school were like
you like Nickelback? That's like dad rock.
(group laughs)
- ♪ Every memory of looking ♪ ♪ Out the back door ♪
♪ I had the photo album ♪ ♪ Spread out on my bedroom floor ♪
♪ It's hard to say it ♪ ♪ Time to say it ♪
♪ Goodbye, goodbye ♪
- Ugh! - Dude, they're so good!
- This is one of those bands that... - I don't mean to interrupt,
but you just missed a dude with a soul patch, and I was like wow.
- Yeah, still! - Still!
Hanging on!
- They were poppin' throughout our childhoods,
especially millennials. - Millennials listening to Nickelback.
- This song is almost 20 years old.
That's weird.
- This was like the soundtrack of our childhood, okay?
You guys need to understand.
It was always the radio, like 102.7 was my station.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah!
- This is also one of those ones that gives you that country vibe
along with their combination rock feel.
- There's not a lot of autotuning there,
there's not a, like if you can't hold your audience by just singing,
what are you doing? - Mm-hmm, yeah.
- Sharon's like turning into my spirit animal here.
- I could imagine this being in like teens, like 2000s movie,
where the girl just says like you're not who I thought you were,
and then she walks away, and then look at this photograph.
- ♪ Well, it's midnight, damn right ♪ ♪ We're wound up too tight ♪
- He looks good!
(group laughs)
- This is like metal, I love that!
- This song is an amazing line dance.
(group laughs) - It's true!
Brian's a fan!
- I feel like 'cause everyone was shitting on them
that they were like we gotta be like metal now.
We gotta show rage. - Yeah, exactly.
- Their drummer is one of my favorite drummers.
When I saw him live,
they were doing the song Follow You Home.
During the live performance of that,
they extended it and gave him like a 12 minute drum solo.
- (Sharon) Oh my gosh. - Where he raised on the platform,
the entire drum kit.
- Steve remembers well. - Steven knows his [censored].
- Honestly, the most impressive thing to me is like,
there's certain songs that I'll sing along to,
and I'll just lose my voice. It'll just go hoarse.
I can't maintain that, so being able to maintain that
for a whole freakin' concert is very impressive.
- ♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
- That's sick! - That song's pretty sick.
- (React) Alright, now we couldn't talk about Nickelback
without discussing the memes. - The memes!
- Yeah!
- Look at this graph! - ♪ Look at this graph ♪
(group laughs) - And then just the hold!
- It like zooms in. - And then the zoom in.
- It was like Vine when this came out,
and just immediate tears, like immediate,
I thought it was the funniest thing.
- We have literally introduced the song as that now, it's like...
- It's ridiculous.
- This is Look At This Graph.
- I saw that, and I saw the stock market.
(group laughs)
- I hate that his mouth's open too, while he's smiling.
Like, it just makes it way worse.
- ♪ Look at this graph ♪ (group laughs)
- ♪ Look at this photograph ♪ ♪ Every time I do, it makes me laugh ♪
- You know what, the ramen hairstyle was in.
- Oh my God, they turned him into Justin Timberlake.
(group laughs)
- (laughs) That's so dirty! They did him so dirty!
- I love his smile, it's always just like...
- Being held at gunpoint. (Izzy laughs)
- You know, there are no lies told in the meme,
but it's still rude, because I may have had the same hair.
(group laughs)
- (React) Do you have a favorite ramen meme?
- No, I think there was one I saw once,
where it was like a two panel.
In the top, someone was eating ramen,
and it like bled into the bottom.
- Stop making fun of the guy's hair, okay?
- No, but... - Knock it off!
We all made different choices back then.
- But apparently, still a vibe.
- (React) Now, Nickelback has made... - Yo!
- (screams) What the [censored]!
- You're not making fun of my dogs, are you?
- Ah! - Oh my God!
- What an entrance! That was awesome!
It's good to meet ya!
- Oh my God, I don't even wanna look, it's not real!
It's not real, you guys are so much more attractive in person!
- This is not a normal day.
- Definitely not a normal day at the studio.
- You should've told me to wear a tank top.
I'm wearing a gray sweater, I'm sweating!
- (React) Sharon, Steven. - Yeah.
- (React) What is it like to be literally
sitting here with Nickelback, right now?
- Ah! - It's pretty cool.
I'm pretty sure 12 year old Steven...
- Oh, I'm sorry, by all means go ahead.
- Hey, I'm try to jump in here real quick.
- (laughs) Yes!
- I think 12 year old Steven would just be like,
I mean, I'm over the moon,
but he'd just be losing his [censored].
- (React) Sabrina, what's your dad gonna say?
- Oh my God, he's gonna lose his mind.
This was our bonding!
- This is very exciting to have this in person.
- I refuse to look at them, 'cause I will just cry!
- You said a lot of nice things. - Fever dreams are like that.
- You called me cute when the Photograph video came on.
You were like I always thought he was cute.
- I was like yeah! Izzy's my girl right there.
- Don't tell me that! I'm freaking out!
(group laughs)
- I associate you guys with you know, the foundation
of my taste in music, like seriously.
- (laughs) I mildly want to apologize for that.
- No, no no no no no!
- I have gone to bat for y'all, like, every single time!
- Aw! - (Izzy) Same, same!
- My friends clown me, but I will literally,
like, I'll just put on Nickelback.
I'm like if you don't like it, get out of my car.
- 'Cause we've dealt with the same thing.
Like, some guy comes up to me, and says hey,
he goes I don't understand something.
He's like out of my 10 closest friends that all say,
they joke about the fact that they don't like you,
I know, know for a fact, nine of them have the CD,
and eight of them have tickets to your show.
- (React) Daniel, you also brought up that song with Santana.
- Yes, I didn't know that you did a song with him.
- So that song, You and I, I demoed it on tour,
on a tour bus.
If you're singing, there's a pop screen or a wind screen,
so your Fs and Ps don't go through there,
and I didn't have one,
and oh my God, here we go, all I had was a pair of panties.
- Oh! - From some girl,
from the night before. - Yo!
- And I sang through that.
- That is the most rockstar story. - Nobody knows that.
- I've ever heard!
- Whenever I listen to you guys, it's like, I always have that
super wave of nostalgia that just transports me back.
- Yes, yes! - Good.
- To when I listened to it as a kid. - That's the idea.
- I think a good portion of our career may have faded away
without some of that good, you know,
that good fun poking at, 'cause I see other bands
that came up at the same time, and they don't have all these memes.
We'll get on stage and just before we play that song,
I've done the whole like okay, so,
those of you born between this year, and this year call this song
Look at this Graph,
and the [censored] crowd goes nuts!
- Yeah, the sea shanty was very strange, obviously.
We were finding a lot of people, like some have heard of it,
and some haven't, we saw a friend of ours,
Brad showed it to us on TikTok,
this guy from a band called the Lottery Winners in the U.K.
- He just did the chorus. - He just did the chorus by himself
when the sea shanty thing was going.
When I heard it, I was like this is amazing.
So I was, I went down to the rocks, and put the iPad,
and my sailor's hat on, and he put his captain's hat on.
- I put on a captain's hat, and the whole thing.
- It's as ridiculous as it can be, right?
- We all just filmed our own shit.
- It was COVID, so we were all over the place.
- Right. - And we sang it,
and we sang the chorus, and we all kinda matched together,
and Tom, from the Lottery Winners put it together.
- (React) For you guys who have been on the internet,
what role has the internet, for you, and your fandom,
and your experience with these guys,
what role has it played?
- Well, it hasn't done anything for me with my relationship from them,
because this is the first time we've ever been on the internet together,
so I don't think there's a tie there.
But I appreciate the effort of the question.
- That is true.
- But here's the thing that I really think is so funny,
is like you were saying,
and you like to keep repeating it for some reason,
that there were a lot of people that had,
they were like the, in your generation, they hated the band.
But what is so funny,
the people that do talk [censored] about you,
I always laugh because I go,
I just think you guys are laughing 'cause you're like,
you're still talking.
The internet just keeps 'em alive,
and that just shows the staying power of these guys.
- Do you need a gig?
- She's our press secretary now. - Always.
- How soon did you know that Rockstar was like a huge hit?
- I think it was really the marriage with the video
that took it over the top and did what it did.
- So you guys are like metal now? - Right.
- We kind of have two identities.
There's like the pop, radio, sort of version of us,
and then there's the rock and slash hard rock version of us.
- (React) What's it like for you guys to be able to hear people react
to all these different phases in your career?
- The comedy, the comedy element was just, you know,
I feel like I owe them money.
- I take checks still. - Yeah, okay.
I feel like I need to buy them something.
They need gifts!
- Oh, I know! - Uh oh, she heard gifts.
- How about backstage passes?
- Backstage passes. - Okay.
- Yes, oh yes! - That was easy.
- Are you guys touring right now?
- Gonna tour. - Coming soon.
- We got a brand new record coming out,
we got a brand new documentary, they've been following us around
for like four and a half years with cameras.
- I have to go.
- You all are coming to the show, for sure.
- Yeah, the next time we come to town,
you guys have to come and see.
- Let's do it! - And hang out with us, for sure.
- I'm gonna die!
- We're hopefully about to make the entire world sick of us again!
- ♪ Look at this graph ♪
- Never [censored] done that before.
We wanna thank everybody at REACT for having us.
We've got a brand new record that's gonna be coming out real soon.
We hope you guys check it out.
- Very cool. - Oh my God.
- (React) Is everybody okay? - I'm not okay!
I don't even know what to say!
(group laughs)
I'm gonna cry, my eyelashes are gonna fall out!
- Oh my God. (group laughs)