I Hate This Song - Chad Kroeger feat. Josey Scott "Hero" | The Rock Critic
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As bad as the last Spider-Man movie was, just be grateful it wasn't made even worse by having THIS abomination in it.
Fuck Nickelback.
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To be honest if you added the guy from Smash Mouth to this it would probably be meme gold.
i know they got memed for ONE GODDAMN SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you throw that out you might have something
It even includes the lyric "Someone told me"
Sinan Cem Çetin it pretty much already is
It already is, I mean, it has members from some of the worst bands in the early 2000's.
How can the eagle fly if you hold on to its wings?
Its a reference from the bible.
Shitty book in a shitty song... figures
How can you be so high, you can see heaven, but heaven can't see you?
When I hear the lyric, it reminds me of the joke from Family Guy where Peter Griffin rides on the back of Falcor while Peter’s weight causes Falcor to crash onto the ground.
I guess I have to be that guy: I love this song. I loved it in 2002 and I love it now 17 years later
He has no idea what he’s talking about and just shits on everything it’s called being a cynical asshole
Honestly Im one of those people who had completely forgotten it’s existence since the year it came out until I saw this video. I remember now though that it was everywhere.
I swear to God I heard this song everywhere on youtube. people would take scenes of superhero movies with either
1. hero by skillet
2.monster by skillet
3. hero by Chad and Josey
or BMTL by evanescence
and play it in the background. remember those times?
Like any Linkin Park song for DBZ and Naruto AMV's.
There goes my hero
I'm surprised they didn't include "Holding Out for a Hero"
hero by skillet was at least good
Ugh, don't even get me started on Monster. I could rant all day and night about how that song is basically a carbon copy of "Animal I Have Become". Of all the bands out there you could've ripped off, WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU PICK THREE DAYS GRACE?!
Dear god, my pre pubescent ass actually liked this song... God help me.
I still kind of like it
+Sadiki St. George oh Canada
We didn't know any better back then.
Same here. I don't know why I did.
Cause it was kind of good? Now however you've all turned into people without own opinions. That's just sad. It's like you're totally forgetting Crash's most important rule - that your own opinion is what always will matter the most, not his or anybody else's. You sheep.
Nickelback's Figured You Out has some of the worst lyrics in their oeuvre: "I like the pants around your feet", "I like the freckles on your chest" - even when I was younger I refused to sing along to that on the radio.
The worst part about it for me is that I actually like the melody of the song itself (It's a bit of a guilty pleasure for me honestly). But the lyrics are so fucking phenomenally awful it just makes it crumble. Especially when coupled with chad's raspy-ass voice honking the terrible lyrics ._.
It's not really a stalker song. It's about a guy realizing his girlfriend is a whore and how she didn't really care for him.
It still sounds creepy as hell.
@@senakashiwazaki9822 Does it sound creepier than Limp Bizkit's Eat You Alive tho? Just a question LOL.
Not necessarily. While Figured You Out does have a few questionable lyrics, Eat You Alive is subjectively worse given the overall context. Every time Limp Bizkit tries to sound romantic, they come across as an abuse wifebeater.
CRASH when i looked up "tip fedora" on google images, you show up pretty high on the search
AHAHAHAHAHA I JUST FOUND IT THAT'S AMAZING
SQUIDWARDS HOUSE IN THE HOOOOOOOOOOOOUSE
AAAYYYYYYYYYYY
I didn't find it.
@@Dumb_Killjoy you missed the joke
This song is so bland it hurts.
The solo on nirvanas come as you are as more complexity then the one in this song at the solo is literally Kurt gliding his fingers back and forth on the g strings between riffs.
Not to mention, the lyrics are MUCH better than hero
cause cOmPleX mEaNs gOoD right?
@@DigitalBath306 The riff from Hero isn't bad, it just is paired with poor and boring music and vocals. If it were in something more interesting, say acoustic or psychedelic, it would be decent.
Nickelback weren't that bad. They certainly didn't warrant the success they got but they don't warrant the immense hatred either. there was certainly far worse bands in that era, hell there's far worse band now.
Meh, I didn't mind Nickelback all that much.
Especially considering that a band like Simple Plan is so much worse.
Agreed. To me, they sounded like a cool uncle trying to start a band but don’t know how Uncool they sound around everyone else
They definitely earned their success but all the hate they get is just jealousy to be honest
@@JohnSmith-lo3lc Funny enough Hero is listed as a one hit wonder for Chad Kroger in 2002. Solo wise, this is his biggest hit not with the band
but supermassive black hole is a great song
AGREED.
Oh, fuck yeah. He was talking in the cosmic, EAT ALL THE SUNS DEATH TO THE GALAXY sense.
I love this song, and I love Muse.
Until Twilight ruined it.
Counter to the English lesson: I believe the "we" is referring to "Chad/narrator and the eagles".
Well "I Am The Walrus" is pretty meaningless but great but "Champagne Supernova" actually has a lot to say despite the title line.
Imagine if Fred Durst would be in that song ^^
Please, no.
He's already shit on "Behind Blue Eyes"
I wouldn't want him to add more fuel into the fire.
LOL YES THAT WOULD BE PURE GOLD
Chad Kroeger, Tyler Connelly, and Fred Durst in one song? That would be my worst nightmare come to life
Fred Durst is shit in general. Doesn’t matter what he’s doing.
Or Kid Rock featuring Shifty Shellshock
Dude, supermassive black holes are awesome.
+VideInfra99 Oh, okay. You got me there.
Great video, though. Really funny.
+VideInfra99 Thanks! 😊
So is the song
This is actually a guilty pleasure song for me as I grew up with the movie and soundtrack. But 2 things. 1.) Yeah Stone Temple Pilots song is a million times better and 2.) The Spider-Man 2 soundtrack is a lot better than this one. I actually really like Vindicated and Hold On by Jet is a beautiful song
Smile Empty Soul's Who I Am is my personal favorite on the Spider-Man 2 track.
Mine's "The Night the Lights went out in NYC" by Ataris. I wish "She Spider" by Mew would have made it too, but it was only on the Japanese version, despite Mew being from Denmark.
Woman by Maroon 5 is my favorite on the Spiderman two soundtrack
Yeah, STP's all in the suit that you wear would have been a great track that they could have added to the Soundtrack, instead they omitted it.
Absolutely agree
I actually had to pause the video at the "Do they know it's Christmas" line, cause I was laughing so hard I couldn't hear what you were saying. Well played, good sir. Well. Played.
+Jaspertine Ain't I a stinker. 😉
@@CrashThompson 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I have heard that Bob Geldof himself hates "Do They Know It's Christmas."
Dude You're PAINFULLY funny.
+J2H Animations Thank ye kindly!
The Rock Critic Any time my man
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 oh deff!
And his editing is excellent!
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"This is why i don't listen to any pop music" Man, really. Everything you review comes on the radio.
. . . I also kinda love Chad Kroeger's singing voice. That raspyness just sounds so very good to me. The Josy Scott felt like an non entity to me in this song though.
Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional will always be the superior Spider-Man-core song.
I JUST FINISHED THE VIDEO YOU AINT GOT NO LOVE FOR EMO, CRASH???
EMO GANG WE OUT HERE
+Dick Pepperfield Naw, man. I got love for emo. Hell, I even got love for DC.
It's just... Vindicated felt very weird to be fronting a Spider-Man movie.
Totally felt weird fronting a Spider-Man movie, agreed. I've just come to the conclusion that movie soundtracks in that 90s-early 2000s rarely made any sense. Why was Kiss From a Rose on the Batman soundtrack?
Honestly, I think that Ordinary by Train was a good Spiderman track. Better than Hero.
When crash played the guitar solo I could tell he didn’t practice it because it wasn’t all correct. But god damn it he was close
Dude, you said love wouldn’t save us.
But we got killing and violence from it.
But that didn’t actually happen.
Thanks for hearing what I have to say. Please take it into consideration.
Only got into STP recently and they're totally amazing, thanks crash!
+Zennan Perkins Happy to oblige!
PSSST, DON'T TELL EM BOUT THE SELF TITLES! DON'T TELL EM'!!!!!
nice pfp
At least Taggart didn't record anything musical with this bunch of untalented dudes, he was just here to have a pay-check for the video
As you can see, I love Our Lady Peace
+liam corbeil Yeah, me too. OLP are one of my favs. It was his involvement in the song that originally got me pumped for it, of all things.
But I don't blame the guy. A paycheck is a paycheck.
+The Rock Critic I can't say the contrary, great video by the way! :D
Now you make me feel guilty to listen to this song :(
This song needs 3 fucking guitarists?
No it has 3 guitars... It needs more like 6
I agree with your criticisms of this song, and it's a very hard track to defend. However, I think it was actually a great pick for lead single for the movie. Mainly because the cheesy, overly grandiose tone fits very well with the tone of the first Raimi Spiderman movie. Both the movie and the song shine the brightest when they aren't being taken too seriously.
I’m sorry but hero by chad Kroger is unironnically amazing
Even as somebody who has a soft spot for Nickelback, I'm not a die-hard fan or anything, but there were a few decent songs I enjoyed.
But, I didn't enjoy this song.
They play it every now and then on Canadian rock stations.
Geez, and I thought Simple Plan was shit.
Well, at least Canada gave me Sum 41, Billy Talent, and Three Days Grace.
So, all is forgiven.
Sena Kashiwazaki Don't forget Rush ! :D
Hey now keep my Dashboard out of this.
I love "Vindicated", but Sony missed another opportunity to highlight a song written for Spider-Man: Yellowcard's "Gifts & Curses". Other than "Vindicated" and "Meant To Live", "Gifts & Curses" was the song I associated that movie with, as well as the entire Sam Rami trilogy, and Sony thought NickelSalivaofaDeadMan, Train and Snow Patrol sought potential?
8:55 I believe the lyric is supposed to be "Someone told me love would ALL save us" you can definitely hear him say that. This would make the rest of the verse make a bit more sense (Or at least the next line)
I’ll admit I enjoy the song Hero and enjoy Nickelback unironically.
Nickleback is GOATED......put some respect on his name
I enjoy Saliva, and real early Nickelback. Have you heard the new Saliva album, it's not very good.
This song is soo generic, in high school it was a sample song included on my electric keyboard.
I was born in 03 and grew up on Spider-Man 1. This song has been stuck in my head for literally all of my life
crash i don't know how i didn't think about this before but there is actually quite a difference between 4X platinum in america and 8X platinum in canda
according to canada's numbers 100,000 equals platinum as opposed to a million in america
unless you are using that million units for both
also it was so successful in canda because of cadaian media laws requring 35% of all media played to be canadian in origin
It is such a earworm and I remember liking it when I was 10, so it gets stuck in my head occasionally.
The saddest part about that solo is that Tyler is legitimately capable of so much more. Dude's actually a pretty talented guitarist that just never gets to show off because of how brain-dead all of his music is. And honestly same with Chad Kroeger, which makes the addition of Tyler weird as well.
4:00 No wrestling announcer could ever match that level of intensity.
I can take a guess that STP might be your next I Love This Song? Maybe Creep or Interstate Love Song?
ChaoticDoctor I WOULD LOVE THAT!!!! Those are two classics. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
Bruh this song is amazing.
Well, that song is catchy, take a chill pill.
Too be fair, Chad Kroeger is ABSOLUTELY no where near as bad as a singer as Matt Walst, Vic Fuentes or even Wes Scantlin are.
I feel as if the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack was a far better batch of songs because it's predominantly pop-punk/Emo bands that fit well with Peter Parker as a character. Like Gifts and Curses by Yellowcard is legitimately one of the best songs I've ever heard and it fits so well with the movie (but it was never included with the film) I feel like Spider-Man's character would listen to more of those bands than this type of butt-rock.
Whoawhoawhoa....you think Patrick Stump has a bad voice? I can understand if you don't like the band's music but he's a very talented vocalist with an impressive range.
I was wearing a Spider-Man shirt when watching this.
Vindicated is a great song and Dashboard Confessional is an amazing band
Thank you Crash for tearing this apart. Unfortunately I was one of those that I had thought of it recently cuz its the one Nickelback song that stuck in my head due to spiderman and the age I heard it. Now that you eviscerated it into jelly I feel I can exorcise that particular demon and replace it with a much better STP song instead.
If you want a band with good lyrics, check out Tame Impala.
He reviewed them
Check out Acid Bath
I love this song, sorry, no sorry.
I really, really want a Patrick Stump/Guy from Smash Mouth duet now.
Somebody once told me...Am I more than you bargained for yet?
Way too waste Matt Cameron's talent on this track a holes. I would say its dickish for them to not put him in the video but then I remember he drummed for Sound Garden and Pearl Jam so he's way too good to be in the same room with Josey and Chad.
It was actually matt Cameron that played the drums when they recorded it and the reason it is jeremy targget in the video is because matt was dealing with family issues at the time so he was replaced
Honestly...I forgot what band Josey Scott was from xP Guess it is good ;)
Dammit, Crash. Now your Spider-theme is stuck in my head and I can't stop singing it.
Still beats the hell out of *this* song.
And yes, it still pops up on Radio here in Alberta. Which, sadly, is where Nickleback comes from.
The only memory i have of this song is my friend making fun of josey Scott's vocal crack on the " someone told me" part.
I played in a Champions tabletop game for a bit and I tried to push a recurring joke: whenever a character died, I sung "Hero" just to take the piss out of the group.
+LordFlashAdder Whew, damn. Adding insult to injury there! 🙃
It was funny mostly because we had a guy who kept picking fights way out of his league. Like his 2nd character died because he tried to pick a fist fight with a jet fighter.
I'd play this song and he'd be like "lay off!" I'd just tell him "stop trying to punch a goddamn supersonic jet!"
4:06, 5:51, 12:50, 13:07. put it on 0.25 speed. whenever crash screams it sounds funny in 0.25 speed
7:32
Someone told me
The lyrics will save it
But how can that be?
Look what the lyrics gave it
My god Green Day riffs are more complex then that “solo” not bashing on Green Day by the way I love them
Not odd at all, I admit that I loved this song when I was a kid. It's just so pretentiously, trying-to-hard epic and it fell in line with my teenage angst and melodramatic leanings.
11:48
Or, in a way you may recognize better.
“And a million days is worth one good laugh”
Are you gonna cover the new Green Day song?
Funny story: I don't remember hearing this song at all when it was really big, but the first time I consciously heard it was when I was looking up AMVs around 2006-2007. If you thought Linkin Park was overused in that scene, imagine listening to this spliced together with a bunch of random Final Fantasy cutscenes. I didn't hate it at first, I can probably count off the top of my head 10 Nickelback songs way worse than this, but there's probably a good reason this got lost in the shuffle.
Also, why did you have to remind me that Dashboard Confessional existed? I was having a good morning up until then.
+Graham Kristensen I sincerely apologize. I am selfish. I am wrong. 🙃
Eh Tyler is actually a great guitarist.....just a bad solo here.
The only redeeming quality of this song is the vocal harmony between kreuger and scott. The vocal melody is extremely catchy, but then again the black plaque was also "catchy." Just because something is memorable, doesn't mean it's good.
why do you hate Patrick stump's vocals their not bad
*they're, but I agree.
You're right, I didn't notice.
+RYAN MILLER well yeah in their post breakup albums. Thats just pete wentz writing that patrick has to try and convey an ego he doesnt really have . although in the earlier albums its pretty much the conplete opposite. Mostly sounding like an asshole but likeable. I think that works to their benefeit because atleast they sound human but nowadays i still think they are a good band but not as interesting
+djcreeps121 SRAR is easily their worst album imo. There are not a lot of redeeming qualities about it. Patricks vocals don't help, and the music was way too produced. Infinity on High is my favorite album by them, and Folie a Deux is where I think Patrick has his best vocal performance. Both albums show the instrumentation at their most creative as well.
+max79_99 i wont lie i'm pretty forgiving of alot of music even if i know it's bad whichg was especially the case with SRAR. I can like rat a tat because of it's energy and i mentally blocked courtneys part out, young volcanoes is alright and maybe a few others i can enjoy but i agree on folie a deux its personally my favourite album and honestly i think Ab/Ap is okay as far as pop rock goes. I hear people saying they hate FoB going more pop i always agreed with todd in the shadows in that they did it to expand their sound (which is true there is more experimentation in the newest album than there was in most of their other albums.
Imma be honest, I only know this song because it was memed heavily by some youtubers, game grumps I believe. WAHHCHINNN USSS
The first spider-man movie was pretty funny in an over the top silly way, but still had some ground to stand on when it came to character development.
The second one was even better, it was a bit more serious even though it too had it's silly moments.
The third one... No.
Topher Grace an Venom?! Was Pauly Shore unavailable?!
I personally think that everything after Spider-Man 2 was shit.
That STP song was one of my favorites from them, and hearing it could've replaced a nasally Chad Kroeger song hurt me.
In my opinion, every Spider-Man movie after Spider-Man 2 were complete fucking shit.
But, I'm pretty excited for Homecoming.
Turned out to be shit too.
I lost my shit when u screamed josey scott u legit went ssj3
They play this at the walmart I work at all the time
I like this song's use of the flat-III chord, i.e. a major chord with the root note of the key signature's minor third, as well as its use of flat-VI/flat-VII/IV in the last line of the verse. (Forgive me if I messed up any of that terminology). I always like when songs do things like that; it brings them a step above the type of four-chord song Axis of Awesome sung about.
Actually, many songs by Nickelback and quite a lot of other much-maligned artists have some mildly creative (or at least not-that-commonly-used) ideas in their chord progressions, which is one of the main reasons I don't quite comprehend the rancorous hatred they receive---and also why I don't think Crash's comparison of "Hero" to all those four-chord songs is substantiated.
This dude looks exactly like what I expect someone that hates Nickelback to look like.
You liked your own comment, exactly what a Nickelback fan would do. Cope ❄
@@Xeroforte Who tf likes their own comment
Cope harder bro 💀
Hey despite that whack guitar solo it was about as much guitar soloing as you were going to get from any song on the radio at that time lol.
8:48 NIC CAGE
17:51 Yeah.... Unless you live in Canada.
I sure do.
This still gets radio play in my hometown in New Zealand. I don't know where the fuck the demand comes from.
Kind of bummed that you didn't mention the REALLY GOOD lyric from this one. "They say that a hero can save us, I'm not going to stand here and wait." Sorry, but that is a DAMN good line.
Also, BRING THIS SERIES BACK.
damnit I love this song. it's 100% nostalgia, but I love it so much
The "we" is him and the eagles. Oh god I'm defending this song kill me.
Thank fuck Weezer wrote an infinitely better "Hero".
crash would you ever make a top the worst pop punk bands list?
YES
I remember first hearing this song as a kid in a TV spot for the first Spiderman movie. I don't know if it was hype for watching the film (which thank God, I and my brothers and sisters did see in theaters, I freaking loved Spiderman as a kid) but I liked this song. Mind you, my taste in music had not been as refined as it now. Looking back, I'm embarrassed for liking this when I was 8. This song has all the competency of Homelander saving those flight passengers. Just thought I'd add the superhero metaphor to continue the theme.
More awful guitar solos can be found in blurry by puddle of mudd. Those guitar solos contribute nothing to the song and show that Wes Scantlin cannot write guitar solos.
Slow chemical was good
Yeah, even though I like Nickelback, I just didn't really think this song was very good...
Like, when making a soundtrack for a superhero movie, I was expecting a song with more energy to them.
Which is something Daredevil actually did better, with "The Man Without Fear" and "Won't Back Down," while not great songs are at least catchy and energetic.
Hey, I like Vindicated tho
I wrote a comment on a Todd in the Shadows review saying I liked Nickelback. Correction: I like _some_ of Nickelback's songs, but definitely not _all._ :P That being said, I agree with you on this song. And when you showed how simple the chords were for the "solo" by playing them, I giggled. I had no idea how easy and simple the chords were; it's like the simplistic chords for "Smoke on the Water," but waaayyyy lamer. :P
CRASH DID YOU JUST RIP ON PATRICK STUMP
+max79_99 Yup. Fight me. 🙃
+The Rock Critic I disagree with your opinion. But I love your videos, too. I personally think he has great vocal range (If you think it's all high, listen to songs like What A Catch Donnie and W.A.M.S to hear him singing lower) and is easily the most talented member of the band.... Though that isn't hard.... I still enjoy FoB a lot, however.
+RYAN MILLER Andy is a solid drummer, but Joe's guitar work never really wow'd me. I'll give those a listen, though.
When?
A Rock Critic video but every stock photo / wacky sound effect the video speeds up by 5%
I've always personally found Nickelback to be...mostly harmless? I don't really have an issue with the raspinesss in the singer's voice. What I take as a personal affront to my ears, however, is the lack of talent and overly abhorrent "music performances" of Kid Rock and Fred Durst. They're an infestation on any genre they try to apply their lackluster "musical talents" to.
I actually did....sadly I use to like it...then I forgot it...and when you made this video you brought out the flaws in it and yeah...your right :/