Rockstar (Nickelback song)

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Rock star
Nickelback
publication August 21, 2006
length 4:14
Genre (s) Alternative rock
Author (s) Chad Kroeger , Ryan Peake , Mike Kroeger, Daniel Adair
album All the right reasons

Rockstar is a song by the Canadian rock band Nickelback . The rock song comes from the fifth studio album All the Right Reasons from 2005. Originally, the single was only released in the United States and Canada. The republication then took place worldwide. The comments and questions spoken in the song between the verses come from the musician Billy Gibbons of the blues rock band ZZ Top .

First and republication

During the initial release, the single Far Away was more successful in the Billboard Hot 100 and the US pop charts, while Rockstar had only average success in the rock charts . It peaked at number 4 on Mainstream Rock Tracks , number 37 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100.

On June 5, 2007, the song was played again on the radio and the re-release was accompanied by a music video, which made the song enter the charts for the second time, including those in which it was not previously represented, such as the Pop 100 Airplay. In the United States, Rockstar sold over four million downloads as of June 2012, making it the band's best-selling hit in that country.

In the UK debuted Rockstar on 21 October 2007 in the UK Top 40 and remained nine months in the charts. The song reached number 2 on the UK music charts and number 1 on the UK download charts. The song was only released on phonograms in the country after it was already enjoying success online. With 587,000 sales, the single became the group's most successful in the UK in the two years following the release of All the Right Reasons . The release of the single helped the All the Right Reasons album reach # 10 on the UK Albums Chart for the first time, making it the band's third top 10 album. It boosted album sales from under 200,000 to over half a million, making the album the fifth best-selling in 2008. On August 10, 2008 the song rose again in the UK charts.

composition

The song is composed in the key of G major in 4/4 time and has a tempo of a moderate 76 beats per minute .

{\ tempo 4 = 76 \ key g \ major \ time 4/4 {r16 b'16 a'16 g'16 \ bar "||" a'16 b'16 b'16 b'16 (b'16) b'16 a'16 g'16 a'16 b'16 b'8 b'16 b'16 g'16 g'16}} \ addlyrics {I'm through with stand - ing in line to clubs I'll nev - he get in ...}

Pop culture references

The lyrics describe the stereotypical lifestyle of a rock star who lives out his commercial success in an expressive materialistic manner at the expense of artistic integrity. For this purpose, the material status symbols (cars, houses, aircraft) and the clichéd hedonism (party, sex, drugs) of rock stars are listed, but the effort required to create above-average rock music is not mentioned:

"I want a brand new house
on an episode of Cribs
And a bathroom I can play baseball in…
I want a new tour bus full of old guitars
My own star on Hollywood Boulevard."

“I want a brand new house
in an episode of Cribs .
And a bathroom I can play baseball in.
I want a new tour bus full of old guitars,
my own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . "

The song has been compared to other satirical odes about the rock musician lifestyle, including:

The song has several references to American pop culture . In the reality TV telecast MTV Cribs the singer had Chad Kroeger already made an appearance. The Playboy Mansion and several Playmates are shown. The singer wants a star between James Dean and Cher on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ; Nickelback has had a star on Canada's Walk of Fame since 2007 .

Music video

At the time of its first release in August 2006, there was no music video for the single. The American director Dori Oskowitz, who had already produced the video for the song If Everyone Cared , shot the video for its re-release. In the music video, both American celebrities and passers-by sing lip-synchronic to the lyrics. The passers-by were filmed in prominent locations in the northwest hemisphere such as Times Square in New York City , Millennium Park in Chicago , the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles , St Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge in London , the Opera House and the Harbor Bridge in Sydney as well as the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin .

Celebrities with multiple settings include Billy Gibbons (who speaks his original text of the song), mixed martial arts athlete Chuck Liddell , the racers junior Dale Earnhardt , the actresses Eliza Dushku and Dominique Swain , the hockey player Wayne Gretzky , the cast of the television series The Girls Next Door , the rock musicians Kid Rock and Gene Simmons , the rappers Lupe Fiasco and Twista , the singer Nelly Furtado , the crew of the television series American Chopper , Paul Wall , Ted Nugent , Grant Hill , Taryn Manning , Tom Petkos and Lindsey Shaw .

At the end of the video, Nickelback is shown performing live. This recording was made on July 13, 2007 at a concert at the Comcast Center for the Performing Arts in Mansfield, Massachusetts .

In the official video clip shown on the international music video channels, certain non-socially acceptable words were acoustically 'over-pixelated'. So were z. B. the text passages "I think I'm gonna dress my ass with the latest fashion" or "The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap" subsequently censored.

Reviews

The music magazine Rolling Stone ranked Rockstar 100 on their list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. Despite its popularity, the song is rated by some critics as one of the worst songs of all time. The song is ranked 2nd in the Top 30 worst songs ever written on the UK media portal BuzzFeed . The explanation is as follows:

"If aliens came to earth and asked why everyone hates Nickelback so much, this song would be a perfect explanation."

"If aliens came to Earth and asked why everyone hates Nickelback so much, this song would be a perfect explanation."

A 2008 poll on the music website Popjustice rated Rockstar as the worst single of the year. The song also appeared in a TV advertisement for sofa dealer DFS in the UK , in which actors play air guitar to the song in front of sofa sets. The advertising was also named one of the worst ever.

Song list

Maxi single

  1. Rockstar (album version) - 4:15
  2. Rockstar (Clean Version) - 4:15
  3. Never Again (Live in Atlanta) - 4:16
  4. Photograph (Live in Atlanta) - 4:38
  5. Rock star (video)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Duffy and Burke top 2008 charts. In: BBC News . December 29, 2008, accessed March 6, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Nickelback - Rockstar lyrics . In: songmeanings.ne . (English)
  4. ↑ MTV Cribs Chad Kroeger . In: YouTube . December 6, 2011. (English)
  5. ↑ Nickelback . In: Canada's Walk of Fame . (English).
  6. ↑ Video Static: Music Video News: June 3, 2007 - June 9, 2007 . In: videostatic.com .
  7. ↑ Nickelback making video . In: YouTube . July 15, 2007. (English)
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  9. ↑ Peter Robinson: The next worst thing. In: The Guardian . February 9, 2008, accessed February 28, 2015 .
  10. ↑ To See Or Not To See: Nickelback. In: Metro . September 15, 2008, accessed February 28, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Ryan Broderick: Thes are the 30 of the worst songs ever written. In: Buzzfeed . June 12, 2012, accessed January 13, 2015 .
  12. ^ Popjustice Readers' Poll Results 2008. In: Popjustice. January 1, 2009, accessed February 28, 2015 .
  13. ↑ 10 of the best - worst adverts of all time. In: Daily Record. December 12, 2008, accessed February 28, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Mark Sweney: The worst TV ads of 2008: Federer, Woods and Henry take a bow. In: The Guardian . December 11, 2008, accessed February 28, 2015 .