Get a front door key to the Playboy mansion I`m gonna dress my ass with the latest fashion Hire eight body guards that love to beat up assholes I wanna be great like Elvis without the tassels We`ll all stay skinny `cause we just won`t eat And we`ll hang out in the coolest bars In the VIP with the movie stars Every good gold digger`s gonna wind up there Every Playboy bunny with her bleach blond hairĪnd well, hey, hey, I wanna be a rockstar The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap `Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars And live in hilltop houses, drivin` fifteen cars I`m gonna trade this life For fortune and fame I`d even cut my hair And change my name I want a new tour bus full of old guitars I need a a credit card that`s got no limit I want a brand new house on an episode of Cribs It`s like the bottom of the ninth and I`m never gonna win Kind of said this in the intro but, whatever.Nickelback - Rockstar I`m through with standin` in lines to clubs I`ll never get in I think the general opinion on this song and to an extent, a lot of other Nickelback songs are simply caused by the “its Nickelback so it’s s***” factor. There’s nothing in this piece of music that could justify the title of “bad song”. ![]() Some may disagree with that but here’s the thing. Rockstar by Nickelback is a song with both positives and negatives and I think the positives outweigh the negatives both in terms of magnitude and quantity. On the plus side, no crappy fade out so plus a million points there. You could even have done this with a hint of irony too so yeah, I think the lack of guitar solo here does some harm and the inclusion of one could have negated previous criticism too. I’m not saying I’d want Eruption wedged in there or some Malmsteen mayhem causing cacophony of shred but I would love to hear how SOMETHING lead guitar based would have impacted the song. See also Steve Vai Passion and Warfare one of the greatest guitar albums of all time It’s a nice hook to sing along with and for me at least, it never had that eventual nails on a chalk board factor where you can’t bear to hear it after so many listens but does the song lean too heavily on it? The phrase ear worm is an understatement because that entire chorus is hard to shake off. Rockstar, like many songs that do well commercially, is very hooky. ![]() You know? The one about it not being him? Rockstar by Nickelback It’s very hooky ![]() ![]() I guess I’m rather neutral on my feelings toward the vocal performance but there is another positive worth mentioning and that’s the little injections of conversational backing vocals which sort of reminded me of that Shaggy song. Things do pick up in this regard in the chorus sections though. They’re exactly what you’d expect although I guess one could argue that there isn’t a huge amount of emotion here but I guess it’s not a particularly emotional song and the pace is too moderate for a big and energetic display. Closely related to the lyrics are the vocals and to be honest, there isn’t a great deal to talk about vocally.
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