The Black Keys' Patrick Carney Takes Shots At Nickelback

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For Rolling Stone‘s January cover story on The Black Keys, outspoken drummer Patrick Carney shares his opinion on the current state of rock & roll, and uses Nickelback as a punching bag to point out the genre’s problems. Taking shots at Nickelback almost never seems like a bad idea. Here’s what he said:

“Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world,” he says, blowing cigarette smoke out the window of his rented East Village loft a few days ­before the band heads to L.A. “So they became OK with the idea that the biggest rock band in the world is always going to be shit – therefore you should never try to be the biggest rock band in the world. Fuck that! Rock & roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don’t like to see it fucking ruined and spoon-fed down our throats in this watered-down, post-grunge crap, horrendous shit. When people start lumping us into that kind of shit, it’s like, ‘Fuck you,’ honestly.”

(Rolling Stone)

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