Nickelback’sbiggest hit almost wasn’t a single at all.
In a new clip fromHate to Love: Nickelback, a documentary film about one of Canada’s most polarizing rock bands, guitarist Ryan Peake opens up about how the group’s song “How You Remind Me” could have been just another throwaway track.
“I remember when Chad [Kroeger] came to my house and he said, ‘Listen I got this tune. I’m not so sure, you know, but I thought I’ll just play it to you.’ I heard it and I’m like, ‘It sounds like a pretty good song,'” Peake, 50, recalls of “How You Remind Me.” “I didn’t go all smash hit. I remember my wife was up in the loft of our house and she was like, ‘That’s a hit.'”
He added: “We just thought it was another song.”
According to Peake, bassist Mike Kroeger didn’t even want to lead with the song as a single.
“Mike was like, ‘Nope, let’s go with ‘Never Again,'” the rocker recalls.
Once the song went to radio, it was “everywhere,” and became a No. 1 hit on theBillboardcharts.
According to a press release, the feature-length film “tells the authentic story about the band from their humble beginnings in Hanna Alberta, to their explosive global success in 2001 and the highs and lows that followed.”
It also “celebrates the loyalty of Nickelback fans and delves into the years of online vitriol while exposing the personal impact it had on each of the band members.”
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Nickelback performing on Good Morning America in March 2023.Paula Lobo/ABC via Getty
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In an interviewwith PEOPLE and other media outletsat theToronto Film Festivalin September, which hosted the world premiere of the film, Nickelback’s lead singerChad Kroegersaid he wouldn’t be weighing in on backlash about the band any longer.
“I’m over it,” the 49-year-old told PEOPLE and other publications.
Peake said that with the documentary they “get to take the narrative.”
“We get to actually tell our version—it’s like you turn the cheek for as much as you can, and then at some point it’s like, here’s our take on it,” he added.
source: people.com
