Poor old Justin Bieber! He's equally loathed by hordes of hard rocking, guitar yielding rock jocks, as much as he is loved by swarms of brightly clothed and hyperactive pop kids, but is the Bieber boogie really responsible for killing rock n' roll?
Not according to The Black Keys, who lay the blame for the slow ruin of rock n' roll firmly at the door of - Nickelback.
That's right folks, Nickelback. The unassuming and un-memorable rockers whose windswept mediocrity and epic dullness has touched a nerve with a generation of fast living and hard rocking accountants.
The Black Keys have righteously declared that rock n' roll is dying, and drummer Patrick Carney growled menacingly during a Rolling Stone interview, "Rock and roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world."
Ok, so now it's been finally established that little old Justin Bieber is not responsible for killing rock n' roll, it does seem to be giving just a little too much credit to Nickelback to suggest they've single-handedly slaughtered a global phenomenon which has held generations of teenagers captive for over 50 years.
The Black Keys drummer elaborated by adding "People 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 and 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."
Sure sounds like a sour case of musical elitism. Horrendous as it might sound, people listen to Nickelback records because they, (cough), like them. Same goes for Bieber. Nope! Neither of the aforementioned musical beasts killed rock n' roll - Elvis Presley and the Beatles did!
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