The JUNO Awards is a prestigious music award ceremony that is hosted annually in Canada. It acknowledges the artistic talent and technical achievements of Canadian musical artists.The winners are chosen by a panel of experts or by members of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Most categories, such as ‘Album of the Year’, are determined by the aforementioned panel of experts and this year they decided that hometown heroes, Nickelback, deserved the majority of the prestigious little statues.
They won the ‘JUNO Fan Choice Award’ and the ‘Group of the Year’. This is the fourth year in a row they have won the latter.
The band was thrilled with the result. Lead guitarist Ryan Peake said, and I quote: “This is why I didn’t get a real job. This is why I still don’t have a real job.”
Personally, I think he should go and get a real job. I’ve never been a fan of Nickelback. They don’t tempt me in the slightest and the fact that JUNO gave them two awards really puts it down in my estimations.
It is my honest opinion that every music award ceremony is different. I believe that every one celebrates a different music genre, and that different ceremonies appeal to different people because we all like different music.
However, Nickelback just do not tickle my musical taste buds at all. It is a band that, in their own words, “just wanna be big rock stars”, and quite frankly I’m surprised they have been around this long.
If the JUNO awards ceremony was representing musical persistence then I would understand why they awarded Nickelback. It can’t be denied that those boys are determined. But it represents musical artistic talent and achievements.
I don’t believe Nickelback have outstanding musical talent and, except for being recognised as a band that people hate to love, they haven’t made any exceptional achievements.
The JUNO Awards represent a range of musical genres so they should appeal to anyone, but if they think Nickelback is the best Canada have got to offer, they are of no interest to me.
Nickelback just isn’t my cup of tea and no amount of sugar is going to change that.
Good piece of journalism, well written and honest.
ReplyDeleteI like Nickelback. They are one of my favourite bands and I think they deserved a Juno Award. It didn't do anything to make the ceremony less prestegious.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a big fan of Nicelback either. I went to see them at the SECC a few years ago and thought they were awful! Though one of my friends says they are her favourite band...
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