The Truffle

This morning, I turned on the TV, and both MTV and VH1 were playing the same Nickelback song at the same time. It's that godawful new song about wanting to be a rock star, and it consists of a bunch of random people all mouthing the words to the song (with a few actual rock stars like Kid Rock deigning to appear). This is not the first time both channels have played this video at the same time. The question is: WHY? Can't they play more of that fun Feist video, "1234"? It's a good song and a really colorful yet simple video. It's featured in a bunch of iPod commercials. If iPod starts using Nickelback in its ads, I'm going to take my iPod and throw it out the window, I swear. Anyway, I went to Borders to get the new Feist album and it appears to be sold out. Sigh.

Oh dear. It looks like Atrios has discovered that Nickelback exists. YIKES! I have exactly one Nickelback song on my iPod. It's called "How You Remind Me of Someday" and it's a mashup of two of their biggest hits, to demonstrated that the songs sound almost exactly alike . Cookie cutter music making at its total, absolute, corporate worst. Apparently, a lot of Portuguese people at a rock festival felt the same way. Sucky as the band is, a chorus of boos would've been more effective (and less harmful) than throwing rocks. That said, it did cut the band's set mercifully short.