Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger just lately shared his distaste for newer musicians who do not share his work ethic, and used songwriters in Nashville, Tennessee, as examples of the best method to craft a track.
In an interview with The Bailey Show on Audacy’s 98 Rock (Sacramento), Kroeger sharing his perception that almost all musicians enter the trade as a result of they “don’t wanna get a real job.”
“They date hairdressers, because they actually have a job, and then they support them until they move on to their next hairdresser,” he elaborated. “And they’re like, ‘Someday I’m gonna make it.’ – and so when you get in the studio with these people and you realize like, wow, you are incredibly lazy, even when it comes to something you truly love. And that is just a crying shame.”
Kroeger later clarified that he is been within the studio with many rising musicians that do not seem to have any actual curiosity of their craft, which he finds extremely perplexing given the world goes to listen to no matter they find yourself with.
“I’ve been in this studio with hundreds of [newer musicians], and they’re like, ‘Bro, bro, that was a solid 10 minutes, dude. Like, let’s just go do something else.’ So just because my work ethic when it comes to creating something or making something special, I’m like, ‘You know, the world’s gonna hear this, right? So do you just want a half-ass it or do you wanna make it good? Or do you wanna really put some time and effort into it and make it really good? Because the world is going to hear this.'”
The Canadian musician went on to applaud songwriters in Nashville, Tennessee, for his or her dedication to the craft. “If you go to Nashville and you go up and down writer’s row, those guys have a cup of coffee and they’ve got an acoustic guitar and they write it at 10 o’clock, they got a session at noon, and then they got another one at 2:30. Every single day. Three songs a day. Different groups of people writing songs professionally, every single day. Tennessee all day, the craft of crafting a song.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Kroeger revealed that his favourite band is… Nickelback. “I’m really proud of the music we’ve created and the fact that we’ve been around for 27 years and we still have a career – that means something to me. It’s really important to me,” he defined. Check out the complete interview beneath.
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