What the critics wrote about the Beatles in 1964

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

53. Classic R&R, much of it I like. But Nickelback--no. And when my RW brother-in-law

was very excited for me to watch the video they made with Ted Nugent and other people I can't stand in it, it cemented my dislike for them.

Also:

Mashable notes that Nickelback, from a strictly commercial viewpoint, are actually insanely successful (breakout hit "How You Remind Me" has been spun over a billion times since 2002). But, critics have always despised their paint-by-numbers rock, and soon music listeners joined in on the hate. Mashable consulted with KnowYourMeme.com to trace the very first anti-Nickelback meme back to 2004, when they scored an unflattering entry on Urban Dictionary. From there, it snowballed. Canadian columnist James Fell thinks the Nickelback hate probably originated from a collective lightbulb moment when everyone, online and off, started to realize that the band might not be that good. "The videos, memes and articles that mock the group surfaced on the web just as critics and social commenters began to question the band's originality — a perfect recipe, given the lack of targets at the time, for a new online joke to emerge," as Mashable's Eric Larson put it.

http://www.refinery29.com/2013/09/53158/why-people-hate-nickelback

But hey, fundamentally, it's a matter of individual preference.