I Hate This Song - Chad Kroeger feat. Josey Scott "Hero" | The Rock Critic 

To be honest if you added the guy from Smash Mouth to this it would probably be meme gold.

How can the eagle fly if you hold on to its wings?

I guess I have to be that guy: I love this song. I loved it in 2002 and I love it now 17 years later

CRASH when i looked up "tip fedora" on google images, you show up pretty high on the search

I swear to God I heard this song everywhere on youtube. people would take scenes of superhero movies with either 1. hero by skillet 2.monster by skillet 3. hero by Chad and Josey or BMTL by evanescence and play it in the background. remember those times?

Dear god, my pre pubescent ass actually liked this song... God help me.

The solo on nirvanas come as you are as more complexity then the one in this song at the solo is literally Kurt gliding his fingers back and forth on the g strings between riffs.

This song is so bland it hurts.

Nickelback's Figured You Out has some of the worst lyrics in their oeuvre: "I like the pants around your feet", "I like the freckles on your chest" - even when I was younger I refused to sing along to that on the radio.

but supermassive black hole is a great song

Nickelback weren't that bad. They certainly didn't warrant the success they got but they don't warrant the immense hatred either. there was certainly far worse bands in that era, hell there's far worse band now.

Counter to the English lesson: I believe the "we" is referring to "Chad/narrator and the eagles".

Well "I Am The Walrus" is pretty meaningless but great but "Champagne Supernova" actually has a lot to say despite the title line.

Imagine if Fred Durst would be in that song ^^

I actually had to pause the video at the "Do they know it's Christmas" line, cause I was laughing so hard I couldn't hear what you were saying. Well played, good sir. Well. Played.

Dude, supermassive black holes are awesome.

Dude You're PAINFULLY funny.

This is actually a guilty pleasure song for me as I grew up with the movie and soundtrack. But 2 things. 1.) Yeah Stone Temple Pilots song is a million times better and 2.) The Spider-Man 2 soundtrack is a lot better than this one. I actually really like Vindicated and Hold On by Jet is a beautiful song

This song needs 3 fucking guitarists?

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Only got into STP recently and they're totally amazing, thanks crash!

. . . I also kinda love Chad Kroeger's singing voice. That raspyness just sounds so very good to me. The Josy Scott felt like an non entity to me in this song though.

Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional will always be the superior Spider-Man-core song.

"This is why i don't listen to any pop music" Man, really. Everything you review comes on the radio.

8:55 I believe the lyric is supposed to be "Someone told me love would ALL save us" you can definitely hear him say that. This would make the rest of the verse make a bit more sense (Or at least the next line)

I can take a guess that STP might be your next I Love This Song? Maybe Creep or Interstate Love Song?

When crash played the guitar solo I could tell he didn’t practice it because it wasn’t all correct. But god damn it he was close

They play it every now and then on Canadian rock stations.

Hey now keep my Dashboard out of this.

I was born in 03 and grew up on Spider-Man 1. This song has been stuck in my head for literally all of my life

Now you make me feel guilty to listen to this song :(

I agree with your criticisms of this song, and it's a very hard track to defend. However, I think it was actually a great pick for lead single for the movie. Mainly because the cheesy, overly grandiose tone fits very well with the tone of the first Raimi Spiderman movie. Both the movie and the song shine the brightest when they aren't being taken too seriously.

Dude, you said love wouldn’t save us. But we got killing and violence from it. But that didn’t actually happen. Thanks for hearing what I have to say. Please take it into consideration.

It is such a earworm and I remember liking it when I was 10, so it gets stuck in my head occasionally.

I love "Vindicated", but Sony missed another opportunity to highlight a song written for Spider-Man: Yellowcard's "Gifts & Curses". Other than "Vindicated" and "Meant To Live", "Gifts & Curses" was the song I associated that movie with, as well as the entire Sam Rami trilogy, and Sony thought NickelSalivaofaDeadMan, Train and Snow Patrol sought potential?

I’ll admit I enjoy the song Hero and enjoy Nickelback unironically.

I’m sorry but hero by chad Kroger is unironnically amazing

Nickleback is GOATED......put some respect on his name

Even as somebody who has a soft spot for Nickelback, I'm not a die-hard fan or anything, but there were a few decent songs I enjoyed. But, I didn't enjoy this song.

I enjoy Saliva, and real early Nickelback. Have you heard the new Saliva album, it's not very good.

crash i don't know how i didn't think about this before but there is actually quite a difference between 4X platinum in america and 8X platinum in canda according to canada's numbers 100,000 equals platinum as opposed to a million in america unless you are using that million units for both also it was so successful in canda because of cadaian media laws requring 35% of all media played to be canadian in origin

At least Taggart didn't record anything musical with this bunch of untalented dudes, he was just here to have a pay-check for the video As you can see, I love Our Lady Peace

Are you gonna cover the new Green Day song?

Thank you Crash for tearing this apart. Unfortunately I was one of those that I had thought of it recently cuz its the one Nickelback song that stuck in my head due to spiderman and the age I heard it. Now that you eviscerated it into jelly I feel I can exorcise that particular demon and replace it with a much better STP song instead.

Bruh this song is amazing.

Whoawhoawhoa....you think Patrick Stump has a bad voice? I can understand if you don't like the band's music but he's a very talented vocalist with an impressive range.

Dammit, Crash. Now your Spider-theme is stuck in my head and I can't stop singing it.

4:00 No wrestling announcer could ever match that level of intensity.

Well, that song is catchy, take a chill pill.

I love this song, sorry, no sorry.

I feel as if the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack was a far better batch of songs because it's predominantly pop-punk/Emo bands that fit well with Peter Parker as a character. Like Gifts and Curses by Yellowcard is legitimately one of the best songs I've ever heard and it fits so well with the movie (but it was never included with the film) I feel like Spider-Man's character would listen to more of those bands than this type of butt-rock.

why do you hate Patrick stump's vocals their not bad

Honestly...I forgot what band Josey Scott was from xP Guess it is good ;)

This song is soo generic, in high school it was a sample song included on my electric keyboard.

If you want a band with good lyrics, check out Tame Impala.

Vindicated is a great song and Dashboard Confessional is an amazing band

The only memory i have of this song is my friend making fun of josey Scott's vocal crack on the " someone told me" part.

I really, really want a Patrick Stump/Guy from Smash Mouth duet now.

I was wearing a Spider-Man shirt when watching this.

The saddest part about that solo is that Tyler is legitimately capable of so much more. Dude's actually a pretty talented guitarist that just never gets to show off because of how brain-dead all of his music is. And honestly same with Chad Kroeger, which makes the addition of Tyler weird as well.

4:06, 5:51, 12:50, 13:07. put it on 0.25 speed. whenever crash screams it sounds funny in 0.25 speed

Eh Tyler is actually a great guitarist.....just a bad solo here.

11:48 Or, in a way you may recognize better. “And a million days is worth one good laugh”

crash would you ever make a top the worst pop punk bands list?

Too be fair, Chad Kroeger is ABSOLUTELY no where near as bad as a singer as Matt Walst, Vic Fuentes or even Wes Scantlin are.

Way too waste Matt Cameron's talent on this track a holes. I would say its dickish for them to not put him in the video but then I remember he drummed for Sound Garden and Pearl Jam so he's way too good to be in the same room with Josey and Chad.

And yes, it still pops up on Radio here in Alberta. Which, sadly, is where Nickleback comes from.

Not odd at all, I admit that I loved this song when I was a kid. It's just so pretentiously, trying-to-hard epic and it fell in line with my teenage angst and melodramatic leanings.

The first spider-man movie was pretty funny in an over the top silly way, but still had some ground to stand on when it came to character development. The second one was even better, it was a bit more serious even though it too had it's silly moments. The third one... No. Topher Grace an Venom?! Was Pauly Shore unavailable?!

Funny story: I don't remember hearing this song at all when it was really big, but the first time I consciously heard it was when I was looking up AMVs around 2006-2007. If you thought Linkin Park was overused in that scene, imagine listening to this spliced together with a bunch of random Final Fantasy cutscenes. I didn't hate it at first, I can probably count off the top of my head 10 Nickelback songs way worse than this, but there's probably a good reason this got lost in the shuffle. Also, why did you have to remind me that Dashboard Confessional existed? I was having a good morning up until then.

It was actually matt Cameron that played the drums when they recorded it and the reason it is jeremy targget in the video is because matt was dealing with family issues at the time so he was replaced

7:32 Someone told me The lyrics will save it But how can that be? Look what the lyrics gave it

My god Green Day riffs are more complex then that “solo” not bashing on Green Day by the way I love them

That STP song was one of my favorites from them, and hearing it could've replaced a nasally Chad Kroeger song hurt me.

Imma be honest, I only know this song because it was memed heavily by some youtubers, game grumps I believe. WAHHCHINNN USSS

They play this at the walmart I work at all the time

23:08 lmao

8:48 NIC CAGE

I like this song's use of the flat-III chord, i.e. a major chord with the root note of the key signature's minor third, as well as its use of flat-VI/flat-VII/IV in the last line of the verse. (Forgive me if I messed up any of that terminology). I always like when songs do things like that; it brings them a step above the type of four-chord song Axis of Awesome sung about. Actually, many songs by Nickelback and quite a lot of other much-maligned artists have some mildly creative (or at least not-that-commonly-used) ideas in their chord progressions, which is one of the main reasons I don't quite comprehend the rancorous hatred they receive---and also why I don't think Crash's comparison of "Hero" to all those four-chord songs is substantiated.

I lost my shit when u screamed josey scott u legit went ssj3

I played in a Champions tabletop game for a bit and I tried to push a recurring joke: whenever a character died, I sung "Hero" just to take the piss out of the group.

17:51 Yeah.... Unless you live in Canada.

I actually like Saliva....

damnit I love this song. it's 100% nostalgia, but I love it so much

This song is literally the reason i found your channel. It gets horribly stuck in my head once a year for NO reason.

The only redeeming quality of this song is the vocal harmony between kreuger and scott. The vocal melody is extremely catchy, but then again the black plaque was also "catchy." Just because something is memorable, doesn't mean it's good.

Hey, I like Vindicated tho

I wrote a comment on a Todd in the Shadows review saying I liked Nickelback. Correction: I like _some_ of Nickelback's songs, but definitely not _all._ :P That being said, I agree with you on this song. And when you showed how simple the chords were for the "solo" by playing them, I giggled. I had no idea how easy and simple the chords were; it's like the simplistic chords for "Smoke on the Water," but waaayyyy lamer. :P

I remember first hearing this song as a kid in a TV spot for the first Spiderman movie. I don't know if it was hype for watching the film (which thank God, I and my brothers and sisters did see in theaters, I freaking loved Spiderman as a kid) but I liked this song. Mind you, my taste in music had not been as refined as it now. Looking back, I'm embarrassed for liking this when I was 8. This song has all the competency of Homelander saving those flight passengers. Just thought I'd add the superhero metaphor to continue the theme.

This still gets radio play in my hometown in New Zealand. I don't know where the fuck the demand comes from.

In my opinion, every Spider-Man movie after Spider-Man 2 were complete fucking shit. But, I'm pretty excited for Homecoming.

Wait I thought in your top 10 nu metal bands video you implied you didn't like Stone Sour. Here you kind of seem to hint otherwise. It might not be fair to assume that just from your opinion of one song, albeit I'm curious of what you think of the band. You ever consider doing a video on them sometime?

Kind of bummed that you didn't mention the REALLY GOOD lyric from this one. "They say that a hero can save us, I'm not going to stand here and wait." Sorry, but that is a DAMN good line. Also, BRING THIS SERIES BACK.

I Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional

This dude looks exactly like what I expect someone that hates Nickelback to look like.

Slow chemical was good

I just found your channel and so far and i like how you do your videos on rock music but I have to say that this is your opinion for the song and I have my own. I actually like this song. Yes even with its lyrics that don't make sense (it makes it fun to make sense out of them with your own meaning) and even with the basic instrumental, and yes even with its choice of artists like Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott, I actually like this song better than any music from both nickleback and saliva. Maybe I like it just for the memory of the movie, or maybe it's a guilty pleasure. It won't be the first song I think of when I think of a hero, but it's like a backup song or something like that. It's not the best song ever or the worst it's just, basic. I'll give the song a 7/10.

*Hears the lineup rollcall.* So what could possibly go wrong?

CRASH DID YOU JUST RIP ON PATRICK STUMP

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