The singer talked to “Estadão” about the band’s new album, “Get Rollin”, and plans to perform in the country
Children, adolescents and young adults in Brazil who have not heard Photography🇧🇷 How you Remind Me or Distant in the early 2000s who cast the first stone. Success in the charts of the country made the songs and clips of the Canadian band Nickelback they were figurines printed on the MTV hits and on major radio stations.
Chad Kroegerlead singer of the group, she experienced the passion of the Brazilians up close for the first time Rock in Rio 2013, but it seems like the show for around 100,000 people was memorable enough to never forget. From her home studio in Vancouver, Canada, she told the Stage that the headset, a device used by musicians to monitor the stage, was unable to muffle the sound of the festival audience.
“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my life. I didn’t know what to expect. We got on stage and the crowd went crazy to the point that it was possible to hear the crowd even with earphones, which are large and cover the whole ear. The device didn’t work because the audience was screaming so much the stage was shaking. And you know, there were four people against 100,000… I thought, ‘What are we going to do?’ 🇧🇷laughs)”, recalled.
They returned in 2019, again at Rock In Rio, for their last show before the covid-19 pandemic. The group performed again only after the release of the band’s tenth album, Get rolledin 2022🇧🇷 Despite a more than 20-year career, Kroeger was concerned about the return of concerts.
“We rehearsed and everything was fine with rehearsals, there’s no big deal or anything, but when you go on stage and you find all these people there… And suddenly, you’re faced with everything that we used to face up to [mas não estamos mais]… Even so, it’s a lot of fun. We miss you a lot,” she said.
Nickelback’s next tour plans should involve Brazil. Kroeger, however, says he doesn’t know these details as he is not responsible for organizing the shows. Despite this, he guarantees that, if it’s up to him, the band will return home “as soon as possible”.
Recall the presentation at Rock in Rio 2019:
Why did it take so long to release a record?
Since the release of the last album, Power up the machine, Nickelback’s five-year hiatus appears to have no clear reason. When asked why the launch of a new project is delayed, Kroeger laughs before even answering.
“Why are we lazy (laughs)”, he joked. He even recalled when he saw artists release two albums a year during social isolation, as was the case with Taylor Swiftwhich he revealed always And folklore in 2020.
“We started to have some ideas here and there, but we weren’t in a hurry because we didn’t know how long we were going to be in social isolation. It was very nice and refreshing not to have the record company or the manager pressuring us to release anything,” he said. said.
proud of Get rolled, some songs on the album are very similar to old Nickelback hits. the single Those daysmainly, it recalls the past, as well as in Photography or You’ll never be alone, when you sing:
“Remember when the streetlights came on / And we were supposed to be home? / Remember when it came out Nightmare hour?/ We couldn’t watch by ourselves.”
The highlight of the interview actually happens when, when speaking Photography🇧🇷 Kroeger picks up the guitar and plays the beginning of the song which he says is about his life experience.
With compositions based on his own experiences, Kroeger wrote Those daysa single very similar to the known Photography, from the disk All good reasons (2005)🇧🇷 to honor the time when he was a teenager. On the single from the early 2000s, he sings about the places where he grew up.
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