You a big fan of Nickelback?
I’m a Nickelback defender. Not a fan, mind you - I don’t like their music at all - but I think it’s silly that they take the heat for that entire era of post-Nirvana radio “grunge”. They’re no worse than 100 other bands from that era, just more popular.
And to their credit any time I’ve ever seen them address their status as “stand in to make a joke about bad music”, they say basically hey man, I get to travel the world and make a living playing music with my friends, who gives a fuck if other people hate us?