We entered the studio this year with a vision, and it all came together. Kroeger said 'We’re four people who love making music, the way we like to make it. “So we really want the rest of the US to associate Detroit with Nickelback?” the petition asked. Nickelback announced their new album, Here and Now, on September 8, 2011, along with its two lead singles, 'Bottoms Up' and 'When We Stand Together'. The first major sign that Nickelback was turning the hatred to its advantage came when a Detroit Lions fan started an online petition to cancel the group’s 2011 Thanksgiving Day halftime show. “No Fixed Address” will likely sell a similar number, and the band has a huge list of arena dates lined up for 2015. The band’s last album, “Here and Now,” sold 2 million copies worldwide - about the same as Lady Gaga’s “ARTPOP,” but with a fraction of the promotional budget. Their acceptance of their pariah status has paid off. Instead of fighting them, Kroeger, guitarist/keyboardist Ryan Peake, bassist Mike Kroeger and drummer Daniel Adair have learned to embrace the hostility. But what has changed is the band’s ability to deal with the angry barbs fired at them. Their new album, “No Fixed Address,” out this week, is filled with the same watered-down grunge rock as always. More than a decade later, the music is still largely atrocious. That combative temperament, coupled with the band’s famously awful hits (“How You Remind Me,” “Someday”), made hating Nickelback a sport for music fans the world over.
On the same tour, a British journalist managed to cross the then-poodle-haired singer during an interview - Kroeger publicly challenged the hack to a boxing match. When an audience member gave the Canadian band a middle-fingered salute, he reportedly responded by trying to have security throw out the concertgoer. ‘ Easy On Me ’ was previewed for the first time by Adele during an Instagram live chat.
The song will debut in full at midnight UK time (00.01am) on Friday, October 15. While touring the UK in 2003, Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger was one angry dude. In October 2021, Adele shared the first details of her new music, with a teaser video for the albums lead single Easy on Me, to be released on October 15.