![]() 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 2007 and ultimately spending nearly a year on the chart. In 2008, the Guardian said the song “makes literally no sense and is the worst thing of all time.” In 2012, Buzzfeed listed it as the second-worst song ever written, citing it as an example of “why everyone hates Nickelback so much.” But the song was a commercial hit, eventually reaching No. ![]() Released on Nickelback’s 2005 album, All the Right Reasons, “Rockstar” has not aged well with critics. Rolling Stones Hit With Copyright Lawsuit Over 2020 Song ‘Living in a Ghost Town’Īttorneys for both sides did not immediately return requests for comment on the decision. Pitman specifically pointed to a study that reported 17 other popular songs that had shared similar themes about rock stars, ranging from “So You Want To Be a Rock and Roll Star” by The Byrds in 1966 to “Rockstar” by Poison in 2001. ![]() The only real similarities between the two songs, Pitman wrote, were basic clichés - “outlandish stereotypes and images associated with being a huge, famous, rock star” – that cannot be monopolized by any one songwriter. “This includes, for example, any suggestion that the two baseball analogies in Nickelback’s work are evidence that the band copied Johnston’s lyric ‘might buy the Cowboys’ professional football team’ simply because both are ‘references to sports’”, Pitman wrote. But the ruling said that after a review of the lyrics, that accusation at times “borders on the absurd.” Johnston, the lead singer of a Texas band called Snowblind Revival, claimed the two songs shared many closely related lyrics about rock star lifestyles, making huge amounts of money and having famous friends. Ed Sheeran Copyright Accusers Can't Stage 'Let's Get It On' Performance in Courtroom…
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