Ricky Martin has inspired me

[Fittisize]

It's been almost nine years since 9/11 and this is the first time I've ever heard anyone claim that Nickelback was to America what the blue blanket was to Linus.

The thought has never crossed my mind before either, but I think the correlation is interesting. Is there something nine-eleveny about that song? Or maybe it's because it's so not 9/11 - radio stations were very careful about what songs they were playing given the emotional atmosphere, so perhaps they just decided to play the blandest, boringest, most uncontroversial song they could find over and over again, which just happened to be Nickelback. But that still doesn't change the fact that people were demanding that song to be played over and over again, and that it was a big hit in many countries all over the world. Who knows?? People often look to music for comfort or escape in difficult times, and 9/11 was perhaps the most difficult time America has ever known, where people needed that comfort more than ever. And they were tuning in to "How You Remind Me" more than any other song (and like I said above, this song was played more than any other song in the 00's). There's gotta be something there! Fuck it, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and just say it: Nickelback saved America.