Further, the styles of the two works are different. The two songs are not in the same key is in a major key, whereas is in both major and minor keys. NICKELBACK wrote in the court document: "As for the music, it is evident to an ordinary observer that the sound recording of has a steady, driving guitar beat, whereas does not and is obviously slower. Nor does copyright protect the commonplace lyrical theme of imagining being a rock star." Titles are not protectable by copyright, and their similarity cannot give rise to an infringement claim. Now, in an answer to Johnston's original complaint, NICKELBACK stated that "the two songs sound nothing alike." The band went on to say that " Johnston failed to identify any specific lyrical similarities between the works at issue he could only conceivably point to the titles of the two works and 'lyrical themes'. Johnston alleges that "a substantial amount of the music in 'Rockstar' is copied from original composition 'Rock Star'," including "the tempo, song form, melodic structure, harmonic structures, and lyrical themes." In January 2005, NICKELBACK released the song "Rockstar" on its album "All The Right Reasons". Johnston alleges that NICKELBACK had direct access to Johnston's musical composition "Rock Star" as a result of SNOWBLIND REVIVAL's marketing efforts. The band made 15 copies of the master recording and sent them to several record labels, including Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, of which Roadrunner Records, Inc. In August 2001, SNOWBLIND REVIVAL created a master recording of "Rock Star", along with three other original songs. alleging that the NICKELBACK copied his original musical composition, "Rock Star", which he wrote in 2001 while a member of the band SNOWBLIND REVIVAL. Kirk Johnston filed a lawsuit against NICKELBACK members Chad Kroeger, Michael Kroeger, Ryan Peake and Daniel Adair, as well as the band's former record label Roadrunner Records and Warner Chappell Music, Inc. This cover is one of the great early YouTube videos.NICKELBACK has fired back at a Texas singer over a copyright lawsuit claiming the rock band ripped off its 2005 hit song "Rockstar" from an earlier track called "Rock Star". You may also recall that Photograph which was the first single off that album. Finally, in February 2008 it was named the 100th best song of 2007 by Rolling Stone. It was then re-released a year later on June 6, 2007, and became a hit on adult top 40 and pop radio. It was released as a single in 2006 without a video. Rockstar was the final track on Nickelback’s Septem(exactly six years after Creed's Human Clay) release All the Right Reasons. Here are some things I now know about this song, thanks to Wikipedia. So when I watched the video for Rockstar, it was completely new to me, even if I had seen it one or more times a decade ago. I don’t usually brag about it and most of this knowledge has been locked in the deep, dark recesses of my brain. I was a young adult during the first decade of the millennium, so I know Nickelback well. I may have even come across a burned copy of Silver Side Up during my freshman year of college. I’m not a Nickelback fan, but if I ever did anything where people made signs to disparage me, one would read “Stephen Douglas listens to Nickelback” and I’d just shake my head and say, “That is not entirely inaccurate.”
I know the words to a disturbing number of Nickelback songs. I remember the dark days of Nickelback’s popularity. Here's the original text of the article in 2016.
The more I revisit this, the more proud and ashamed I am all at once. Four years later I would write about Creed. Then I fell down a Creed YouTube wormhole and eventually stumbled on Nickelback. Incredibly, my original post was inspired by Kirk Cousins making teammates listen to Creed’s Greatest Hits while weightlifting.
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