IF EVERYONE CARED - NICKELBACK
The umpteenth release from Nickelback’s four-times platinum “All the Right Reasons” is no less potent than previous single “Far Away” or its predecessors. Chad Kroeger and team have hit-making down to a science — not to dismiss the art behind same — though, granted, there is certainly a formula behind their output. In any case, the lyric of “If Everyone Cared” is keenly relatable: “I never dreamed you’d be mine/But here we are tonight/Singing amen, I’m alive.” As always, the music is front-loaded with guitars and driving percussion, masking what is essentially a pure pop ballad. Nickelback ain’t pretending to be anything it’s not, and obviously it continues to work on a mainstream level, maintaining the band’s nomenclature as the day’s pre-eminent pop/rock hit-making machine. Billboard
