Nickelback’s lead singer, Chad Kroeger, said he was inspired to write “How You Remind Me” after fighting with his girlfriend.

“I was sitting in the basement of my old house in 2000 having just got into a big argument with my girlfriend. So I guess I was feeling pretty jaded at the time,” he said.

“I wanted to write some lyrics that were a slap in the face to her. Even though I do say in the song that I love her, I kind of wanted to throw her a back-handed slap. So I was being very direct, and yelling into the microphone so that she could hear what I was saying. We actually talked about it years later and I told her I wrote the song about her, and she would not believe that she was the ‘How You Remind Me’ girl.”

While “How You Remind Me” was the first hit single for the Canadian band, their latest, “Photograph” has pushed their latest disc, All The Right Reasons, to number one on Billboard charts.

Writing from experience once again, Kroeger penned this song about his teenage years in small town Canada.

“It’s not about a girl. It doesn’t have the same feel as ‘How You Remind Me’ or ‘Someday.’ It’s a bit of a different Nickelback song,” drummer Daniel Adair told a Wisconsin newspaper. “But we thought, ‘Well, maybe it could work, so let’s give it a shot.’ And it took off.”






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