Chad Kroeger, frontman for Canadian rock band Nickelback, has revealed that everyone has been pronouncing his last name wrong all of these years.Speaking to Loudwire on a recent podcast, Kroeger explained that his surname is often butchered; people have been saying Kroh-ger, like the U.S.
grocery store chain.However, the Hanna, Alta.-born musician insists it should be pronounced the same as Freddy Krueger, the terrifying Nightmare on Elm Street serial killer.“It’s Kroo-ger, don’t trust the internet,” the musician said.He says he’s been slow to correct people because he doesn’t want to come across the wrong way.“If I just stop and go, ‘Actually, it’s Kroeger,’ I’m gonna look like such a d**k.
So I’m just like whatever, I don’t care.”He told the podcast there are a few people that have gone out of their way to make sure they get it right, including Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell, who corrected a journalist at one point during a joint 2004 interview.“I sort of looked over at Jerry, and he goes, ‘It’s your name, dude.
That is your last name.'” Adam Levine affair? Model claims married Maroon 5 singer cheated on his wife with her He went on: “Tell that dude across there how to say it properly so that he stops saying it wrong into that microphone and misinforming people.“That is your last name, brother.’ And I was like, ‘Wow you really care about this s***!'”Watch Kroeger explain the name mix-up at the beginning of the clip below.Kroeger also explained that there’s one band he never wants to follow again, recounting several times Atlanta-based band Sevendust opened for Nickelback.