Why Chad Kroeger Is ‘Over’ Nickelback Hate and Won’t Talk About It Anymore

After the release of the new documentary Nickelback: Hate to Love, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival this weekend, frontman Chad Kroeger is done talking about the hate his band gets. "I'm over it," he said.

During an interview with People, Kroeger took the reporter's microphone and said, "If somebody stuck that thing in your face every single day and said, 'The whole world hates you like this, the whole world hates you. What do you have to say about that?' Every single day. Every day. Would there be reluctance on your behalf to talk about it? Would you get pissed off? Would you be over it after a while?"

"We made a documentary, everybody can watch it," he added. "And now from this day forward, if anybody asks that question in the press, it's like that's the end of the interview. So if you want to end an interview, that's all you have to say and that will be it."

Nickelback: Hate to Love, directed by Leigh Brooks, traces the band's meteoric rise to success in the 2000s – and descent into punchline status in certain circles.

"We try to laugh it off," the singer says in the film. "You can laugh off about 90 percent of it. But some of it hurts."