Look, 2026 has already thrown some curveballs, but this one might take the crown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nickelback have just released a new music video with Megan Thee Stallion to announce the comeback of Cheetos\u2019 Flamin\u2019 Hot Dill Pickle flavour, and nobody had this on our 2026 bingo card.<\/p>\n
US rapper Megan Thee Stallion is not exactly the artist you\u2019d expect to see teaming up with Chad Kroeger to sing about snack foods, but here we are.<\/p>\n
The whole thing comes from Frito-Lay, the company behind Cheetos, who wanted to grab the attention of younger consumers. Their chief creative officer Chris Bellinger laid it out straight. \u201cI can buy a view, but I can\u2019t buy a like and I can\u2019t buy a comment. And I definitely can\u2019t buy a share,\u201d he said. So the solution was simple. Throw Nickelback, Megan, and a spicy pickle into the same blender and see what happens.<\/p>\n
The track is called Pickle\u2019s Back, and it opens with Megan demanding more Flamin\u2019 Hot Dill Pickle Cheetos only to discover the flavour has been discontinued. She ropes in Nickelback for a \u201cduet\u201d, which the band agree to with the very Nickelback line, \u201cWe\u2019ve done weirder.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then they launch into a reworked version of How You Remind Me with lyrics like, \u201cThey\u2019re bringing back the Flamin\u2019 Pickle\u2026 It\u2019s only \u2019cause it rhymes with \u2018nickel.\u2019\u201d Again, points for honesty.<\/p>\n
From there, the video goes full blockbuster. Secret-agent outfits, cheetah masks, a break-in at a Cheetos warehouse, a truck chase, and an explosion of Flamin\u2019 Hot dust that basically baptises an entire city.<\/p>\n
By the end, the fictional Frito-Lay execs scrap their anchovy and mayo flavour, cave to the pandemonium, and officially \u201cbring pickle back.\u201d<\/p>\n
So if you\u2019ve been wondering what Nickelback have been up to, they\u2019re out saving discontinued snacks with rap artists. There ya go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Look, 2026 has already thrown some curveballs, but this one might take the crown.\u00a0 Nickelback have just released…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-349915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}