Nickelback and Megan Thee Stallion have come together in an epic, unhinged new advert for Cheetos.
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The new ad aired yesterday (Thursday March 26), and sees the post-grunge icons and the acclaimed rapper join forces to announce the return of the Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle flavour of the crisps.
The whole thing is very tongue-in-cheek from start to finish, with Megan urging her assistant to “do it” and get her “pickle back” after hearing that the flavour was discontinued – to which the request was misheard as a “duet” with “Nickelback”.
It then cuts to the Canadian band in the studio, who after questioning the request, ultimately agree as they’ve said yes to “weirder” offers in the past.
Together, the two perform a strange duet of the band’s hit song ‘How You Remind Me’, and reimagine it with new Cheeto-inspired lyrics like “They’re bringing back the Flamin’ Pickle / Cheetos really wanna let the world know / It’s only ’cause it rhymes with ‘nickel’ / That’s why they paid us for a huge commercial.”
The clip also shows the rapper and the band getting suited for a heist, in which they break into the Cheetos vault, steal all of the remaining packets of the discontinued snack, and make a quick getaway – destroying the city in the process. Check it out below.
For Megan, the new ad comes following the rapper revealing that she is underway with completing “act three” of her albums, and planning on releasing new music later in 2026.
An exact release date has not yet been announced, but when the record does drop it will be the continuation of her 2024 album ‘Megan‘, and the follow-up ‘Megan: Act II’, which dropped later that year in a surprise release. The artist has already shared some singles since that last LP: ‘Whatever’ and ‘Lover Girl’.
As for Nickelback, frontman Chad Kroeger recently went viral after being filmed reluctantly singing ‘Rockstar’ to a demanding fan, and Jack Black broke out a hilarious cover of ‘How You Remind Me’ during a recent interview which went viral.
The collaborations don’t end with Megan Thee Stallion either – the band recently worked with Don Broco for a thunderous new song called ‘Nightmare Tripping’, and The Lottery Winners’ Thom Rylance told NME at the BRITs about how he secured a “sea shanty” duet with Kroeger.
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