Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger says everyone’s been pronouncing his last name wrong

If you've been pronouncing Chad Kroeger's last name like the U.S. grocery store chain, you're wrong.

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.'”