“That Was Peak Budweiser #8” — Dale Jr. Talks About His Cameo In Nickelback’s 2007 “Rockstar” Music Video

Peak 2000's pop culture. Of course, I think most of us who grew up in the late 90's and early 2000's remember hearing Nickelback on the radio constantly, and I din't care what anyone says, their music video for "Rockstar" is still fun to watch... It's full of celebrities, athletes and pop cultures fixtures, like the girls from the hit E! show Girls Next Door , which was one of my favorites and I still love the ladies who were on that show. They're obviously the stars of the video, but a certain NASCAR driver also makes a cameo... And that would be Mr. Dale Earnhardt Jr. He mouths the line about driving fast cars (duh), and it's just a glorious moment for 2000's culture that is truly a time capsule and blast from the past to watch today. I had forgotten how many people were in that video, and how big it was at the time it came out. "Rockstar" was released as the fifth single from Nickelback's 2005 album All the Right Reasons , peaking at #6 on U.S. Billboard Hot 100 back then. It has since been certified 4× Platinum by the RIAA in the United States. And on a recent episode of his Dale Jr. Download podcast, Jr. talked about what the experience of filming it was like, seeing as it was in the heyday of his popularity and celebrity, and overall a great time in his career: "Oh, man! Lots of fun. I still see it... those were the days. That was mid, that was peak Budweiser #8. We're running well. We were in other music videos, we did 3 Doors Down. We were having a lot of fun. They were big back then. And the list of other people that were in that video... when we did 3 Doors Down, it was me and [Tony] Stewart, that was fun. But this video was gonna have a lot of other people in it that were [in] pop culture. I got to shoot it right there on my property, pretty easy. It ended up being a popular song. It was easy, took 15 minutes to shoot my little spot. They just had me sing a couple lyrics, a little block of lyrics and we were done." It's kind of easy to forget at times just how big Dale Jr. was back during this time. He really was a celebrity in every sense of the word, and obviously he still is now, but at the height of his career he was everywhere doing everything and it was a really cool time for the sport. Yes, he was quite the music video star back in the day as you heard him also reference starring in a 3 Doors Down music video, and he was even featured in an awesome episode of MTV Cribs you can watch HERE . And here's the clip from The Dale Jr. Download :   https://youtu.be/CDgrb1s0BXc?t=458 And sorry in advance if you have this stuck in your head for the rest of the day, but... turn it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmeUuoxyt_E Here's the 3 Doors Down video of "The Road I'm On" he mentioned co-starring in with Tony Stewart if you haven't seen it before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQBOBg_elPk