Megan Thee Stallion and Nickelback Stage an Unhinged Heist for Cheetos

It's time to bring the flamin' hot pickle back

It’s a wild ride for the return of Cheetos’ Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle flavor. Gut Miami and director Dave Meyers created a music video starring Megan Thee Stallion and Nickelback. The collab that reimagines the Canadian rockers hit “How You Remind Me.”

This OTT goodness begins with Megan running out of her fave Cheetos flavor. She tells a PA on set that she needs her pickle back, which the assistant mishears as “Nickelback.” Even Chad Kroeger can’t believe it. But his bandmate reminds him that “we’ve done weirder.”

The band makes the lyrics more Cheetos friendly and when they meet Megan.

Sings Megan: “Flamin’ pickle you remind me of why my tongue burns. Flamin’ pickle you remind me of why I let my nose run.”

Megan soon decides to break into Cheetos HQ and steal the safe full of Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle. Kroeger sings while he hangs onto the truck: “These five words in my head scream are your fingers red yet.” That would make Weird Al proud.

The video ends with an explosion of red dust, citywide pandemonium and the Cheetos marketing department vowing to bring the pickle back.

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The video is running on Cheetos YouTube, with behind the scenes footage to run on Megan’s and Nickleback’s socials.

“Cheetos has always been about mischief and the unexpected. We sought out a duo that might not make sense at first, kind of like dill pickle and Flamin’ Hot heat, but once you see it and hear it, it just works,” says Chris Bellinger, CCO at PepsiCo Foods U.S. “Megan’s role is especially fitting we partnered with her in 2022 where she served as the brand’s original Flamin’ Hottie and loves to pair pickles and Cheetos Flamin’ Hot together.”

“Megan and Nickelback were deeply involved in the creative process alongside myself and Dave. It was important that the project felt authentically Cheetos, but also true to the artists and directors own work. From the lyrics to the larger-than-life visuals, you really feel all three worlds colliding in the best way.”

 “It was only right for the Hot Girl Coach to team up with Cheetos Flamin’ Hot to bring back the iconic, Dill Pickle flavor,” adds Megan.

“We went over-the-top with the stunts—from strapping both Megan and Chad into harnesses to hang off a moving truck, to Megan riding a pickle surfboard—we really wanted to have fun with it,” Bellinger tells Muse. “On set, everyone leaned into the unhinged chaos of it all.”