I don't like that expression. It's overused. So damn overused. But everyone knows the Black Eyed Peas sold out big time.
There's going to be comments about Metallica, Linkin Park maybe Muse or Coldplay and other i cant recall right now. They didn't sold out, why would you change to another style if you were making good money with the first style? They might changed, maybe to wrong, but they did it because they felt in a different position in life and they couldnt keep on going with the same thing. Music is made by humans, the persons evolve and change and so do their music. There are actually a few band that have sold out, you know, for money. That my opinion at least.
By definition the Beatles. They were the first to sell out huge stadiums and of course their record sales are still the highest out of any artist.
In reality I think an artists like Vanilla Ice, Milli Vanilli, Backstreet Boys, etc. who make music ONLY to make money. Making money as an artist I have no problem with, but when the band is more of a business model instead of people wanting to create art should be shot along with the corporate bastards that created them.
U2 I think is the band that keeps on being the biggest sell out loser band and then surprises us with something amazing like Achtung Baby. They then do things like: Original Soundtracks 1 (also known as Original Soundtracks) is a 1995 album recorded by U2 and Brian Eno, as a side project, under the pseudonym Passengers. It is a collection of songs written for mostly imaginary movies (the exclusions being songs for Ghost in the Shell, Miss Sarajevo, and Beyond the Clouds). This is a great album not many know about. How many rock bands have the artistry to do a duet with Luciano Pavarotti? Your Blue Room, United Colours, Elvis Ate America, and Miss Sarajevo are must listens. They are a tough band to peg sometimes.
I can think of quite a few sellouts, but the first two that always come to mind for me are Sugar Ray and The Goo Goo Dolls. Sugar Ray started out as a borderline metal band I believe, and obviously we all know they became pop rock and Mark McGrath ended up on Entertainment Tonight or some sort of pop culture show. And The Goo Goo Dolls were a garage/punk rock band in the late 80's early 90's, and they also completely sold out to mainstream pop/rock. Pretty ridiculous when you listen to both bands early work. But hey they made a buck, they just obviously don't care much about the music.
Amen to Sugar Ray and Goo Goo Dolls- that's when some jackass said it's ok for bands like that to join the "alternative" scene. The end of music as we know it.
and here's a question: given the amount of ads and movies/programs that their music appears in, are the Black Keys sell-outs?? _________________ "Bunch of opinionated, hipster twats!"
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