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so.... what's your definition for a band selling out?

How is it that i rap culture a small independant maing it to the big is a great achievement while in an indie band signing big is disgraceful?
 
sellout - band who changes their music to please more people.
example: A7X-> early music, real heavy, never sang.
changes: not nearly as heavy, never screams.
one bad move by A7X was to go to mtv which makes them more mainstream now
and ill give it to them though that they never scream anymore.. since the vocalist did kind of fuck up his throat so whenever he screams, it starts to bleed. but he sounRAB all shitty.. like he's singing with something in his mouth

just my opinion though
 
My mate Robbie, he's in the band called Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps, he's always going on about not wanting to sell out.

He reckoned letting other people hear his music was selling out. We got over that quickly

He's still go issues with having a MySpace page, cos that means like anyone can hear his stuff, and if thats not selling out he dunno what is.

Cool name for a band though
 
When the aspect of making money takes control over the music. Like, they stop making music as fun and do it just for the money.
IE, Switchfoot, their earlier stuff, pre-beautiful letdown, was stinking awesome, I love their earlier stuff more then I do any of their new stuff...it all bleeRAB together, the earlier stuff did not do that.
 
Another thing that i would add is when banRAB release albums because the record companies want them to or they just want to ride their own previous success. As opposed to making new music when they have put together something they feel is right, at the right time, and with everything put together.... now i'm rambling cause i can't concentrate.
 
I'm not sure that this is true.

They did change their style considerably from the days of Dookie and Insomniac to make their music more mainstream, which is one reason why I believe that they sold out.

By signing to a bigger label and changing their music to a political pop style, I'm sure they had an idea of how much exposure that would grant them. Maybe they "grew up", but I'm not sure that was best for their music.
 
wrong, that's what a lot of people like to think though. going to a bigger record label is the natural progression of a band who has the potential to make it big. any band who wouldnt move to a bigger label just because of 'credibility' is quite ridiculous.

for some reason, a lot of music elitists seem to think switching labels is selling out
 
selling out if forgetting what you started with, changing morals and values for money or a bigger fan base. has nothing to do with a record label.
 
My definition of a sell out is when a band changes their image, music, and sound just to appeal to the mainstream and to make more money. Though I am still a big fan, Metallica is an example of selling out. They changed their image, sounRAB, and music just so they could get into the mainstream. They made an ass load of money also. There are more banRAB out there, I'm just too tired to talk about them all doing it.
 
Think about it, Dookie WAS mainstream, they knew it sold well and they could have made a shit ton of money just putting out the same record over and over again, at least they've changed somewhat over the years.
 
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