What Is A Sellout?

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SPIN I DIDNT SEE U OR YO POST I JUS SAW DIS TOPIC AND SNAPPED U HIT A VALID POINT SO DID VICEVURSA and one otha cat I forgot name.
 
I agree with a lot of things stated in this thread.

BUT...

I repeat .... I would not call somebody a "sell out". Because none of us knows what anybody has to go through to get where they are going.

Simple as THAT. :)

The term "sell out", IMHO, means .... someone who compromises their values and beliefs for FINANCIAL GAINS.

But you can't "hate on" somebody because they did whatever it takes, in their eyes, to succeed.

And.... I wouldn't all Kurt Cobain a "sell out", .... hell, I didn't even know him (personally).

Some people, that don't know me, might call me a "sell out". Because, back in the day, I used to be mister super underground hip-hop scratch-every-5-seconds DJ.

But now, all I play and produce is House/Dance music..

That doesn't make me a "sell out" .......

I just ... get-in-where-I-fit-in. ;)
 
hehehehehe...

anyway
One more scenario....

A rock band that wants to stick to it's roots and claims that a band shoud sound like a band..... just 4 guys playing their instrument, without any "overproduction".......

Then five years later they release an album with drum machines and sequenced keyboards and manufactured loops...... and, 25 layers of background vocals....

To me, that is also an example of selling out....

If they had never made that statement about being all roots and real, and just naturally progressed on there own, they wouldn't be sellouts.....

Not imo.. I used to say the same things when i were playing rock. I despised the world of techno and anything that wasn't played on "real" instruments. Then I grew up. I got bored, cause the sound of the guitar and the sound of the bass was allways the same and rock started to bore me cause it was allways 1/2 guitars, a bass, a drummer and a singer. Stereotypical imo.
Then i started to mess with putting some electronic beats and sound into my music and I really liked it. It has now evolved to the point where electronic is the only thing i make and i wouldn't do anything else.
In your definition i'm a sellout. I agree with spin and xelfish cause you can't say someone is a sellout without knowing the entire story.
 
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