Who do you think are the biggest sellouts, music wise?

[Alien5]

Ozzy Osbourne

its gotta be ozzy he sold out his whole family for a tv show
i would

[brotherdoobie]

Everyone...it's the point of signing with a label...otherwise bands would just post
their songs on the interweb for free.

Peace bd

[suprafreak6]

stay on track

truth fully i think nsync had the most sellouts

[Alien5]

stay on track

truth fully i think nsync had the most sellouts

sellouts

[sparsely]

I guess it's the problem with defining what constitutes a "sellout".

A band experimenting with different styles or getting signed by a major label doesn't make them, in my view, a sellout.
The way I see it, they become sellouts when they compromise their own vision for money, or for their record label, or for whatever.

Some people have said in this thread that Metallica sold out because of their last album or two...shit, they sold out when Lars' bitch ass got his vagina in a twist about Napster. That is a sellout, making a shitty song is not.

As far as the biggest sellout to me...I was always really bothered by the fact that David Gilmour et al kept using the Pink Floyd name even after Roger Waters left.
While I'm aware that a bassist/lyricist/singer does not constitute an entire band, he wrote almost every word they sang, and fostered the vision of what they became in the post-Syd Barret era.
The way I see it, they just kept the name because they knew people would keep buying albums and stuff just because of the name Pink Floyd.
Anything after The Final Cut, even though there are some decent songs, have always seemed...well...it's not Pink Floyd.

[neon]

I can only think of one right now.

Chingy- he made a whole friggin song to promote his shoes (air forces)

What can u guys think of?

All the mainstream rap, chingy 50cent snoop, they dont represent cultre hiphop lyricism or anything.
They are the death of hiphop, hiphop is only truely used in the underground now days, it was never about gangsters etc thats just what you see on MTV, because it "sells" talking about the club, 80+% of 50cent's fans are white kids, not black kids and they are buying his music and thats how he becomes "platnium" when i bet you a million dollars he couldnt make a song with metaphors and similes of a high grade English standard like true hiphop lyricists would.

and i think metallica is ovverated