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?
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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?
Was Chingy ever underground enough to "sell out"?
The Offspring. They used to be fecking brilliant until they moved to Columbia, Smash is one of my all time favourite albums.
I literally cringe when I hear Pretty Fly for a White Guy.
Maybe they're not the biggest sell-outs but it's the one that pisses me off the most.
Ya they got played so much it made me wana kill something. Same with billy talent, thats all you hear on the fucking radio.
the Bee Gees
Most acts change their style or direction during the course of their carreer so why should anyone bitch if their favourite band starts making different music? Did everyone give The Beatles crap when they came up with Strawberry Fields or Hey Jude?
Please, no-one give me the ol' they take the fans money... line, because they don't; the record companies take that and pay their act the alowance they agreed upon in the contract.
Anyway... Jimi Hendrix. ;)
Greenday. :snooty:
correction chingy didnt make it i dont even think he was out by then it was nelly who mad ethe air force song , and i think the BIGGEST seelout is That Fat buy who sang lean back
Often I think sell-out is confused with maturing artists.
Apple must now own U2.
:snooty:
anyone who advertises their album on tv is a sellout :dry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lilmiss
True.Quote:
Originally Posted by I the end I
Anything like pop, rnb, rap, hip hop.. all sell outs always change so can get more money.
At least most metal bands can be real.. Nu metal bands are sell outs too. Can't stand fake music!
are limp bizkit sellouts? i remember back in school told me they were but couldn't tell me how, i presume it's because their song was on a hollywood movie.
they just came back with some political RATM clone shit and had an image change so they look like a pub band :blink:
agreed (about the whole rap and r/b thing). even Nu metal, dude, nothing is "real", every artist takes something and plays the fuck out of it example : 50 cent...oh noes he got teh shots 9 timez!111 who teh fuck cares?Quote:
Originally Posted by Orange_Boy
Nu-metal wise, LP was good, meteora kinda wasn't great.
The only band I can think of that has outshined and matured the most (that's a good thing...that wouldn't make them sellouts). Slipknot ....best band ever. Vol 3 really shows that they've not only matured from screaming in the mic, but proves to everyone they're not idiots. First time I actually felt something hurt in my chest from llstening to a song (Circle and Danger, Stay Away). Hope their next album will kick just as much ass.
Some ppl disagree and say that Vol3 was a big sell out by slipknot, but a lot more ppl prefer music that has meaning to it and rhythm+balance, vol 3 delivers that. Vol 3 is one big book (i think), from start to stop it's an awesome masterpiece. And those masks....oh god I gotta make one lol.
edit: i also find the best way to release stress is to listen to some of 'knots first albums (MFKR, Iowa and Slipknot)...especially songs like Surfacing, Before I Forget, Duality, Left Behind, hell anything from their old albums. Next time you feel like beating the shit out of someone or you feel way too fucking pissed+stressed, sing along to one of these (older) songs.
the red hot chilli peppers. after being a fan for meny years and seeing them live quite a few times. i was gutted when they did there tour last year as they just didnt make an effort, also there album by the way well the less said the better.
to much money has made them forget there fans and write crap music latley, that to me is selling out. i feel really let down.if you cant be botherd why do it?
slipnots latest album rocks by the way, was not to keen on the other two, but you can tell that they have taken there time with this album, i loved it.
Gackt! :lol:
Ya, the whole album (vol3) is a masterpiece, most ppl just associate slipknot with screaming. But this album really proves those assuming bastards wrong lol. I love the tracks on there called Before I Forget, Circle (my favorite, its so beautifully made), and Danger Keep Away.Quote:
Originally Posted by claire2005
Before I forget is pwnage. :cool: I havent listened to that album since when I was in florida. Maybe I'll give it a listen in a few. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by cpt_azad
Metallica. St. Anger is all the proof you need. It sounds NOTHING like their earlier stuff.
Very true!! There old stuff was awesome. I dunno whats happening to these older bands in the modern age :blink: Nothing is like it used to be.. :ermm:Quote:
Originally Posted by micolithe
i love metallica, but i have to agree about there latsest stuff, i have all there albums, and to me they have gone all pansy. at download they did rock, they had slipknots drummer and it was blinding, just wish they could go back to there old ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Linkin Park
If all of the Metallica albums sounded alike you’d be complaining that they’re unoriginal and every song sounded alike. Every album isn’t going to sound like the And Justice album. Just because a group makes an album that doesn’t sound like the one before doesn’t mean that they’ve sold out it means that they don’t want to get stuck in a rut and have every song sound alike.Quote:
Originally Posted by micolithe
Have you HEARD the abomination that is St. Anger? They turned Nu-Metal on us. Imagine going from Metallica to Korn, except worse. It's that much of a drop in quality.
what is people's problem with nu-metal?
would you hate it if it didn't sound good to enough people to go mainstream?
Quality wise the writing is still good it’s just the sound quality of the album which isn’t so good, but that’s how the album is supposed to sound. The sound that they were going for was stripped down and they achieved that.Quote:
Originally Posted by micolithe
Metallica isn’t scared to try new things and this album is another example.
metallica may not be scared to try new things, but it didnt work, the band even say that the last album was there worst and that they will go back to there old ways for there new album.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigBank_Hank
milli vanilli
I find that very hard to believe. That would be the first time in the history of music a band would come out and say made a terrible album.Quote:
Originally Posted by claire2005
it wouldn't be
its gotta b the rolling stones. all they do is tour and perform to sell out crowds
Green Day, no doubt.
Britney spears, Pepsi owned her for awhile.
u2
Blink 182
I say Metallica because they jumped right on the bandwagon to get napster shut down. Man i miss the old days of Napster and Audio Galaxy. :cool2:
I think the biggest sellouts are when artists plug their own previous hits or Mega Corporations in their new ones.
I remember some good ones.
Dire Straits... "I want my MTV"
Sting... "every breath you take..."
sell out... eh... you need to be against The Man before you can sell out to him. or have a real artistic vision before you can start compromising it. like. Green Day? they were a pop band, they're still a pop band, they'll always be a pop band. i mean the stuff that was released on Lookout, before they ever had a video on MTV. they were pop, just as the Buzzcocks and the Ramones were pop, playing pop tunes and singing about pop things but only three chords per song. Green Day's formula may be wearing extremely thin, but it's not as if their new stuff is worse than their early stuff, musically & lyrically, or even sounds much different from their early stuff.
biggest sell out. somebody who professed to be against The Man and everything The Man stands for, then traded it all in for easy money & cranking out unchallenging drivel.
maybe not the biggest, it's all arbitrary anyway, but...
Ice Cube, 1990.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...1.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
man, this dude really hates Cops, Whitey, Women, and The Man. he's possibly one of the angriest rappers of the late 80s & early 90s.
Ice Cube, 2005.
http://movies.apple.com/trailers/son...ges/keyart.jpg
WHAT??? get in a time machine, travel back in time to 1990 and tell Ice Cube's fans that in 2005 he will be starring in movies like "Are We There Yet?" they will be like "WUH TUH FUHHHHHH??? you gotta be kidding." that "We Be Clubbing" stuff was a pretty weak statement, too.
Aerosmith
Anti-Flag, hands down.
Also, Sevendust...not before they signed to a major and were against it or anything but because since they got their last record produced by the same guy Creed uses they lost any original sound they had and sounds just like any other band on the radio; as if the music was mass produced out of molds, which it was.