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What is SELLOUT?A band who abandons there morals and sells to corporations making music for money rather than because they enjoy it/ they want to get there point accross look in the charts, anyone who claims to be alternative etc. genrally SELLOUT - meme gifSELLOUT - videoSELLOUT - what is it?Just want to make it clear tat because an artist's song is used in a commercial (like Back in Black}in that shitastic gap jean ad) doesn't mean the band has a soldout. The record company often owns the rights to the song and gives the Advertising Agency the right to use it. The Gap Sucks! What does "SELLOUT" mean?A vague but derogatory term blindly used by music "fans" to describe bands who make (or have managers who make) a new lucrative and/or artistically experimental decision (for example: accepting a product endorsement, a change in the band's expected composition style, switching to a larger record label, dressing with more class, speaking out against mass mp3 piracy, etc.) The word is sometimes also applied to bands who simply get more commercial success through no additional effort. Actual quotes from an old friend: SELLOUT - what does it mean?"Selling out is compromising your musical intentions and we don't know how to do that."-Mike Dirnt of Green Day. I couldn't have said it better myself, beings as it's hard to define a sellout. Selling out is kind of irrelevant because if you start out in music not wanting to sell out, people are still going to like you. And when 10,000 people come to indie label shows it gets crowded. So go ahead with the major label if you need room to grow, just don't sell your soul or mangle your music to do it. A 'sellout' probably doesn't give a shit whether you like them or not. SELLOUT - meaningA band who changes their music to include more poppy parts, to gain popularity. Often confused with "getting famous", "getting better sound" and "writing less heavy music". Prime example - lostprophets (re-releasing an album that was only 2 years old, to make it more 'accessible') SELLOUT - definitionselling out is the term used when someone disregards their integrity, self respect, friendship or morals to achieve a shallow personal gain eg. money, popularity, acceptance. dissappointed fan: bob dylan is a sellout, he set out to right wrongs and he made great protest songs and now he does ipod ands so he can make money offa teenyboppers SELLOUT - slangA word that would be useful if stupid poseurs didn't use it all the time. Proper usage: SELLOUTIn the words of zefrank, a sellout "doesn't have to do with actually having money, it has to do with the perception that your pursuit of popularity and potentially making money has caused you to sacrifice your core values." zefrank1: Shit what can I do? SELLOUT1. When an artist conforms to the way record labels, managers, etc see them to make money through commercial success and generally not the original fan base. 1. Metallica (90's). SELLOUTTo surrender to materialistic ideals. To take an idea mainstream. To not be yourself. Due to the selloutism of our society, people have forgotton that the best things in life are free. |
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