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"Selling out"
decklin:
Speaking of! NPR had a good story on, as Dar put it, indie vs. major labels this morning. They closed it with "Soul Meets Body".
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5021206
(which song I do not like, but then, Good News... is my favorite Modest Mouse album so go figure.)
Kai:
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--- Quote from: Zac_The_Ripper ---1) As an artist, it is your purpose in life to enlighten as many people as possible, in a way that they would never be able to do on their own.
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wrong.
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Indeed. As an artist, it is your job to alienate, piss off, and weird/scare the hell out of everybody.
sjbrot:
--- Quote from: decklin ---Speaking of! NPR had a good story on, as Dar put it, indie vs. major labels this morning.
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That just mademe think of the new issue of Rockpile, where one of the guys from K Records was describing the Indie Label Voltron, which I think involved K, Dischord, Touch and Go and one other as lions in the the thing.
invisibilityshirt:
--- Quote from: Storm Rider ---I define 'selling out' as taking your music in a different direction (often a worse one) so that it will appeal to a greater demographic and thereby earning you more money. It doesn't necessarily have to be something you didn't create. The obvious one is Metallica deciding they liked huge piles of money more than playing good music.
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I agree with this (except the bit about Metallica, since they never made good music to start with.... sorry). All this complaining about Jack White "selling out" because he wrote a song about a product he likes (and making money, as well as possibly getting more people to listen to his records) is bullshit. I love it when I hear songs by bands I like on TV.
Bunnyman:
The concept of selling out is about as nebulous as the concept of hipster cred.
It seems, for example, that Britney Spears and other pop artists have somehow become recursively hip in certain hipster circles; it seems that while a certain degree of success is anathema (Interpol? NC?) superultramegaplatinum success is perfectly legit. Is this the hipster equivalent of the uncanny valley, or is it just proof that the concept is as fickle as the very concept of taste in music?
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