glycerine said:
I still maintain Jewel! Jewel Jewel Jewel Jewel!
From this:
circa 1996
to this:
circa 2004
that is by far the most perfect visual representation of selling out i have ever seen...
you deserve to be the most repped person on here.
but anyways enough of the praise... that article of korn's said this
2 : to betray one’s cause or associates
When pertaining to punk rock, this usually also entails changing one’s sound to writing more “poppish,” radio-friendly, and polished songs. Those bands who “sell out” get famous, and generally earn quite a bit of money.
Well, let’s take a look at that. In order to “sell-out” in the punk rock world, a band needs to achieve several things:
a) Someone needs to be offering to pay a band for them to change their sound in a required way.
b) The change has to be something that the band wouldn’t drift to if they weren’t being payed, i.e. the bandmembers dislike the change (but are doing it for the money).
c) The band has to have the ability to just wake up and change their sound and/or style.
IM BACK TOM TALKING NOW
i would agree with all of this except that someone needs to be offering to pay them... a band can manufacturer its new sell out form of music hoping that someone will pick them up or that they will have more mainstream success...
i hate what the author says about blink in the last bit though. i love blinks new sound, its so heavily influenced by old school 80's punkers like the cure...
