Do you consider people who release a lot of music sellouts?

[acdcrock]

The Beatles Released 13 albums in 10 years, would you call them sellouts? I certainly wouldn't.

[Rocket2Russia]

The Beatles Released 13 albums in 10 years, would you call them sellouts? I certainly wouldn't.

umm....

[a21schizoidman]

The Beatles Released 13 albums in 10 years, would you call them sellouts? I certainly wouldn't.

yes i would

[killer_roach]

yes i would

Funnier part is, they ended up largely being victims of their own success toward the end, having to ultimately devote as much (or more) of their effort towards forming various shell businesses as tax dodges than they did their actual music...

[exploder]

wesley willis waas not a sellout and he released more than 50 albums

[instantdeath999]

I think calling anybody a sellout is stupid. its a stupid word.

Agreed.

On the word "sellout"... might as well just spray my opinion everywhere.

I do think sellout is a very baseless buzz word with no tangible meaning. In my eyes, it's also a very pretentious term that is, more often or not, sprayed around with no regard to what little meaning it has.

The term implies a quick change in style for profit reasons, correct? Then, it also must imply foreknowledge of the accuses musicians intent and ambitions. A band makes a sudden style change; sellouts, or do they genuinely feel they need to go in a different direction with their music for purely artistic reasons? Being too presumptuous is almost never a good thing.

Since Metallica are used with the term so often... did they sell out? No, I don't think so, although they did suffer a huge drop in quality. The Black Album was an attempt to make a more simple arena rock album akin to what Lars was listening to at the time. Now; Thrash Metal to Arena Rock? Is that a sellout? Again, I don't think so, because it implies that some genres of music naturally have more integrity than others, and to change is to downgrade. If a great technical death metal band became a great power-pop band without sacrificing the raw integrity of their music, would they be sellouts?

The problem with Metallica, of course, is they didn't make their transgression particularly well, especially onto the later albums, but that's an entirely different conversation. So many music enthusiasts are hypocritical; are The Replacements sellouts for stripping down a large part of their sound in Don't Tell a Soul? Is Bob Dylan a sellout for adopting the electric guitar? I don't think so, and can't imagine why anyone would. That's where the hypocrisy comes into view, I believe; when an artist makes a unsuccessful transgression from one genre to another, they are called sellouts.

Just really another common music buzzword I find no merit in.

[afterstasis]

agreed...

while sellouts, posers, and trend-hoppers certainly exist i can't really think of a time i really give a damn.
if anything, i've found that people who worry about that crap, tossing out childish accusations are the biggest hypocrites.

[I_Love_You]

no, but artists who purposely change their style too be accepted into the mainstream and make sh*t loads of money are sellouts. i.e Metallica

This basically covers it.