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Who is the biggest sellout?

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Angry Grimace said:
I like how people got angry that Metallica stopped making speed metal because they literally stopped liking speed metal and then everyone called them sell-outs. What's selling out is them making a new speed metal album even though they clearly don't like speed metal (just look at the stuff they listen to when they talk about it. None of it is speed metal).
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This so hard.

Load and Reload where the two most sincere records they ever made. And if they'd continue to follow their own muse instead of the whims of their dumbshit fans they'd have never made St. Anger. That album forward marks the point when Metallica sold out because they sopped making the albums they want to.
 
Robert De Niro for sure. Incredible actor that just doesn't give a shit anymore.

His filmography in the past decade is fucking embarrassing. And I'm pretty sure he turned down a role in The Departed too while accepting all kinds of other shit parts.
 
American journalism after September 11, 2001. Embedded war journalists, political pundits, Twitter and press releases taken as facts.
 
Not the biggest but one many people are still bitter about.

Nick Clegg. Pledges to abolish tuition fees and vote against rises if elected. Enters coalition where he voted to triple them instead.

Then again, do politicians count?
 
ThingontheFloor said:
Metallica has to be up there. They are the encyclopedic definition.
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Not even close really. They changed their music but they're not like some of these rappers who were holding AKs in the 90s and talking about killing cops and now they make kids movies, or whoring themselves out to every product imaginable like Kiss.

You're confusing selling out with Metallica doing what they wanted which just happened to be the opposite of what thrash fans wanted. They gave exactly 0 shits what the reaction would be, and in a way I can respect that even if I was one of the ones pissed about it. You generally don't want artists to be prisoners to their fans if they want to do something else.

Listen to interviews with James and Lars over the last 10 years as they describe this. They were tired of making thrash music and they felt like they and the genre as a whole had hit a wall where it was mostly the same stuff being made over and over again. The internet-worshipped Dave Mustaine even agreed! That's why Megadeth changed their music too after Rust In Peace. Now they didn't make a black album clone but they didn't want to do that whereas Metallica did want to make that and then delve into alternative/experimental stuff. It all came down to simply wanting to change things up.
 
Fusebox said:
How so? He started with cheesy vocal trance and still makes and mixes cheesy vocal trance.
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Not quite... As anyone who kept up with his music from the 00s will tell you otherwise.

He went from

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If you cant differentiate the two songs... then I dont know what to tell you. He catered to mainstream cheesy vocal bullshit.But hey.. you gotta make that money I suppose.
 
SillyEskimo said:
From Wikipedia:

Selling out - Selling out is the compromising of integrity, morality, or principles in exchange for personal gain, such as money. In terms of music or art, selling out is associated with attempts to tailor material to a mainstream or commercial audience, for example a musician who alters their material to encompass a wider audience may be labeled by fans who pre-date the change as a sellout.


I was just listening to Ice Cube's fantastic album "The Predator" from 1992, and I cannot believe this is the same guy currently making family movies like "Are We There Yet?". I'm hard pressed to think of a person that made a bigger 180 than Ice Cube right now but I'm sure they are out there.

Who do you think is the biggest sellout? (Don't limit yourself to music. Go nuts.)
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Did you see the recent coors light commercial with him where it looks like he's trying to be all hard again? But like, he cannot go back. And dude especially not with a coors light commercial wtf.
 
Mick Foley.

In his own words when so accused:

I'm going to have to look in the mirror and admit in my heart that I sold out...I sold out the Garden, I sold out the Coliseum, I sold out every damn arena in this country!
 
Ninja Scooter said:
Ice Cube is filthy rich and in his 40s...would you rather he still pretend to be an angry, angsty teenager who hates the world like Green Day? He has kids and shit. People evolve and change as they get older.
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I agree, why must he stay the same all his life if that's selling out i'm glad he did it fuck the fanboys/girls and dick riders who can't except change for the better.
 
Jewel.
She changed genres twice chasing that dolla.
 
Never understood why people call Ice Cube a sellout

Everyone who acts like they're gangsta is told they need to "grow up and have some responsibility"

but Ice Cube does just that, and is called a sellout.

selling out apparently just means famous people growing up.
 
Gordon Ramsey. I used to like him during the BBC Kitchen Nightmares and F (something?) days. But all those horrible Fox reality shows and other shit are making him feel like a total sellout.
 
Currently, Nicki Minaj's sellout astounds me.

Hot mixtapes and verses on Cypher.... to fucking 'Starships'

Makes me want to puke. Best female rapper ever, and she is just drowning in her own sellout-ism.
 
Seen a lot of Aaron Rodgers in here, how exactly is an athlete a sellout? He's not retired, he performs at a high level every week and is one of the top QBs in the league. Endorsements come with the territory and has been supplementing athlete salaries since I can recall.


Joe Montana may hawk products on horrible commercials but he won superbowls, and a HOF QB. He played, he delivered and he retired. Not sure what his life after sports makes him a 'sellout'.
 
Saying Metallica sold out would imply that they were making music for somebody other than the fans. Instead, they made music that nobody anywhere wanted.
 
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