1. A band that allowed its beliefs to be compromised for the sake of making money, or as they sometimes say, "distributing their music better."
2. According to many people here, word said out of jealousy for some bands fame. However, these people wouldn't understand of course, because they live in a world where music is made primarily for fortune and fame, whereas others who use the word for the previous (and proper) definition listen to music thats created out of devotion, not to make money.
While yeah money is needed to be able to survive in the world, there are bands out there that don't play on the radio or give MTV permission to sell them (thats the catch.. MTV sells BANDS, not MUSIC), and yet these bands have HEAPS of fans.
I'm not saying selling out is WRONG, but i am saying that i disagree with the idea of selling out and i don't respect sellouts that much.
To all those people who say "Sellout" is used just cuz people are jealous of some bands' success, then all I can say is that i don't blame you for thinking that; it's a concept too complex for your simple brains to handle, so why don't you just go off and watch some MTV, eh? You'll never change.
Cheers
2. According to many people here, word said out of jealousy for some bands fame. However, these people wouldn't understand of course, because they live in a world where music is made primarily for fortune and fame, whereas others who use the word for the previous (and proper) definition listen to music thats created out of devotion, not to make money.
While yeah money is needed to be able to survive in the world, there are bands out there that don't play on the radio or give MTV permission to sell them (thats the catch.. MTV sells BANDS, not MUSIC), and yet these bands have HEAPS of fans.
I'm not saying selling out is WRONG, but i am saying that i disagree with the idea of selling out and i don't respect sellouts that much.
To all those people who say "Sellout" is used just cuz people are jealous of some bands' success, then all I can say is that i don't blame you for thinking that; it's a concept too complex for your simple brains to handle, so why don't you just go off and watch some MTV, eh? You'll never change.
Cheers
Previously "Punk" bands like Blink 182, The Ataris, The Offspring and Sum 41 abandoned their DIY beliefs because they wanted more money. Sellouts arent confined to punk music; it infects every music genre. After all, money makes the world go round.
by Anonymous May 13, 2003
The word sell out usually refers to an artist who gains popularity for what they do best,but as they climb the ladder to fame they forget what they stand for and there art becomes more business than art. Doing what ever it takes to earn money.
Blink 182- became commercialized after switching drummers started selling books about them and produced signature guitars.
Limpbizkit- Durst stopped writing music for expression (choclate star fish) and mad music that he believe would bring the sucess
Limpbizkit- Durst stopped writing music for expression (choclate star fish) and mad music that he believe would bring the sucess
by Mysci April 05, 2003
by Prettymans February 19, 2019
by Director_droid August 02, 2018
Term for someone who figuratively gave the finger to their background & culture & in essence, “sold out” to another group or culture. Someone hanging out or dating someone outside their own group DOESN’T make them a sellout. Someone assimilating & buying into another group 100% is a living example of a sellout.
Primary sellout examples (at least in America) in today’s world include but are not limited to:
Asian-Americans (not just any) who bought into the alt-right, especially Asian Women. They are right wing weeaboos & sold out their own culture and believe in white genocide just so they could suck the mans dick.
Any “White ethnic” group members & especially orthodox & catholic white ethnics who suck dicks of the Protestant Establishment & turn their back on their Hispanic catholic brethren by supporting ICE & deportation of immigrants yet are/were part of immigrant groups from Eastern-Central Europe themselves. But instead of remembering these hardships they basically sold out to the man and are pussies.
Conservative (especially pro-trumpers) Hispanics, Natives, Blacks, and Certain non-White immigrants (who arrived in America more recently than the white ethnic immigrants) who’d rather support the establishment than their culture & think for themselves. Being a conservative ALONE doesn’t make you a sellout. But becoming so conservative that you believe everything the man says without question (which most of Conservative America has become sadly) does make you a sellout.
Primary sellout examples (at least in America) in today’s world include but are not limited to:
Asian-Americans (not just any) who bought into the alt-right, especially Asian Women. They are right wing weeaboos & sold out their own culture and believe in white genocide just so they could suck the mans dick.
Any “White ethnic” group members & especially orthodox & catholic white ethnics who suck dicks of the Protestant Establishment & turn their back on their Hispanic catholic brethren by supporting ICE & deportation of immigrants yet are/were part of immigrant groups from Eastern-Central Europe themselves. But instead of remembering these hardships they basically sold out to the man and are pussies.
Conservative (especially pro-trumpers) Hispanics, Natives, Blacks, and Certain non-White immigrants (who arrived in America more recently than the white ethnic immigrants) who’d rather support the establishment than their culture & think for themselves. Being a conservative ALONE doesn’t make you a sellout. But becoming so conservative that you believe everything the man says without question (which most of Conservative America has become sadly) does make you a sellout.
Let me be clear I (the person who wrote this definition down) am Part White Ethnic and part Old Stock (term for non-W.A.S.P Americans who’ve been here since the beginning of The U.S.A) and am hardcore socialist but at least I remembered my culture and ancestors sacrifice and didn’t disrespect them becoming a sellout to the man.
by Slavy August 09, 2019