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   The Original Just Me, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 12:52pm

   
   

   Agree

   Sell outs!

    

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   Beefcake, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 1:14pm

   
   

   I wish I could sell out

   I'm glad everyone thinks artists don't need to eat. Honestly, who's the bigger sellout? Someone who uses their inherent talent to make the world a more interesting place and is lucky and talented enough to have someone pay them for it; or someone who suppresses their inherent talents working miserably as a cubicle jockey so they can afford lease-payments on an Acura?
   
   If your answer is still the first example (despite my leading question), then do you consider Reggie Bush a sellout? Why is it only artists can sell out by making bank on their talents?
   
   I'm sure it wasn't meant this seriously, but just think about it.

    

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   Sanguine Dream, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 1:27pm

   
   

   It's all about...

   being "underground", "counter-culture", or "different". And group starts off in small clubs and parties and gets a bit of a following. When that band is winning a grammy all of a sudden they are called sellouts by the people that used to watch them in the small clubs. To an extent some artists do sell out by forgetting where they came from and totally change their style to cater to the audience with the most money. But some fans are simply crying, "We were here first." They thought they had the one-up on the mainstream because they found a good band that wasn't big time yet. But when the band goes mainstream that small fan base loses its exclusivity, the thing that made them different, therefore they are no longer "cool" or whatever the term is today.

    

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   :), Oct 25th, 2006 @ 1:33pm

   
   

   Sanguine Dream.. sorry you've never been cool.

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 1:34pm

   
   

   Re: It's all about...

   "cool" or whatever the term is today
   
   it's now pimp daddy mackeral

    

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   William, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 1:43pm

   
   

   Sellouts

   Sellouts are people who put making money above there art. So if you are a rapper and you drop the hard core stuff and start doing some lame R-Kelly stuff too appeal to the mainstream you are a sell out. It's got nothing to do with how much money you make. It's did you stay true to your art and keep it real. And I for one see nothing wrong with people making money and it doesn't matter if you they were discovered on UTube or singing at the Apollo.

    

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   whargoul, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 1:52pm

   
   

   Re: I wish I could sell out

   Who's Reggie Bush?

    

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 1:53pm

   
   

   Sellouts...

   What most people fail to see is that an "artist" would never sell out, as they are in it to satisfy their passion. Anyone who does it for the money is a "professional" and not an artist.
   
   All professional entertainers are sellouts as they are in it for the money. That's it.
   
   I don't like either one of those classes, but at least I can recognize them.

    

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   William, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 1:59pm

   
   

   Bush

   Reggie is a football player with the Saints. Some sports people are making a big stink because he was given a bunch of money while he was playing at USC

    

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    Captain, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 2:00pm

    
    

    Re: Sellouts

    I agree with William. The term "sell-out" has nothing to do with trading art for money. It's when you trade your soul that the issue truly arises.
    
    Artists creating their art for expression is what makes it beautiful, interseting, clever, obsene [fill in your own adjective here]. But when the art is dictated or directed from someone with only a bottom line in mind, you trade the art moniker for the term commodity.

     

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    Sanguine Dream, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 2:08pm

    
    

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    don't apologize...that's my intent.

     

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    Tim, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 3:04pm

    
    

    It's very common agency practice when you have that many layers of agents and agent wanna bees in a high level meeting to have someone come up with monitoring the new stars of YouTube and MySpace to see if they can't filter out some new celebrity, it's an open forum where agents can do casting calls from their desktops.
    And it's very true that "your peers will think your a sell out" but the industry that will gain the most from this move will probably be the porn industry because that is what you have a lot of out there, wanna be porn stars, especially on MySpace , it's filled with popular booty girls and sexy strippers who want more.

     

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    Elohssa, Oct 25th, 2006 @ 4:38pm

    
    

    What bugs me...

    ...is one of the last lines, where they suggest that when YouTube got sold, uploaders felt like they deserved some of the money. The truth of the matter is that they get free hosting and exposure, which is easy to monetize. By the same logic, YouTube should be charging a fee, and charging extra when they are in the news all the time.

     

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    chris (profile), Oct 26th, 2006 @ 8:57am

    
    

    it's hollywood, what do you expect?

    if some agent thought the next big thing was something involving rodents, they would be crawling thru the sewers right now.
    
    all it takes is for one person to make it big from myspace or youtube and the bottom feeders will be all over them.
    
    cheese attracts vermin. always has, always will.

     

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