Poll: If You Were In A Band, Would You Sell-Out?
 

Let's say you were in an underground band that's being courted by a big corporate label. If you signed with them you'll be promised fame, fortune, and a fleet of supermodels. Instead of playing hole-in-the-wall clubs, you'll be playing stadiums. All you have to do is change your sound to more commercial viable pop music. Sign away your artistic integrity and all this could be yours..

would you sign?

Hell yes

Then I'll release all my proper stuff on some obscure label under an alias.

I might ''sell out'', but I would be an absolute bitch to my record company. It wouldn't be such a compromise for me considering I like a lot of commercially successful pop.

I was going to say precisely this. With new found fortunes I'd be free to finance my own creative explorations without interference after a couple of years banging out commercial ****.

I've never tried drugs or any shit like that, but I've always wanted to be rich. So yeah, sell out - why not.

However I'd realise that money and fame is overrated and take heroin and then shoot my brains out. *I SO wouldn't copy someone.. :shycouch:*

I don't actually think there's an exact formula to selling out.. just a bit of luck for the most part, maybe changing your style so it's a little bit more 'middle of the road'. Make sure your singles are just that, singles.

I'd do it. I'd throw down enough albums to live comfortably for the rest of my life, and use whatever surplus I have to start a record store/company. And that's it. I wouldn't dabble in my own fashion line, I wouldn't start advertising hot dogs. I'd basically retire. And if I felt like putting things out with substance again, I've got my own damn record company to do it. :P

but do you honestly think anybody would take you seriously as an artist if you and your band had been pumping out generic guitar pop for years?

So what's the quickest ways of selling out...

Record a single for exclusive use in an ad campaign.
Release your album in about 10 different formats with different *bonus* songs.
Record an R&B album in a bid to show how eclectic you are.
Record a single with a really catchy chorus & just repeat that 100 times during the song.
Release 7 singles from your album.
Have a tour sponsored by Coke.
Appear on kids TV shows.
Make comments such as 'We felt our music should be accessible to anybody, and if people don't like it that's up to them'
Totally ignore your entire discography at live shows other than the one that sold a lot.

Well I wouldn't be asking of anything from the public. Personally, if Chad Kroeger broke up Nickelback and put out OK Computer I would take his music seriously (as a person he'll always be a world class twat, though). Or, like Urban said, release it under a pseudonym

That's what you do AFTER you sell out