The Great Musical Sellout Thread

Queen's Hot Space deserves a mention too. In the mid-70s, I doubt many could've seen Freddie and Co. go in THAT direction.

 

God, what a wretched album.

Don't forget "I Was Made For Lovin' You" by Kiss. Of course, some say everything they've done has been a sellout.

 

Does 'Radio Ga Ga' count as selling out or just sucking?

People formerly associated with Jefferson Airplance being associated with 'We Built This City' counts as both selling out and sucking.

 

I think that getting a chance to hear a song you like more often and have it exposed to more people would be something you would like to have happen with the artist. Besides which, some of the most clever stuff is being done in commercials, so I don't think a song being sold for them is necessarily an artistically bankrupt enterprise.

And Grace Slick would be the only link between the two. Unless Chaquico was in at the tail end of Airplane.

 

Kiss could never sellout because they were always a money-grabbing gimmick. But an entertaining one.

 

Some more sellout examples:
--The Village People changing from their gay fantasy figures look to an Adam and the Ants-type look in the early 1980s.
--Alice Cooper trying cheezy ballads (You and Me, How You Gonna See Me Now) in the mid-1970s.
--The Karen Carpenter disco-flavored album she made in 1979 that wasn't released until 1996.

 

What's next? Alvin and the Chipmunks for doing a Christmas special?

 

That last is probably my bad. For some reason, I thought Kantner was need deep in that hoopla, too.

 

This thread is now worthless with that picture.

 

Any artist or group, except for those with an atheist or Satanic theme, are allowed to do Christmas music.

 

I saw Neil Diamond on a Christmas tour.