Biggest sellout group or band?

[The Saltman]

I would have to say black eyed peas.

When they first came out they were all about being underground and being different. Now they are the biggest sellouts with some of the most unoriginal music I have heard.

[Carolina Husker]

KISS, even though they always sucked and were always a gimmicky act.

[Panthro]

Green Day

Metallica

Rise Against

BTBAM

[The Saltman]

Green Day

Metallica

Rise Against

BTBAM

lol

[mmmbeans]

to sell out is the dream.

[Britneck]

Can you blame them? They did the underground thing for so long it was time for them to get rich.

[The Saltman]

Can you blame them? They did the underground thing for so long it was time for them to get rich.

lol I guess. I dont remember them being underground for that long. only them talking about how underground they were and how cool their dancing was.

[Zod]

GreenDay for sure

[Britneck]

lol I guess. I dont remember them being underground for that long. only them talking about how underground they were and how cool their dancing was.

They were around in the early to mid 90's. They got fergie to join and then went pop.

[RazzleDazzle]

GreenDay for sure

I have to agree, biggest sell outs in the history of music.

[The Saltman]

Define sell out.

Is it a change of style? If so how do you allow for an artist to evolve? The Who couldn't have sold Happy Jack filled albums for half a century.

If as you point out with BEP they have become unoriginal. Is it because they changed or because of their success others started copying their work and the market just all sounds the same?

Artists all change. They get older, they get richer, they get happier, they achieve their dreams, hell its little wonder that their music evolves as well. I think its more naive for us to expect that raw hungry act that was full of passion and new ideas to remain that way after a decade or more in the grist mill.

Saw Eminem's newest video the other day and all I could think was "Damn Marshall, your too old and too talented to still be trying to sell this shtick".

There are still a lot of groups out today that are original with their music. they dont try to conform to the masses and be "pop" artists. They try out different styles of music and they adapt to the times with it.

when it comes to BEP their music was original, they had their own sound. nowadays they have turned that sound into a pop dance sound that now everyone is doing. Yes they made lots of money because of it to feed their families or what not. But when you go from dissing puff daddy about how he is such a phony and a sellout himself and then go ahead and do the same thats when you become a hypocrite.

[RazzleDazzle]

NoFX is one band not to sell out.

[Panthro]

NoFX is one band not to sell out.

They have to made it before they actually sellout.

[Zod]

I think the anti-sellout would be Pearl Jam. They got huge and still stayed as non commercial as possible, even boycotting ticketmaster for a while. Still have not heard any of their stuff on commercials.