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| Equanimity |
| What does it necessarily mean when someone calls a DJ a "sell out"? If you have an example it would be great. |
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| MikeRotunda |
| they make more taxable income. good for me, bad for the fans. |
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| Titanium |
| quote: | Originally posted by Equanimity
What does it necessarily mean when someone calls a DJ a "sell out"? If you have an example it would be great. |
Basically they use their music to sell a commercial product or image. Like how Armin van Buuren is appearing in ads and having porn stars appear in his video with his cheap dumb music to get more dumb fans to buy his crap. Something he was against back in 1999. Many people have done it. Paul van Dyk and Tiesto have also done it. Watch the episode called "Selling Out" of Frasier. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| "Selling out" is the act of compromising artistic integrity in the name of making money. A somewhat nebulous and silly notion, really. |
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| Spacey Orange |
| we call that 'working' around here. |
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| USA |
I really hope the whole sell-out EDM thing will come to an end.
I've really had enough of Jersey Shore wannabe DJs with unplugged equipment and cheap sunglasses throwing their hands in the air to a crowd of sheep who don't understand that the mixing is terrible.
Kids today are getting the wrong idea of what a DJ is because of the whole sell-out scene. |
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| Guest |
| I call that the ritalin scene. (short lived, barely fun, concocted in a lab) |
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| USA |
| Ha... I'm with you on that one bro! |
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| clay |
| thats when you deliver a worse product than you are yourself capable of, just because sometimes thats better profit (like releasing a software with known errors, so that you know you can sell upgrades/fixes/service later). exaple of this is making cheeze music you know will sell, when you have made good integrity underground music before just to make money - its actually bad charma doing so. armin isnt really a good example because he has been cheese since day one, tiesto too. eric prydz and his call on me is a perfect example though. the term is actually better related to stocks. sell all your stocks before the ship sinks. people who sells out bigtime usually know their in their final steps of their career and selling out is like cashing in their pension-money, the last thing you do. its usually a trainwreck of result but the money is big, the artist doesnt take the sink because they, yes, sold out. the fans is who is left with the cat sack paying big money for a loosing game. tiesto and his olympic appearance was a such act really but somehow he keeps on it still. he should have stopped there. |
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| MSZ |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| basically when you start djing in a way that sounds like you aren't playing an 8 hour track. |
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