Selling Out

There is a fine line between keeping real and being popular. The question is the difference between an entertainer and artist. To me an artist is someone who portrays their soul into their work. They put everything into it; it’s their ‘baby’ so to speak so everything has to be perfect. Artist’s do not need to have thousands of fans and make tons of money, they are satisfied with the work they put out. Take …And You Will Us The Trail of Dead as an example. They keep the same elements that they started from but add new things. I was driving the other day and I heard a song on the radio that I had never heard but I knew right away that it was Trail of the Dead because they have an authentic sound that is uniquely them. Sure enough when the song ended it was a song off their new album. Entertainers I feel are in it for the money, which is what being a sell out is in my opinion is. When you have artists who cannot sing but they are making so much money because they are good entertainment, where did societies taste in good music go wrong? Hello, Brittany Spear is an entertainer but not an artist in the least bit. I am sure the only reason she gets attention is just because people want to see the crazy things she will do. Which is no reason to keep people with no talent around. But then we also have the musicians/artists who were in it simply to make great music and then decided to sell out. Greenday as an example, they were awesome back in the day. Their sounds was raw and now today they sound just like any other mainstream band out their. That not to say that if an artist goes mainstream that they are going to turn out like that at all. Take Smashing Pumpkins as an example. They mainstream band but there sound has always stayed to its roots while branching out and trying new things. They have always kept that unique sound that you can tell is them. They took a break for a while, probably best so that they wouldn’t start making music that sounded like every other artists that sold out. It was probably the better choice to make, were able to recharge and come back with new ideas after they long hiatus.