Who are some artists who were sell outs/very commercial and THEN

death grips

The Beatles?

talk talk
radiohead
mgmt

Kanye

scott walker

>>72966832
In some ways, Johnny Rotten. He wasn't a sellout, but the band he was in was used as nothing more than a marketing scene by their manager to sell clothes. After he left, he started up PiL, which was an experimental fuck you to Malcolm McLaren and consumerism. And they were so much better than the Pistols, it's incomparable.

masayuki takayanagi went from mainstream jazz to free improv noise

overall though I don't think it makes sense to equate commercial music with selling out, or to think that you have to be one or the other. plenty of people are capable of doing both simultaneously

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The beach boys

>>72966832
>>72967342
THIS

U2 -> zooropa and passengers

>>72966832
Leonard Cohen

James

Made this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_qZ5B-yioU

And then this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IYiQxxo1a8

>>72966990
inb4 any faggots talk shit about them
>for their time they were experimental