"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.35.1283369617.858.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:15:24 Walter Bright wrote: >> There's a subgroup of the theater crowd around here who regard producers >> as >> "sellouts" if their plays actually attract an audience. > > I hear that this sort of thing tends to happen with Indie artists as well. > There > are fans who like them until they get popular. I guess that there are > people who > _like_ it when the stuff that they like is niche. >
>From some interview I read awhile ago, that's what happened to the band Green Day (Not that I'm a big fan or anything, but they're not bad). Their first couple albums were very indie, got moderate sales, and gained a strong cult following. Then they put out the "Dookie" album, and got better promotion from their label, and it was a big mainstream hit. The old fans actually got pissed at them for that and labeled them "sellouts". Apparently that was a big part of the motivation behind the songs on their following album, "Insomniac" (but most rock lyrics never make any sence to me anyway, so it's not like I can actually tell). (Moral of the story: People is stoopid.)