Sunday, February 24, 2013
What is a sellout?
As I was reading an article on one of the websites that I frequently visit a thought passed through my head. Why do people call artists or famous people sellouts? After this question popped up in my head I read some articles on the biggest sellouts ever. Almost every single place that I went to that was about sellouts was very bitter. Is the term sellout a bitter word? I would say it is, all that it is a person changing what they do. People interpret this change as a betrayal to their idea of what that individual was. That is my idea of why people use the word. The article I read was a little different they got the artist to comment on why he did what he did, and why he is not a sellout. Here is the article Sellout? The artists is Macklemore and a lot of his songs are unique and have some meaning behind them. Here is the full song that they were referring to in the article Wings. In his response to people calling him critics there was something that just struck me as our English class. What do you think it is that made me think this?
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I think a lot of what we do people others consider it "selling out". I agree with that it is a very bitter term and people use it a lot. But I think that maybe it is used in the wrong places when it isn't even necessary.
ReplyDeleteThat is a very interesting thought on how people associate stardom and sellouts.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first read it I actually thought sell out as in a good thing, just how I associated it I guess. Maybe because of our talks on success and victim narratives?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Elijah I was expecting a sellout concert or something of that sort.
ReplyDeletethis was really interesting to me. i guess i think education people sell out a lot. Education is so linked up to companies, testing companies, textbook companies... it is totally icky to me. So... i think the Macklemore guy is trying to explain how his song is a social critique of consumerism and he doesn't see the explicit or maybe necessary connection with the NBA commercial. I can mostly see this with him (believing game).
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