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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I know it was a typo but I had to laugh at the first point.
Going from a sound that got them little to no popularity (their first two CDs), to a sound that makes the multi-platinum....not sure what other word you could use. It's all about how you get there. The White Stripes and Black Keys are examples in this thread. They continued to have the same approach to making music even as they got more popular. Nickelback though, look at the 3 album run of Silver Side, Long Road and Right Reasons. Silver Side, filled with big time radio ready hits, sells huge. Long Road lacks those same radio ready hits, sells much worse than Silver Side. So with Right Reasons, there they go again, lots of radio ready hits, massive seller.
Nickelback's goal is to sell records. First and foremost. It isn't to create music as art, its to be rich. As such, congratulations to them on achieving their goals. But their goals are what quantifies as selling out within music. Artistic ambitions are irrelavent to them. Making money is whats relevant. If they were driven by art and happened to become very succesful, then you couldn't call them sellouts. But if you told Chad that auto-tuning their next album would ensure 10X platinum sales, I'd betcha we'll be hearing some auto-tuned Nickelback.
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hahahaha, come on dude. The Black Keys are Nickelback in a different package. They both have finely-tuned, radio-friendly sounds that appeal to an insanely broad audience.
The Black Keys were slumming it, then saw the success Kings of Leon got by becoming more "radio-friendly", decided to sell a couple tunes to Budweiser, went out and wrote "Tighten Up" and "Howlin for You", and voila, are now the biggest band in the world.