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To that last one, I\u2019m going to link this talk by Iggy Pop<\/a>, proving that just because his music is now used to advertise cruise lines to Boomers, doesn\u2019t mean he ever stopped being an awesome dude.<\/p>\n Yet the term Sell Out is a valid complaint in one way. It describes the moment an artist stops growing in favor of grinding out more of what people demand from them. It\u2019s the moment you stop doing what you love and instead just do as you\u2019re told, because you\u2019re told what you love won\u2019t make enough money. Here\u2019s how the cycle typically plays out:<\/p>\n Of course the moral of this story is not to sell yourself to big money-grubbing corporate scum in the first place, but that used to be the only way to get heard beyond your small community. Nowadays you can do most of the work, if not all, in the comfort of your own home and then slam it on up on the internet for anyone to peruse.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not easy to attract notice, but we can hope the power of corporate overlords nearing its end because they understand the Internet even less than your great-granny. You don’t have to Sell Out anymore because we have other options, so long as the Internet doesn’t sell out itself.<\/p>\n Because nobody\u2019s buying my shit. Har har. Seriously though, the term \u201cSelling Out\u201d has been abused by hipsters and douchebags for so long, using it now flags you as one, like the words \u201csky wizard\u201d or \u201ccrotch spawn\u201d or \u201csheeple.\u201d Yet while trying to figure out that point where something you like becomes a souless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[15,30,42],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-bullshittery","tag-criticism","tag-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdimento.com\/~sarah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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