Selling out

Can somebody please tell me the real definition of selling out? Is it like, when a band or someone gets to big to meet their fans, or would it be like missing concerts to promote themselves on mtv? I mean, what is it?

Since I don't know the answer to that, I'm not going to go on and complain about some of my favorite bands quote on quote "selling out". I will admit, some of them are kind of forgetting where they came from. I was just talking to a couple of my friends about this, but, it's easier to meet bands like Bayside and Rancid, who've been in the music industry a considerably long amount of time, than it is to meet bands like All Time Low, Forever the Sickest Kids, and Mayday Parade, who've been around a couple of years, at the most. I mean, isn't that sad?

These bands who won't come out of their tour busses until most of their fanbase has left confuse the hell out of me. I mean, these people buy your shit to help you make it as a band, as a musician, as a human! They put money in your pockets so that you can survive on your own. Without as many fans, they'd still be working steady jobs, they'd stick close to home, they'd still be living with their parents, I bet! So why ignore the people who give you the oppurtunity to do that? Because they're annoying? Because they think you're cute? I mean...what?

And then some bands will cancel shows for promotion offers. I mean, like in one case that just kind of pops up is when All Time Low cancelled a warped tour date to be on FNMTV. They claimed if they didn't show up, there would be no way to promote their video, or whatever. But how many people have you seen do live webcams? Or made a video because they couldn't make it? I'm sure MTV wouldn't have murdered them because they wanted to play that show for their fans in that state.

It's not just ATL who's doing this. Obviously a lot of other bands have fallen in the trap that is MTV, but ATL was just the one I thought of.

To sum this up, I just think it's rediculous you have to wait over an hour for some band member to come out. Someone who you support and give money to, doesn't even want to come out and say thank you or something? That's horrible.

Ego's can get big and easily stay big, but fanbases can get big and easily shrink.

Yesterday

I had this amazing driving instructor yesterday. He was quite possibly the funniest man ever. The kid in the car with me was pretty hilarious too. It was an overall good time.

PS. I passed my first driving test.
PSS. This blog really has no purpose.
PSSS. I wasn't able to think of anything else to blog about, that's why this is so lame.
PSSSS. Sorry for all of the 'PS's

Soooo, hey there...

I guess I've never seen myself as a blogger, but what the hell? I'll give it a try! It doesn't hurt if no one's going to read it anyway, hah.

Let's see. What to blog about today.

The Junior Varsity! Woohoo, my favorite subject.

TJV had...er, has, a blogspot page, but all of the pictures have been deleted and what not. It kind of takes a lot of the fun out of reading the blogs, because the captions make entirely no sense. I could imagine the pictures, but I don't have that good of a memory to remember all of them. I guess I should have saved them or something, but hell if I knew they would break up when I first read that.

I guess I could say I'm happy for Andy, though. At least he's in a successful band...kind of. I'll reword that. At least he's in a band that SHOULD be successful. The Dear Hunter is so much better than a lot of the bands out there right now. I won't name any names though. You can probably guess for yourself.

Which is bringing me to a new subject.

Would somebody mind explaining to me why bands with talent can't sell out anything but a home show, yet bands with no talent on say...MTV or something, can? Bands like All Time Low and uh...Mayday Parade really don't do much compared to other bands. ATL even admitted they can't play their instruments. So why do they get the constant playing on MTV but bands like hm...The Junior Varsity and The Dear Hunter can't (or couldn't) get shit.

I mean, sure they're catchy, but is that all that counts in the music industry now? Is if a band is catchy or not? I guess that's all MTV plays though, so I shouldn't be complaining about that.

But for shows, do seriously spend their money so they can hopefully sleep with somebody who can't play a guitar for their life, and can KIND OF write lyrics? That's sad if they do. I think they need to find a boyfriend and get a life. I know everyone doesn't do that, I know I don't. I also seriously want to know why people idolize musicians like that. 1) They're sluts, 2) They have no talent except for maybe a nice voice, and 3) They give no reason to idolize them! Can't people see that?




I'm stopping.
I love TJV.
Bye.