Music | December 04, 2007 | 7 comments

The Art of Selling Out

source: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2007/sellout-songs/

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The Moby Quotient, generated by the formula below, determines the degree to which artists besmirch their reputations when they lend their music to hawk products or companies.
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7 comments // The Art of Selling Out

  • richjm
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      richjm  

    • Sloan - the pi could be to work out the circle of music, i.e. how long before a trend repeats itself. The cheat's way is to measure the distance between The Velvet Underground and The Strokes and divide by The Ramones.

    • 4 years ago
  • richjm
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      richjm  

    • I quite like Moby having his music in adverts. When my favourite bands get their music in commercials, it ruins them a little bit for me and I can't listen to that song again. With Moby, there isn't really a risk of that. You can't really ruin the colour beige.

      Moby's music in adverts makes me think of dinner parties and health farms. Neither of which I go to, so no real risk of either being ruined.

    • 4 years ago
  • sloan
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      sloan  

    • I like the rogue pi in the denominator. I spent five minutes just now trying to nerdily justify it somehow but then realized it Just Needs To Be There.

    • 4 years ago
  • khsing
  • Jube
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      Jube  

    • This completely astounds me.
      The total acceptence of this.
      Just bending over and taking from behind.

      I am part of an Independent music publishers
      whose main ethic is that we say no to advertising campaigns.
      yes we`ve been asked.... and maybe our wallets are not
      looking quite as good as if we had said yes.

      But I`m paitent and I`d rather our music
      seeped into the collective consciousness
      through less abrasive and aggressive means.

      Let us for one moment discard the obvious.

      The artists wealth....of course when Dylan
      sold out to Victoria`s secrets and Starbucks
      it wasnt for the money.Here`s the man who sung
      `not much is really sacred' you got that right Bobby!
      I think the big hitters do it because they cant stand being
      out of the public eye for one second and this is an easy route to the
      masses...its just pure vanity errrrrrrggghhhhhh.

      As for new and upcoming artists, well I`m afraid if you chose the path
      of creativity you may have to experience a bit of suffering....

      Either that or you can join the ranks of the the smug and be
      launched onto the public as part of a marketing man`s
      smart arse wank thus forever sullying any personal
      connection with the music.
      But then you cant call it art anymore anyway.
      We could then go onto argue what is art?
      But life is too short.

      I cant stand Moby he stands for everything I dont.

      The split has begun, chose your sides.

      `The ends cannot justify the means,
      for the simple and obvious
      reason that the means employed
      determine the nature of the ends produced.'

      Aldous Huxley

    • 4 years ago
  • richjm
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      richjm  
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    • Go easy on the bespectacled bald one. He's kindly make lots of his music freely available on his website to "independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short". Any PR and marketing that comes out of that is merely coincidence, ok?

    • 4 years ago
  • abbym0308
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      abbym0308  
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    • I feel like most adverts these days feature a pop song. It seems like the age of jingles has ended. So I want to know if this is really artists 'selling out' or if it's just become industry standard. I mean, a lot of smaller acts get their big break because their song is picked up by a commercial retailer. Is that so bad?

    • 4 years ago
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