isnt it a bands job to become rich and famous...for example green day....its lost alot of its fans b/c its become "mainstream" why? and why do people get labeled "posers" if they start to like them once they are popular? WHY!!!
2006-06-24 12:42:35 · 9 answers · asked by blackcherry_08 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I really don't understand the whole idea of being mad about Green Day being "mainstream" either, because for the most part Green Day has ALWAYS been mainstream.
2006-06-24 12:46:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
People who say that a certain band is 'selling out' were never really fans in the first place. Anyone who is a real fan will always be a fan. In some cases, what becomes popular or mainstrean changes with peopls tastes. I don't think Green Day has changed their style very much. I think mainstream has changed and accepted them.
2006-06-24 13:20:51 · answer #2 · answered by xox_bass_player_xox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont have any problems with the band or the listeners, but my reason for calling listeners posers is that they didnt give a **** about the band until they got popular, take HIM for example, they are mainstream but good and people dont generally listen to them just cuz they are popular, people do, just not as much, but fall out boy for example, pretended to be punk when they had gone against what punk is about, the "sell out" bands are ussually the mainstreem punk that dont understand punk and feed into the consumer culture, this and there are enough individual bands out there where if anyone took the time to look everyone would have their own unique music taste instead of 1000 clones of the same
2006-06-24 12:51:15 · answer #3 · answered by Ethernaut 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The record producers tend to influence or edit the music making it more attractive to the masses but many times less attractive to the original fans of the band. Many producers for example want a song to be a certain length so that the radio stations will play it.
2006-06-24 12:49:25 · answer #4 · answered by spirus40 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they get mad cuz then they are well known and every one will start liking them and they want to be different by liking a band that isnt so popular... cuz then ppl will think that they are following the crowd and they dont want to be like everyone else... so needless to say... they will stop liking the band once they become mainstreem... this is most common with Emos
2006-06-24 12:49:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the best bands of the 80s broke themselves up over "going commercial".... Love and Rockets.
Great band... great music... including the spinoff band, Tones on Tail and the predecessor Bauhaus.
You kids just don't know how cool we were!
2006-06-24 14:05:39 · answer #6 · answered by robertonduty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they think that knowing about a band makes them cool. and everyone wants to be cool but no one wants to let you get cool, so when a band they like is "cool" and normal people have access to it, the coolness level goes down for those "fortunate few" that loved the band wayyyy before you did.
2006-06-24 12:47:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
idk, but some bands turn into different genre when they became mainstream, for example pop. sometimes they may change their style and people dont like it. some bands not all. i've always liked green day mainstream and not.
2006-06-24 12:47:12 · answer #8 · answered by shadow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who cares?
2006-06-24 12:48:27 · answer #9 · answered by July 24, 2012 <3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋