well.............. they are doing that opening song for nascar on weekends....I am sure they got paid a good amount for that, AND the exposure!
To me, this is the sell-out -- when a band takes advantage of their popularity and "sells" their songs. Like the Linkin Park song "What I've done" playing during the end credits of Transformers (which was a good movie, btw) or Wolfmother's songs in the car commercials. It is overkill, and I think the public becomes sick of hearing a band's music and no longer wants to buy/download them. Sometimes it works ... sometimes it blows up in the band's faces.
just because you sell out, doesnt mean you have to change your whole musical appearance around. Perfect example, Stone Sour. They had that sond "through glass" which was on all the rock stations, and all the POP stations in the area, because it was catchy.....they caught alot of mainstream publicity for it, made a shitload of money off of it, and that was the last the pop world had heard of them. The reason? All their other stuff was hard metal, they didnt crack under the pressure of rising popularity. as for hinder.....an interesting tidbit i just found.....all the hard music i heard by them in the past, is actually on the same album as the soft love ballads they have out now......the album was produced in 2005, but not released until last year.......interesting
See being from Uk they only just broke to me and play venues of like 200 people :lol: Alt rock bands dont get big here and theres not 100s with exposure like Us
