Selling out
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To "sell out" is to compromise one's integrity, morality, authenticity, or principles in exchange for personal gain, such as money or power. In terms of music or art, selling out is associated with at
Metallica playing live at Illinois in 2004.
George Carlin has been accused of being a sellout for appearing in commercials for MCI, a company he had previously criticized.
Poseur
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A poseur is someone who poses for effect, or behaves affectedly, who affects a particular attitude, character or manner to impress others, or who pretends to belong to a particular group. A poseur may
Selling out
…in the United States. The differing reaction by fans to the album demonstrates the difficulty in labelling an artist as a "sellout" objectively. "Poseur" is a pejorative term, often used in the punk, heavy metal, hip hop, and goth subcultures, to describe a person who copies the dress, speech, and/or…
Models (Les Poseuses) by Georges Seurat
Devotees of various music subcultures, like the goth subculture, value authenticity highly