Coppertop

It is that when artists become spokespeople for corporations the line between them, their music and the company becomes blurred. Say a band sells their song to a large multinational corporation for use in a commercial. They make some dough, the commercial is jazzed up a little, no harm no foul, right? Said band then makes a new album, and some of the tracks on the new album have a certain political/philosophical slant to them. How can you know that the message is theirs and not something the company wants them to say? It becomes difficult if not impossible to tell when the one stops and the other begins. Hence the remark about their music being suspect.

If they're only out to make money then they won't be concerned with being off the artistic roll call. What do they care? The check cleared after all. But don't expect me to respect their integrity afterwards.

There are more important things than making money. Sadly our society doesn't seem to value them too highly. Oh, we say we do, but when it comes down to it, no one bats an eye at these things.