Diplo & Zedd's M&M's Feud Suggests Artists Can Still Sell Out
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It's no secret that artists don't make the money they used to from selling their albums. Instead, their music needs to more or less be a vehicle to propping up successful tours, endorsement deals, merchandising and other (i.e. easier) methods of making a ton of moolah.
While putting songs in commercials was once considered "selling out," the sigma began changing when the Rolling Stones agreed to have "Start Me Up" used in a Windows 95 commercial and Moby proved a techno musician could make a milli when every song on his Play album was sold for advertisements. From Ozzy Osbourne for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter to Justin Timberlake for McDonald's, it's been generally accepted that a musical artist's gotta do what a musical artist's gotta do... but a new EDM feud seems to say differently.
On Monday night (March 21), Diplo took to Twitter to call out Zedd for his song "Candyman," which features Aloe Blacc and is currently being used to promote M&M's. Not only did Diplo allege that the song uses "fake Flume drop," but he also wrote that "it's not all about the money" to the "Clarity" producer.
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