Common Show

Shout out to my boy Greg for grabbing the tickets to check out Common at the all new House of Blues (HOB - if your cool). The show should be hype and if my plan works out we should be VIP's. Afterall, just because the artist is called Common does not mean that his fans have to be common folk. So I know some of my peeps hate the fact that Common now does music/ads/TV etc. His string of endorsements is getting as long as Britney's boobs now hang. But, I say good for him, at least he is finally getting paid, I don't think an artist is selling out just because they start to make money or do endorsements. The quality of their music is what I care about, if that falls off then the endorsements etc have come in the way (or the talented producer behind them has left - see Britney w/o the Neptunes). Of course when the artists start to put themselves out as more than Artists and start to do social causes or talk politics etc then I take a closer at them as a person. I will rant soon re the Live 8 concert. Just look at the list of some of the Artist scheduled to perform: Mariah Carey, Coldplay, Dido, Keane, Sir Elton John, Annie Lennox, Sir Paul McCartney, Muse, Razorlight, REM, Scissor Sisters, Snow Patrol, Stereophonics, Sting, Joss Stone, Robbie Williams, U2, Velvet Revolver, Bob Geldof, The Killers, Madonna and The Cure. A few names in that group immediately jump to my mind as devoid of any social conscious and publicity hounds in search of the "feel good" story. Oh well maybe that nagging feeling is im-material!