Selling Out To The Vampires

Selling out. It can happen to anything and everything just like overexposure can. Vampires have definitely been overexposed in the last couple of years, beginning with, unsurprisingly, Twilight. Before Twilight there was a lull of a couple of years where vampires were not really in the mainstream, they had more or less faded into the background once Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel went off the air. Twilight however, awakened something in teenage girl’s hearts and made them go absolutely crazy for any and everything vampire related. Pretty soon there was jewelry, clothing, posters, key chains, any sort of merchandise you can think of, being sold in big stores such as Wal-Mart, target, and even “Goth” store Hot Topic.

The Drink from True Blood

 After twilight came The Vampire Diaries, and all its merchandise, True Blood and all its merchandise( including TruBlood, which is a fake blood beverage that’s in the show and was now sold in places like Hot Topic) and even the parody Vampire Suck came out, although with very minimal merchandise.

Muse

Now, on the topic of selling out, it does not have much to do with vampires as much as it does with the music on the soundtrack for a certain Vampire series. The Twilight soundtrack has an impressive amount of good bands including Muse, Paramore, and Linkin Park. Muse seems to have had the most success following the release of the soundtrack, now having had accumulated multiple awards. They have however, been accused of selling out. Their hardcore fans are angry at the fact that so many “tweens” and teens now like their music after hearing it on the soundtrack.

Paramore

Muse is just trying to make money, and make it big here in the United States, which they have succeeded years after having started. Paramore, the other band that garnered success after twilight has the same problem. Me, being a fan since the beginning, felt like muses fans did, angry that all these people liked Paramore now thanks to twilight. I am, however, very happy that they are successful. That was their aim, and no matter how they achieved it, they did, even if it took a crappy sparkly vampire movie to get them there.