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Creativity In The Song 'Vampire Money'

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When creativity is restrained or promoted by the music industry, choices of bands and artists can be questioned when commercialism choices effect audiences opinions towards a band, and other artists opinions of one another. My Chemical Romance wrote the song ‘Vampire Money’ specifically to target the band Muse when their song ‘Supermassive Black Hole’ was used in the commercially successful franchise Twilight. Believing that Muse were ‘sell outs’, this attack from one band to another created a ripple through the music industry that wasn’t often seen in the Rock music industry. Another example, came from Trent Reznor the front man of Nine Inch Nails, when Reznor became the ambassador for Beats Music, despite years of voicing his intense hatred

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