I had a thought: if a band that you didn't like released an album radically different to their usual style, would you listen to it? Buy it? Go to their concert? Moreover, would it be accepted in the new genre's community, as it were? The example I thought of was if the Backstreet Boys put out an album reminiscent of, say, Sufjan Stevens. Would the indie pop lovers accept it? And would the die-hard Backstreet fans embrace it?
This has probably already happened, but not to any band that I know.
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Didn't Vanilla Ice try to go Nu Metal? :p
Anyway, apart from that horrible horrible attempt at reviving a one-hit career, I can think of:
Primal Scream - Shifting from rock to dance and then back to rock (I like their electro stuff best, but some of their rock stuff ain't shabby at all)
The Future Sound of London - Electronica (Lifeforms, ISDN, Dead Cities) to psychadelic rock (The Isness), quite successfully in my opinion, even though they did their psychadelic rock stuff under the Amorphous Androgynous moniker. I guess this was more accepted as their electro stuff often veered towards ambient rather than dance. Somebody remind me to buy Dead Cities and The Isness some time.
I'm sure there are others I've come across but I just can't seem to think of them at the moment.
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