- Chanel is selling temporary tattoos.
- The front runners on American idol could be indie artists.
Crystal Bowersox
Lily Scott
Andrew Garcia - he even has a neck tattoo.
and Jessica Simpson is doing a show called The Price of Beauty that explores alternative beauty from around the world, and apparently is dating Billy Corgan who wrote the theme song with her.
Do you feel alternative culture is being embraced or co-opted?
xoxo
-missy
- The front runners on American idol could be indie artists.
Crystal Bowersox
Lily Scott
Andrew Garcia - he even has a neck tattoo.
and Jessica Simpson is doing a show called The Price of Beauty that explores alternative beauty from around the world, and apparently is dating Billy Corgan who wrote the theme song with her.
Do you feel alternative culture is being embraced or co-opted?
xoxo
-missy
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Soo co-opted. The thing about alternative culture is where it comes from. If it comes from an executive working in a media conglomerate based on the last PowerPoint presentation he saw, then you can be pretty sure it isn't authentic. So, when what we understand to be "alternative culture" has been completely taken over, there will be a new "alternative culture" to respond to it. Just like how the groovy/revolutionary culture of the 60's ended up being totally lame and required a punk revolution, so too will what we used think of as "alternative" become mainstream (thanks, VH1!) and there'll be a new wave of - I don't know what, since most of the kids who will defy it are still a bunch of little kids. But rest assured, they'll kick our asses and make us look lame. It's the circle of life, yo.