I like the Idols thing, the other two are just prissy people trying to find an edge that they dont have.

I am a Crystal and Andrew fan!!! I adore them both, they are both real and humble, interesting and talented!

I will probably watch the Jessica Simpson show, just because I love shows about the people of other cultures. I just hope they don't make it all about Jessica.

I think it's just cyclical. Something about the indie/alt culture has momentarily caught the eye of mainstream culture....and it's playing with it like a new toy on Christmas morning. Soon enough...they'll grow tired of it and move on to the next "thing".

The more people see of it the more they will accept it, I believe, and I'm okay with that. I didn't change my body to be perceived as different; as Daria said, "to fit in to some subculture's notion of beauty"

My wife is named Crystal Bowers. She also heates american idol, so it's weird.

Co-opted, I'm afraid. If anything even vaguely "alternative" shows up on f***ing American Idol--of which my square-as-a-rubik's-cube, 82-year-old dad is a fan!--then it's time to take out the earrings, laser off the tattoos, and shock the world by buying a suit and combing my hair. (Ugh!)

I feel the world is changing but america is just starting to catch up...and i fear this could just be a phase like kango hats and velor jumpsuits... what a night mare!!! i do wish SG was puttin more alt beauty up on the front page and not the same type of girls... SG should step back out of mainstream but still set the bar for beauty!!!

I vote for Co-opting....

I for one support the Alternative life style... I never saw it as rebellion or shunned it out.... But I think that what Chanel, American Idol and this whole Simpson thing.... Not bashing on Jessica or anyone... is doing is trying to buy into the whole alt lifestyle as a fashion... A couple years back tattoo's where an act of rebellion and seen as discusting on women... Now it seems that you aint cool or mainstream if you dont have one..... Once again, not bashing on tatt's or people who have them.... Punk's also where freaks and undisciplined kids.... Now at least 1out of 3 people either have Hawks or some spikey hair doo, studded belts or some form of appareal.... Im glad that the whole alt style is being accepted but I dont want to see it as mainstream fashion... Its an individual statement, so if I see my grandma alt all of a sudden or some wackjob doing it to fit in... Just like troqman said I also will join the Corporate world and become another suit...