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Although you stated that alternative rock is on its way to becoming extinct [MUSIC, Dec. 16], you failed to mention that this is in the context of the mainstream music industry. It is very sad to learn that MTV and record sales have become the only indicator of the popular-music scene. Believe it or not, alternative music is still out there and thriving in the subculture of youth. Stick your head out of the office and take a look around. Don't rely on the tube and a few statistics. NORA GRUBER San Diego
...once had the opportunity to see Pearl Jam live and up close. But then MTV fame grabbed hold, and I now watch them (and many other of my favorite bands) from afar. Perhaps declining record sales are in a way a blessing for these bands, and will make them truly alternative once again. JONATHAN HURWITZ San Francisco
Skyler L. Johnson ’08 is going prime time. Last year, MTV and Seventeen magazine set out to “search the country for America’s ultimate role model”—and then somehow found themselves at Harvard. In the process, they also created a reality television show called “Miss Seventeen,” which premiered Monday...
Because he routinely sees young gays on MTV or even at school, a 14-year-old may now feel comfortable telling friends that he likes other boys, but that doesn't mean he is ready to enfold himself in a gay identity. "Today so many kids who are gay, they don't like Cher. They aren't part of the whole subculture," says Michael Glatze, 30, editor in chief of YGA Magazine. "They feel like they belong in their faith, in their families...
...become aware of their homosexual attractions no longer need endure the baleful combination of loneliness and longing that characterized the childhoods of so many gay adults. Gay kids can now watch fictional and real teens who are out on shows like Desperate Housewives, the dating show Next on MTV and Degrassi (a high school drama on the N network whose wild popularity among adolescents is assured by the fact that few adults watch it). Publishers like Arthur A. Levine Books (of Harry Potter fame) and the children's division at Simon & Schuster have released something like a dozen novels about...