- you have a lot of hairspray going on. there's a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. it's not particularly deep music, but you have mtv pushing it, so they're selling. - when i would turn on mtv, all of the rock k bands looked a certain way, they played a kind of music. they were e expected to have e a certain n facade. - mtv's ratings are surprisingly small, but those who do watch-- mostly teenagers and young adults-- buy a lot of records and tapes and cds. and they buy the most of what they see the most. recently, two members of the heavy-metal band aerosmith dropped by mtv's offices to screen their new video. they brought a big bag of cash as an incentive. - the record companies would submit videos every monday, and then we would have our music meeting, and we would look at all the videos and decide who was gonna get put into the new rotation. i was a 21-year-old kid that loved punk rock, and i pretty quickly realized that they music that they were playing just wasn't what i was into. when the new nirvana video was delivered to mtv,