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Define and explain what pop culture is to you. You may use examples from your life, and observation you have made. Please, write a strong essay with a strong thesis and please I don’t have time to revise the essay, so write it well. if you have questions please contact me. I want the font to be (Times new Roman)
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Alsharekh 1
Khaled Alsharekh
Foults
English-101
30 October 2013
Pop Culture Now
Pop culture is vibrant, is permanently actual, is constantly defining the moment, what goes and what does not, what is fashionable and what is not. For me pop culture represents a lifestyle, a way of acting, and it also influences my behavior and attitudes. Pop culture exists in the music I listen to, in the movies I watch, in the clothes I wear, in the food that I eat. It is everywhere, because the pop symbols have been heavily promoted through various forms of media, so that they reach a part of our everyday life, a part of my life, making me act and behave according to the promoted models of my time. Pop culture is what connects me, at a certain level, to my friends, my colleagues, to the people of my age who generally share the same values. Pop culture represents the music that my friends and I listen to, so we appreciate similar pop artists of the moment such as Usher, Pharell, Adele or Alicia Keys, making them the role models of our generation and altering our personalities to the lifestyle that they are promoting in their songs. Pop culture is in the movies that we watch, defining “the twilight generation”, as most of us are so engaged in this phenomenon. Pop culture is in the commercials that I consider entertaining, such as those of Nike, Pepsi, KFC and other as such, which influence my shopping selections and the way I act, the way I dress, the way I walk, what I eat and what I drink. The strength of pop culture, as I see it, stands in the cultural mix that it generates as it uses an integrated approach to “catch” us, to lure us into a world where everybody is cool, happy, forever young, beautiful, fashionable, while always having fun and always prepared for going to a party with fun and beautiful people.
This integrated quality is what actually creates pop culture, as I see it. As I go to see a “Twilight” movie, I hear the soundtrack that I will eventually hear in some other place or situation, which I will immediately associate with the movie. Next thing I see “Twilight” t-shirts and an unspeakable desire to go and purchase the next “Twilight” t-shirt that appears. Connected to this movie, I see events and various promotions for vampire like appearances, and I know I want to be there because all my friends will be there, and we will have the opportunity to have real fun, while acting as vampires, whom we consider really cool and sexy. All this integrated talk regarding the “Twilight” phenomenon has become a part of my life, and of the lives of many others like me. The fact that this movie has developed into a phenomenon, generating similar reactions regarding whatever products it brings to society (events, vampire teeth, dark clothes, t-shirts, music, etc.), is how pop culture forms and how it acts like a snowball, becoming bigger and bigger, attracting others into this phenomenon as they are exposed to the movie. Twilight is in fact just an example of pop culture, indicating how a media product (a movie in this case) can grow, defining one’s lifestyle.
I remember that some time ago, when I was younger, Michael Jackson was the number one trend and initiated a colossal pop culture movement. People wanted to sing like Michael; they wanted to dance like Michael; they wanted to dress like him and even copy his attitude, his behavior, and his likes and dislikes. In fact, I know people who started drinking Pepsi Cola because Michael Jackson participated in an ad promoting this refreshing drink as “the choice of a new generation”, with himself drinking it, while dancing in the streets, wearing his cool outfit. This is how Michael Jackson entered the social world with a “must-have look”. People would curl their hair, use make-up, wear replicas of Michael Jackson’s outfit and dance in the streets, since this was a lifestyle that Michael Jackson himself promoted as the appropriate way to have fun and spend time with peers. This phenomenon reached a collective mental and everybody tend to associate break dance moves, pop music or Pepsi drink with him and this phenomenon easily developed into a global hysteria, making people around the world to become Michael Jackson copies Since Michael Jackson was on TV, the radio, on the streets, since there were people imitating his dance moves, in stores (CDs, t-shirts, badges, trinkets, scarfs, etc.), and in people’s behaviors, Michael Jackson became a way of life for a period of time.
Michael Jackson is still a part of the pop culture today and will become a part of the classical pop culture, from which everything started. People are still dancing on the streets imitating the “King of Pop”, and other pop artists also seem to be with Michael Jackson, since there are evidently clear and visible influences of his style in their music. To name a few, Usher, Pharell, Justin Timberlake and Beyoncé, who represent the modern artists of the moment, produce their records with strong inspirations from the tempo, rhythm and music style of Michael Jackson.
Current pop culture includes the emergence of the strong presence of social media in our lives. Most of us become fans of artists on Facebook, or like popular songs, cool fashion, shoes, glasses, links to cool events or various ironic e-cards, as this represents our generation. I am one of the millions of people who use Facebook to see what is new and what is cool, and there are so many other people that share my interests and my likes, which indicates that this is pop culture, since so many people share the same interests. Short tweets, comments or status updates, sharing funny videos, photos or e-cards are what most of us do, and this is how we, the users, generate pop culture in social media. Social media actually contributes heavily in promoting what is trendy and what is in fashion, along the other media means. For instance, as I am a Pharell fan, I listen to his albums on YouTube, follow the news about him on his Facebook page, but I also hear his music on the radio, on TV, in the clubs, in the cars that pass by me.
There are also modern applications and video games that contribute to defining the integrated communication regarding pop culture icons, encouraging people to dance like their idols, telling them how to dress, and so on, which together the other medias will contribute to utilizing an artist to promote a movie, a movie character, a cartoon, a fashion brand, a drink, a fast food brand through associating these products with a fashionable phenomenon that people want to associate with. As people are exposed to the same types of media, promoting similar content, this facilitates the formation and development of pop culture.
Pop culture is everything that is fashionable and the public sees as cool and generally accepts it, creating waves of popularity, generating a snowball phenomenon, by which others are absorbed into the social phenomenon as it gains more popularity. Vampires became a spectacle when teenagers developed a whole trend based on “Twilight” Entertaining video games or interests in various music performers are simply a matter of taste, which is depicted by media producers specifically for attracting masses into what is called pop culture, persuading them to become submissive and to accept the models proposed by various pop culture icons benefits the industry by fans purchasing the items and media symbols, which sustains the pop culture business. Pop culture is indeed an industry and is in fact a business, a very effective business, since it generates followers who are wiling to invest in the items that create pop culture. By investing, they themselves admit that they are the followers of the specific icon. It is ironic that we, the pop culture followers, create the pop culture, which shapes our behaviors, attitudes, and way of thinking or speaking, which develops our thinking to be more pragmatic with our money. What can one do to change this? Why change it as long as it is fun? Indeed, there are media producers, media corporations gaining heavily from pop culture, but it is offering people a sense of identity, a feeling of belonging to a group, since we are in fact sharing similar values and ideas as defined by pop culture.
