50 Shades Of Grey: Trilogy Analysis

While doing research for this discussion, the hardest part of this discussion for me was trying to figure out what I find surprising that was popular. I would have to stem back to the “50 Shades of Grey” trilogy. This surprises me because of the content of series. I was more surprised by the audience that it was capturing. This series captured anyone from young adult (18+) to the geriatrics. From my aspect, I started to read the series and lost interest very quickly, but I do not like erotic novels. However, my grandmother who is 75 and mother in law who is 55 were completely indulged in the book series. There have been thousands of erotic novels made in history, but why is this one so more popular than the other. According to a CNN article it states that “50 Shades” is no different from what’s already being sold. The major difference is that it somehow become part of current pop culture of the zeitgeist. The trilogy became popular because of the masses of society that were indulged in the series, which led to the movie and the huge success of the movie when it was released. There is a second movie to be released and society will continue to flock to this one because of the popularity of the trilogy and the first movie. Just like looking at The world of the World of Coca-Cola they are building a trademark with the trilogy, they have books, shirts, bed sheets, sex toys and the list goes on and on. However, nowhere in the trademark will you get the experience of the books and movies. I feel that I do find myself an active part in popular culture. …show more content…
I don’t feel for myself that I “like” new things because they are becoming popular, or that I like them before they become popular. So I am one that helps make the item popular? For example, I love music I like to find new artist to listen to. The newest artist that I started listening to is Lucas Graham and his song “7 Years”. I have never heard of him before or his music, one day I was doing some music research and found him on You Tube. I listened and I liked, so I downloaded some of his songs including “7 Years”. It went a couple of weeks and then I began to hear his song on the radio and to this day I can hear it a couple times a day. He was even on the TV show Ellen this week. So do I find myself an active part of popular culture then I guess “yes” is the answer. I paid for his music so that helped the statistics to show continued growth in popularity. I attached a link to the song/video, I hope you will enjoy the song as much as I do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHCob76kigA I had a real hard time creating a popular culture artifact that I would create. I still don’t know exactly how I would incorporate it into an artifact and how I would get the message across to society. I have something very close to my heart and it has taken over every community some way. It is heroin addiction. I have dealt with family members very close to me that have had this addiction, thank god they overcame the addiction and are now sober. However, there are many family members that are not that lucky. Recently in my community we have had 4 heroin overdoses, 3 resulted in death and 1 has another