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Is Hip-Hop terrible nowadays or am I getting old? Time makes fools of all of us. I’m not the same stallion that I used to be. The days of me drinking until four in the morning are far behind me. I mean I can still do it but instead of a cheeseburger to recover, I need three days of rest and IV bag. Just like my drinking tolerance my music tolerance has changed. This is something that will happen to all of us. We get older and our bodies change and our music palate also changes. This leads to…

unrealistic representations of what it means to be successful. People often emulate the culture represented through advertisements and social media. As a result, people lack finding their individuality, due to conforming to advertisements’ norms and popular culture. This is shown throughout James B. Twitchell’s “What We Are to Advertisers.” Twitchell explains that following advertisements, consumption communities are often formed, eventually leading to stereotypes such as people of lower of…

appropriation which Trainor borrows in order to glorify women with larger bodies. This practice allows Trainor, to address a social problem: body image. Examining body dissatisfaction can better help us understand why body image can be so prominent in popular music and rap. Psychology researchers at the University of Sussex describe body dissatisfaction as the “salient discrepancy between a person’s perceived body…

dances that are a key aspect of Spanish music. For instance, a Zarzuela, which is a Spanish traditional form of musical comedy which alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance. Originating from Madrid, was very popular roughly around the 17th and 20th centuries. There are zarzuelas during the Baroque period and zarzuelas during the Romantic period. For some background the Baroque period, taking place roughly around the 1600s…

The Nickelodeon Theaters are significant to the evolution of American popular culture because they allowed Americans to experience modernity, and facilitated the formation of a national identity by transcending race and class lines. The theater served as an arena to disseminate cultural ideology to a diverse group of individuals, comprised of immigrants, the working class and American youth. The large scope of the theaters aided in consolidating the different cultural norms that separated rural…

Music itself is a language. This language is used everywhere and we relate it to everything. For an individual, one language might speak louder then another. The song “Life of the Party” by Shawn Mendes speaks a language that I can relate too. Released in July of 2014, the song was featured on the Shawn Mendes EP and Handwritten album. “Life of the Party” is a song that has an impact on me and has and will have a cultural and historical significance. This song, which is one of my favourites,…

industry like Colombia and RCA controlled the interest of the people, and what music was popular enough to be played on radio waves. The music industry was very much segregated by race and class. The post World War II adolescence is the generation that changed this. They had become tired of…

Cyber Monday grows more popular than Black Friday. Newspapers and magazine are printing less on paper and instead post articles to their website. Bills are paid by an app rather than a check. With every advancement in technology made people are pressured to adapt to this advancement and leave behind things of the past under the fear of being left behind themselves. Yet despite this constant necessity to move forward toward future horizons narrative storytelling remains popular. Books, while not…

growing, people around the globe can freely share ideas and cultures, also known as pop culture. Pop culture, as defined by Oxford dictionary, is the popular culture shown through media and aimed at younger people such as teens. Pop culture became popular with the introduction of the internet because people can share many of their ideas. A popular example of pop culture are images that are known are memes. Alexandre Philippe believes that pop culture can bring people of different cultures…

aspect of them most people rarely saw. Anyone who sees the painting points out the difference, but Warhol insists that there is none. So, Warhol’s true meaning of the painting might forever be undiscovered. Another aspect of pop art that made it popular was the fact that it was…