Is K-Pop a Good Influence or Bad Influence?

In conclusion, MTV has signified change in the pop culture around us, because it has helped shape the world around us. MTV has drastically changed youth culture around the world, defining popular culture and speaking on behalf of young adults everywhere. MTV has transported its powerful advertising to millions of youths and is often criticized for promoting American culture to the rest of the world. Many intellectuals slam the network for destroying traditions and imposing American values and beliefs thereby forcing a homogenization of world youth culture (Williams 200-215). However, even with all of this critical disapproval, MTV continues to expand globally.

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the western world during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Pop is a genre which pulls in parts from other styles and genres such as urban, dance, rock, country, etc, to make it its own unique genre. Pop music is seen to develop this more recently as seen from similar instruments seen in country, and rock, taking its rhythm from hip hop, tempo from dance, and even including passages from rap.

*ahem* Still, it wasn't enough to get me into k-pop, I was only intrigued by it at this point. I can remember exactly what I was doing the day I got into k-pop. It was a weekend, and I was washing my family's cars. I had Pandora playing my earbuds, and I thought "Let's create a K-pop station for s*** and giggles." And so I made one.

Many teens in every generation seek to separate themselves from their parents. One way of creating that separation is by embracing different music. For the first time, teens had large amounts of disposable income that could be spent on entertainment designed specifically for them. Also, the new mass media meant that teens across the country could hear the same music broadcast or watch the same television shows. This brought a rise of an independent youth culture that was separate from adult culture. The new youth culture became an independent market for the entertainment and advertising

Some adolescents don’t even enjoy some of the music circling today, many of us feel pressured to listen to it because it’s what's popular and we don't want to be deemed as different. Everyone feels the need to fit in and want to live up to the standards and stereotypes

They are pressured into trying to achieve what society believes what is true beauty throughout the process of plastic surgery or any type of trend into achieving beauty. However like Marilyn’s universe, modern day society uses peer pressure, social media, and fashion trends for one to get this transformation. For example, if a girl or boy is not in a certain figure or have a certain way they look, then some people feel like they are not good enough for them to talk to them. This makes people want to change themselves not only in their appearance but also the way they act. The changes some go through is not always healthy either, people will put their life in danger to achieve an appearance.

In the 1950s Rock’n’Roll was given its official name and was seen as a genre, Rock and Roll was originally born in the 1940, it was born out of the mix of music such as Blues, Jump Blues,Jazz and Baptist music which originated in the southern part of United States.

Hip hop music has become the voice of young generation today. American teenagers listen to 1.5 to 2.5 hip hop music per day. Hip hop music has affected on teenager's school work, social interactions and moods. Hip hop music has a negative effect on teenagers because its powerful. Hip hop changes the way teenagers in this generations today speak, think and act.

Everyone is surrounded by popular culture in our society today. It is everywhere. From watching TV, to reading magazines, being on social media, and just browsing the internet. Popular culture is the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture. The question is popular culture good or bad?

Hip Hop music is bad influence. Why? Because the lyrics are either involving constant cursing, contain violence, or describes women as if they were only a sexual object to be used, not appreciated and loved, or has it all in one like a special “all in one” you find at a store. All these influences take a toll on the listeners’ minds, some trigger rage or vengeance and others lust and desire. And these can lead to serious consequences that show in the listeners’ reactions to particular situations, ways of speaking and acting towards someone.

The 1960s and early 1970s: an age defined by sex, drugs, rock and roll and most importantly, political activism. Young people stood up for what they believed in and called for the changes they wished to see. The social revolution attacked conformity experienced in the 1950s, fighting for women’s rights, civil rights, and sexual freedom. The hippies emerged from the counterculture with a dream of peace, inspiring them to rebel against the Vietnam War and government authority. Looking back in history, what was the driving force that encouraged this societal change?

Plastic surgery is very common in our society; many celebrities chose to undergo surgery to change something about their body that they may dislike. On television shows plastic surgery is glamorized and show women or

Although rap started out as a force for positive social change, popular subgenres of hip-hop such as "gangsta rap" have since deteriorated much of the art form's value to society. Impressionable young people throughout the decades are negatively affected by rappers' obsessions with guns, drugs, sex, and material possessions. Record companies do not seem to care about the negative content as long as it sells albums, parents over the years are encourages to assume a greater role in regulating their children's listening habits. Hip-Hop has been the proclamation that young people are independent and intolerant of what they consider to be adult society, which they frequently view as hypocritical.

Imagine sitting at home while babysitting young children where they talk about what they want to be when they grow up. The little girl says she wants to be a famous actress while the young boy says he wants to be a famous YouTuber. For them it is just ways to become famous and have everything they have ever wanted. Pop culture is not beneficial to society because it ruins the child’s imagination and the pop culture is not equal to everyone involved in it.

From the beats to the lyrics, the current generation of youth is engrossed in hip-hop culture, tending to idolize the artist behind the songs. Since the 1970s, hip-hop has influenced American culture tremendously. In the past, hip-hop held a central focus around inequality, empowerment and overcoming hardships. Today, hip-hop talks more about sex, money, a male dominant social standing, and drugs. Hip-hop, from then to now, has drifted to the darker side of the social spectrum. The majority of today’s youth were subconsciously thrust into a time when the darkness of hip-hop was nearing its climax. Young African American males