Popular Culture Film And Music

Artists have mentioned, paid homage to, and warned against the pitfalls of drugs, from lean, to Xanax, to cocaine, to marijuana, to molly and yet a clean culture still hasn’t become popular to the hip hop audience. From warning against abuse to promotion of the abusive lifestyle the message of hip hop has changed the most through the decades. A new accountability must be installed into artist who promote use because they are the ones that influence more people to use and abuse thus causing further overdose crisis. Until this happens, the issue will remain silenced and so will the victims, whether that be the artist themselves or the listener, who are insecure about getting help, losing popularity, or their

The portrayal of Drugs in the Hip-Hop culture isn't the only form of music today that puts emphasis on taking drugs and showing it in videos. With the influence of rock bands such as the Strokes and the Vines many are starting to understand the concept of "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll," a little better. Over the history of Rock and Roll the music industry has lost a lot of wonderful musicians. Just in the past decade we've seen artists like Kurt Cobain, Shannon Hoon and Lance Staley all pass taking with them the sad and horrible truth of what this powerful machine, (DRUGS!) can take from all of us, "A

In the article What’s the Rap About Ecstasy? Popular Music Lyrics and Drug Trends Among American Youth (year), the discussion transformation from rap to gangsta rap is a major change that began to influence young people. Diamons, Bermudes, and Schensul (year) state, “Representations of drugs shifted in the 1990s as rap music became more commercial and gangsta rap took centre stage. Gangsta rap artists began to celebrate the use of exotic marijuana, blunts, and hard liquor to chill out, party, and feel good.” (Diamons, Bermudes, Schensul, p.280). This quote illustrates the communication that rappers are sending to their fans, hinting that in order to party and identify as a fun person, drugs and alcohol must be consumed. Although when interviewed many adolescents believed that their preference in rap music did not influence their decisions, rather, the music was a parallel to their life (Diamons, Bermudes, Schensul, p.276). This shows the lack of awareness on how media does affect a persons actions and values, teens are unknowingly consuming media where drug positive language is being used. Those who choose to identify with rap music are unknowingly identifying with a culture that promotes unhealthy habits. “A more recent study found that young urban women who watched rap videos regularly were 1.5 times more likely than other peers to

As of now, we currently are currently living in U.S. society that heavily relies on pop culture and media and we have the statistics and data to prove of that. In fact, we as the viewers, audience member, and listeners of these songs and videos, have to realize if we solely know the true meaning behind them or not. With that in mind, we might not truly understand the real meaning and the message behind these songs, especially when you first hear the song and view the music video the first time. In this essay, I will be inspecting why big-time artists, singers, and writers want to spread the issues of race and politics through their songs, lyrics, and music videos as of this very moment and time.

America is too focused on bogus Trap artists, and the way that they portray the celebrity lifestyle. We have Teenagers that are currently in Middle School and High School that presume that money will come easy to them without putting in the hard work first. This is a result of trappers who push the idea on to them that money is the only way to be happy. The way these celebrities push this idea is through social media, which is another problem that consumes too much of our youth’s time.

standards in media. In present day it is not unusual to hear swearing on the radio, nudity

Pop culture mediums have only been around since the beginning of the early two thousands. There are so many different pop culture mediums in today’s society. There are mediums for different cultures, ages, and sexes. The pop culture mediums are used on a daily bases by almost everyone around the world.

Chapter 10 presents a more politicized approach to cultural studies. Storey examines the ways in which popular culture and high culture are often presented in contrast with one another, drawing distinctions between ‘them’ and ‘us’. Again this can be related back to hip-hop, which was formerly or still held as a rebel culture, to now a unified one. It is the pipeline for effectively communicating to and with young people. The pipeline connects to the political, social, and cultural views of the vast majority of Western youths. My generation does not fondly find unity and/or enjoyment in higher art forms such as opera or ballet, but finds it more in the art of hip-hop. I feel like we need to have a view that culture has a value, not just in terms

Almost every type of drug has appeared numerous times in numerous genres of film because of widespread interest, reliability, dramatic qualities, and curiosity of the public. This research paper will serve as an exploration into the different portrayals of various drugs in the films: Trainspotting, Go Ask Alice, and Prozac Nation. The portrayals will include: drugs used, reasons for use, user’s reaction, other character’s reactions, and the effects the drugs have on all the character’s lives. Most research agrees that the accuracy of drug portrayal depends on the genre of film. For example, comedies tend not to include the negative side effects of any drug (including alcohol and tobacco). Dramas, on the other hand, tend to include the worst possible scenarios that could take place. Perhaps it is for this reason that people do not often take film portrayals seriously. Furthermore, if someone were truly interested in learning about the effects of a drug, it would seem obvious that they should explore documentaries. The average person, or even the average user, may begin to watch a documentary, say on meth, and be disturbed by the graphic nature and turn it off claiming that “would never happen to them.” The reality of the matter is that dramas tend to fairly accurately depict the outcomes of most people who suffer from serious drug afflictions.

Pop Culture wants us to make our own decisions while deciding for us. From the realms of finding love, losing weight, being pregnant, investigating criminals, or just being rich, reality TV has grown and is taking over television. Although entertaining, the product of reality TV has caused a series of severe degradation of society and mass peer pressure. The Producers reality TV objectives are to make money by being entertaining; of course, we know that that is what reality TV is. With that said, the majority of viewers are the middle and working class, who live in the inner city, take public transportation, or work two jobs. Think about the women who go to the hair salon, students at lunch, coworkers on their lunch break who have nothing to do with their lives than to talk about

What is popular (low) culture? "Popular culture is a symbolic expression allegedly aligned with the questionable tastes of the "masses," who enjoy commercial "junk" circulated by the mass media, such as soap operas, rock music, talk radio, comic books, and monster truck pulls" (Campbell, 18). When looking at the high-low hierarchy it often determines the way people view culture as a whole today, saying high culture is good taste and low culture is questionable taste. Many audiences take for granted the world of high culture and fine art causing many young people to not know where a library or museum is located, which promotes people to overlook important information for a paper or research project on a certain topics. Now many tend to

Architecture in every life reflects the culture of every society interacting closely with the history, politics and social feature of the society. Change in the cultural or social attitude has greatest impact on architecture. Thus it would be generic to conclude that the role of culture in promoting an architectural style or era is an essential part of its existence.

Musicians across the country continue to be affected and changed by drug use. Musicians such as Miley Cyrus, Snoop dogg , Wiz Khalifa, and more. Some bands even use certain drugs to get some inspiration for their music. The most famous example is the Beatles’s hit song Lucy and the Sky of Diamonds which many have questioned to be named after the many trips the beatles had off of LSD as you can shorten the title to LSD which was the drug they most commonly used at the time. The Beatles would use benzedrine in the days before they became the group of men they are known as today. The Beatles continued to progress onto harder drugs such as Cannabis and LSD as they became more famous and towards the end of the 1960s. It

There are many numerous beautiful cultures in this world we all follow, one of them is called Pop Culture. It’s defined as events where a lot of people is affected and attracted by the mass media. It’s like a cultural artifact that’s created by humans for information. This phenomenon began around World War 2 times when innovations in mass media led to significant cultural and social changes. It began to merge with the dealings of mass culture, consumer culture, image culture, media culture and culture in general for consumption all over the world. As we carefully study the popular culture, it helps us to better understand what the society is embracing and how the culture changed over time. It’s believed that popular

Since I've been studying hard all day, I didn't really have time to post something. Well I would if I wasn't watching Schindler's List again, but when the mood strikes, one should watch that film. So here is an essay that I wrote a couple of months ago for school, which is all about film piracy and why I'm against it. The essay managed to get an extremely high excellence. See how different my writing is when I'm at school compared to when I'm blogging (if I seem to be over-exaggerating a lot this is because I'm just trying to get my point across, as I am supposed to be writing this essay for a 'school magazine'):