Pop Culture

Popular culture, often shortened to "pop culture," refers to the cultural products, media, and entertainment that are widely accessible and appeal to the general population. This includes things like popular music, movies, TV shows, books, fashion trends, internet memes, and even certain ways of living.

Pop culture is constantly evolving, reflecting the changing tastes and trends of society.
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Devout: Losing My Faith to Find Myself
Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum
The Uncool
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model
Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers
Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir
Cher: The Memoir, Part 1
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success
Vagabond
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
Murder by Cheesecake (Golden Girls, #1)
Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror
Nice Girls Don't Win: How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power
Let's Call Her Barbie
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
The Nineties
The Woman in Me
Eating the Dinosaur
Bossypants
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Yes Please
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV
I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains (Real and Imagined)
Lipstick Traces by Greil MarcusReading the Popular by John   FiskePerpetual Adolescence by Sally PorterfieldK-Punk by Mark FisherFabricating the Absolute Fake by Jaap Kooijman
Pop Culture - TLTXT
10 books — 1 voter
Desperately Seeking Something by Susan SeidelmanNot Your China Doll by Katie Gee SalisburyHits, Flops, and Other Illusions by Ed ZwickKubrick by Robert P. KolkerSo Fetch by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Film Books of 2024 (NON-FICTION)
145 books — 6 voters

NIV, Incredible Creatures and Creations Holy Bible, Hardcover by AnonymousThe Mysteries of Household Enemies and Wickedness  by Henry Appiah-korang DuoduSkip Shaughnessy and the Surprise Family Union by Marjorie  StrebeGeek and Ye Shall Find by Ellen ElliottThe Superheroes Devotional by Ed Strauss
Geeky Devotionals and Bibles
7 books — 3 voters
The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring by Gary RussellGolden Girls Forever by Jim ColucciBreaking Bad by David  ThomsonAlmost Famous by Cameron CrowePearl Harbor by Randall Wallace
Pop My Culture
277 books — 55 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Crucible by Arthur MillerOn the Road by Jack KerouacPeter Pan by J.M. Barrie
1949-89: A History Lesson By Billy Joel
181 books — 48 voters
You Wanna Be on Top? by Sarah HartshorneThe Wig, the Bitch & the Meltdown by Jay ManuelEverything About Me Is Fake... and I'm Perfect by Janice DickinsonThe Curse of Beauty by James BoneNo Lifeguard on Duty by Janice Dickinson
America's Next Top Model
19 books — 5 voters


Colson Whitehead
Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of the two songs provided no commentary, honest or ironic, on the proceedings. They were merely there and always underfoot, the insistent gray muck that was pop culture. It stuck to our shoes and we tracked it through our lives. ...more
Colson Whitehead, Sag Harbor

Mark Fisher
The slow cancellation of the future has been accompanied by a deflation of expectations. There can be few who believe that in the coming year a record as great as, say, the Stooges’ Funhouse or Sly Stone’s There’s A Riot Goin’ On will be released. Still less do we expect the kind of ruptures brought about by The Beatles or disco. The feeling of belatedness, of living after the gold rush, is as omnipresent as it is disavowed. Compare the fallow terrain of the current moment with the fecundity of ...more
Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

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