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. ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Pop Culture"

Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum

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Paris: A Memoir for Young Women in the Age of Influencers

Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

Nice Girls Don't Win: How I Burned It All Down to Claim My Power

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Pop Culture Books

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

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)

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The Gospel According to Breaking Bad by Blake Atwood

The Gospel According to Peanuts by Robert L. Short

The Gospel According to The Simpsons by Mark I. Pinsky

The Gospel of the Rauschmonstrum by Nick LaTorre

The Gospel According to ... Books

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The Last Action Heroes by Nick de Semlyen

Surely You Can't Be Serious by David Zucker

My Cousin Maria Schneider by Vanessa Schneider

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Perpetual Adolescence by Sally Porterfield

Fabricating the Absolute Fake by Jaap Kooijman

Pop Culture - TLTXT

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The Evolution Of Desire by David M. Buss

Books Discussed On Mating Grounds Part II

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Waiting for Britney Spears by Jeff Weiss

Pop Culture Reads

27 books — 1 voter

What We Owe to Each Other by T.M. Scanlon

A Treatise On Human Nature by David Hume

Pop-culture Prescription: A Reading List Inspired by The Good Place

13 books — 2 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Pop Culture”

“ The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia. ...more ”
― Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past

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“ songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with. ...more ”
― Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

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