Essays on Pop Culture

Amy Winehouse, known for her soulful voice, winged eyeliner, and record breaking albums, has been revered for her talent, but has also been subject to much criticism by reviewers. In his review of Winehouse’s album, Back to Black, John Bush falls into the category of...

Pop culture is transmitted via mass media and aimed mostly at younger people. TV, video games, and the internet are the most commonly used forms of media. Pop culture never stays on the same thing. The material is always different and is only what the...

Introduction Popular culture is the longer form of pop culture and is described as the entirety of beliefs, attitudes, ideas, perspectives, images, and other aspects that are within a given culture. Genres such as movies, songs, literature, celebrities, fashion, cartoons among others make up pop...

The Korean Pop Music (K-Pop) has its own way to connect to its fans both in Asia and the world. K-Pop is a whole production industry that comes with high profiled artists, variety of music genres, videos and well-choreographed dances. K-Pop is a well packaged...

Now and since time immemorial, is a constant state of change and the meaning of events, things, people, and everything else is determined by us. We assign meaning to things until vilifying them until we deem fit — That’s what the existentialist would say. More...

The term ‘pop culture’ has different meanings depending on who is defining it and the context of use. It is generally recognized as people’s culture that predominates in a society at a point in time, it also involves the aspects of social life most actively...

Recently K-pop – Korean pop – has been dominating western music charts. It’s only natural that people have started comparing K-pop with western pop. Though these two genres fall under the pop category, they are completely different. I will be discussing the similarities and differences...

Stumbling around every corner, lurking into the night, flesh eating creatures, once human, are taking over the world, or at least that’s what pop culture predicts will happen[1] . This zombie culture, like the monsters themselves, somehow lumbered their[2] way into pop culture rather quickly....

The Sapphire: a loud mouth, no good, stupid girl with an attitude; The Mammy: the rotund, nurturer, and silent caretaker of the household; The Jezebel: the bad black bitch. Each one of these terms is a stereotype used to describe African American women that date...

South Korea is one of the most named countries at the moment either because of its political news of agreements with its complicated neighbors, its great advance in technology or, most importantly, the impact that music has of that country globally. In these times it...

What is K-pop? To put it simply, it’s South Korean Pop music. The majority of K-pop artists consist of boy groups and girl groups, (similar to NSYNC and Destiny’s Child) followed by solo artists, bands, duo groups, etc. of which they are called “Idols”. K-pop...

The Korean Wave, which they called Hallyu is an idea that South Korea’s culture and popular cultures such as TV dramas and movies become a major global cultural. And the most important Hallyu is K-pop, which means Korean Pop music. K-pop is becoming one of...