essays
#4
Popular culture
During adolescence, teenagers are influenced by others to do different thing´s or take some
specific attitude. One aspect of it is to follow popular culture, that what things are trending, what
everybody is talking about , the Popular culture is formatted by the latest music, popular movies
or bestsellers books.
Music is an industry that is changing all the time, one day a song is the most popular and the
following week the most popular song will be another one; sometimes music changes too much,
in other cases songs sound like the same thing. In south America, popular music is for example:
Caribbean singers like Bad Bunny, Arcangel, Ozuna, Anuel AA, Nicky Jam and others. They all , had
a big impact in the music industry. , Also in I South America, different singers like Maluma, Karol G,
J Balvin, Khea, Big Soto among others, were taking force and sweeping the market with the lastest
songs, and in the same way singers from North America like lil wayne, lil pump, lil yatchy, Kayne
West, Becky G, whose music was in English, and have influenced the word.
Also, movies are important because is a way to entertain, to be with friends and can talk with
others. Movies in comparison to music, have more variety, normally never get typecast into only
one gender. , Normally people can see any movie and enjoy it, for example “la monja” in scary,
“Avengers” and “captain Marvel” are action movies and there are lots of romantic movies.
Additionally, books are an important part of the entertainment of teenager, for example “the
Hunter games”, “Game of thrones”, “Divergent”, “Harry Potter”. Books of youtubers are also,
trending because some had very interesting or intelligent stories, whilst the others were only for
the authors to be accepted in society.
This shows that a big part of the popular culture is based on influence or fashion, sometimes the
most listened music or watched movies don’t need to be quality production. Sometimes a
production is a famous piece of trash that will disappear in 1 or 2 weeks normally, but other
productions are very good for example good singers, good lyric s and good instruments. In books,
a good story, good characters and unpredictable narration. In the movies, good actors, good
effects and other things.
In conclusion, the popular culture was infected by a group of music, movies and books how are
bad, who lies, who affect a social group, etc. That isn’t popular culture really, popular culture
needs to be very good, needs to teach to the consumer a good thing, and the ones in charge of
this are the people because they decide what things will consume ,and they need to demand good
content in popular culture.
NICOLAS ARCINIEGAS