It’s my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into ’cause you don’t want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
There’s this way pop culture has been rammed down our throats that people think that if they were just in the right place at the right time, they’d be married to Heidi Klum.
Because I didn’t have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn’t hand us enough variety to choose from.
If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.
For years, we talked about how the only way to really win the political battles was to win the cultural ones. And rather than simply ignore pop culture, it would be far better to give it a big fat bear hug.
There have been so many times when I’m sitting next to someone, and I have no idea who they are. I’m not very up to date on pop culture, and I’m sure I’ve offended people by being like, ‘Oh, what do you do?’
When the task is mocking pop culture, it’s easy to make sarcastic comments and consider the job done. After a while, I began to feel like this route was completely pointless. Talking about silly, inconsequential stuff doesn’t mean you can’t put some effort into it.
I wasn’t the only person out there writing about pop culture and race, but I stayed true to my voice, and people felt attracted to that. They said it felt like they were having brunch with their best friend.
Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
I was playing a lot of Coldplay before the world knew who I was, before anybody knew my ‘Umbrella’ song. Those songs still stick in my head. I just love it. It’s without pop culture, it’s just a song. It’s just singing.
I love England and I love English culture, particularly English pop culture.
While I agree that embracing vibrancy and joy is an essential bulwark against the left’s tendency towards energy-sapping endless meetings, pop culture alone won’t save us from racism.
When young players come into the league, they see how pop culture has affected the other sports, like the NBA and the NFL. They come in with more of an open mind.
If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.
Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let’s keep it real and be very respectful about that.
In a very real sense, I represent pop culture in an iconic way. It’s been very good to me, so anything I can do to help the fans to tumble along – it’s good.
How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It’s been very rewarding. I’m not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I’m getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.
I think pop culture is the greatest subject matter out there – ‘Other People’s Lives,’ as we wrote about on the last Duran Duran album. Most ideas for great songs come from real situations, something your friend said to you the night before, the girl that just left, or something traumatic in your life.
You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.
It’s that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.
It really is true that when an issue becomes pop culture, it changes faster, and it’s really great for the issue.
I think pop culture has always influenced society.
Pop culture does not frequently depict women of color realizing their happy ending.
Being a musician has actually surrounded and immersed me in pop culture and youth culture from a very young age. But even before I was singing in bands and creating any kind of art, I was always fascinated by pop culture.
Pop culture, it’s crazy. There’s all this violence in video games. In ‘Call of Duty,’ people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let’s protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
The O. J. Simpson trial was the launching-off point for a lot of our pop culture and news culture habits and touchstones.
I’m aware that people enjoy creating categories that make it easier to digest pop culture or the media or entertainment or whatever. But I really have too much to do to fit into any easy category.
There was a time when I was fighting with the decision as to whether or not a Hasidic man could go out and have a music career in the world and be involved in pop culture. For me, I was able to bring those two things together for quite some time.
I love ‘Guitar Hero,’ and I think it’s a part of pop culture.
There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.
My goal is to show the intermingling between politics and pop culture.
Besides, it doesn’t make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80’s and the 90’s.
I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.
The thing that got us going early was the running boom. And then, I think, we rode the Jordan bit, which then kind of crossed us over into the pop culture.
Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.
By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.
I’m a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.
Once you make a movie like ‘Superbad,’ when it’s popular and you’re the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there’s a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.
If you look at pop culture as the main picture you see of black men, all these kind of threatening pictures and – I think those of us who are artists and who are in media have to think carefully about what those pictures are.
I love feeling like I’m ‘on the pulse’ of things. Nothing more satisfying, more valued, more exciting as a writer. Because shaping pop culture really means that you’re saying something that a lot of people want to hear.
Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
I try not to rely on pop culture references as a crutch for jokes, because then, I think, that’s when the timelessness quality is lost.
I am generally a nostalgic person and super into the pop culture that I grew up on – I’ve got a framed ALF poster above my bed and a Mickey Mouse poster, and I’ve got this big VHS collection.
Specifically, in Canada, the First Nations are often overlooked in pop culture or in general, and when things are reported about our First Nations, it’s often negative things – about the hardships they face and what-not.
It’s part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.
Pop culture is a huge strategy for WWE: our storylines are reflective of what’s happening in the world and what’s popular.
Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that’s always in style is color.
I don’t relate to the ‘Twilight’ books or movies at all, but I’m obsessed with it as a pop culture phenomenon – all these people just screaming like it was the Beatles.
I think, especially in pop culture, we’re brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.
If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it’s almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure.
I think pop culture would have survived without me!
The pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature. It’s diluted down to very little: simple stories and simple politics.
One of the things I think is important about ‘Watchmen’ is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.
To see how YouTube has become part of pop culture, it’s been just amazing.
Yeah, I don’t deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
I love to hang out with boys – I’ve got brothers – but I’m a girl’s girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.
A lot of festivals on a worldwide basis that I am seeing, they’re trying to multi-genre it. Like, they put a wild card band on, like, us old guys that happen to have a record that has stayed in pop culture for as long as it has.
