As women, and as people, we’re often forced to choose between pop culture and tearing down celebrities or a show about politics.
Pop culture is not about depth. It’s about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
In my parents’ generation, rebellion was pop culture. It’s not anymore.
My dad’s quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.
Black people, we built America, and we gave it all of its pop culture and all of its great musical genres.
I’m absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I’m a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It’s a total reflection of the zeitgeist.
Through eight years, ‘How I Met Your Mother’ has mastered the art of leading-edge comedy, emotional water-cooler moments, and pop culture catch-phrases.
I must point out – Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva – she’s one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.
There’s real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it’s a nation they would fight for. It’s not diluted by pop culture.
Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry – except that he wasn’t as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.
I don’t consider myself a cartoonist, because to me a cartoonist has a lot of technical ability to draw and such. However, I do consider myself to have a bit of a cartoonist character. I definitely am analyzing and satirizing pop culture and politics and whatever strikes my fancy.
People have been saying rock is dead for years, but the reality is that it just falls out of favor with pop culture from time to time.
I’m gonna make music, and I’m gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That’s really all I’m trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.
I have to accept the fact that the time I was on, ‘Project Runway’ was already becoming a pop culture phenomenon.
When pop culture can influence things in any way, when a song becomes something bigger than just a song, that’s the greatest thing to me.
Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.
The Bachelor’ has always been a great show that embraces what’s happening in the world and embraces pop culture.
Pop culture or advertising doesn’t work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology.
I’m interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
I was always into comic books and horror stories and a huge consumer of pop culture. And then I worked for awhile for ‘The Village Voice’.
It’s up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.
The child stars who emerged from Disney boot camp and dominated pop culture in the late ’90s and ’00s are not only still around but also have spawned successors who have proven even more indispensable to the business of music, movies, and television.
I worked with Ismail Merchant on ‘The Mystic Masseur,’ I did ‘Sakina’s Restaurant,’ I’ve done plays, I’ve been on Broadway, I’ve done movies, I’ve done TV… but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as ‘The Daily Show’ has. It’s the nature of the beast.
I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
If somebody can make a joke about you on TV, that’s so beautiful. You’ve affected pop culture to that degree.
In general, I feel so much of pop culture is set in the generic big city, particularly comics. I feel like there are so many other stories to tell.
I started with the book ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.
American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop culture, are very superficial, one-dimensional, and adolescent.
For me, pop culture is very fluid: it’s music, it’s movies, it’s books, it’s art, it’s tech, it’s so many things – and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what’s happening in pop culture.
I think pop culture underestimates people. The message is, ‘Being yourself is the worst thing you could possibly be.’ But people are still attracted to it.
I don’t want to make some super cliche comment about how much more acceptable gaming is. I think it was always acceptable for me and my peers. But I think it’s become more so in pop culture, media, stuff like that – people with money have discovered that they can make money by marketing to us.
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. My prayers are with his family.
I was always interested in comedy and pop culture.
The Real World’ perfectly captured the politically correct, multicultural zeitgeist of the 1990s, and it was exhilarating to be at the center of a pop culture phenomenon.
After ‘David Pumpkins,’ a lot of people were sending me pictures dressed up like David Pumpkins and the skeletons, and videos of kids reenacting the sketch, doing the skeleton choreography. It was really cool to see yourself out there in the pop culture of the world.
Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.
The most important thing is I am trying to bring classic rock into pop culture, so I don’t think anything is going to look like vintage or old-school.
We don’t want to make little pop culture ephemera or confections, that sort of thing, and so ‘ParaNorman’ like ‘Coraline’ has something meaningful to say.
The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with ‘American Bandstand’ and the music that came out of that city.
Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.
I’m starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don’t have the broader trends like you used to.
Pop culture and entertainment can be dismissed as surface, but it’s not. It’s the language we all speak, and it’s the connection point between people all over the world.
The reason why Roc-A-Fella crossed and became so essential to pop culture is that we were probably the most authentic people that were also so sophisticated.
I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on ‘Wine Library TV’ tomorrow. Monday’s episode is always the best, because it’s hot off the press.
In fashion, my inspiration comes from pop culture – the 1960s and the following years. Whereas in interior design, my influences are much broader.
I grew up in this little farm town, and I’ve always dreamt of Hollywood and pop culture, and then I suddenly found myself plopped in the middle of it.
I’ve always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I’m more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
My personal feeling about reboots is – I’m very against it. I feel bad for the pop culture of this generation because I feel like they’re getting a lot of retread… a lot of digested and vomited stuff from our teens and 20s and all of that.
Most of my exposure to American pop culture was through this weird prism of ‘Mad’ magazine.
The way you raise the profile of an issue is by making the issue cool and relevant in pop culture.
A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they’re a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that’s the way society has become, especially in pop culture.
The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don’t act seriously, you can make up your own rules.
I’m fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.
One thing I found very interesting about comedians around the world was their knowledge of stuff outside of their own culture and comfort zone. That’s not very common in the States. We produce our own soft power, which is pop culture, but we rarely try to absorb and learn information from other cultures and countries.
