Pop Culture

For some reason, I am so fascinated about why when something becomes popular, it doesn't deserve some poeples' attention. It is hard to take some current things seriouly that seem to define our culture and mainly our generation like Abercrombie, Myspace, emo, hating Bush. Which makes me think that in 100 years, is our current way of life going to be gold? Is it going to be gold because "our" pop culture is going to shape the ways of the year 21007? I don't know if other peoples' high schools were like this, but during my senior year there was a knitting craze. One day in class, this girl across the room starting knitting and I thought to myself "Alright. I guess that's kind of cool" and left it as something that girl did because she liked it. Within two weeks, by the same girls that excessively go tanning and wear gouchos everyday, they all started knitting! It was crazy! It started out with one girl doing it and it being weird, then people saw it and it became cute, and then everyone did it and it was popular. I don't mean to make myself seem above this, but I lost all desire to learn how to knit from my grandma that summer. I do think Kurt Cobain would've been happier if they had just stayed in Seattle. This is just like with what happened with the Sex Pistols. It started as underground and then morphed into underground becoming "cool because it's different" and then it was everywhere. It started being about fashion and not the music and that's how Kurt and the Sex Pistols died, so to speak. I love love love this one quote from the book because it's perfect, "High culture is often seen to be good, good for you...wheras popular culture is often dismissed as irrelevant trash..."