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In today's society, pop culture controls everything. It controls our entire lives without anyone even realizing it unless it is to be taken away. What people hear in songs or see on television tend to be acted on. The slang that is heard in songs become a part of a majority of people's daily vocabulary. Song lyrics in this generation have become more and more vulgar. YouTube videos are also very trending in popular culture today. These videos can grow to have millions of hits on them. Just about any question you could possibly ask, can be found on YouTube which has made it so much easier for people to teach and learn new things that they are curious about. Movies are also a huge impact on society and have always been really big in popular culture. There are so many movies that are made and even the old ones are still a big hit today.
Music is one of the biggest forms of popular culture. We listen to it in our cars, at home, on our phones and many other ways. Most teenagers will spend up to five hours a day listening to music. It is know that most teenagers will listen to their music choices as a form to express themselves. Some also listen to specific songs because they relate to a time in their life of something that happened to them or to tell a story when they cannot find the words to say themselves. It is hard to find songs that send out positive messages today because the songs that attract a lot of listeners is the somewhat vulgar kind of music. For adults the positive messages are wanted to be heard, not by all, but by majority. Regardless, music is one of the biggest forms in popular culture today, whether it be country, jazz, or hip-hop. They are all so different from each other which makes our country so diverted. Every...

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... friends. Movies show how much the generations have changed. Remember when they use to be colored in black and white? Popular culture has always been huge. Although the morals and values have changed a lot over the generations, they are still very similar, more than we know it. Everything we do in society in this generation is so more high tech. It almost seems unreal of how far our music, social networks and even our movies have come since the early 1900's. “In my parent's generation, rebellion was pop culture. Now it is not.” It has changed more than we think, but not all of it is so bad.

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Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. "Watching TV Makes You Smarter." They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2010. 277-94. Print.

LaBeouf, Shia. "Pop Culture Quotes." BrainyQuote. Xplore, n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2014.

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