Pop Culture In Our Society Today

In our society today, a lot of people, epically teens, are overwhelmed with the media. Media defines pop culture, what the latest trends are, what we should be wearing, what we should listen to, how we should act, and what we should look like. Pop culture, defines what one should look like through the everyday things that teens/people do/watch. Things like movies, television, magazines, catalogs, billboards, fashion, and music.

Wherever we look, catalogs, magazines, television, movies, and billboards, images show us the cultural standard, what we should be like and that is in fashion. The standards that women should be beautiful and sexy are shown throughout these images. Girls as young as twelve start to dress up and imitate Britney Spears wanting to be like her.

On Opera, there was a show on girls between the ages of ten to thirteen dressing up like Spice Girls, wearing a miniskirt, a tube top, and makeup. Jennifer Lopez, in the movie industry, and Britney Spears, in the music industry, show how pop culture expects women, to have the “sexy” look no matter what they do, as they exercise or just going through an ordinary day.

Not everything I agree with, like the the things that people watch, or are obsessed with. Who said that we had to look a certain way? No one, just if we don't fulfil these requirements, we are separated into a different category?

Reading the magazines, looking on the websites, why does our society today think that we have to look, act, dress a certain way? Personally, I have better things to do with my time, like my English homework! :) I don't understand why people go to extreme measures to look at certain way, or act like someone totally different just to fit in with a special group of people. Pop culture sure has changed over the years, and I think expects a whole lot more out of young people today.