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2. • Three main points:
1. Mostly aimed at making profit
2. Creates a standardized mass indulged product
3. Changes the artist into a worker
• Popular culture is standardized and stereotyped focusing
on pleasing the biggest possible audience with the
cheapest (most easily affordable ) „product“.

3.  Proposed Harmful effects on people who use it:
 Ingenuine gratification involving sex and violence
 Distracts people from focusing on real problems
 Trivial and culturally comfortable products
 NOT YET SUPPORTED BY ACTUAL DATA

4.  The poor indulge more in pop culture (more prone to
stress, mental illness…)
 Aggression (deeper causes)
 Sexual behavior (pornography - norms haven't changed
much)
 No serious evidence, Correlation not causation!

5.  Every generation complains about the music
 Disintegrating values?
 Is it really that different?

6. More hedonistic - partying
and dancing, lust .
Love is still by far the most
common

7. Cultural shift from less to
more diverse. Becoming
more and more mixed as
time goes by.
Combining into something
new, stronger than before?

8.  Popular culture has faced much critique
(assembly line, standardized, profit seeking)
 Sometimes unfairly (more aggression, sexual behavior
- not confirmed)
 Positives (cultural diversification, maybe more open
minded society)

9.  Pop Music
 R&B
 Country
 Classical
 Soul

24.  Music has always been a huge influence on Pop
Culture
 Artists’ lives are scrutinized
 people get influenced directly by the Artists’ lives and
the music