pop culture

Pop culture embodies the ideas, concerns and desires of people through the things that entertain them: for example, movies, advertisements, television, and fashion. Any form of expression that engages a large number of people becomes part of popular culture. It can also mean culture that is produced in large quantities for the so-called "masses."

Popular culture as a whole stands apart from "highbrow" or "high" culture, which is determined by the educated elite. Pop culture encompasses everything that appeals to a wide number of people: fads in clothing, trends in food, slang expressions and celebrity-watching. In fact, a pop culture trend can itself become a symbolic language that is understood by many people. Discussing pop culture trends is a way of connecting in the blogosphere, too.

The study of pop culture throughout history- such as in the Victorian period - can give one enormous insight into what truly gripped - sometimes even obsessed - people in earlier times.

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  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
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• Tiger Woods Injured in Car Accident

  
  Best Celebrity Scoop — Authority: 150
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• Retro Home LOLs - ‘My Parents Were Awesome… but Their Decor Was Not’ (GALLERY)

  
  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 672
  (TrendHunter.com) Aww yeah. If this doesn’t scream heinous-but-amazing, I’m not sure what does. We’ve featured the epic photoblog, My Parents Were Awesome, but with so many incredible submissions of people’s parents “back…
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  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 672
  (TrendHunter.com) Black Friday is the day for shopping bargains, there’s no doubt about it. But is waiting in hours-long lines, shoving your way to get to the 50%-off shoes, and having things from your shopping cart snatched…
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  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 672
  (TrendHunter.com) Burlesque is just not as edgy or seedy as it used to be. It is too clean, too gentrified to be of any real fun which is why Brelin’ La Fete Fatale is aiming to take the art of burlesque back from the mainstream.…
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  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 672
  (TrendHunter.com) Living in the age of iPods and MP3s, I’m sure most people have eschewed CDs and virtually all have done away with cassettes, vinyl records, and rotary phones. While we may not use these oldschool media…
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  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 672
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  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 672
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  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 672
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• “DISNEY GEEK”, ANIKA NONI ROSE, CASTS HER VOTE FOR HAND DRAWN ANIMATION

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 595
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• Magician Frewin stars in CBC Christmas special

  
  Niagara Falls Blog — Authority: 142
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  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 672
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• RSVP

  
  Entropical Paradise — Authority: 129
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• Thankful

  
  Dependable Erection — Authority: 132
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• Neil Young – Like a Hurricane

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 145
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  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 672
  (TrendHunter.com) Worth1000.com ran a punk animal photoshop contest in September 2009 where entrants photoshopped their favorite animals into punk rockers.Feathered mohawks, a studly sphinx, bad-boy budgies and even a…
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• Ghostbusters the Video Game Amazon.com Exclusive Slimer Edition

  
  video game reviews — Authority: 144
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• I can’t believe they had the balls to make the drop on those logs

  
  Surfing Commentary and Surf News | Surf Contest News, Surf Movies and Book Reviews, Surfboard and Surfer Information - DailyStoke.com — Authority: 137
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  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 672
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  TrendHunter.com - Marketing Strategy — Authority: 672
  (TrendHunter.com) Only a matter of time before someone decided to take control of this situation and give respect where respect is due, was it. Yeesssssss. The greatest Jedi ever, Yoda is, and be respected, he should, and…
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